GoDaddy Pricing: how much does it cost small businesses?

GoDaddy’s small business plans are some of the most affordable ways to build a website on the market. Regular plans start at just £4.99 per month, while its ecommerce plan is the more premium option at £13.99 per month. 

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According to our experts’ latest research into the top website builders, which looked at six key criteria for SMEs – including value for money, features, and customer support – GoDaddy ranked third best.

Overall, the platform has improved its score by 11.6% over the past year, particularly impressing us with its excellent value for money.

Regular deals and discounts are available with GoDaddy, and users can also access the software’s specialist SME packages, such as GoDaddy Studio, which are specifically designed to help early-stage businesses get off the ground.

Below, we’ll outline the various pricing plans that GoDaddy offers, the pros and cons of each, and the top perks that set this platform apart from the competition.

GoDaddy pricing plans

GoDaddy offers small businesses excellent value for money.

The table below shows exactly what features are present in each plan, including ecommerce tools (shown at the bottom).*

*All of GoDaddy’s pricing plans are based on annual subscriptions.

GoDaddy Basic – £6.99 per month

Let’s get the simple stuff out of the way.

GoDaddy Basic allows you to remove all GoDaddy branding from your site, including text, and connect a custom domain. For small business users, this is a must-have if you want your site to look professional.

You’ll also unlock some basic website features and design elements, including:

• PayPal button to accept payments or donations
• Up to 5 social posts and 100 marketing email sends per month

These features make the Basic plan a great choice for freelancers, as a good way to host a portfolio or CV where you need a slick, professional look without too many bells and whistles.

Plus, the addition of a PayPal button and marketing features is a good way to encourage interaction and early-stage brand building.

But, as you’re probably already thinking, this doesn’t give you a lot of other, nice-to-have website traits that can help your business to grow. As the name implies, GoDaddy is a good way to get your foot on the web builder ladder, but you’ll need to climb higher to get your online business off the ground.

GoDaddy Standard – £8.99 per month

Put simply, this plan is GoDaddy Basic but with added SEO functions.

This might sound like a small aspect of your online business but it’s actually a very important growth area, crucial to ensuring that you’re ranking highly on search engines and attracting new customers.

You can purchase these SEO tools as an add-on to GoDaddy Basic, but it’s significantly more expensive, so it makes sense to upgrade your entire plan. You’ll also get an allowance of:

• 500 marketing emails per month
• 3 social platforms to integrate with per month
• 20 social posts per month

While these additions are certainly helpful, they’ll likely not be enough for your business in the long term, as you try to build up a social media presence.

GoDaddy Premium – £11.99 per month

This plan is where users get the biggest leap in terms of website builder capabilities. Along with all of the features included in the Basic and Standard plans, you get:

• Unlimited integrations with social media platforms
• Unlimited social media posts and replies from your GoDaddy dashboard
• Maximum of 25,000 marketing email sends (per month)

On top of these added perks, your customers will also be able to book more types of appointments on your website – an excellent attraction for service businesses.

GoDaddy Premium can enable recurring appointment bookings, one-time group event bookings, and service payments, and you’ll even be able to set up text appointment reminders.

Compared to other top platforms, this is impressively generous. If you build your website with Wix and Squarespace, for example, you’d need to install a special third-party, paid-for appointments app – on top of the monthly subscription fees you’re already paying for your website.

GoDaddy Ecommerce – £12.99 per month

GoDaddy’s Ecommerce plan is the only paid-for tier that lets you launch a fully fledged online store. For an extra £5 per month, users get everything included in the Premium plan as well as:

• Product listings
• Ability to accept payments for products, appointments, and services
• Ability to sync and sell your website products across multiple channels (including Amazon and eBay)
• Shipping options such as free shipping and flat rate shipping
• Discounts and promotional features, like sale price adjustments
• Zero GoDaddy sales commissions for purchases on your site

If you’re specifically interested in an ecommerce website builder, GoDaddy covers all the basics – and it also doesn’t charge commission on your sales, which means you won’t be losing out even with a large product inventory.

However, while GoDaddy Ecommerce is also slightly cheaper than industry giants like Wix and Squarespace, it doesn’t have the same amount of features and functions. To find out more, read our guide to the best ecommerce website builders for small businesses.

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Does GoDaddy have a free plan?

Yes! GoDaddy does have a free plan, through which you can trial the software and get to know all its bits and bobs before investing in anything more high performance.

In fact, if you’re purchasing any website builder or ecommerce plan with GoDaddy, you’ll need to start with the free plan before you can upgrade.

Not many website builders have free versions available, and GoDaddy’s offers about as much as you can get for zero cost. Besides one website with hosting, GoDaddy Free users get access to all of GoDaddy’s templates, site analytics, and 24/7 customer support.

However, as with many zero-charge plans, you’ll also have to display GoDaddy branding and advertisements on your web pages, and you’ll be unable to create or connect to a custom domain.

We think it’s a good trial option, but not a long-term solution. If you try it and decide that you like the platform, GoDaddy Standard is the best low-cost bundle for small business users.

