Headline findings
- Most prices are hidden. Only 24 of 113 Atlantic Canadian web design businesses publish a website build or website subscription price. The other 89 ask for a quote.
- The published middle is about $1,250. Among the 22 that publish a one-time starting price, the median is $1,250. Eleven start between $1,000 and $2,999, and three start at $3,000 or more.
- Entry prices buy small sites. Of the 19 businesses that say how many pages their cheapest tier includes, 16 cap it at five pages or fewer, and five of those are one-page sites.
- Monthly figures are common, monthly websites are not. 14 of 24 publish some monthly figure for care, hosting or maintenance, with a median of $54. Only two sell the website itself as a monthly subscription.
These are starting prices as each business publishes them, not what a typical client ends up paying. A starting price is the floor of a range, and the range is set by page count, copywriting, photography and integrations. For how those pieces add up over three years, see what a website actually costs in Nova Scotia.
By province and by type of business
Medians are shown only where at least five businesses publish a one-time starting price. Smaller groups are listed with their count so nobody reads a pattern into four data points.
| Province | Checked | Publish a price | Median starting price | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Scotia | 42 | 10 (24%) | $1,300 (n=9) | $297 to $10,000 |
| New Brunswick | 36 | 6 (17%) | $900 (n=5) | $495 to $1,500 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 20 | 4 (20%) | Too few (n=4) | $999 to $2,685 |
| Prince Edward Island | 15 | 4 (27%) | Too few (n=4) | $750 to $8,000 |
| Atlantic Canada | 113 | 24 (21%) | $1,250 (n=22) | $297 to $10,000 |
Two businesses publish a monthly price only and have no one-time starting price, so the one-time medians use 22 of the 24.
| Type of business | With a one-time price | Median starting price | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 10 | $1,550 | $499 to $8,000 |
| Agency | 4 | Too few | $495 to $1,300 |
| Freelancer | 4 | Too few | $750 to $10,000 |
| Marketing firm | 4 | Too few | $297 to $5,250 |
Type labels are our reading of how each business describes itself. Two prices are published in US dollars (Social Spike and Go Smart Media). Leaving them out moves the overall median from $1,250 to $1,400.
What the cheapest tier includes
The entry package is where the published prices cluster, so it matters what it buys. From the 22 businesses with a one-time starting price:
- Pages. 18 state a page count. Five entry tiers are a single page, three are up to three pages, seven are four or five pages, and three allow more (4 to 8, 10, and 15 pages).
- Hosting. Two include it in the entry price: Ambrite Web Services for the first year, and Virtual Creations with no limit stated. Four say hosting or the domain is billed separately. The other 16 do not say.
- Grants. One Prince Edward Island studio publishes its price after an $800 Atlantic Business Federation contribution ($380). We use the pre-grant figure, $1,180, so it compares with the others.
If you are comparing quotes, the hosting line is the one to ask about. A $500 site with hosting included for a year and a $900 site with hosting quoted separately can cost about the same by the end of year two.
Monthly and subscription pricing
Fourteen of the 24 publishers list at least one monthly figure. Most of these are care or hosting plans sold alongside a one-time build. The lowest monthly figure each business publishes ranges from $19.95 to $500, with a median of $54.
| Model | Businesses | Published from |
|---|---|---|
| Build price plus an optional or required monthly care, hosting or maintenance plan | 12 | $19.95 to $500 a month |
| Website sold as a monthly subscription | 3 | $49, $99 and $195 a month |
| One-time price only, no monthly figure published | 10 | Not applicable |
The two subscription offers are Cabot Trail Creative (from $49 a month with a 12-month minimum) and Corazza In-House Marketing (from $195 a month with nothing upfront).
Methodology
On 2 October 2026 we searched for web design agencies, studios, freelancers and marketing firms in the four Atlantic provinces, using web searches and the provincial listings on Clutch. A business was counted only if its own website places it in Atlantic Canada, by an address, a local phone number, or a plain statement of where it is based. Businesses that rank for Atlantic city names but are based elsewhere were left out.
For each business we opened the home page and any pricing, packages, services or FAQ page it links to. A business counts as publishing a price if a website build price or a website subscription price appears on its own site, whether as a package, a starting price, a range in an FAQ or a monthly plan. Prices for hosting or maintenance alone do not count as a website price. Every figure is recorded as written, with the page it appears on. Nothing was estimated.
- Starting price means the lowest published one-time build price. Where a business publishes a range, we use the low end.
- Exclusions. Sites that failed to load, parked domains, and businesses whose location we could not confirm were not counted. A few of those publish prices, and we left them out of every figure here rather than guess where they are.
- Coverage. Halifax, Moncton, Fredericton, Saint John and St. John's are well covered. Smaller centres, especially in Labrador and central Newfoundland, are thinner. Directory listings lean toward larger firms, which publish prices less often than small shops.
- Prices change. These are the figures on 2 October 2026. Check the source link before relying on any one of them.
Alp Web Studio, which compiled this index, sells websites: $800 to build, then $99 a month. It is excluded from every count, median and table on this page. Its full pricing is here, and you can see how the studio works in Halifax. The businesses below are listed as they present themselves, without comment on their work.
