What it costs, and why that number is on the page
Hiding prices wastes everybody's time. A number on the page lets you decide in thirty seconds whether this conversation is worth having. A consultancy that only reveals price after three calls is usually pricing the client rather than the work.
Three ways to work together
Strategic SEO Audit
from USD 1,500
A tailored assessment across technical SEO, content structure, keyword and demand opportunity, information architecture, metadata, internal linking, schema, AI visibility and competitor positioning. Delivered with a dedicated strategy session and a prioritised roadmap.
It is a decision document, not a crawler export with a logo on the cover. The roadmap is included and it stays yours even if the engagement ends there.
Ongoing Growth Partnership
from USD 1,800 per month
Execution, measurement and iteration around one clear strategy. Scoped to the business, the opportunity and the level of support required.
Engagements tend to run long because organic growth compounds and the first three months are the least interesting ones, not because a clause forces anyone to stay.
Creative Lab
from USD 10,000
For when the problem is bigger than search. Contento brings strategy, search and structure. Kofi Brandlab brings identity, design and craft. Neither has to subcontract the other.
Projects combine these pieces in more ways than a list would hold, so the floor does not describe any particular combination and no combination carries a set price. USD 10,000 is where the conversation starts. What a project costs comes out of going through that project in detail, which is the only honest way to price work this varied.
- Brand and rebranding
- Full website and ecommerce
- Dashboards and systems
- Planning and SEO
The three numbersNone of the three is quoted before we talk. The number on your proposal comes out of that conversation, written for your case.
What everybody else charges
This page accuses other consultancies of hiding how they reach a price. Publishing a market figure without saying where it comes from would be the same habit with better typography, so every number below carries its source, its sample size and its date.
How much does an SEO agency cost per month?
Two independent sources put the average close to USD 3,200 per month. Ahrefs surveyed 439 SEO providers worldwide and found an average agency retainer of USD 3,209, with consultancies at USD 3,250 and freelancers at USD 1,348.63; that survey was last updated in August 2024. Clutch, working from 65,550 SEO firms and verified client reviews updated on 31 August 2026, reports an average monthly cost of USD 3,199.19. Two different methods, two years apart, ten dollars apart. Clutch also puts the typical engagement at 12 months and the retainer range it observes at USD 2,000 to 20,000 per month.
Below USD 2,000, which is the floor of the retainer range Clutch observes. Not the low end of the market. Before it.
The gap holds against both of the sources this page cites, not just the friendlier one.
Two different methods, two years apart, ten dollars apart. That is why the average holds.
The lowest monthly retainer Clutch observes.
The horizon these numbers describe, not a quarter.
Under the USD 2,501 to 5,000 bracket where most one-off SEO projects land.
Four handovers between the thinking and the work, and every one of them is salaried.
No handovers. Not less experience and not less work. Less structure to pay for.
Specialists join when a project genuinely needs design or development at full strength, and the strategy does not change hands. The whole structure is on the About page. What it does not mean: a lower price is not a promise of a better outcome. It means there is no agency overhead inside it.
One limitation, said out loud. The Ahrefs figures are from August 2024, and search has moved a long way since then with AI assisted results. They are here because it is the largest published provider survey available, and because it lands ten dollars away from a much more recent dataset built a completely different way. Sources: Ahrefs SEO pricing survey and Clutch SEO pricing.
What moves the number
Three things, and none of them is how big your company looks from outside.
What is deliberately not on offer
There are no cheaper packages. A cheaper package would mean less analysis, less thinking and more template, which is the exact product this practice exists to avoid.
If the budget is not there yet, the honest recommendation is usually to wait rather than to buy a smaller version of the wrong thing. That answer costs a sale and saves a bad engagement.
Buying only the audit is a normal outcome. You keep the roadmap and your own team executes it. One honest audit is a better result than a retainer nobody needed.
Contracts and payments
Every pricing question answered in full: how much it costs, why the prices are published, contracts and minimum terms, buying only the audit, cheaper packages and how payments work.