What does a hand-coded website actually cost in OKC?

If you've called more than two web design companies in Oklahoma City, you've probably noticed they don't put prices on their site. You fill out a form, sit through a discovery call, get a "custom proposal," and somewhere around the third email you find out the build is $4,800 and the monthly is $200.

We do it differently. Prices live on the estimate page, in plain English, with the tiers and add-ons laid out the same way every time. This article walks through what those numbers actually buy, and where most OKC web design quotes hide the catch.

The short answer

Most small Oklahoma businesses pay between $750 and $2,200 for a hand-coded website, plus a flat $95 a month for hosting. Bigger builds with city-by-city local SEO and 10+ pages land in the $2,200-$3,000 range. That covers design, copywriting, mobile, schema, the first round of revisions, and Cloudflare-backed hosting on private infrastructure.

That's it. No retainer required to keep the lights on. No annual contract. Cancel hosting any time with 30 days' notice; the site you paid for is yours.

For a full breakdown by tier, add-on, and city, see the Oklahoma City website cost guide.

What the three tiers include

We sell three build tiers. They aren't "good / better / best" in the marketing sense — each one is sized for a different kind of business.

Tier 1, Starter ($750 build, $95/mo)

One page. Anchor links instead of separate pages. Think of it as a digital business card with teeth: the whole company on one scrollable page, with click-to-call, a contact form that emails you the lead, and a Google Maps embed for the trades guys who get walk-ins.

Best fit: a one-trade business with a defined service area (drain cleaning, mobile detailing, small handyman LLC). You need to exist on the internet, not dominate it.

Tier 2, Standard ($1,200 build, $95/mo)

Five pages: Home, About, Services, Portfolio, Contact. LocalBusiness schema on every page, not just the index. Service area cities listed in the schema so Google knows what metro you serve.

This is the one most Oklahoma trades businesses end up on. It's the floor for ranking in your home city for "your service + city" searches.

Tier 3, Growth ($2,200 build, $95/mo)

Up to 15 pages. Same five core pages as Tier 2, plus up to 10 city-specific or service-specific landing pages. BreadcrumbList schema, Service-page schema per offering, a real internal-linking architecture.

This is what you buy if you serve five or more cities, or if your service categories each need their own optimized page (e.g. a plumber doing emergency calls, water heaters, drain cleaning, and sewer line work — each one is its own search).

For reference: our C&D Lift client is on a Tier 3-equivalent build. In its first three months the site went from near-zero to 1,660 Google Search impressions (climbing weekly) and page 1 for "forklift repair" in the OKC metro — and Google's AI now cites it by name. You can see the build at stroderwebservices.com/portfolio.html.

What the add-ons actually cost

The list is short. Every one of these is priced on the estimate page:

• Extra page: $200
• Google Workspace setup: $200
• Per-page copywriting: $150
• Logo refresh / vectorization: $200
• Rush (7-day delivery): $500
• FAQ page with FAQPage schema: $200
• Custom landing page (conversion-focused): $400
• Photo curation (find, crop, optimize, alt-text): $150
• Keyword research pack (10 keywords + targeting): $200
• Yearly review + tune-up: $300
• Domain procurement + DNS setup: $150
• SEO onboarding (one-time): $400 (waived when bundled with a new build)

If you have a Google Business Profile already verified, you don't pay us to set one up. If you don't, we walk you through it on a single text thread — no $400 "GBP setup" fee.

The monthly hosting question

Most agencies make their money on hosting. We charge a flat $95 a month, and what's actually behind that number is:

• Private Proxmox hosting — your site runs on hardware we own, in a private container, not on a shared GoDaddy server with 800 other small businesses
• Cloudflare in front of it — caching + DDoS protection + WAF rules
• Nightly backups — full filesystem snapshot, kept for 14 days locally and 30 days on cold storage, plus an offsite copy in Cloudflare R2
• 24/7 uptime monitoring — if the site goes down, we get a text within a minute and we're the ones who fix it
• 30 minutes of edits a month — text changes, photo swaps, hour updates, small content tweaks. You text us a photo, we put it on the site within a day.

That last one is the part most OKC agencies don't include. They quote $50/mo for hosting and then charge $75 every time you want to swap a phone number.

Where the bundle money lives

If you want monthly SEO work on top of the build — keyword research, content posts, citation submissions — that's a separate bundle.

• Growth Plan: $650/mo, all-in with hosting included. Two blog posts and five citation submissions a month, plus a monthly search report. No separate hosting bill.

You don't need a bundle to get a build. Plenty of clients sit on hosting-only for the first six months while the build does its work in Google, then add a bundle once they're ready to push for more visibility.

What we don't charge for

• Discovery calls (we don't do them)
• Strategy sessions (just fill out the estimate quiz)
• Sales meetings (text us, or don't)
• Lock-in contracts (the policies page spells out what we put in writing)

The bottom line

A hand-coded website for an Oklahoma small business shouldn't be a mystery and shouldn't require a sales call. If you can fill out the estimate page, you can have an exact price, pay the 50% deposit on Stripe, and see your site live in 10 to 14 days.

If you're trying to figure out what tier fits your business, or whether you need add-ons, the estimate page has a five-question quiz that will tell you. No email gate, no phone number required to see the recommendation. Most Oklahoma plumber companies, electricians, and HVAC techs end up at Tier 2 with one or two add-ons. Most regional service businesses end up at Tier 3.

You can also look at what we've built if you want to see how the prices map to actual sites.

For the wider picture beyond hand-coded specifics, see what a website costs for any Oklahoma small business, including template subscriptions, agency pricing, and the hidden fees to watch for.