How Much Does a Website Cost in Kelowna or Vernon? We Checked 186 Okanagan Web Designers. Only 1 in 4 Publish a Price.

Ask a web designer in Kelowna what a website costs and the answer is usually the same: it depends, let's book a call. That's a fair answer. Websites really do vary. But you still want a number before you give up an hour, so we went and found the numbers designers do publish.

On October 28, 2026, we searched Google for web designers and marketing agencies in 12 Okanagan towns, from Enderby to Osoyoos, then read the websites of the 186 that build websites.

Only 49 of the 186 (26.3 percent, about 1 in 4) publish a price for a website. Among the 40 that show a one-time price, starting prices run from $250 to $8,000, and the median is $2,000. And 13 offer the website as a monthly plan, from $45 to $499 a month.

One thing up front: we build websites in Vernon, so we're in this data too. Our own price, and where it lands, is in the last section. This is our third local price check, after SEO in Kelowna and Google Ads in Kelowna and Vernon.

The Short Answer: Half of Published Okanagan Website Prices Start at $2,000 or Less

Here are the 40 one-time starting prices, grouped, with what the packages at each level say they include:

Published starting price	Designers	What the packages describe
Under $1,000	13	Mostly one-page or “starter” sites. At least 6 of the 13 say one to three pages.
$1,000 to $2,499	12	Small sites, from one page to about five.
$2,500 to $4,999	12	Custom multi-page sites. Where a page count is given, it's three to ten.
$5,000 and up	3	Larger custom builds, or a website bundled with branding or messaging work.
Monthly plan	13	$45 to $499 a month, median $149. The build is included in the monthly fee.

The middle half of the one-time prices sits between about $762 and $3,000. A starting price is the floor, not your quote. Expect extra charges for more pages, a store, booking tools or writing the words for you.

How We Checked 186 Okanagan Web Designers

We ran 60 Google business searches: web design, website designer, website developer, marketing agency and digital marketing agency, in Kelowna, West Kelowna, Lake Country, Peachland, Vernon, Coldstream, Armstrong, Enderby, Penticton, Summerland, Oliver and Osoyoos. We asked Google's search tool to include businesses that hide their address. It leaves those out unless you ask, and a lot of web designers work from home.

That gave us 597 listings, 580 of them in the Okanagan or with a hidden address, and 459 different websites. We opened each site in a headless browser, read the home page and up to seven of the site's own pages most likely to show a price (pricing, packages, plans, then web design and services pages), and blocked the analytics tags so our visit never showed up in anyone's reports. 378 sites opened properly. 6 showed a bot check, which we logged and did not try to get past. 39 didn't load at all and 27 showed an expired, parked or error page.

A business counted if its own site says it builds websites, and it either has an Okanagan street address on Google or, for the ones that hide their address, its site says it's based here. We read the borderline ones by hand and took out 38: 12 based somewhere else (Washington State, Ontario, Vancouver and the Kootenays among them), 25 whose main trade isn't web design (sign and print shops, IT support, a home builder) and 1 duplicate. That left 186: 98 with a street address and 88 that hide it, which for a web designer usually means a home office.

Then we read every price by hand. A one-time price counts if it's for a complete new website. A one-page site counts. An ad landing page doesn't. A monthly price counts if the plan includes building the site.

What this can't tell you:

• A published price is a starting price. We didn't ask anyone for a quote.
• Pictures and PDFs are invisible to us. A price shown only in an image, a download or behind a quote form wasn't counted, so “publishes a price” is a floor.
• One morning, one search. Google's results change, and so do price pages.
• Prices as shown. Some say plus GST and some don't say.

We haven't named any business except our own.

Only 1 in 4 Okanagan Web Designers Publish a Price, and Home-Based Ones Are Twice as Likely To

Of the 186 designers, 49 show a website price: 40 a one-time price, 13 a monthly plan, and 4 show both. Another 9 publish only a hosting or care price, which tells you what keeping a site online costs but not what building one does.

The split is sharp. Designers who hide their address publish a price 35.2 percent of the time (31 of 88). Those with a street address do it 18.4 percent of the time (18 of 98). The home-based group is cheaper too: their median starting price is $1,250, against $2,225 for designers with an address.

