// pricing
We scope every project individually.
Tier pricing on marketing pages is either too low or too high — never your number. So we built a two-minute intake wizard that does the same scoping math we used to do on a discovery call. Walk through it and you'll see your range immediately. The honest bands below give you a feel for where most projects land.
3 months Site+ Lite included on new builds
Kick off a marketing or commerce-light build and we include Site+ Lite hosting ($149/mo value) for your first three months after launch. Staging and CMS bundled — then month-to-month at standard rates.
Ask about LAUNCH2026 at kickoff or enter BUNDLE2026 in the intake wizard if eligible.
// fees
What you pay for, and to whom.
We get asked: “isn't your monthly hosting fee just a retainer?” Honest answer — three categories of recurring spend look similar but are not the same. We separate them on purpose.
Open-ended retainer
A monthly fee paid to the studio for vague “availability.” You pay whether work happens or not, and scope is loose by design.
- Recurring fee to the studio
- Scope is undefined or “whatever you need”
- Auto-renews until you fight to cancel
- Smooths agency revenue, not client outcomes
We don’t offer this.
Productized subscription
A monthly fee paid to the studio for a specific recurring deliverable with defined scope. Optional. One-click cancel.
- Managed hosting — uptime, monitoring, small-fix turnaround
- Never bundled with the project quote
- Cancel anytime; nothing already shipped is taken back
Hosting from $50/mo (Site and Site+ tiers)
Pass-through cost
Third-party vendor bills you pay directly. Hosting infra, payment processor fees, AI API tokens, domain renewal, email service.
- Vercel / Netlify / your host of choice
- Stripe transaction fees
- OpenAI, Anthropic, or other AI token usage
- Domain registrar, transactional email (Resend, Postmark)
You own the accounts from day one. No markup.
The short version: retainers buy time, subscriptions buy a specific recurring output, and pass-through is just you paying your own vendor bills. We don't do the first. The second is opt-in and cancellable. The third is between you and the vendor.
// compare
How we stack up honestly.
DIY builders, agency retainers, and productized hosting solve different problems. This is where Four Thirteen sits — fixed builds, optional subscriptions with defined scope, and a client dashboard.
| DIY builder | Typical agency | Four Thirteen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quote before you commit | Template price only | After sales calls | 2-min intake → range → fixed at kickoff |
| You own code & accounts | Platform lock-in | Often unclear | Day one — repo, domain, hosting |
| Monthly dev retainer | N/A | Common ($300–800+) | Not offered |
| Hosting with clear scope | $5–25 generic host | Bundled in retainer | From $50/mo Site — boundaries documented |
| Client dashboard | Vendor portal | Email & PDFs | Billing, changes, SEO in one place |
// okc metro
Free 1-page site audit
Lighthouse + Core Web Vitals + three actionable fixes — delivered as a short PDF within two business days. No rebuild pitch required.
// hosting
Hosting & support, all in.
Most clients pick one of three paths below. The full comparison tables are for teams who want every SLA line item. Site+ adds staging and CMS on the marketing site we built; App tiers are for product code and hosting.
Site
$50/mo
Brochure & lead-gen
Brochure and lead-gen sites that stay live and fast. Hosting and keep-the-lights-on support — not a design retainer.
Compare Site tiersSite+
from $149/mo
Content, CMS & SEO
Staging and CMS bundled. Pick Lite / Standard / Pro at launch.
Compare Site+ tiersApp
from $199/mo
Custom web apps
Auth, database, payments — product hosting for your app.
Compare App tiers// site at $50/mo
Site is keep-the-lights-on hosting: patches, uptime triage, and a monthly vitals report. It is not unlimited design or feature work. New pages, integrations, and redesigns are quoted as projects. Need staging or CMS? That’s Site+.
Download Site vs Site+ one-pager (PDF)Site tiers
Marketing, portfolio, content, headless ecom.Site
$50/mo
Brochure and lead-gen sites that stay live and fast. Hosting and keep-the-lights-on support — not a design retainer.
- 1 production environment
- Monthly Core Web Vitals report (automated)
- Scheduled security & dependency patches — not on-demand feature work
- Business-hours incident triage (outages, broken deploys)
- New pages, redesigns, and integrations: quoted separately
Site+ Lite
$149/mo
Content-heavy or commerce-light sites: staging, CMS, and ongoing SEO monitoring for the marketing site we built.
- Production + staging environments
- CMS included
- Weekly Lighthouse + CWV audits with regression alerts
- Routine CMS & content fixes within tier (not net-new features)
- 1 business day routine response
Site+ Std
$249/mo
Growing content + commerce sites with real traffic.
- Everything in Site+ Lite
- Higher bandwidth allocation
- Faster CMS & content turnaround
- Quarterly performance + SEO review call
Site+ Pro
$399/mo
Headless ecommerce and high-traffic content sites.
- Everything in Site+ Standard
- Ecom-grade priority support
- Monthly conversion review
- Custom alerting hooks
App tiers
Custom web apps and platforms — hosting and scope per engagement.App
$199/mo
Auth, a database, payments — your custom web app, kept live.
- Single-purpose web app hosting (Vercel + Supabase)
- Four13-managed infrastructure
- Production + staging environments
- AI token budget: $50/mo included, overage at cost
- 4 business hour critical response
App+
$399/mo
Multi-tenant SaaS with subscription billing, white-label, or per-tenant data.
