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Website Migration Cost: What You'll Pay for Every Platform Move

Website migration cost in 2026: typical quotes by platform pair and site size, what drives the price, hidden running costs and Designify's fixed-price anchors.

By Mehdi Hassan10 min read

The short answer

Website migration cost typically ranges from about $1,500 to $25,000 in agency quotes we see, set mostly by page count, CMS complexity, languages and how much is redesigned. Headless or ecommerce replatforms can cost far more. The rebuild is rarely the expensive part: URL mapping, redirects, content cleanup and QA are where the money and risk sit.

Key takeaways

  • Typical agency quotes for website migrations run from about $1,500 to $25,000, and they vary widely.
  • Page count matters less than CMS collections, languages, integrations and how much you redesign.
  • Every platform move is a rebuild; no converter exists between Webflow, Framer, Wix or code.
  • AI agents cut build cost sharply, but SEO mapping and QA still need a person who owns the outcome.
  • Price the two-year total, including new subscriptions, seats and maintenance, not just the project.

How much does a website migration cost?

A website migration usually costs between about $1,500 and $25,000 when an agency or experienced freelancer does it, based on the quotes we see in 2026. Small brochure sites sit at the bottom of that range, content-heavy or multilingual sites sit near the top, and complex headless or ecommerce replatforms can go well beyond it.

The spread is wide because "migration" covers very different jobs. Moving a six-page site from Wix to Framer with no blog is a small rebuild. Moving a 300-post WordPress blog in three languages to a headless Next.js stack is a content, engineering and SEO project. This hub breaks the cost down by platform pair, site size and driver, then links to the detailed guides for each part. If you're short on time, start with the migration quote checklist so you can compare proposals like for like.

Typical range of website migration quotes we see, by size and complexity
$1.5k–$25k
Designify website: up to 6 pages, custom design, Next.js, CMS
$8,000
Designify, per page beyond six
+$500

What does a website migration cost by platform pair?

The source and destination platforms set the baseline, because they decide how much can be exported and how much is rebuilt by hand. The table shows typical quotes and timelines we've seen for common moves. Treat them as starting points that vary by provider, region and scope.

Migration

What's typically quoted

What makes it harder

Wix or Squarespace to Framer or Webflow

From about $4,000 for Wix to Framer

Wix blog URLs under /post/, apps with no equivalent

Webflow to Framer

Within the $1.5k–$25k range by size

Webflow CMS features Framer lacks, image re-hosting

Framer to Webflow

Often 2–5 weeks of work

Rebuilding interactions and relational CMS

WordPress to Webflow

Within the $1.5k–$25k range by size

Plugins, shortcodes, category and date URLs

WordPress to headless Next.js

About £13,000–£30,000 and 6–12 weeks

Content model, CMS setup, preview and redirects

HubSpot CMS to another platform

Often 6–10 weeks of work

Forms, smart content and CRM wiring

Shopify storefront to headless

€100,000–€150,000 and up

Checkout, inventory, app replacements

For pair-specific detail, see WordPress to Webflow migration cost, Webflow to Next.js migration cost, Framer to Next.js migration cost and HubSpot CMS migration cost and timeline.

How does site size change the price?

Site size changes the price, but page count alone is a poor predictor. What really scales cost is the number of unique templates, the number of CMS items that need cleaning, and the number of URLs that must be mapped and redirected. A large site built from a handful of templates can be cheaper than a small site where every page is bespoke.

Site profile

Typical shape

Where it usually lands

Small brochure site

Up to about 10 pages, no blog, one form

Low end of the $1.5k–$25k range

Startup marketing site

10–30 pages, blog under 100 posts, a few integrations

Middle of the range

Content-heavy site

Hundreds of posts, several collections, authors and tags

Upper part of the range

Multilingual site

Any of the above in 2+ languages

Upper part of the range or beyond

Headless or ecommerce

Custom CMS, checkout, accounts or apps

Often well beyond the range

For example, suppose a site has 12 marketing pages and 200 blog posts. The 12 pages drive design and build time, but the 200 posts drive content export, image re-hosting, metadata checks and 200 redirect rows. That's why a quote that only asks for page count is usually missing half the job.

What drives the cost of a website migration?

Six things drive almost every migration quote: rebuild scope, content volume, CMS complexity, languages, integrations and SEO protection. Knowing which ones apply to you is the fastest way to get an accurate number.

  1. Rebuild scope. A one-to-one rebuild of the current design costs less than a redesign. Our framework on migrating and redesigning at the same time explains when combining saves money.
  2. Content volume and quality. Hundreds of posts with inline images, shortcodes or page-builder markup take real cleanup time. Webflow's CSV export, for example, turns rich-text images into placeholders that need fixing.
  3. CMS complexity. References, multi-references, filters and dynamic templates are where builders differ most and where rebuilds slow down.
  4. Languages. Every locale multiplies content, metadata, redirects and QA. See the multilingual website migration playbook.
  5. Integrations. Forms, CRM, analytics, scheduling, gated content and search each need to be rebuilt and tested.
  6. SEO protection. URL inventory, a redirect map, metadata and structured data checks, and post-launch monitoring.

Do AI coding agents make migrations cheaper?

Yes, for the build. Coding agents now rebuild templates and import content far faster than a person, and the model cost is small. Vellum described migrating off Webflow with coding agents in about a week, and cursor.com was reportedly rebuilt in three days for about $260 in usage. Teams have also moved thousands of pages to static frameworks this way.

What agents don't do is own the outcome. The expensive part of a migration was never typing out components. It's deciding what to keep, mapping every URL, checking that titles, schema and forms survived, and catching problems after launch. AI lowers the build portion of a quote; it doesn't remove the SEO and QA portion. Our guides to AI-assisted website migration and AI migration vs agency compare the models in detail.

