Pay monthly websites UK: 13 providers compared (Nov 2026)

Here's everyone in this article side by side, sorted by the lowest monthly price each one publishes. The detail, and where each of them beats us, follows below.

"Pay monthly" covers two completely different arrangements, and the difference decides what you're actually buying.

The first is a managed service. You pay a monthly fee, the provider builds, hosts and looks after the site, and they keep the design and the code. It's low cost to start because they're spreading the build across your subscription. If you stop paying, the site usually comes down. That's the model most of the cheap end runs on, ours included.

The second is a payment plan for a site you own. You pay monthly, but you're buying the thing outright over a set period, usually a year or two. It costs more per month because there's no ongoing subscription subsidising it, and at the end it's yours to take anywhere.

Neither is a scam. Both are honest ways to sell a website. What's not honest is a provider who never tells you which one you're on, and there are plenty of those. If you take one thing from this article, take that question.

From £40 a month plus VAT for up to ten pages, with no setup fee and no contract. Their FAQ asks for four weeks' notice if you want to leave.

Yopp are the closest thing this market has to an established name. Trading since 2011, over a thousand customers, and every designer UK based. If experience and volume reassure you, and for a lot of business owners they should, Yopp have more of both than almost anyone else here.

They also say plainly that you own the website, the files and the images, and you can buy a site outright for £495 plus VAT. One thing to budget for: SSL is listed as an extra at £70 plus VAT a year.

Where they beat us: track record, plainly. We haven't built a thousand websites. If you want a provider who has seen your particular sector many times over and has the portfolio to prove it, that's a real argument and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Their plans run from £40 a month up to £1,000 a month for their largest tier, so there's room to grow without moving.

From £25 a month for a single page site, then £45 for four pages, £75 for eight and £95 for up to fifteen. No upfront fees and no minimum term.

They'll send you a free, no obligation draft of your homepage before you pay anything, so you can judge the work rather than the sales pitch. A free domain for the first year and ongoing changes are included on every plan.

Read the terms before you sign, because the headline leaves a few things out. They ask for 30 days' notice to cancel, domain renewals are yours after the first year, and they keep the design: if you leave, the site is archived rather than handed over. That's all normal enough, and there's no cancellation fee, but it's the managed model and you should know you're on it.

Where they beat us: nowhere decisively, and we'll be honest that our model is closest to theirs of anyone on this list. We both design something before you pay, and neither of us ties you in. If you're weighing us against Lollipop Rocks, look at the actual work each of us produces rather than the terms, because the terms are near enough identical.

£274 a month over 12 months, £174 over 24, or £144 over 36. No deposit, no setup fee, nothing to pay on day one.

Pixelish run the second model, and they're the clearest example of it here. You're buying a bespoke site outright and the monthly figure is the build cost spread out, plus a £49 a month care plan. On their own worked example a build that would cost £2,500 paid upfront comes to £3,000 spread monthly, and you own the design and the files once the build is paid off. You can settle the remaining build early to own it sooner, and cancel with 30 days' notice.

Where they beat us: outright ownership, and they're upfront about the arithmetic in a way most of this market isn't. We keep the design and code while you're subscribed. If owning the asset matters to you on principle, or your accountant wants it on the balance sheet, Pixelish are offering something we're not.

£20 a month including VAT, with nothing upfront, no setup fee, no minimum term and no notice period. Nothing is payable until your site is finished, approved and live, and there's a 30 day money back guarantee after that.

They're a young company based in Greater Manchester and say most sites go live within three working days. If you leave, they release your domain and hand over a copy of your content and pages; the underlying code and templates stay theirs, which is the same trade we make.

Where they beat us: price, and the guarantee. Their £20 includes VAT and covers the full website, where ours is £20 plus VAT for a single page. If the lowest all-in monthly figure decides it, they win, and a money back guarantee is a confident thing to offer. What we'd ask them, as you should ask anyone, is how many pages the £20 covers, because their terms don't say.

£49 a month with no setup fee and no VAT, for up to five pages, on a 12 month term. After the twelfth payment, £588 in total, the site is yours.

That's the second model done at the cheap end, and it's a genuinely good deal if ownership matters to you. After month twelve you can stay on their hosting at £25 a month with updates included, or take the site elsewhere. Sites are built on their own Codevall theme, tailored to you, so it's a customised template rather than a design from scratch. They're based in Oldham.

Where they beat us: ownership. You own a Codevall site outright in a year for under £600. On our monthly plan we keep the design and code while you're subscribed, and buying it out is priced at the time. If owning the asset is the point, Codevall get you there faster and cheaper than we do.

From £34.99 a month plus VAT for an eight page package, no setup fee, on a 12 month contract. Larger packages run up to £99.99 a month and drop in price after 18 months.

After 18 months the website is yours to copy and host yourself, and the domain is yours throughout, in writing. It's run by one person, Mark, from Wellingborough, and the hosting is certified green. One small catch: there's a £29.99 fee to transfer your domain out.

Where they beat us: pages for the money. Eight pages for £34.99 is a lot of site, and a route to ownership at 18 months is clear and fair.

