How much does a website cost in Quebec in 2026?

You want a price. Here is a price.

In Quebec, in 2026, a professional brochure website costs $3,000 to $10,000 at an agency, $1,500 to $4,000 with a freelancer, and from $9 USD a month with an AI that builds the site for you.

That is not a typo. The gap is real, and nobody in the industry has any interest in explaining it to you clearly. So we will.

The short answer

Type of site	Web agency	Freelancer	AI
Landing page	$1,000 to $3,000	$500 to $1,500	from $9 USD / month
Brochure site (5 to 10 pages)	$3,000 to $10,000	$1,500 to $4,000	from $9 USD / month
Site with bookings	$4,000 to $12,000	$2,000 to $6,000	from $9 USD / month
Online store	$6,000 to $25,000	$3,000 to $15,000	from $9 USD / month
Custom web application	$30,000 and up	$15,000 and up	✗ not a fit

Ranges compiled from price guides published in 2026 by Québec agencies and web directories, in Canadian dollars before taxes; every project is different.

On top of that, every year: hosting ($60 to $600), maintenance ($300 to $3,000) and the domain name ($15 to $50), unless they are included.

Three things worth knowing before we go further:

1. The price almost never depends on the number of pages. It depends on human hours.
2. Recurring costs often exceed the build cost over three years. Almost nobody shows you that at signing.
3. The price of a website is no longer a fact of life. What cost $5,000 three years ago is done differently now.

Want the number for your project? Our free calculator (no signup, no email) compares in thirty seconds what a Québec agency, a freelancer, and doing it yourself would cost for your site, based on your pages and features.

Why a brochure site costs $5,000 at an agency

It is not a scam. It is arithmetic.

In Quebec, rates commonly run $60 to $120 an hour for a freelancer and $80 to $250 an hour at an agency (most between $100 and $175). A "simple" brochure site, at a serious agency, means:

• a discovery meeting and a brief (2 to 5 hours);
• information architecture and mockups (5 to 15 hours);
• build and integration (10 to 30 hours);
• copywriting (5 to 10 hours, usually billed separately);
• revisions ("could you make the logo a bit bigger?") (3 to 10 hours);
• testing, launch, SSL, and basic SEO (3 to 8 hours).

Add it up: 30 to 80 hours. At $120 an hour, that is $3,600 to $9,600. There is nothing scandalous about the number. It reflects real work, done by real people, who live on that work.

So the real question is not "why is it so expensive." The real question is: does your project genuinely need 60 hours of human time?

For the vast majority of Quebec businesses (a restaurant, a clinic, a garage, a shop) the answer is no. Those sixty hours were never buying you a better website. They were buying human time, because there was no other way to do it. Now there is.

The recurring costs nobody puts in the quote

The quoted price is the starting price. Here is what arrives afterwards, every year:

Item	Typical annual cost
Hosting	$60 to $600
Domain name	$15 to $50
SSL certificate	$0 to $200 (often included)
Maintenance and updates	$300 to $3,000
Content changes	$60 to $150 an hour

Do the three-year math. A $5,000 site with $1,500 a year in recurring costs actually costs you $9,500, not $5,000. That is the number that matters, and it is rarely the one you are shown.

The most underestimated line is the last one. Every price change, every new product, every photo swap goes through someone who bills by the hour. A ten-minute edit becomes a $75 invoice, and a three-day wait.

The hidden costs nobody talks about

These appear in no quote, and they are entirely real.

Content. An empty site is worthless. Copy, photos, product descriptions, legal pages: you provide them, or they cost extra. Budget roughly $500 to $3,000 for professional copywriting, or several weekends of your own time.

Photography. A professional shoot in Quebec: roughly $500 to $2,500. Stock photos are free, and it shows.

Time. Two to twelve weeks at an agency. That is not an invoice, but it is a cost: those are weeks in which customers cannot find you.

Training. Learning the dashboard they handed you. Often an hour, frequently never done, and the site sits frozen for two years.

The redesign. Sites age. Budget a rebuild every three to five years. So the build cost is not a one-time cost at all. It is a subscription in disguise, paid in a lump, every four years.

