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The short answer

In Montreal, a small showcase website starts at around $2,000 to $3,500. A fuller site, with events, memberships or two languages, goes up to $6,000 or $10,000, sometimes more. On top of that comes maintenance, from $36 to $400 a month depending on what it includes.

Prices in Montreal

In November 2026, I looked at the prices that studios in and around Montreal post on their websites. Few of them do, so these numbers lean toward the low end of the market.

  • A showcase site with a few pages starts at around $2,000 to $3,500.
  • A site with more content, events or memberships sits closer to $6,000 to $10,000.
  • A custom site, with features that don't exist off the shelf, often goes past $10,000.
  • Maintenance costs $36 to $400 a month. At the low end, that's a few fixes. Higher up, hosting and hours of changes are included.

Some studios give nonprofits a discount, often between 15 and 30%. Others have a package for organizations, or no discount at all.

What drives the price up

Two languages, first. A bilingual site means all the content twice, to put in and then keep up to date.

Then, features that stand apart. As soon as the site handles money or members (donations, tickets, memberships), there is more to build and more to test.

Design matters too. Starting from an existing base, adapted to your colours, costs less than a design made from scratch for your organization.

What budgets forget

Text and photos often take longer than the site itself. I build the site while you prepare them, but someone on your team has to write and choose them.

A site also costs something every year: hosting, the domain name, updates, sometimes plugin licences. Ask what the monthly price includes before you compare two quotes.

My prices

For Canadian nonprofits, I lower my rate by 15%, on the site and on maintenance.

* Smaller budget? I can adapt. We'll look together at what to keep and what to leave out.

Maintenance includes hosting, updates, backups and, every month, the list of what I did. I bill half when the quote is signed and the rest at launch.

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How to fund it

I found no open public program that pays for building a website for a small community organization. The programs below are in Quebec and Montreal, except Google's.

Google Ad Grants gives nonprofits up to US$10,000 a month in Google advertising, including Quebec nonprofits without a charity number. It doesn't pay for the site, but it requires a proper one: a domain in your name, secure, fast, readable on a phone, with real content. After that, someone has to manage the ads every month.

PME MTL's social economy development fund grants $5,000 to $50,000, including for technology and software. It is for social economy projects, with at least 20% self-generated revenue.

Your Desjardins credit union's community development fund can also help. Each credit union sets its own criteria, so you have to ask.

Most of these programs only pay for expenses made after they approve. If you apply, wait for the answer before you sign a quote.

These programs were checked on November 10, 2026.

See the offer: Nonprofit rate

Your questions

Why pay every month once the site is built?
A WordPress site needs updates, or it slows down and gets hacked. Every month, I host it, update it, back it up and send you the list of what I did.
Isn't a free site or a volunteer enough?
For a small organization that only wants to be found, it can be. The trouble starts when the volunteer leaves and nobody has the logins or knows how the site was built.
Can we pay in installments?
Yes. I bill half when you sign and the rest at launch. Another split can be set in the quote.
Our budget is smaller, is that possible?
Let's talk. I'll tell you what I can do with your budget, or what can wait for a second phase.

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