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Pricing

Honest pricing.
We never touch your giving.

Pick the plan that fits where your church is right now. Every plan includes hosting, editing tools, and a real human you can email. Giving runs on Planning Center — the standard 2.15% card / flat $0.30 ACH — and we never take a cent of it.

For plants

[ PLANT ]

Church Plant

For new churches. We waive setup. You get a real site.

$0 we waive it
+
$35 per month · first 3 years
  • Beautifully-themed site, ready to launch
  • Home + About + Sermons + Events + Give pages
  • Sermons and events live from Planning Center
  • Basic sermon search (capped at 200 visitor queries/mo)
  • Volunteer-friendly editor for everyday updates
  • Fast hosting, custom domain, free email forwarding
  • Email support — we reply within 1 business day
  • Quarterly check-in calls

For churches under 24 months old, under 200 attendance, planted through an established network (SEND, Converge, ARC, Stadia, NewThing, etc.) or denominational planting arm. After year 3, you graduate to Starter.

No bespoke design or custom page requests at this tier — that's how we keep it $35/mo. You get a polished theme, real content, and we handle the technical work.

Apply for the Plant tier

[ STR ]

Starter

An established church on a tighter scope.

$2,000–4,000 one-time setup
+
$50–100 per month
  • Theme-customized homepage + 5 inside pages
  • Full Planning Center integration (sermons, events, give, forms)
  • AI sermon recommender ("tell me what you're walking through")
  • Transcribed sermon archive, searchable by topic and Scripture
  • Auto worship playlists (Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram graphic)
  • Volunteer-friendly editor — update copy in two clicks
  • Unlimited update requests we handle for you
  • 90 days of studio support
Talk Starter
Most chosen

[ CST ]

Custom

Bespoke design + the full Sunday Engine.

$6,000–12,000 one-time setup
+
$100–200 per month
  • Everything in Starter, plus —
  • Bespoke design, page-by-page (no theme starting point)
  • On-site photo shoot — a real Sunday with your people
  • 200–400 edited photos, yours to keep, forever
  • The full Sunday Engine, on by default
  • Auto study guide + small-group notes from the manuscript
  • Post-service YouTube kit (title, thumbnail, description, chapters)
  • Auto 5-day devotional email + weekly newsletter
  • Your own live stream, copyright-safe, with a live service companion
  • Unlimited update requests + quarterly retainer reviews
Start with Custom

What it actually costs us

We do the math
so you don't have to.

We're not a "free site, hidden fees" platform. Here's what your retainer actually covers: hosting, content tools, the AI engine, and a real human watching it. Every number on the right is our real cost to keep a Custom-tier site running for a month.

The retainer is for tools, support, and small updates we make for you each month (think "swap the banner image" or "add an event card") — not a markup on cheap hosting. If a third-party service we resell goes up, we tell you. If costs drop, the retainer drops too.

cityline · status live
  • homepage served · 47ms median
  • sermon archive indexed · 333 sermons
  • auto study guide shipped Thursday 5:00pm
  • worship playlists queued for Sunday 10:00am
  • live stream ready · ingest healthy
  • monthly cost to run $34 (all-in)

$ all systems green · last verified just now

[ live snapshot from our flagship build ]

For established churches

A $300k-giving church
quietly hands over ~$6,900 a year
to a bundled platform.

That's the spread bundled platforms charge on top of normal card processing — the slice they take from every Sunday's offering. On Planning Center Giving, the same processing is 2.15% card with a flat $0.30 ACH and no platform fee on top. The delta covers our retainer. With change left over.

Annual savings vs. bundled, by giving volume

Card giving / year Bundled spread PCO Giving You keep
$150,000 $3,450 $3,225 ~$225 + no platform fee
$300,000 $6,900 $6,450 ~$450 + no platform fee
$600,000 $13,800 $12,900 ~$900 + no platform fee
$1,200,000 $27,600 $25,800 ~$1,800 + no platform fee

Bundled spread ≈ 2.3% of card giving. PCO Giving ≈ 2.15% card. ACH on PCO is a flat $0.30 — for churches with a meaningful share of bank-transfer gifts, the savings get bigger fast. We'll model your specific numbers in a proposal.

Honest answers

The pricing FAQ.

What counts as a "church plant"?
A church under 24 months old, under 200 attendance, planted through a recognized church-planting network or denomination (SEND, Converge, ARC, Stadia, NewThing, Vineyard, EFCA, SBC). We'll ask for a quick confirmation from your planting agency.
What happens after the 3 years on the Plant tier?
You graduate to Starter ($50–100/mo) with no setup fee. By then, your church should have the budget and the need for things like a custom design refresh, the full Sunday Engine, or a photo shoot. We'll plan it together.
Why no custom pages on the Plant tier?
Custom pages are real design work. We waive setup and run at near-cost for plants because we believe in the mission — but we have to keep the scope tight to make it sustainable. You can ask for content updates anytime; what we can't do is build a brand new page each month for $35.
What's in the monthly retainer for Starter and Custom?
Hosting, the editor, monitoring, security patches, the Sunday Engine running every week, and unlimited update requests we handle for you. Need a new event card? A blog post added? A page updated? Email us. It's part of the package.
Can we pay in installments?
Yes (Starter and Custom). Half at kickoff, half at launch. Retainer billed monthly. Net-15 on invoices.
What if we leave?
You keep the design files, the content, the photo library (Custom tier), and the domain. Hosting moves with you. The site is yours; we're the studio that built it.
Do you ever take a cut of giving?
No. Giving runs on Planning Center → Stripe. Money never enters our network. This is a deliberate architectural choice and a written promise on every contract.