The short answer: tradie websites in Australia run anywhere from a few hundred dollars up to $7,500. Most tradies who work with us pay between $700 for a sharp one-pager and $3,800 for a full build.
You will see quotes well above that, and sometimes well below. Both can be traps. Here is how to tell the difference.
What you get at each price
At Creative Baguette, one-page sites start from $700 and full websites from $1,900, with most projects sitting between $1,900 and $3,800. Here is what the wider market looks like.
Under $500: the DIY zone
Usually a DIY builder subscription or an offshore template. It can work if you have the patience to build it yourself. Most tradies do not have spare evenings, and it shows in the result.
The other catch with DIY is that the subscription never ends. $30 to $50 a month, every month, forever. Over three years that is more than a professionally built one-pager would have cost, and you did all the work.
$700 to $3,800: the sweet spot
A professional builds it, the site loads fast on a phone (where your customers are), your services and service areas are laid out properly, and the quote button actually works. This is what we build. See what our web design projects include.
Within that range, the price moves with pages and features. A one-pager from $700 suits a sole trader with one service and one area. A full site around $1,900 to $3,800 suits a team that covers multiple services or suburbs and wants each one to rank on Google in its own right.
$5,500 and up: agency territory
Agency pricing for tradie websites starts around $5,500 and commonly runs to $7,500. Usually you are paying for meetings, account managers and a strategy deck, not a better website. There are exceptions, but for a trade business the extra money rarely wins you extra jobs.
Web design for tradies: what the website actually has to do
Tradie website design is its own discipline, and it is simpler than the industry makes it sound. Your customer is standing in a flooded laundry or looking at a cracked wall, on their phone, comparing three websites in about ninety seconds. The website that wins the call is the one that answers their four questions fastest:
Do you do this job? Every service gets its own clear section or page. "Plumbing" is not enough when the customer searched "hot water system replacement".
Do you cover my area? Service areas spelled out by suburb or region, not "Sydney and surrounds". This is also what tells Google where to show you.
Can I trust you? Licence number, insurance, real photos of real jobs, and reviews pulled from Google. Stock photos of smiling models in hard hats do the opposite of what people think they do.
How do I get a quote? A phone number that dials on tap and a short form for after-hours. If getting a quote takes more than one thumb, the customer is already on the next website.
That is the whole brief. Everything else on a tradie website exists to support those four answers.
