Comparison
Hiring a freelancer vs Seenely.
A freelancer is the right answer if you want a unique site once and never change it. We're the right answer if you want a clean site you can keep updated forever for £20 a month.
Feature
Winner
Hiring a freelancer
Seenely
Upfront cost
£600-£3,000 typical for a UK sole-trader site
£0
Monthly cost
Hosting £5-£15/month + edit invoices
£20/month
Cost per edit
£40-£80/hour, 15-30 min minimum
£0 - unlimited included
Typical 5-year total
£1,800-£4,500+ depending on edits
£1,200
Time to launch
2-8 weeks
48 hours
Bespoke design
Fully bespoke
Customised from trade-specific templates
Long-term availability
Depends on freelancer's availability
Same team, same number, indefinitely
Schema markup, mobile speed, SEO basics
Depends entirely on the freelancer
Built in
Hosting and maintenance
Usually separate - your responsibility
Included
When to pick Hiring a freelancer
Pick a freelancer if you've got a one-off project that needs a custom design (an artist's portfolio, a complex e-commerce store, a multi-language site). A good freelancer builds you something unique. The catch is what happens next - changes cost £40-£80 an hour and the freelancer might not be around when you need them.
When to pick Seenely
Pick Seenely if your business is going to keep changing - new services, new postcodes, new photos, new reviews, new pricing. Our £20/month includes every change. A freelancer would charge per change.
Request your siteCommon questions
Will a freelancer build a better site than Seenely?
A great freelancer? Maybe. The top 10% will build you something more bespoke than our templates. The bottom 60% will build you something worse - they'll skip schema, ignore mobile speed, and copy a template anyway. The risk with a freelancer is variance. Our quality is the same on every site.
I already have a freelancer-built site - should I switch?
Depends. If the site loads in under 3 seconds on mobile, has schema markup, ranks on Google for what it should, and your freelancer responds to edits quickly - keep it. If any of those isn't true, we'll happily quote you a migration.
What if I want some custom design touches on Seenely?
Most things are negotiable within the £20. Different colours, different fonts, custom photography sections, badges, layouts. Genuinely complex custom work (animations, interactive calculators, etc.) we'd flag as out of scope.
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