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Prices read 12 October 2026

How much does website copywriting cost?

What the words for a five-page business site cost from 53 sellers, from a $60 Fiverr package to a $30,000 project floor, each converted to the same spec with the arithmetic beside it.

The short answer

$60 to $30,000

per five-page website, from people and companies. AI tools are priced separately below.

Freelance marketplace, middle
$215
Writing or production platform, middle
$375
Independent specialist, middle
$5,750
Agency or studio, middle
$2,050

Priced for: Copy for a five-page business website (home, about, services, one service detail page, contact), about 2,500 to 3,500 words in total, written from a briefing call, with two revision rounds, delivered as a document. No design, no build, no keyword research beyond basic on-page SEO.

Prices read
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Providers checked
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Publish nothing
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Key takeaways
  • 01The answer to how much does website copywriting cost is mostly the route. Across 53 seller prices the same five pages ran from $60 to $30,000, and the middle independent specialist charges $5,750 against $215 for the middle marketplace package: about 27 times as much.
  • 02Most website copy gigs on Fiverr cannot buy five pages. Of the 38 we read, 23 have no package that reaches five pages, several sell one page at a time, and one package called 'Full Website Content' is four pages.
  • 03The gap buys discovery. The specialists' pages list kickoff calls, questionnaires, client interviews, wireframes and messaging work; the marketplace packages list words, pages and revisions. Only four offers we read name a kickoff or strategy call and two revision rounds for five or more pages, at $4,200 to $9,000.
  • 04Half the specialist figures are floors, not quotes. Joel Klettke expects at least $30,000, Big Picture Copywriting starts at $8,000, Kayla Hollatz at $6,500+ and Jill Wise at $4k for a simple site. They bound what five pages cost from each; they do not price them.
  • 05The figure most ranking pages lean on has no source. One copywriter calls about $1,000 a page the industry standard, another gives $650 to $1,000 as the average, and a third says a $1,000-a-page quote for a straightforward service business means you are probably overpaying.

Search how much does website copywriting cost and the first result gives no website copy figure at all: Elna Cain's post prices blog posts and email sequences, and still says it is 2024. The next four are a Reddit thread, two copywriters' own posts and AWAI's undated guideline, and none of the five names a source for its figures.

So this page prices one thing: the copy for a five-page business site (home, about, services, one service page and contact), about 3,000 words, from a briefing call with two revision rounds. One landing page is priced on the copywriting page, and the design and build on the websites page. Every website copywriting cost below was read at its source on 12 October 2026, in US dollars.

Most website copywriting rates are per word, per page or per hour. Per-word prices are converted at 3,000 words, the middle of the spec, page prices multiplied by five, and hourly rates converted at 22 hours: the Clever Copywriting School's 2022 worked example for a five-page site, with a second revision round. No survey measures those hours, so treat every hourly row as an estimate.

The price, by route

How much does website copywriting cost, route by route

Each bar runs from the cheapest to the most expensive published price we read for this route, normalised to the same spec. The dot is the middle price. The axis is logarithmic: each gridline is ten times the one before.

  • Freelance marketplace

    33 prices

    $60 to $1,400

  • Writing or production platform

    6 prices

    $150 to $1,100

  • Independent specialist

    8 prices

    $1,696 to $30,000

  • Agency or studio

    6 prices

    $199 to $6,300

  • Rate surveys

    4 prices

    $704 to $2,500

  • AI tools

    5 prices

    $1.25 to $6.25

  • In-house hire

    computed

    $1,190 to $2,083

In-house is not sampled. It uses the salary data for writers and authors (May 2025 US national median, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $76,910 base), loaded at 1.3x and divided by 4 to 7 five-page sites a month. At 22 hours a site, the Clever Copywriting School's 2022 worked example with a second revision round, a working month of about 173 hours fits seven. The range runs from 7, a month of nothing else, down to 4, which leaves about half the month for the rest of the job. Both ends are our assumption.

The evidence

Every price we read

108 published prices, each read on the page it links to, in US dollars from a US view. The third column converts each one to the same spec, with the arithmetic. A price that buys something materially different is shown and left out of every range.

  • Fiverr: writingartist22

    Freelance marketplace

    $60 (Premium SEO Content Package)

    6 pages, 3000 words, revisions Unlimited, 4 days

    $60

    Premium states 6 pages and 3,000 words ('6 to 7 pages'). Counted: $60.00.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr: thechiefwriter

    Freelance marketplace

    $60 (Star) + calculator add-ons

    5 pages, 2000 words, revisions Unlimited, 3 days

    $75

    Star states 5 pages and 2,000 words; topped up to 2,500 words with the package's calculator (+500 words for $15): $60 + $15 = $75. Counted: $75.00.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Mukarram H.

