How much does a website cost in The Bahamas in 2026?

If you have asked three people for a website quote in Nassau or Freeport, you probably got three numbers that had nothing to do with each other. One cousin said $400. An agency said $12,000. Someone on Instagram said "DM for prices". None of them explained what the number buys.

This guide is the explanation. It covers what a website costs here, what makes the price move, and the monthly costs most quotes leave out. Our own prices are at the end so you can compare.

The short answer

For a Bahamian small business, a website built by someone who knows what they are doing lands in one of three bands:

Approach	Typical one-time cost	What you get
Do-it-yourself builder (Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy)	$0 to $300 plus the subscription	A template you fill in yourself. Looks fine, rarely brings in customers.
Freelancer or small studio	$800 to $4,000	A site built for you, usually on WordPress or a template. Quality varies enormously.
Agency	$5,000 to $20,000 and up	Custom design, strategy meetings, a project manager, a long timeline.

On top of that, every website has a running cost: domain, hosting, security, backups and someone to update it. That is usually $20 to $300 a month depending on who is doing the work, and it is the part most quotes conveniently forget.

What moves the price

Pages. More pages mean more design, more writing and more testing. A five-page site is a different job from a thirty-page one.

Who writes the words. This is the biggest hidden difference between quotes. Many developers expect you to send the text. You will not have time, the site will sit half done for months, and when it launches it will read like a brochure from 2009. Copywriting done by someone who understands selling is worth paying for and is often the reason one quote is double another.

Custom design or a template. A template is cheaper and looks like a template. A custom design built around your business costs more and is the difference between looking like the leader in your category and looking like everyone else.

Features. Online bookings, ordering, payments, a members area, a second language. Each one is a real piece of work. Get them quoted separately so you can see what they cost.

Photos. Good photos make an average design look great; bad photos make a great design look cheap. Budget for a half-day shoot if you do not already have strong images.

Speed and mobile. Not a line item, but it should be. Ask whether the site is built mobile-first and tested on a slow connection. If the answer is a blank look, keep shopping.

The monthly costs nobody mentions

A website is not a one-time purchase. Every month you need:

• A domain (about $15 to $50 a year for .com, more for .bs)
• Hosting that is fast from The Bahamas, not just from the United States
• An SSL certificate so the browser does not warn visitors
• Backups so one bad update or a hacked plugin does not wipe you out
• Security updates, especially on WordPress, where unpatched plugins are the main way sites get hacked
• Someone to make changes: hours, prices, a new menu, a staff photo

If you pay a freelancer a one-time fee and nothing monthly, ask who does these six things. Often the honest answer is nobody, and the site slowly dies: wrong hours on Google, a broken contact form, an expired certificate, a hack nobody noticed.

How to compare quotes

Ask every provider the same five questions:

1. Who writes the copy? If it is you, add weeks to the timeline and expect worse results.
2. What is the monthly cost after launch, and what does it include?
3. How long until it is live? Weeks is normal. Months is a warning sign.
4. When do I pay? A deposit before you have seen anything is the industry norm, but it puts all the risk on you.
5. Do I own the site and the domain? Some providers keep both, and you find out when you try to leave.

A quote that answers all five clearly is worth more than a lower number that answers none.

What the 7-Day Bold Rebuild costs

We publish our prices because we think you should not have to ask.

• Setup fee: $2,500, once. That includes up to eight pages, all the copywriting, a mobile-first build tuned for island data, WhatsApp and tap-to-call on every page, a Google Business Profile tune-up, six social graphics for launch and a monthly results dashboard. You pay it only after you have seen the finished site and said yes.
• Launch rate. While we build our first Bahamian case studies, a lower setup fee is quoted on WhatsApp. It ends when the month's slots are filled.
• Care plan: $150 a month, about $5 a day. Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security and speed monitoring, unlimited small updates and a real person on WhatsApp. First month free, cancel any time after three months.
• Add-ons such as bookings or ordering are quoted as fixed prices before we start.

If you want to see what your business would look like rebuilt, send us your current site. You get a preview of your new homepage within 48 hours, free, and you decide from there.