A law firm website in the US in 2026 costs between $19 a month and $17,500 up front, and which end you land on has almost nothing to do with how the site looks. The Modern Firm publishes the clearest ladder in the category at $2,950 for a Simple site, $7,500 for a Guided build and $17,500 for a Custom one, all one time. Rocket Matter sells a turnkey website as a $149 a month add-on on annual billing plus a $599 setup fee, and you have to be on a practice management plan of $59 to $145 per user per month to buy it. Grow Law Firm starts website design at $599 a month. LegalPeel starts a foundation site at $2,500 and then $1,750 to $2,250 a month. An independent designer such as Swell Sites charges $3,000 to $5,500 once, hands you the files, and tells you to budget about $150 a year for hosting and the domain.
The more useful finding is what you cannot read. Scorpion, Consultwebs, LawLytics, Justia and FindLaw are among the best known names in legal web, and not one of them returned a published price to us. Consultwebs has a page at the pricing URL and the only dollar figure on it is a hypothetical example about a competitor's billing. Every number in this article was read from the vendor's own page on August 24, 2026.
Every published US law firm website price in 2026
Here is the market as published. Note the spread: about six to one between the cheapest studio build and the most expensive one, and roughly nine hundred to one between a flat monthly plan and a custom agency project.
| Vendor and plan | Published price, read August 24, 2026 | Terms and what it includes |
|---|---|---|
| AgentSite, Starter | $19 a month, or $15 a month billed yearly | One website, full agent build, custom domain, SEO setup, hosting and SSL. Flat, no setup fee, no per page charge. These are the plans we intend to launch with |
| Rocket Matter Websites | $149 a month on annual billing, plus a one time $599 setup | Sold only on top of a Rocket Matter plan at $59 to $145 per user per month, itself carrying a $399 onboarding fee. Includes 10 practice specific pages, 3 stock photos, three weeks to a draft, one revision before launch, and website update once quarterly. The intake form requires the CRM add-on at $39 per user per month with a three user minimum |
| Grow Law Firm, Website Design | From $599 a month | New website design, technical on-site SEO, optimization for all devices. Their SEO plan starts at $2,500 a month and the All-Access Pass is $4,549 a month, listed as from $4,299 |
| The Modern Firm, Simple | From $2,950, one time | A structured process for firms that already have their content written and mainly need the site for validation |
| The Modern Firm, Guided | From $7,500, one time | Semi-custom layout with available add-ons for optimization and content writing |
| The Modern Firm, Custom | From $17,500, one time | Fully personalized process, custom functionality, marketing and content strategy. A marketing kickstart adds about $2,000 to $3,000 and logo work runs $450 to $1,800 |
| LegalPeel, Foundation then Growth | $2,500 and up for the site, then $1,750 to $2,250 a month | Webflow build with practice area structure, then local visibility and content execution. Worth knowing that their own page shows three different figures for these tiers: the tiles say $1,750 to $2,250, the comparison table says $1,500 to $2,200 with a three month minimum, and the FAQ says websites start around $3,500 and run to $7,500 and up |
| Swell Sites | $3,000 to $5,500, one time | You own the site outright. Budget about $150 a year for hosting and the domain, and changes are billed hourly afterwards |
| Scorpion, Consultwebs, LawLytics, Justia, FindLaw | No published price | None of these returned a readable rate to us on August 24, 2026. All route to a demo or a sales conversation |
The cost nobody puts on the quote: writing the pages
Every quote above prices the container. Almost none of them price the thing that decides whether the site earns anything, which is having a real, specific page for each matter type you want to be hired for.
The Modern Firm is unusually honest about this and publishes the number. Their lawyer copywriters cost about $300 per website page of up to 1,000 words. Now do the arithmetic on a genuinely useful firm site. A personal injury practice that wants to be found separately for car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle crashes, slip and fall, wrongful death and dog bites needs six matter pages. Add a home page, an about page, three attorney bios, a contact page and three county pages and you are at sixteen. Sixteen pages at $300 is $4,800 of copy, and that sits on top of the $2,950 build, not inside it.
That is the real reason so many firm sites have one page called Practice Areas with five links on it. Not because anybody thinks that ranks. Because the fifth page costs $300 and the fortieth costs $12,000. Rocket Matter's plan is explicit in the other direction: ten practice specific pages, and then the site updates once a quarter.
This is where an agent build changes the shape of the decision rather than just the price. Writing the sixteenth page costs the same as writing the first, so the question stops being what you can afford and goes back to what you actually practice. That is the whole argument on the law firm website design page, and the structural version of it is on the multi-page website builder page.
