What a website update really costs
The price of a small change on your site depends on who holds the code. Here is what you pay with an agency, a freelancer, a CMS or an AI agent, and what it costs in time.
$1.00 of free credit on every new project. No subscription.
The usual options
Agency or freelancer
Usually billed by the hour, often with a minimum per request, or through a monthly maintenance retainer. Add the time to get a slot.
A CMS
Free to edit once it exists, but setting it up is a project, and anything outside its fields still goes back to a developer.
A website builder
Cheap and easy if you start on it. Moving an existing site means rebuilding it.
How does it work?
No install, no terminal. Everything in your browser, on your phone, laptop, tablet.
- 1
Your developer, or anyone with GitHub access
Connect the codebase
Pick the GitHub repository of the project.
- 2
The project owner
Invite your team
Add collaborators by email and choose what each of them can do.
- 3
Your team
Chat, check, submit
Ask for a change in the chat, check it in a live preview of the real app, and submit it when it looks right.
The hidden cost is the delay
A five-minute change that takes two weeks costs more than its invoice.
Pay per request
With MakeThemCode you pay for the tokens the AI uses: a small text change costs a few cents. The pricing page shows estimates by type of change.
No subscription
No monthly fee, no seat price. Every new project starts with $1.00 of credit, and you can set monthly spending limits.
Your developer for what matters
You handle the small changes, your developer reviews the sensitive ones and keeps working on the big ones.
Questions
- How much does a change cost with MakeThemCode?
- It depends on the size of your code and of the change. The pricing page shows estimates for a text change, a form field and a new page.
- Is there a setup fee?
- No. Someone with access to the GitHub repository connects it, which takes a few minutes.
- Do I still need a developer?
- For the setup and the sensitive changes, yes. For copy, images and small sections, you can do it yourself.
Pay per request, with spending limits per project and per member. Developers keep control of the repository.
Pay cents, not hours.
Start with $1.00 of free credit.