GoDaddy costs: billing cycles, ongoing costs, and hidden fees

While we think GoDaddy is a good platform for small business users, and ranked it highly for value for money, there are some areas of the platform that you should take note of to avoid being hit with hidden fees.

Deal expiry date

Like a lot of website builders on the market, GoDaddy advertises a range of incentives to get new users signed up, including some generous discounts for your first year of usage.

It’s important to make sure you don’t miss your plan’s renewal date, so that you can reassess the pricing plan you’re on at the end of the first 12-month period and make sure it still fits within your budget parameters.

Billing cycles

GoDaddy offers you two billing cycle options: monthly or annually. However, one downside to using GoDaddy is that its ‘affordable’ label is only really applicable if you’re being billed annually.

If you’d rather be free to cancel your subscription at any time and be billed on a monthly cycle, then you could end up spending a lot more.

It’s difficult to find out what the exact difference in monthly and annual billing costs is unless you’re updating your existing GoDaddy account, which is why we’ve written them below.

• One month on the GoDaddy Basic plan costs £7.99 per month (annual rate is £4.99 per month).
• One month on the GoDaddy Standard plan costs £11.99 per month (annual rate is £7.99 per month).
• One month on the GoDaddy Premium plan costs £16.99 per month (annual rate is £11.99 per month).
• One month on the GoDaddy Ecommerce plan costs £19.99 per month (annual rate is £13.99 per month).

Custom domain

The GoDaddy platform does not offer a free custom domain for users. Instead, you’ve got to connect a custom domain if you don’t want to have GoDaddy in your website’s URL (and let’s face it, if you’re a small business owner, you definitely don’t).

The costs vary for a custom domain. In the first year, it’s free for all, but after that you’ll be billed an additional amount based on the domain you choose.

Make sense? Here’s an example. Let’s say you have a cupcake shop called Tilly’s Cupcakes.

• For tillyscupcakes.co.uk you’ll pay £11.99 per year
• For tillyscupcakes.com you’ll pay £17.12 per year
• For tillyscupcakes.co you’ll pay £26.99 per year

How does GoDaddy compare to other platforms?

As you can see by the chart below, GoDaddy is one of the cheapest website builders when compared to its closest rivals on the market. It’s equaled only by Hostinger (which renews at £7.99 per month when billed annually).

However, we think GoDaddy offers slightly better value for money than Hostinger, as it has more functions and features than the latter to justify its slightly higher price point.

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Basic	Hostinger Website Builder	Starter	Start	Personal
Price £6.99 per month	Price Single £1.49 per month Premium Hosting £2.59 per month Business £3.99 per month	Price £1 per month for 12 months (Then £9 per month)	Price £9 per month	Price £12 per month (billed annually)
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GoDaddy verdict

We think GoDaddy is a brilliant and low-cost website builder, which makes it an ideal choice for SMEs – thanks in particular to the charitably low PayPal fees it offers for specific bookable services.

GoDaddy Standard costs just £9.99 per month and has a generous offering of SEO tools, making it a good way to get yourself online quickly and simply. You’ll need to upgrade to GoDaddy Premium for the more sophisticated website building tools, but the higher tiers are still very wallet-friendly, and will likely align naturally with your business growth plans.

As an ecommerce builder, GoDaddy is competitively designed. There are strong sales features, along with generous allowances for marketing and lead generation, but it will cost you a little more than rival platforms.

If you’re a small business, we recommend starting out with GoDaddy Standard for £9.99 per month. From there, you can upgrade to GoDaddy Premium for larger feature allowances.

Or, you can start out with GoDaddy Free and begin work on your website today for zero charge.

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Is GoDaddy a good website builder?

Particularly in the context of its low-cost pricing, GoDaddy is a good website builder for small businesses.

It’s super user-friendly, with dependable support tools to boot, and has made some excellent recent updates to its design and overall aesthetic that have boosted its performance score by 11.6%.

Is GoDaddy a good deal?

We gave GoDaddy the third highest score in our value for money research category. It scores so highly because of its easy-to-use builder that doesn’t scrimp on functionality.

Even with its more affordable website pricing plans, you’ll get some of the most effective SEO tools and some genuinely impressive add-ons. Add to this its zero policy on additional transaction fees, and its competitively priced ecommerce plan, and you have a strong, reliable website builder that won’t break the bank.

What services does GoDaddy offer?

GoDaddy has different pricing plans depending on whether you need to:

• Host a website
• Build a website
• Build an online store

You can also make use of specialist tools and packages that GoDaddy offers as add-ons or free downloads, such as GoDaddy studio. The recently released package is a design app that allows small businesses to build stunning, high quality content for use on your website, social media profiles, and marketing emails.

Is GoDaddy free to use?

GoDaddy has a freemium plan that allows you to get to grips with the software before you invest in a paid-for tier.

You’ll get access to all of GoDaddy’s templates, site analytics, and 24/7 customer support – but you’ll also have to host GoDaddy branding and ads on your page, so it’s not a good idea for a professional website. We think it works well for a trial period, however.

If you’re looking for the best free website builder that will suit all your business requirements, read our full guide to the top five free website builders for SMEs.