Three year total cost, using only published prices
Monthly pricing hides its size. Here is what each published route costs over three years, using the vendor's own numbers and our arithmetic.
| Route | Three year total | How it is calculated |
|---|---|---|
| AgentSite Starter, billed yearly | $540 | $15 a month for 36 months, no setup fee |
| AgentSite Starter, billed monthly | $684 | $19 a month for 36 months |
| The Modern Firm, Simple | $2,950 plus your own hosting | One time build. Hosting and any later changes are separate |
| Swell Sites | $3,450 to $5,950 | $3,000 to $5,500 once, plus about $150 a year for three years |
| The Modern Firm, Guided | $7,500 plus your own hosting | One time build at the published starting price |
| Rocket Matter Websites for a solo | $8,087 | $599 setup, plus $149 a month for 36 months, plus the required Essentials plan at $59 a month for one user for 36 months, plus the $399 onboarding fee |
| The Modern Firm, Custom | $17,500 plus your own hosting | One time build at the published starting price |
| Grow Law Firm, Website Design | $21,564 | $599 a month for 36 months at the published starting rate |
| LegalPeel, Foundation plus Growth | $65,500 | $2,500 for the site plus $1,750 a month for 36 months. This buys ongoing marketing, not only a website |
Two of these are not really website prices. Grow Law Firm and LegalPeel are marketing retainers with a site attached, and comparing them like for like against a build is unfair to them. The comparison that is fair is the one a solo actually faces: $540 over three years, or $2,950 once, or $8,087 to get a ten page site that updates quarterly.
How much does a law firm website cost?
Between $19 a month and $17,500 up front in the US in 2026, based on published prices. The realistic middle for a small firm that wants a designed, professionally written site is $2,950 to $7,500 one time from a legal design studio, or $149 a month plus a $599 setup if you buy the website bundled with your practice management software. Anything described as a law firm marketing package starts around $599 a month and climbs past $4,500.
How much are attorney websites?
The same market, and the same answer, with one caveat worth knowing. Most published attorney website prices are quoted per firm rather than per attorney, but the software they attach to is usually priced per user. Rocket Matter runs $59 to $145 per user per month and MyCase runs $50 to $130 per user per month on annual billing, so a four lawyer firm buying a bundled website pays the website once and the platform four times.
Why do so many legal website vendors not publish prices?
Because legal is the highest value vertical in local search and the quote is built around what your matters are worth, not what the site costs to produce. That is a rational way to run a sales team and a bad way to buy. The practical defense is simple: get the number, the contract length and the cancellation terms in writing before the second call, and ask specifically what happens to the site if you leave.
What ongoing costs come after launch?
Four, and only the first usually appears on the quote. Hosting and the domain, which Swell Sites puts at about $150 a year if you arrange it yourself. Content, at roughly $300 per page at published legal copywriting rates. Changes, which are hourly with an independent designer, a change request at a studio, and once per quarter on the Rocket Matter plan. And the software that actually runs the practice, which is where the real money goes: practice management, intake, an answering service, payments, and legal research. Firms routinely spend more on research than on the website, which is why cheaper AI driven case law search has changed a lot of small firm budgets in the last two years.
Who owns the website when you leave?
Ask before you pay a setup fee, because the answers genuinely differ. An independent designer such as Swell Sites states plainly that you own it and can transfer it. Subscription platforms in this market commonly host the site on their own system, and a site you cannot take with you is a recurring cost with no residual value, which is why replacing a platform site is its own small industry. What an export should actually contain is covered on the website builder export page.
Is a cheap law firm website worth it?
It depends entirely on what the cheapness is buying. Cheap because the pages are thin and generic is a waste at any price, since a single Practice Areas page with five links will not be found for any of the five. Cheap because the production cost of a page has fallen is a different thing, and that is the actual shift here. If you are a solo or a two lawyer firm, start with the structure rather than the budget: list the matter types you genuinely want, the counties where you appear, and the language your bar requires, then price routes against that list. The version of this sized for a small practice is on the small law firm website design page.
What to do with these numbers
Three things, in order. Write down the matter types and markets you want pages for before you take a single sales call, because that list is what you are really buying and every vendor will otherwise scope it for you. Get the price, the term and the ownership terms in writing, and treat a refusal to publish a price as information rather than as an obstacle. And check the change process, not the launch process, because you will live with the change process for years. A site that updates once a quarter is a different product from one you can correct the afternoon a bar rule changes.
Prices move, promotional rates expire, and several of these vendors quote per firm. Everything here was read on August 24, 2026 and should be re-checked before you sign.
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