Not publishing a price isn't shady. A five-page site for a painter and a 40-page site with a store are different jobs, and a designer who quotes after a call is often just being careful. Still, we've argued that contractors should put prices on their websites, and it's fair to hold web designers to the same test. If a designer won't publish a number, ask for a range on the first call. A good one can give you a ballpark in five minutes.

What $500, $2,000 and $5,000 Buys From an Okanagan Web Designer

The price bands line up with what the packages describe. Here's what each one usually gets you, and what to ask.

Around $500: a one-page site. The cheapest published offers are one page with your services, phone number and a contact form, sometimes with a year of hosting included. That's a fair buy for a new business or a one-service trade that mainly needs to look real when someone checks you out. Read the add-ons. One $250 one-page offer charges $150 more to write the words for you.

Around $2,000: up to about five pages. This is the middle of the market, and it's room for a home page, a few service pages, an about page and a contact page. Some packages at this price are still a single page, so check the page count. Then ask who writes the content. One $2,000 package includes every word, and another designer in this range quotes copywriting as an extra.

$3,000 to $5,000 and up: custom design and more pages. Where a page count is given, it's three to ten. One designer prices by the page outright: $3,500 for three pages, $5,000 for five and $6,500 for eight. Another lists a business site at $3,900 to $4,900 for up to ten pages, and it's the $4,900 scope that includes the copywriting. Online stores start higher: that same studio lists stores from $6,500.

For a contractor, page count is the number to watch. If you want to show up for each service you sell, and in the towns next to yours, each of those needs a real page. That's what moves you from the $500 tier to the $2,000 tier and up. Our local SEO work starts there, and our contractor website cost guide goes through the other price drivers.

Budget for hosting too. Published hosting and care plans we read ran from about $13 a month for bare hosting ($160 a year) to $150 a month for hosting with updates and support.

Monthly Website Plans Run $45 to $499 a Month. Do the Three-Year Math First.

13 designers sell the website as a subscription: often nothing up front, then a monthly fee that covers the build, hosting and updates. The published plans run $45, $97, $99, $100, $100, $149, $149, $165, $199, $297, $300, $300 and $499 a month. The median is $149. 4 of them add a setup fee of $445 to $999. Several bundle extras, like review requests, an AI receptionist or a CRM.

Over three years, the median plan comes to $5,364. A median $2,000 one-time site plus hosting comes to about $2,480 with bare hosting, or $7,400 with a $150 care plan. So monthly isn't automatically the expensive choice. The real difference is what happens when you stop paying.

Only 2 of the 13 plan pages we read say plainly that you keep your domain and your content. 3 state a minimum term, one of six months and two of twelve. Before you sign up for any plan, get these answers in writing:

1. Whose name is the domain registered in? It should be yours. ICANN's registrant rights page, which covers .com and similar domains, says the registrant “will assume sole responsibility for the registration and use of your domain name.” If the designer is the registrant, that's them, not you.
2. If I cancel, what do I take with me? The words and photos, at least. Ask if the site itself can be moved or bought out, and for how much.
3. Is there a minimum term, and can the price go up? Get both in writing, along with what notice you'd get.
4. What's included each month? Hours of changes, new pages, hosting and email. Then ask what costs extra.

We went through the full list of accounts you should own, from the domain to your Google profile, in our account ownership check.

Before You Pay Anyone, Open Their Own Website

Here's a check that takes ten seconds. We took the 73 listings Google showed us with “web” or “site” in the business name. 18 of them, about 1 in 4, can't show you a working website of their own:

• 8 have no website on their Google profile, and 1 more links only to a Facebook page.
• 5 have a website that doesn't load at all. For 3 of them, the domain no longer exists.
• 4 show an expired site or an error page.

All 18 have three Google reviews or fewer, and 12 have none, so most are probably side projects or abandoned listings. Google still shows them when you search, though. Open the designer's site on your phone, click through to two or three sites they say they built, read their Google reviews and ask who will actually do the work. If their own site is broken, you don't need the meeting.

Where Our Own Price Sits: Honest Disclosure

We're one of the 186. Our website design page lists standard sites at $3,000 to $5,000. That $3,000 start puts us among the 10 highest of the 40 one-time starting prices we found, so most published Okanagan prices are lower than ours.

If you're new, sell one service, or just need to be online this month, a one-page site in the $500 to $800 range from a local designer is a sensible buy, and you can grow from there. Spend more when you need a real page for each service and each town, and someone to write them. If you want help working out which one you are, we work with businesses across Kelowna and Vernon.

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