THE HONEST COMPARISON

Not all managed sites
are built the same.

DIY builders leave you operating the software. Agencies hide the price until you call. WorkspaceCMS combines full-service management with transparent, published pricing — and no setup fees.

  • All plans fully managed by our team
  • Transparent pricing — no intro-rate tricks
  • No setup fee · 30-day money-back guarantee · 12-month term, then month-to-month

The honest comparison

What $89/mo actually gets you.

Most platforms leave you as the operator. One category hides the price until you call. Here's exactly where we sit.

FeatureDIY BuildersWix · Squarespace · WordPressWorkspaceCMS$89 – $449/moManaged AgenciesB12 · Hibu · Scorpion
Starting price$16 – $99/mo$89/mo$169/mo – or “call us”
Free website build✗ You build it✓ We build it (6 – 15 pages)Setup fee: $1,999+
Ongoing site management✗ You manage it✓ Ongoing managed updates✓ (opaque delivery)
Direct team support✓ Our team, every ticket✗ Call-center rep
Technical SEO foundation on every planPlugin / paid add-on✓ Every plan, alwaysBundled, not auditable
AI visibility tracking✓ ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity
Pricing on the pricing page✗ Demo-gated
Month-to-month after year one✗ Annual contracts

Competitor data sourced from published pricing pages, June 2026. Managed agency pricing reflects published or quoted rates; some providers do not disclose pricing publicly.

What you get every month

Send us a message.
We handle the rest.

Update your services, swap a photo, add a new team member, publish a blog post — just send us the change and it's done. No hourly billing. No project proposals. No waiting for a developer. Bigger projects (custom builds, out-of-cycle redesigns, marketing campaigns) get scoped separately by our strategy team.

Handled for you, every month

  • Content updates — copy, photos, hours, pricing, anything — handled for you
  • Text changes & image swaps
  • Add new locations, services, or team members
  • Galleries & before/after portfolios
  • Blog & article publishing
  • New pages using your existing site design
  • Technical maintenance & security — handled automatically
  • Hosting, SSL, daily backups — all included, no extra bill
  • Self-serve tools to monitor speed & SEO monthly — catch problems before they cost you
  • Send updates any way you like — email, text, or phone — and we handle it
  • Always Fresh — free visual redesign at your 24-month anniversary, on every plan

Bigger projects — scoped & quoted by your strategy team

  • Custom functionality & new integrations
  • Custom-designed landing pages
  • Brand-new page designs (not reusing your current templates)
  • Custom application development
  • Custom redesigns outside the Always Fresh 24-month anniversary refresh
  • Ecommerce builds & complex checkout workflows
  • Data migration & third-party software integrations
  • Email configuration & hosting
  • Ongoing marketing campaigns (SEO / PPC / Social / Email)

Quote-based projects are separate from your monthly plan — we scope them with you before any work starts. Managed updates cover normal business website maintenance as defined in our Fair Use Policy at /fair-use.

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Sign up online in minutes — automated questionnaire, build & launch (Growth & Premium ~2 weeks; Essentials ~30 days), live on your domain.

Essentials Free site included$89/moStart Essentials
Growth Free site included$199/moStart Growth
Premium Free site included$449/moStart Premium
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