The four ways to get a website in Quebec

1. A web agency

$1,000 to $25,000 for most projects, from a simple page to an online store, and $30,000 and up for a custom application. You are paying for hours: discovery, mockups, build, revisions, launch. The site is delivered, then frozen. Every change after that goes back through hourly billing.

Worth knowing: for a long time this was the only way to get a serious website. It no longer is.

2. A freelancer

$500 to $15,000 for most projects (most brochure sites: $1,500 to $4,000). Usually cheaper than an agency, for a comparable result. But the model is identical: you pay for hours, and the site freezes on delivery.

Worth knowing: the risk is continuity. If the freelancer changes careers, your site is orphaned, and the next one will bill you for the time it takes to understand the last one's code.

3. Drag-and-drop builders

About $200 to $500 USD a year for the entry plans (store plans cost more). Wix, Squarespace, WordPress. The sticker price is low; the real cost is your time: learning the tool, picking a template, filling it in, and checking the mobile version yourself.

Worth knowing: you are not paying a supplier, you are paying yourself. If you already run a business, your evening hours are worth more than that.

4. An AI that builds the site

From $9 USD a month. You describe your business in one sentence. The site is designed, written, and live. In minutes.

And it is not a brochure page. You get a real site, with:

• a dashboard where you manage your content, services and products;
• a booking system and a contact form whose enquiries reach you directly;
• visitor analytics. Who came, from where, which pages;
• hosting and an SSL certificate included, and eligible domains free the first year;
• and if you sell online: products, variants, promotions, customer reviews, and payments deposited straight into your own account.

Changes? You type them. "Drop the croissants, add the brioche, put the coffee up to $4." Done. No ticket, no three-day wait, no $75-an-hour invoice.

Right when: you run a shop, a clinic, a restaurant, a service, and you want a real site, live in minutes, that you control.

Wrong when: your site is a bespoke platform that must plug into your internal systems. Rare for a local business.

Agency or AI? Let's be direct.

For the vast majority of Quebec businesses, an AI now does exactly what an agency bills $5,000 for: a real site, a real dashboard, real bookings, real payments. Faster. For a fraction of the price. And you can change it yourself, on a Tuesday night, without calling anyone.

This is not a "lite" version of an agency site. It is the same work, done differently, and often better, because the site keeps living with your business instead of freezing on delivery day.

When $9 USD a month is enough, and it usually is

Here is the other half of the truth, the half no agency can write.

An AI is more than enough (and often better) if:

• you have a business. Restaurant, salon, garage, clinic, bakery, practice, workshop, shop, home service, or absolutely anything else;
• you want to be found on Google, show your hours, services, photos;
• you want bookings and forms that genuinely work;
• you want to sell online and be paid into your own account;
• you want to change your prices yourself, on a Tuesday night, without calling anyone.

That describes the vast majority of small businesses in Quebec. For that majority, a $5,000 invoice does not buy a better website. It buys sixty hours of human time you did not need, and a site you cannot touch again without paying again.

Digital grants in Quebec

Quebec does fund digital projects for SMEs, but the programs still open in 2026 target larger transformation projects (audits, automation, production, manufacturing). A website on its own rarely qualifies, and the federal micro-grant that used to cover websites closed in 2024.

Before you count on a grant, ask your local chamber of commerce, your MRC or SADC what exists in your region right now, and get the share you would really pay in writing.

It is a good reminder: the cost of a website is not only a question of supplier. It is also a question of preparation.

So what should your website cost?

Answer three questions honestly.

1. Does your site need to do something, or say something? If it must say (here is who we are, here is what we offer, here is how to reach us) you do not need 60 hours of development. If it must do (calculate, integrate, manage, synchronise) you do.

2. What is your time worth? A drag-and-drop builder is "free" if your time is worthless. If you run a business, it is not.

And if you prefer numbers to principles: the price calculator runs the math for your project, free.

3. Who is going to change it in six months? That is the question that costs the most, and the one asked least. If the answer is "I'll have to call the agency back," add $500 to $2,000 a year to your total.

Our position

Xevoni is the alternative to the agency.

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No quote. No three-week wait. No $75 invoice to change a price.

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