    Freelance marketplace

    $100 (Standard)

    Standard tier: 3000 words

    $100

    Standard: 3,000 words, 2 revisions, About/FAQ/Store/Home/Product/Contact pages ticked: $100.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Humna G.

    Freelance marketplace

    $40 (Advanced) + 13 x $5 add-on

    Advanced tier: 1200 words, plus 13 add-ons of 100 words

    $105

    No tier reaches 2,500 words. Advanced (1,200 words) $40 plus 'Additional 100 Words' x13 ($5 each) = $105.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr: wum125

    Freelance marketplace

    $110 (Premium Package)

    unstated pages, 50 words, revisions not stated, 4 days

    $110

    Premium's description reads '5 pages SEO copywriting up to 3000 words'; the table's 'Words included' reads 50 on both larger packages, which is implausible for a 3- or 5-page package, so the description is used. Counted: $110.00.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Jane C.

    Freelance marketplace

    $120 (Advanced)

    Advanced tier: 2000 words

    $120

    Advanced: 2,000 words, $120. No word add-on, so counted as is (2,000 words against about 2,500 to 3,500).

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Ayesha A.

    Freelance marketplace

    $120 (Advanced)

    Advanced tier: 3000 words

    $120

    Advanced ('Top-Tier'): 3,000 words, unlimited revisions: $120. (Standard 2,000 words plus five $30 add-ons would cost $230.)

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Maryam N.

    Freelance marketplace

    $70 (Advanced) + 15 x $3.5 add-on

    Advanced tier: 1000 words, plus 15 add-ons of 100 words

    $123

    No tier reaches 2,500 words. Advanced (1,000 words) $70 plus 'Additional 100 Words (+ 1 Day)' x15 ($3.50 each) = $122.50.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Ahmad A.

    Freelance marketplace

    $149 (Advanced)

    Advanced tier: 2250 words

    $149

    Advanced: 2,250 words, 2 revisions, all page types ticked: $149. No word add-on, so counted as is.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr: john_exp4

    Freelance marketplace

    $150 (PREMIUM)

    5 pages, 3000 words, revisions Unlimited, 6 days

    $150

    PREMIUM states 'Full website content + Up to 5 pages', 5 pages and 3,000 words. Counted: $150.00.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Andre K.

    Freelance marketplace

    $150 (Advanced)

    Advanced tier: 2200 words

    $150

    Advanced: 2,200 words, 5 revisions: $150. No word add-on, so counted as is.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Taye J.

    Freelance marketplace

    $150 (Advanced)

    Advanced tier: 2000 words

    $150

    Advanced ('PLATINUM'): 2,000 words, unlimited revisions: $150. No word add-on, so counted as is.

    2026-10-12

How the marketplace prices were drawn: Fiverr: search 'website copywriting' (https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?query=website%20copywriting), default 'Relevance' sort, 858 results, read 2026-10-12 in a real Chrome window driven over the DevTools protocol (port 9933, own profile) with the cookie logged_out_currency=USD; the page and every gig report currency USD at rate 1. Took listing positions 1 to 48 in order, one gig per seller (a seller's later gigs skipped), which gave 40 sellers. Skip rule: a gig that does not sell website copy in English (2 skipped: nicaline at position 5, a German correction gig; anilahasnain1 at 26, realtor bios). For each of the 38 remaining gigs I read the package table from the gig's own page data (the source of the 'Compare packages' table) and counted the CHEAPEST package that states five or more pages (Fiverr's 'Number of pages' field, or the package description where the field is absent). Where that package states fewer than 2,500 words, it was topped up to 2,500 with the package's own word calculator; where it has no calculator it was counted as is if it states at least 2,000 words (flagged 'Match: partial'), and not counted below that. Packages under five pages are not counted even when a word calculator could add words, because the calculator adds words, not pages. 15 of 38 produced a figure. Fiverr's listing data marks 20 of the 48 positions as promoted placements ('promoted_gigs'); they are kept, because a buyer sees them, and flagged per row. Upwork Project Catalog: search 'website copywriting' (https://www.upwork.com/services/search?q=website%20copywriting), default sort, 6,222 projects, read the same day the same way. Opened positions 1 to 23; skipped by rule position 21 (Arabic and English medical blogs, no tier table) and 24 (a Shopify store build). Tier tables were read with ticks taken from the markup (aria-label 'included' / 'not included'), and each tier's description by clicking it. Counted the lowest tier of 2,500 words or more; where no tier reached 2,500, the top tier plus the listing's own 'Additional 100 Words' add-on to 2,500; where there is no word add-on, the top tier as is if it states at least 2,000 words (flagged partial). A tier described as a whole website with a page count (Ghulam M., 6 pages) counts without a word count. 16 of 22 produced a figure. Contra: three listings found by web search (Contra's search and category pages return a 404 or redirect), flagged as not a sample. All marketplace prices exclude buyer fees.