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Every published price, with its source
The 24 businesses that publish a website price, by province. The figure shown is the lowest published starting price for a website; follow the link for the full package list.
| Business | City | Province | Type | Published starting price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arina Winkelman Web Design | Greenfield | NS | Freelancer | $1,600 to $2,500 range | Source |
| Cabot Trail Creative | Cape Breton | NS | Studio | $49/mo, 12-month minimum | Source |
| Go Smart Media (Cape Breton Web Design / Halifax Web Solutions) | Sydney | NS | Marketing firm | $297 USD | Source |
| Grandway Marketing | Halifax | NS | Marketing firm | $5,250 | Source |
| Greg Ord | Halifax | NS | Freelancer | $10,000 to $30,000 range | Source |
| Ninja Tuna | Truro | NS | Freelancer | $800 | Source |
| Social Spike | Halifax | NS | Marketing firm | $1,000 USD | Source |
| Storyteller Media | Antigonish | NS | Studio | $1,600 | Source |
| Summit Design | Not stated | NS | Studio | $499 | Source |
| Zero Hero Tech | Dartmouth | NS | Agency | From $1,300 to $2,200 | Source |
| Ambrite Web Services | Fredericton | NB | Studio | $500 | Source |
| Corazza In-House Marketing | Moncton | NB | Marketing firm | $195/mo, no upfront fee | Source |
| Digital Services NB | Not stated | NB | Agency | $495 | Source |
| Expert Web & Digital Agency | Moncton | NB | Agency | $1,200 | Source |
| LogicPros | Fredericton | NB | Agency | From $900 | Source |
| Web Design Moncton | Moncton | NB | Studio | $1,500 | Source |
| Blue Wolf Design Group | Grand Falls-Windsor | NL | Studio | $2,685 | Source |
| Bullseye Branding | Bay Bulls | NL | Marketing firm | $2,499.99 | Source |
| KCD Web Services | St. John's | NL | Studio | $2,500 | Source |
| Marquee Communications | St. John's | NL | Studio | $999 | Source |
| Maritime Media Solutions | Montague | PEI | Freelancer | $750 | Source |
| TrueWeb Media | Charlottetown | PEI | Studio | Around $2,000 | Source |
| Virtual Creations | Charlottetown | PEI | Studio | $380 after an $800 grant ($1,180 before it) | Source |
| World Wide Websites | Not stated | PEI | Studio | From $8,000 | Source |
City is shown as the business's own site states it. Where a site gives only the province, the city reads "Not stated".
Businesses checked that publish no website price
Nova Scotia (32): Mumford Connect (Bear River East), Boreal Digital (Cape Breton), Wingspan Creative Communications (Annapolis Valley), Nicom IT Solutions (Halifax), RM Web Designs (care plans only) (Halifax), Red Ear Media (Halifax), HH Media & Design (Halifax), Graphic Design Halifax (Halifax), Envision Media Solutions (Halifax), Pikel Designs (Halifax), Eastwood Design (Halifax), Hop Creative (Halifax), Alley Kat Web Consulting (Halifax), Vedesi (Halifax), Eclipse Media (Halifax), Forward Group (Bedford), Huddy Digital (Halifax), Vandy Marketing (Halifax), The Visitor (Halifax), Creative Curve Media Group (Halifax), Aptitude Digital (Halifax), Ralli Marketing (Bedford), Tahoors Creative Marketing (Halifax), Kula Partners (Halifax), InTouch Communications (Halifax), R&G Strategic (Halifax), Samson Digital (Petit-de-Grat), Webbuilders Group (New Glasgow), Scotia Logic (Sydney), Nova Social Media & Marketing (Amherst), VMP Group (Sydney), Flint AI Systems (Halifax).
New Brunswick (30): IvanCie Media (Moncton), Fresh Start Digital (Moncton), Aaron Doucette Web Design (Fredericton), Julian Thomas Screawn (JTS Design) (Moncton), Sun Web Solutions (Saint-Antoine), PreemWeb (Fredericton), The Details Design (Fredericton), The Ginger Agency (Fredericton), Duke Creative Collective (Saint John), The Pridham Group (Saint John), CHOOKA Media Group, The Digital Support Specialist (St. Stephen), Agence Mistral (Dieppe), Panchroma (Riverview), Aligned Web Design (Fredericton), Zwebra Web Studio (Saint John), Neptune (Saint John), AdvanceGro Marketing (St. Stephen), Vagrant Creative (Fredericton), Connetik (Moncton), Pulse Communications (Saint John), Creative Juices (Fredericton), Key Elements Media (Douglas), iNk Graphic Design Services (Saint John), Royama Design (Sackville), A.N.D. Communication & Graphics (Florenceville-Bristol), BLACKink Design (New Maryland), DPG Communication (Caraquet), Netlynx Tech (Fredericton), Hawk Marketing (Moncton).
Newfoundland and Labrador (16): Automation Solutions (automation pricing only) (St. John's), Four Winds Design (St. John's), Newfound Marketing (St. John's), JAC (Mount Pearl), Lorne Pike & Associates (St. John's), Manning Search Marketing (Corner Brook), Yield Communications (Corner Brook), Altitude Media (St. John's), Upstream Marketing (St. John's), Robot Interactive + Marketing (St. John's), Focus Bold (St. John's), Perfect Day (St. John's), Infotech Systems (St. John's), Idea Factory (St. John's), m5 Marketing Communications (St. John's), BOLDBE (St. John's).
Prince Edward Island (11): More I See Design (Charlottetown), Seabreeze Consulting (Charlottetown), KMI Media & Design (Summerside), AOR 360 (St. Peters Bay), Big Surge (Charlottetown), Business Technology Consulting (Charlottetown), silverorange (Charlottetown), Island Cloud Solutions (New London), SunriseWeb (New Glasgow), GoldNET Smart Technologies, Blu Haus Studios (Charlottetown).