How much does a website cost in Montréal in 2026? The real numbers.

Why nobody answers this question

Call three Montréal agencies and ask “how much for a website?”. You will get the same answer three times: “it depends”. It is true, it depends. But it is also a way to keep you on the line until the proposal, where the price shows up with a meeting, a coffee and a forty-line table.

We prefer the other way: our prices are written on our Packages page, and this article gives you the market as we see it, so you can compare without having to call anyone.

The four ways to get a website, and the prices we often see

• The online template (Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy): what we often see is a monthly subscription, plus your evenings. The first month is exciting; by the sixth, the site still isn’t finished, and it stays on the platform: stop paying and it disappears.
• The freelancer, or the friend who “does websites”: what we often see is a lower price than an agency, and it varies a lot from one person to the next. It can be excellent. Ask who writes the copy, what happens if that person changes careers, and whose name the domain is registered under.
• The traditional agency: for a small-business site, what we often see are quotes of several thousand dollars, plus monthly “maintenance”. Part of that price pays for the office, the meetings and the salesperson who called you.
• ganolyk: one complete page, ten pages or twenty pages: $800, $1,700 or $2,900 plus tax, paid once. The details are on the Packages page. The French version is included, the site is yours once it is paid for, and the first year of Web Care (hosting, domain, backups) is included. After that, it starts at $29 a month, at a posted price, or you leave with your files. Payment: 50% at signing, 50% before launch.

These reference points come from what we see when entrepreneurs call us, often with a competitor’s quote in hand. They are neither statistics nor rules: prices vary a lot from one provider to another. They are a reference point to tell whether the number in front of you is normal, or not.

What drives the bill up

The number of pages, first: one complete page costs less than ten, and ten less than twenty. Then what goes on them. An online store, a booking system, a connection to your invoicing software or a customer portal take real programming work, and that costs money, rightly so.

At many agencies, two other things push the price up without you seeing it coming: the copy (“writing is extra”) and the second language (“the English version is the same price a second time”). With us, both are included. It is not generosity, it is logic: a website without copy is not a website, and in Montréal, a site in only one language leaves customers on the table.

The hidden fees to ask about before signing

• Hosting and the domain name. Are they included, for how long, and at what price afterwards? A domain name usually costs little per year; if the amount billed seems high, ask why.
• Changes. Changing a phone number or adding a photo: is it billed by the hour, included in a monthly fee, or free? And at what hourly rate?
• Ownership. Is the domain in your name? Do you receive the files? Can you leave with them and have your website hosted elsewhere? Three questions, three answers that should be “yes, yes, yes”. One nuance: the website is yours, but keeping it online is a service (hosting) that has to be paid for, with us as anywhere else. With us, the first year is included.
• Photos and copy. Who provides them? If it is you, count your evenings in the price.
• Contract length. Twelve months, twenty-four, thirty-six? A $150 monthly fee over three years is $5,400 that nobody wrote on the first page.

What a small-business website should cost, in our opinion

Our opinion, and it is not neutral, since we sell websites: one complete page, well built, fast, with your city and your services spelled out and your Google profile connected, should not cost more than a thousand dollars. Ten pages, a little more. Twenty pages, with a page per city and per sector, a little more again. Beyond that, you are paying either for real complexity (store, booking, integration), or for margin, or for a disguised subscription.

The right price is not the lowest. It is the one where you know the total for the first year, you know what it includes, and at the end of it the website is yours.

Where to start

• Today: look at the Packages page. Everything is written there, plus tax, as everywhere in Québec. Each package has its own page: Showcase, Business, Expansion.
• Before signing with anyone: ask the ten questions we put in black and white, to us too.
• If you already have a website: run it through the free audit before deciding to redo it. Sometimes it is fine, and something else is holding it back.

A question about a price you got elsewhere? Send us the quote. We will tell you, with no obligation, what it covers and what it leaves out.