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How much does a website redesign cost?
A website redesign in 2026 usually costs somewhere between $1,000 and $15,000 for a small business, depending on how much is being redone. A visual refresh on a solid foundation sits at the low end. A full rebuild with new content and a platform change sits at the top. And sometimes the right answer is a few hundred dollars of targeted fixes instead of a redesign at all.
By Tyakiyon · Updated June 12, 2026 · 4 min read
What does a redesign cost at each level?
Rough bands, because every site starts from a different place:
| Scope | Typical cost | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Refresh | $500 to $2,500 | New look on the same structure: colors, type, images, layout polish |
| Partial redesign | $1,500 to $6,000 | Key pages rebuilt, others tidied; content mostly kept |
| Full redesign | $3,000 to $15,000 | New design, new structure, rewritten content, often a platform move |
| Targeted fixes instead | $200 to $1,000 | Speed, one rewritten page, better photos; sometimes this is all it took |
Why do redesigns sometimes cost more than the first build?
Because a redesign carries luggage the first build didn't. There's existing content to sort through and migrate. There are old pages that need redirects so years of Google standing don't evaporate. There might be a platform to escape, and some platforms make leaving deliberately awkward. A first build starts from a blank page; a redesign starts from an archaeology dig.
The redirect part deserves a sentence of its own. If your old pages rank at all and the new site changes their addresses without redirects, those rankings can vanish. It's a quiet, common, expensive mistake, and worth asking any redesigner about directly: what happens to my old URLs? A confident, specific answer is a good sign.
Do you actually need a redesign?
Maybe not. A surprising number of redesign requests turn out to be one or two fixable problems wearing a big price tag. A slow site feels old even when the design is fine. Bad photos make good layouts look cheap. A confusing homepage headline can be rewritten in an afternoon. We wrote up the signs that genuinely point to a redesign separately, because the question deserves more than a yes.
A decent way to decide: list what you actually dislike about the current site. If the list is mostly looks, a refresh might do. If the list is mostly results, no leads, no calls, the problem might not be the design at all, and our guide on why websites don't produce leads is the better starting point. If you're not sure which list you're holding, the free audit exists for exactly that.
What makes a redesign quote go up?
Page count, mostly, and whether content gets rewritten or just moved. Copywriting is often a third of a serious quote, and it's usually the part that changes results most. E-commerce adds real cost because products, categories, and checkout flows all need care. Custom features, booking systems, calculators, member areas, are their own little projects inside the project.
Platform changes add cost too, but sometimes save money within a year or two. Moving off a builder with rising monthly fees onto something you own can pay for part of the redesign by itself. Worth doing that math before assuming the cheaper quote is cheaper.
How to not get burned
Three questions filter most of the risk. What happens to my old URLs and rankings? Can I see the new site working on a phone before launch? And who owns everything afterward, domain, hosting, files? You want specific answers, in writing, before money moves. We'd also suggest a fixed quote over an hourly arrangement for redesigns, because archaeology digs run long.
And get the redesign scoped against your actual goal. If the goal is more inquiries, say that, and let the quote be shaped around it. Sometimes that moves budget from visual polish to page speed and copy, which is the right trade more often than not. That goal-first scoping is how our web development work is priced.
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FAQ
Quick answers.
The short versions, for the questions this guide gets asked most.
A refresh can land in a week or two. Full redesigns usually run three to eight weeks, with content collection being the slow part more often than the design itself.
It can, if URLs change without redirects or content gets thinner. Done carefully, rankings usually hold and often improve. Ask your builder how they handle redirects before signing anything.
If the platform is fighting you and the content is weak, starting fresh is often cheaper than renovating. If the bones are good, keep them. An honest builder will tell you which case you're in, even when it's the cheaper answer.
Often, yes. Homepage and key service pages first, the rest in a second phase. It works best when the new design system is set up properly in phase one so later pages slot in cheaply.
Inside our usual $500 to $10,000 range, scoped after we've seen the current site. The audit is free and tells you whether a redesign is even the right move.