Checked, and publish no price

17 of 107 providers checked

Not a criticism. Quoting per project is normal when the work varies. It does mean the ranges above describe the providers who publish, and the ones who do not are rarely the cheapest.

  • WebFX (website copywriting services) · No price. 'Typically, businesses will pay $25 to $25,000 per page when investing in copywriting services. For the most accurate copywriting pricing, request a quote.' Its old URL webfx.com/website-copywriter-pricing.html now redirects to a content marketing pricing page.
  • Copyhackers · No website copy price on the site's homepage.
  • Brafton · Pricing page is a contact form ('Get Pricing!'); no figures.
  • Siege Media · No price published; figures on the homepage are client results.
  • Animalz · No price published ('Let's talk').
  • Velocity Partners · No price published.
  • 97th Floor · No price published ('Let's Talk').
  • Omniscient Digital · No price published; figures on the homepage are client results.
  • Skale · No price published.
  • MarketSmiths · No rate card. The homepage lists example project sizes, including 'A $15k site rewrite for a boutique hotel', with no page count.
  • Fenwick · No price published.
  • CopyHouse · No price published.
  • Eleven Writing · No price published; '$100K' on the homepage is a client result.
  • Make Honey · No price published.
  • Verbal Identity · No price published.
  • Quotable Copy (Sarah Klongerbo) · No price; '[ Get a Copywriting Quote ]'. Her 2024 blog post priced a bundle at about $3,800.
  • Ecrivio · Lists 'Creative web copy' with no price; prices only landing pages and case studies ($150 up to 1,400 words) and rewrites.
What moves the price

Why one five-page site's copy costs 500 times another

Whether the writer sets the site's messaging and page plan, or fills pages you planned.

  1. 01

    Discovery before the first draft

    Most of the gap sits here. Between The Lines' $9,000 opens with a 60-minute kickoff and strategy call, a questionnaire and optional client interviews; Kayla Hollatz's $6,500+ with a strategy call, a brand questionnaire and wireframes. The marketplace packages we read list words, pages and revisions, and are written to your brief.

    Between The Lines services
  2. 02

    The first page carries the strategy

    Polly Clover charges $425 for the first page and $340 for each one after it, because the first carries the research, messaging direction and SEO strategy for the whole project. Bob Bly's 2022 schedule prices a simple home page at $1,250 to $1,500 and an optimised inner page at $750 to $950.

    Polly Clover's per-page prices
  3. 03

    Brand messaging in the bundle

    Some sellers write the message before the pages and price it in. Salted Pages charges $6,300 for five pages and $7,500 with a brand voice handbook; Big Picture Copywriting's full site with a messaging deck starts at $8,000, the deck alone at $3,500. Take the messaging out before comparing a bundle with a copy-only price.

    Salted Pages packages
  4. 04

    Where the page bands fall

    Studios sell page bands, and the unit price moves between them. Copywriting Union sells 3 pages for $1,800 and 6 for $4,200; CopywriterLabs up to 3 for $1,450 and up to 7 for $3,200. Both include two revision rounds at six and seven pages, so the bigger package costs $1,000 less, though only Copywriting Union names a kickoff call.

    Copywriting Union packages
  5. 05

    Words on top of pages

    On Fiverr a five-page package often caps the words and sells the rest by calculator. Seller mongiardo's five-page Premium is $360 for 1,500 words plus $120 for each 500 more, so 2,500 words cost $600; elmarakbi's is $550 for 2,000 words plus $30 per 100, which comes to $700.

    mongiardo on Fiverr
  6. 06

    Human or AI-assisted drafting

    On the writing platforms, website content writing cost is a word rate, and the drafting method sets it. Verblio charges 16 cents a word for fully human writing, $480 for 3,000 words, and 6 cents plus a $49.50 monthly platform fee for writing done with its in-house AI tools, $180 before the fee.