From £27 a month for up to three pages, or £47 for up to seven, on a 24 month minimum term. After the 24 months the site is yours outright with no buy-out fee, and you can stay on a rolling monthly plan or take it elsewhere.

They build on WordPress and say the layout is tailored rather than a template with your logo swapped in. Their page doesn't say what happens if you cancel inside the 24 months; the FAQ says handover and buy-out options are set out in the agreement, so read that before you sign.

Where they beat us: a clear, fee-free route to owning the site. Where we'd be cautious: two years is a long time to be tied in to anything.

Mojo advertise from £19 a month with no setup fees and no contract, for up to five pages with SSL, domain, hosting and email. Their page says free edits any time, but their terms limit changes to once a month or 15 minutes' work, whichever comes first, and buying the site isn't something they normally offer.

Promoworx build in London and start at £24.99 a month plus a £50 setup fee for a single page, or £89 a month plus £199 setup for up to ten pages, all plus VAT. Contracts run for a minimum of 24 months, and their terms are clear that you never own the design or code and the site can't be moved to another provider. That's a legitimate way to sell a website, but it's the one to understand fully before signing.

Uphost charge £35 a month for up to ten pages with imagery and copy included, nothing upfront and a 30 day rolling agreement. They ask for 24 months before the site can be transferred away, which covers the build.

Nettl run a network of studios you can visit and don't publish prices: you ask. ClickExpose start at £99 a month with no setup costs on 12 month rolling contracts, and your payments build towards owning the site over 36 months.

There are others, and new ones appear constantly, because the model is easy to start and hard to sustain. One provider in the August version of this article, Kitching, now has its domain up for sale. A provider who has run this for a decade has proven the maths works. One who launched last year may not still be there when your site needs attention. We checked every price above on the providers' own pages in November 2026, but we haven't audited how each business is run, and neither can you from the outside.

Price is the least useful way to choose, because the range is narrow and the difference between £20 and £40 a month isn't what decides whether the site works. These four questions tell you far more.

Who owns the site and the code? There are two honest answers and both are fine, as long as you're told which. What isn't fine is finding out when you try to leave.

What happens if I cancel? Does the site come down? Can I buy it? Is there a fee? A provider who's thought about this will answer instantly. One who hasn't is hoping you never ask.

Is there a minimum term? Rolling monthly means they have to keep earning your business. A 24 month tie-in with an exit penalty means they don't.

Who writes the content? The single biggest cause of a stalled build. If the answer is you, get it ready before you start, or pick a provider who does it for you.

We wrote a fuller version of this as questions to ask before hiring a web designer, which applies whoever you end up choosing.

Ours is from £20 a month plus VAT with no setup fee, no minimum term, and you can cancel any time. Starter at £20 is a single page; Business at £50 covers up to six. Every plan includes design, build, hosting, your domain, business email, security, daily backups, ongoing changes and UK support. We design your new homepage first and send it over within three working days, before you've paid anything, so you're judging the actual work rather than a promise. The full terms, including ownership and what happens when you leave, are set out on our pay monthly page.

On the monthly plan we keep the design and code while you're subscribed, which is exactly what lets the price start at £20 rather than £144. Your domain, your content and your data are yours from day one and always come with you. If you want the site itself, you can buy it outright at any point, and the price comes down the longer you've been with us, because by then you've already paid off more of the build.

The thing we do that nobody else on this list offers is AI automation built into the site: drafting posts in your voice and publishing them to your Google Business Profile and socials, sending review requests after a job, drafting the replies, answering customer questions around the clock, and a plain-English monthly report. Those are add-ons on the higher plans, priced individually, and we tell you what each costs before it goes live. They're not included in the monthly fee and we're not going to imply otherwise.

Where we win: your site is designed for your business from scratch, not a theme with your colours dropped in, and you see your new homepage before you've paid a penny. It runs on a fast, modern setup rather than WordPress, so there are no plugins to patch and nothing for you to maintain. Changes come back within three working days from a real UK team. And we're not just a website: when you're ready for more, the same people handle your Google Business Profile, Google Ads, SEO and AI search, and custom software, so you never have to start again with someone new. If you want a site that grows with the business rather than the cheapest one this month, that's the case for us.

Where we lose: on ownership, Codevall hand you the site after twelve payments, No Worry after 18 months and Evolynk after 24. On all-in price, Launch Web Fast's £20 includes VAT and Mojo are £19. On track record, Yopp have a thousand builds behind them. And if you need your content written as standard, Uphost include copy. If one of those is what decides it, go with them.

Shortlist two or three, ask all four questions above, and compare the answers side by side rather than the prices. Then ask each of them to show you something before you pay. Several providers here, us included, will design your homepage for free. Take all of them up on it.

That's the real test. Three free designs from three providers, opened on your own phone, held next to the site you have now. You'll know within about a minute which of them understood your business, and no comparison article, this one included, is worth as much as that.

If you want ours, tell us your website address and we'll send it over within three working days. No card, no obligation, and if you'd rather go with someone else on this list afterwards, that's genuinely fine. Keep the design.