Website cost guide · Colorado
How much does a website cost in Colorado?
What a small business website costs in Colorado in 2026, and the Colorado rules worth asking about before you sign: the software sales tax change on January 1, 2027, home-rule city taxes such as Denver's, the Colorado Privacy Act, and the state's new rules on automated decision-making.
The short answer
What a website costs in Colorado
For a small business in Colorado, a website of up to 5 pages on a premium WordPress theme starts at $799 with us and takes about 15 days. A custom-coded site of up to 8 pages, built in Astro, Next.js or React, starts at $1,999 and takes about 4 weeks. Fixing an existing site starts at $249, and looking after it costs $49 a month. Colorado's rules on taxing software change on January 1, 2027, and cities like Denver set their own tax, so ask every studio what its quote includes.
- 01 · Basic Website
- $799
- 02 · Business Website
- $1,999
- 03 · Website Fix & Speed-up
- $249
- 04 · Website Care Plan
- $49
Our usual starting prices in USD. You get a written quote before any work starts, and the price we agree is the price you pay.
Official figures · Colorado
Colorado in numbers
The figures below come from the Colorado Department of Revenue, the City and County of Denver and the Colorado General Assembly. Rates can change, so check the source for the current figure.
- Colorado state sales tax rate
- 2.9%
- The Department of Revenue's sales tax guide gives the state rate as 2.9% (as listed in October 2026), with local rates on top and some home-rule cities collecting their own. Whether any of that applies to a website depends on what is being sold, so ask each studio how its quote is built.
- Official source Colorado Department of Revenue · Colorado Sales Tax Guide
- Denver city sales tax rate
- 5.15%
- Denver's Business Tax FAQ, as listed in October 2026, gives the city's own rate as 5.15% and names software as a service among the services taxable when sold to customers in Denver. If your business is in Denver, ask how a quote treats any subscriptions or licenses inside it.
- Official source City and County of Denver, Department of Finance · Business Tax FAQs
- Combined sales tax rate in Denver
- 9.15%
- The same FAQ, as listed in October 2026, adds the 2.90% state rate, Denver's 5.15%, 1.00% for RTD and 0.10% for a special district to reach 9.15%. When you compare quotes for taxable items such as software subscriptions, compare them on the same basis.
- Official source City and County of Denver, Department of Finance · Business Tax FAQs
- Colorado Privacy Act threshold
- 100,000 consumers
- Since July 1, 2023, the Colorado Privacy Act has covered businesses that process the personal data of at least 100,000 Colorado consumers a year, or 25,000 if they also earn revenue from selling personal data. Most small business sites fall below that, but a busy shop or lead-generation site may not.
- Official source Colorado General Assembly · SB21-190 Protect Personal Data Privacy
Only in Colorado
Colorado rules to know before you buy a website
These are Colorado's own laws, on top of the federal points in our US guide. They are not legal or tax advice: they tell you what to ask, and the official source behind each one.
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Software sales tax changes on January 1, 2027
HB26-1223, signed June 4, 2026, repeals Colorado's sales and use tax exemption for downloaded software from January 1, 2027, so software available for repeated sale and license is treated as taxable. Downloaded software developed for a particular user, or governed by a negotiable license agreement, stays exempt. A website can mix custom work with prewritten themes or plugins, so ask each studio which parts of its quote are which, and check with the Colorado Department of Revenue if you are unsure.
Official source Colorado General Assembly · HB26-1223 Modifying Certain Tax Expenditures -
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Home-rule cities such as Denver run their own sales tax
Some Colorado home-rule cities administer and collect their own sales and use tax instead of using the state system. Denver is one: it lists software as a service among the services taxable when sold to customers in Denver, and charges use tax on software used there when Denver tax was not paid at purchase. If your business is in a home-rule city, check that city's tax office about any hosting, plugin or software subscriptions in your quote.
Official source City and County of Denver, Department of Finance · Business Tax FAQs -
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The Colorado Privacy Act applies above set thresholds
The Colorado Privacy Act, in effect since July 1, 2023, covers businesses that target Colorado residents and process the personal data of at least 100,000 Colorado consumers in a calendar year, or at least 25,000 if they earn revenue from selling personal data. Covered businesses must honor a universal opt-out mechanism that meets the Attorney General's technical specifications. If you are near those numbers, ask your developer how forms, analytics and ad tags will respect opt-outs.
Official source Colorado General Assembly · SB21-190 Protect Personal Data Privacy -
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Public bodies must have accessible digital services
HB21-1110 bars Colorado public entities from excluding people with disabilities from their services, and requires state agencies to meet accessibility standards set by the Office of Information Technology, based on W3C guidelines, with full compliance due July 1, 2024. HB24-1454 then protected agencies showing good-faith progress from liability until July 1, 2025. If you run a city, district, school or other public body, put accessibility standards in the written brief and ask how they will be tested.
Official source Colorado General Assembly · HB21-1110 Colorado Laws for Persons with Disabilities -
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New rules for automated decision-making on websites
SB26-189, signed May 14, 2026, repealed and reenacted the 2024 Colorado AI Act with rules for automated decision-making technology used in decisions about education, jobs, housing, lending, insurance, health care or essential government services. Deployers must give clear notice at the point of interaction. Developers' documentation duties start January 1, 2027, and the Attorney General must adopt disclosure rules by then. If your site will score, rank or screen people, raise it before the build.
Official source Colorado General Assembly · SB26-189 Automated Decision-Making Technology
This is a builder's checklist, not legal or regulatory advice. Guidance changes, so check your regulator's current pages; we build the pages it asks for and make them easy for you to keep up to date.
What moves the price
Six things that decide the cost
Storvexa Your quote, line by line
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01
Pages and content
Five pages cost less than twenty. Writing the copy, finding photos and moving content from an old site all take time, so say up front who supplies them.
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Theme or custom code
A premium WordPress theme is the quickest and cheapest route. A site written in our own code costs more, loads faster and has no page-builder plugins to keep updating.
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What the site has to do
A contact form is simple. Online booking, payments, client logins or a shop each add work, because each has to be built, tested and kept safe.
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Languages and markets
Every extra language means translated pages and its own search setup. Prices in more than one currency add a little more.
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Connections to your tools
Linking the site to a CRM, a booking calendar, an accounting tool or a payment provider is quoted per connection, after we have seen what the tool allows.
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Speed and search work
Basic Google setup comes with every site. Full on-page SEO, a Google Business Profile and analytics come with the custom-coded package.
Total In your written quote, before any work starts
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