    Verblio pricing
Building it with AI

What the machine costs, and what it does not

Five current models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google would draft these pages for $1.25 to $6.25 of compute, on our token estimate. Copy tools sell seats instead, Copy.ai from $24 a month billed yearly and Jasper from $59, and site builders such as Squarespace, Framer and Hostinger fold AI page text into their plans. The receipt prices one mid-range model, then the hours a person still spends.

What AI cannot do here
  • Sit in the briefing call and hear how you describe the business
  • Decide what the site says before any page is planned
  • Know why your customers chose you over a competitor
  • Check a claim, a price or a credential nobody has given it

Receipt · one five-page site's copy

  • Messaging, page plan, five drafts, two revisions$1.25

    Claude Sonnet 5.5, $2 per 1M input tokens, $10 per 1M output tokens: 400,000 input tokens x $2/M + 45,000 output x $10/M, our token estimate. Price read 2026-10-12

Tools and model time$1.25
Human edit, 12 to 18 h at $48/h$577 to $865
Publishable$578 to $866

Edit hours: Our editorial estimate for the briefing call, gathering what customers say, planning the pages, checking every claim, two rounds of feedback and rewriting five drafts for voice. No survey measures it; the Clever Copywriting School's 2022 worked example gives five pages 22 hours by hand with two rounds, of which the writing itself is 10, so 12 remain whoever drafts. The hourly rate is the same loaded in-house figure used for the in-house route, so the two are comparable.

How long it takes

Turnaround, as each route publishes it

From brief to first draft or delivery, in the provider's own words. Where a provider states no turnaround, it is not listed.

  1. Freelance marketplace

    3 to 14 days, median 4 days

    Fiverr (15 counted packages)

  2. Freelance marketplace

    3 to 6 days before add-ons, median 4 days; per-100-word add-ons add 1 or 2 days each

    Upwork Project Catalog (16 counted tiers)

  3. Writing or production platform

    2-4 day turnaround

    Verblio (100% human)

  4. Writing or production platform

    ~5-7 business days

    Stellar (Core)

  5. Agency or studio

    Within 7 business days (5 pages)

    Content Development Pros

  6. Agency or studio

    6 business days

    Express Writers

  7. Agency or studio

    10 business days (up to 7 pages)

    CopywriterLabs (Professional)

  8. Agency or studio

    15 business days (6 pages)

    Copywriting Union (Growth)

  9. Agency or studio

    3 to 5 weeks

    Salted Pages

  10. Independent specialist

    4 weeks

    Kayla Hollatz

  11. Independent specialist

    4-8 weeks (with brand messaging)

    Big Picture Copywriting
Doing it yourself

What a five-page site's copy takes to do yourself

No survey measures a whole site. The EFA's 2026 chart puts business writing at 1.5 to 4.5 pages of 250 words an hour, about 2.7 to 8 hours for 3,000 words, and the Clever Copywriting School's 2022 example gives five pages 22 hours with two revision rounds. The hours below are our estimate for doing it yourself; the drafting is one task of six.

Editorial estimate

No independent survey measures this, so the hours are our editorial estimate.

At the same loaded rate as an in-house hire ($48 an hour), your 18 to 34 hours are worth $865 to $1,634.

  • Read sales notes, reviews and three competitors' sites for the words buyers use3 to 5 h
  • Decide the one message, and what each of the five pages is for2 to 4 h
  • Outline each page: its sections, its proof, the action it asks for2 to 3 h
  • Write the five drafts6 to 12 h
  • Get feedback and revise twice3 to 6 h
  • Proofread, add page titles and meta descriptions, load into the site2 to 4 h

You also need

  • Notes or recordings from real sales conversations
  • The page list agreed with whoever builds the site
  • Someone outside the company to read it cold
  • Edit access to the site, or someone who has it
Who to buy it from

Agency vs freelancer vs fractional vs in-house

Cost is one row of six. I write website copy only inside an engagement, so the fractional column loses the rows about buying one site quickly and cheaply, and earns its place where the question is what the site should say.

