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Build it yourself with AI, or have it built?
DIY isn't free: it costs your time. Hiring isn't just the price: it takes some of your time too. Put in your numbers and see which costs you less, in hours and dollars.
Your site, your time, your call.
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Home, Services, About and Contact is four. Most small businesses need four to six.
What your business earns, or could earn, from an hour of your work. Set it to $0 to ignore your time.
The assumptions (change them)
Writing the brief, answering questions, reviewing drafts.
- DIY time starts from the free course’s own estimates: 9.25 hands-on hours for a lean four-page site, plus 0.75 hr for each extra page. First builds vary, so we show a range from 80% to 150% of the middle figure.
- Comfort changes the time (×0.85 comfortable, ×1.5 if you avoid tech); content not ready adds 2 to 5 hours.
- Prices checked 27 September 2026: Claude Pro $20/month on monthly billing (claude.com/pricing); Vercel Pro $20/month (vercel.com); a .com about $10–15/year.
- The Evolvv prices are the published packages at evolvv.io/website. We don’t show “average agency prices”: we have none we could honestly cite.
Your estimate
DIY with AI
$595
$20 cash + 11.5 hrs of your time ($575). Likely 9–17 hrs.
Hiring out
$649
$499 price + 3 hrs of your time ($150).
It's close. Decide on what you'd rather spend: time or money.
The two options land within about 15% of each other. If you'd enjoy learning the skill, build it. If your hours are better spent on customers, hand it over.
Either way: a live business site needs hosting and a domain, about $253 a year on the course’s setup. Ask any builder what their price includes.
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