- Multi-tenant SaaS hosting
- Four13-managed infrastructure
- Production + staging environments
- AI token budget: $150/mo included, overage at cost
- 4 business hour critical response
Platform
$799+/mo
Web + mobile platforms, heavy AI pipelines, multi-engineer builds.
- Customer-owned infrastructure, Four13-managed
- Production + staging environments
- AI token budget: $500/mo included, overage at cost
- 1 hour critical incident response
- Annual architecture review
Every tier is month-to-month. Cancel anytime — we keep a frozen mirror of your site and data for 90 days, and email you reminders before purge. Repo transfer or zip export is one click.
// project bands
Where most projects land
Anchors, not boxes. Your real number comes from the wizard.
Brochure, portfolio, lead-gen sites.
Fast, well-built sites that load instantly, rank well, and don't need a CMS unless you want one. Includes copy support, light SEO, analytics, and a CMS option for content-heavy builds.
- $4k–$7k1–5 page marketing site, copy ready, no CMS.
- $7k–$12k6–15 pages, light CMS for blog or services, copy polish.
- $12k–$20kLarger content site, full CMS, custom integrations, content writing support.
Sell products, subscriptions, or memberships.
Stripe-first builds. Headless commerce where it makes sense; lighter setups when it doesn't. Includes checkout, post-purchase flows, email automation hooks, and analytics.
- $8k–$15kSmall catalog, simple checkout, Stripe + email integrations.
- $15k–$30kLarger catalog, subscriptions or memberships, custom checkout flows.
- $30k+Multi-region, B2B portals, custom fulfillment integrations.
Your site exists — but it shouldn't.
Same content, better site. We audit what's converting, keep what works, and rebuild what doesn't. Most redesigns also include performance, accessibility, and SEO cleanup.
- $5k–$10kSame scope, modern stack, better performance.
- $10k–$18kReworked IA, new design system, content migration.
Rank better without a rebuild.
Technical SEO audit, on-page fixes, content strategy, and local SEO for service businesses. Project-based, not retainer.
- $2.5k–$5kAudit + on-page fixes + local SEO setup.
- $5k–$12kAudit + content strategy + 90 days of execution.
Custom apps start at $15,000.
Web apps, mobile apps, internal tools, and multi-tenant platforms are scoped per project. Every app is different enough that band pricing would be dishonest — the wizard gives you a range, and a kickoff call locks in the real number.
- $15k–$30kSingle-purpose web app: auth, a few data models, payments and billing, transactional email.
- $30k–$75kMulti-tenant SaaS, native mobile, or web app with substantial third-party integrations.
- $75k+Platforms spanning web + mobile, heavy AI pipelines, or multi-engineer multi-month builds.
We've built CombatScore (AI coaching SaaS with multi-tenant billing and mobile apps) in-house, so we quote from direct experience.
// terms
What you can count on.
Refunds are phase-gated — you only lose what's been signed off. Every launch carries a 30-day bug warranty. Hosting is month-to-month with a 90-day safety net if you cancel. Full details on /terms.
// refunds
Phase-gated by sign-off
Each phase you approve becomes non-refundable. Cancel mid-phase and you only pay for what we've done.
- DiscoveryRefundable until you sign off on scope and acceptance criteria.
- DesignRefundable until you approve final designs. Discovery deposit non-refundable.
- BuildRefundable for work not yet started. Approved phases stay non-refundable.
- ReviewNo refund once you've accepted the staging build for review.
- LaunchedProject complete. 30-day launch warranty covers bug fixes; no refund.
// warranty
30-day launch warranty
30 days of bug fixes from launch. Anything we built that's broken, we fix. New features are out of scope and need a new mini-quote.
- Bug fixes for anything we built
- Browser / device regressions covered
- New features need a new mini-quote
// cancellation
90-day frozen mirror
Cancel anytime. We keep a frozen mirror of your site and data for 90 days after cancellation. We'll email you at 60, 30, 7, and 1 day before the mirror is purged. Repo transfer or zip export is one click.
- One-click repo transfer or zip export
- Reminder emails at 60, 30, 7, 1 days before purge
- Domain stays with you — we just unlink
// faq
Pricing FAQ
- How do I get a real number?
- Walk through the intake wizard — eight quick questions, two minutes. You'll see a price range immediately. After a 15-minute kickoff call we'll lock in a fixed-price quote for your specific scope; once you accept, that number doesn't change unless the scope does.
- Do I get an invoice or a subscription?
- A direct invoice for the build. Typically 50% on kickoff, 50% on delivery. Optional monthly subscriptions exist for managed hosting and SEO Pro — see the section above on what's a subscription vs. what's a retainer.
- Who owns the code when it's done?
- You do, outright, on final payment. Domain, analytics, hosting accounts, code repository — all transferable to your accounts at any time. We even one-click transfer the GitHub repo to your org if you cancel hosting.
- What if my project doesn't fit a typical range?
- That's normal. The ranges below are anchors, not boxes. Run it through the wizard — if it's outside the typical bands we'll say so and write a custom quote within two business days.
- Why don't you show fixed prices?
- Because fixed prices on a marketing page are either too low (we lose money) or too high (you walk away). The wizard does the same scoping math we used to do on a discovery call — instantly, and honestly.