Agency
Freelancer or marketplace
Fractional lead
In-house hire
Cost, per five-page website
$199 to $6,300
$60 to $30,000
Not priced by the piece. From $5,000 a month to lead the work, plus production from $2,000 a month
$1,190 to $2,083, with a monthly commitment of $8,332
Who decides what the site says
A kickoff call or strategy session, where the package names one
Rarely in a marketplace package; most of a specialist's price
I do, from customer interviews and sales calls, before a page is planned
The hire, with the easiest access to the founders
Turnaround for five pages
Six to fifteen business days as published; three to five weeks at one studio
Three to fourteen days on Fiverr; four to eight weeks from a specialist
Two to four weeks, once the message is agreed
Fastest once hired; hiring takes months
After the site goes live
Usually the end of the order
Usually the end of the project
The same message carried into email and sales material, and a monthly read of what converted
Kept current, if someone owns the numbers
Smallest commitment
One package, sold in page bands
One package, or a $30,000 floor at the top
A month
A salary
Best when
You know what the site should say and need it written well
You need the words fast and cheap, or the site is worth a specialist's floor
Nobody has decided what the company says, or the site is one part of a wider plan
You add and rewrite pages every month

Agency and freelancer costs are the published ranges above. The fractional column is busyless, priced as it is sold. In-house uses the salary data for writers and authors, loaded and divided by monthly output.

Before you sign

Where the quote and the invoice come apart

Each of these is visible on a published price list, linked where it is.

01

A 'full website' that is four pages

Fiverr seller maggie_seo's 'Full Website Content' package is four pages: home, about, products or services, and contact. Seller talhabinkhalid0's '4-Page Set' at $180 is the step below an 8-page package at $350. Count the pages in the package table, not the words in its title.

maggie_seo on Fiverr
02

The table and the description disagree

Seller sikandarali0's top package describes 2,000 words for six to eight pages while its table says 1,500 words; wum125's describes five pages of up to 3,000 words while its table says 50. We read the table as binding wherever it was plausible. Ask the seller which one binds before you order.

sikandarali0 on Fiverr
03

Word add-ons that add weeks

Upwork seller Thu P.'s largest tier is 1,000 words for $100, and each extra 100 words costs $10 and adds two days. Topping it up to 2,500 words adds $150 and 30 days to a five-day delivery, so the cheapest route to a whole site can be the slowest.

Thu P. on Upwork
04

Copy priced inside the build

Jef van de Graaf says his full-site copy work for clients usually runs $7,500 to $15,000, 'which also usually includes my involvement in the site build'. A bundle like that is a website price, not a copy price, so it is shown and left out of every range here. Compare it with build quotes instead.

Jef van de Graaf's price guide
05

'$25 to $25,000' prices nothing

WebFX's service page says businesses pay '$25 to $25,000 per page' and asks you to request a quote. Kobe Digital repeats the figures as per website in one line and per page in another, and Sarah Klongerbo's 2024 post opens by quoting them. A range a thousand times wide is not a price.

WebFX service page
06

One studio, two prices for one package

Salted Pages lists its High Tide package, five pages with a brand voice handbook, at $7,500 in its package comparison and $7,300 on the package card further down the same page. Neither is counted here, but a buyer who reads one figure could be invoiced the other. Get the price in writing.

Salted Pages packages
The cost of doing nothing

What not having it costs, in your numbers rather than ours

A site with no copy written for it still launches, on whatever someone wrote the week before, and only your analytics and CRM can say what that costs. The sum below gives the most those pages could be costing you, not what they are, so treat it as a ceiling.

  • Pages written in the company's own language

    Copy written under deadline describes the business the way the team talks about it inside. A visitor came to check what you do, for whom, at what price and what to do next, and leaves when the page does not say.

  • Design built around a guess

    When copy arrives last, it is cut to fit boxes drawn for placeholder text, or the layout is reworked and paid for twice. Several of the copywriters read for this page ask to be hired before design starts for that reason.

  • Service pages nothing can match

    Service pages written without the words buyers use for their problem give search engines and AI assistants little to match against a question, so the site lives on the direct and referral visits the business already had.

Work it out

Monthly visits to the home and service pages × share who leave without contacting you × enquiry-to-customer rate × value of a customer

Monthly visits to the home and service pages
Your analytics, filtered to those pages
Share who leave without contacting you
The same report: visits with no form, call or booking
Enquiry-to-customer rate
Your CRM: last quarter's enquiries against the deals won from them
Value of a customer
Average first-year revenue per customer, from your accounts
How I price it

Why there is no per-piece price from me

busyless runs on a retainer. A Fractional Head of Content, from $5,000 a month and month to month, owns the system: which channels we bet on, the editorial standard, customer interviews, the conversion path and the monthly report.

Production sits underneath as execution capacity, from $2,000 a month, through agents I have built or people I manage. We make as much as growth needs, so a price per piece would measure the count rather than whether it worked.