How we use AI on migrations

We use coding agents for the volume work: rebuilding repeated templates, transforming CMS exports into the new content model, generating redirect candidates from a crawl and checking for missing metadata.

A person still owns the decisions and the checks: which pages stay, what every old URL maps to, whether the copy still works, and whether forms and analytics fire. That split keeps the speed of agents without handing your rankings to a tool that won't notice when a redirect points at the wrong page.

What does Designify charge for a migration?

Our prices are fixed. A website is $8,000 for up to six pages with custom design, copy, a Next.js build, a CMS and animation, plus $500 for each extra page. A single landing page is $6,000. Migration work, such as content import, redirects and SEO checks, is scoped on the intro call rather than assumed to be inside those prices.

Offer

Price

When it fits a migration

Website

$8,000 up to 6 pages, +$500 per extra page

Rebuild and redesign of a marketing site on Next.js

Landing page

$6,000

Moving one high-value page first, or a campaign page

Brand & design sprint

$3,000

Redesign explorations in Figma before deciding to migrate

Trial week

$1,000

Audit, URL inventory or a pilot template before committing

Monthly retainer

$6,000/month

Ongoing design and development after the move

For example, suppose your site has 10 marketing pages. The website package covers six, and four extra pages add $2,000, for $10,000 in design and build. Blog import and redirects are then scoped separately based on how many posts and URLs you have. We include redirects and SEO checks in any migration we take on.

How long does a website migration take?

Timelines follow the same drivers as cost. Quotes we've seen run about 2–5 weeks for Framer to Webflow, 6–10 weeks for leaving HubSpot CMS and 6–12 weeks for WordPress to headless Next.js, while agent-assisted rebuilds of simple sites can be much faster. Content cleanup and stakeholder review usually take longer than the build.

Our guide to how long a website migration takes walks through realistic schedules by site size, and the website migration project plan template gives you owners, milestones and go/no-go gates you can copy.

What will the site cost to run after the migration?

The running cost after a migration can matter more than the project fee. A builder adds a site plan, editor seats and add-ons such as localization; a headless setup adds hosting, a CMS plan and developer maintenance. Platform pricing moves too: Webflow's May 2026 change merged its CMS and Business site plans into a single Premium plan.

Compare two-year totals, not monthly prices. Add the project cost, two years of subscriptions and seats, and the time or retainer cost of making changes. Our breakdown of ongoing costs after a migration lists every line item, and the guides to website hosting cost and website maintenance cost give the detail. If a price increase is what's pushing you, read migrate or optimize your plan before committing.

For example, suppose you compare a builder and a headless setup over two years

Hypothetical example: for each option, add the one-off project fee, 24 months of platform and CMS plans, 24 months of seats for every editor, any per-locale or add-on fees, and an estimate of change requests.

A builder often wins when marketers make most changes and the site has few languages. A headless setup often wins when there are many locales, heavy content or custom logic, because per-seat and per-locale fees don't grow with it. Neither wins by default; the math depends on your team.

Should you hire an agency, a freelancer or do it yourself?

Do it yourself if the site is small, has few ranking pages and you have someone who can own redirects and QA. Hire a freelancer when the scope is clear and mostly build. Hire an agency when content, design, SEO and integrations all change at once, or when nobody internally can own the outcome.

Our comparison of DIY vs freelancer vs agency for a migration sets out the trade-offs, and the guide to hiring a Webflow or Framer migration agency gives you a scorecard and the questions to ask. If accessibility is part of the brief, budget for it explicitly; our accessibility audit cost guide shows what that adds.

How do you get an accurate migration quote?

Give every provider the same facts, and ask for the same breakdown back. Accurate quotes need numbers you can pull in an afternoon.

  1. Export a URL list

    Crawl the site and count URLs by type: pages, posts, collection items and locales.

  2. Pull traffic and rankings

    Export Search Console data so providers know which pages carry the most risk.

  3. List integrations

    Forms, CRM, analytics, chat, scheduling, search, gated content and anything else that has to keep working.

  4. Decide redesign scope

    One-to-one rebuild, refresh, or full redesign. This one decision moves quotes more than any other.

  5. Ask for a line-item quote

    Design, build, content import, redirects, SEO checks, QA and post-launch support, each priced or explicitly excluded.

Frequently asked questions

Is migrating cheaper than redesigning a website?
A one-to-one migration that keeps the current design is usually cheaper than a full redesign, because design time is the biggest single cost. But because every platform move is a rebuild, the gap is smaller than many teams expect. If the current design is weak, combining the redesign with the move often costs less than doing them separately.
Why do migration quotes vary so much?
Providers include different work. A low quote may cover only rebuilding pages, while a higher one includes content cleanup, redirect mapping, metadata checks, integration testing and post-launch monitoring. Some also include redesign or copywriting. Ask every provider for a line-item breakdown using the same URL list, and the quotes become much easier to compare.
Can I migrate my website for free?
If you do the work yourself on a small site, the only cost may be your time and the new platform's plan. Some platforms offer import tools for blog posts. Free migrations get expensive when rankings drop because redirects or metadata were missed, so even a DIY move should include a full URL inventory and redirect map.
Does a website migration include SEO?
It should, but not every quote does. A migration that protects rankings includes a URL inventory, a page-by-page redirect map, preserved titles, descriptions and structured data, an updated sitemap and monitoring after launch. Keyword research, new content and link building are separate SEO projects and usually aren't included in migration pricing.
When is a migration not worth the cost?
When the problem is the bill, the design or the content rather than the platform. Optimizing a plan, redesigning key pages or rewriting copy on the current platform is often cheaper and lower risk. A migration is worth it when the platform blocks something you need, such as editing speed, CMS structure, languages, performance or cost at scale.

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