Most clients start with Discovery: two weeks and $2,500 for the diagnosis and a 90-day plan, theirs to keep either way.

See how the retainer works
Discovery, two weeks
$2,500
Fractional Head of Content
from $5,000/mo
Execution capacity
from $2,000/mo
Price per piece
None
What other pages quote

The ranges you will find elsewhere, and where they come from

The top US results when we read them on 12 October 2026. 6 of 8 name no source for the figure they give.

Searched: how much does website copywriting cost

  • elnacain.com

    No website copy figure: her own rates for SEO blog posts ($.50-$.80/word) and email sequences

    No source
  • reddit.com

    Self-reported: $120-180 a page; €1,500 a website; $1,499 for four pages; $2,500 to $5,000+ for four pages plus sales pages

    No source
  • saltedpages.com

    Average $650 to $1,000 per page; five pages: low $500, middle $3,000, high $10,000; its own five-page package 'between $6 and 7k' in one line and '$5-7k' in another

    No source
  • sarahklongerbo.com

    16 anonymised copywriters' own packages, $5,000+ to $9,750+; 'the industry-standard cost of website copy is about $1,000 per page'

    No source
  • awai.com

    Writing a Small Website (five to six pages, SEO): $1,500 - $3,500; Homepage $450 to $4,500

    No source
  • primewebdesign.com

    $100 to $500+ per page; 8-12 pages $2,000 to $4,000; a full site $1,500 to $5,000+

    Cites a source
  • newmedia.com

    Website copywriting $500–$5,000+ per page; a simple page $300 to $1,000; full projects $2,000 to $10,000+

    No source
  • upwork.com

    $19-$45/hr median

    Cites a source
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FAQ

Frequently asked

  • What does a specialist's five-page website buy that a marketplace one does not?
    Discovery, mostly. The specialists' pages list kickoff and strategy calls, questionnaires, client interviews, wireframes and messaging work before any page is drafted. The marketplace packages list words, pages and revision counts, and are written to your brief. On paper both are the same five pages; the specialist's price, a middle of $5,750 against $215, includes deciding what they should say.
  • Why do so few Fiverr gigs cover a five-page website?
    Because they are built around single pages or word counts. Of the 38 website copy gigs we read, 23 have no package that reaches five pages: ten stop at three or four, several sell one page at a time, and the word calculators add words, not pages. Ordering one page five times is not a package any of those sellers has priced.
  • How many weeks should you allow for five-page website copy?
    Three to fourteen days on Fiverr, with a median of four, and six to fifteen business days from the studios that publish a timeline. Salted Pages quotes three to five weeks, Kayla Hollatz four, and Big Picture Copywriting four to eight with brand messaging. Then add your own time for two rounds of feedback.
  • Where do the $1,000-a-page figures for website copy come from?
    None of the guides we read says. Sarah Klongerbo calls about $1,000 a page the industry standard, Salted Pages gives $650 to $1,000 as the average, and NewMedia's tables cite market research without naming it. Prime Web Design cites the EFA's 2026 chart as 32¢ to $1.00 a word, which joins the low end of one row to the high end of another.
  • How much of a five-page website's copy can AI write?
    The drafts, for $1.25 to $6.25 of model time on the five models we priced, on our token estimate. It cannot sit in the briefing call or decide what the site should say first. The briefing, research, checking, two rounds of feedback and rewriting take 12 to 18 hours on our estimate, which at an in-house rate brings the site to $578 to $866.
  • How do surveyed writers price five-page website copy?
    If you are setting your own web copywriting rates, the survey rows are the nearest benchmark. AWAI's guideline gives $1,500 to $3,500 for a five to six-page SEO site, and Content Estate's 2021 survey of 19 writers puts 500 words of web copy at $200 to $400 for proficient writers, about $1,200 to $2,400 for 3,000 words.
  • When is a staff writer cheaper than buying five-page website copy?
    Almost never for one site. A writer at the US median for writers and authors, $76,910, costs $8,332 a month once loaded for payroll and benefits. At 4 to 7 five-page sites a month that is $1,190 to $2,083 a site, before the months it takes to hire. A staff writer pays off when the site is one job among many.
  • Will busyless write the copy for a five-page website?
    Yes, inside an engagement, and never priced by the site. Strategy and conversion are layers I own as a fractional Head of Content, from $5,000 a month: what the site says, which page answers which buyer and whether it worked. The pages are written through production from $2,000 a month. If you only need five pages written, the routes on this page are the way to buy them.