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Pricing in South African Rand

A setup fee, a monthly retainer, and no hidden scope.

Every website plan is a once off setup fee plus a monthly retainer. Basic hosting and care is R1,500 per month on any tier. The extra you see on Growth and Scale is a ranking retainer bundled in at a steep discount. You can always downgrade to R1,500 per month if you just want the site hosted.

Setup plus monthly

Starter

A beautiful five page Next.js website, shipped and cared for. Hosting only retainer.

R8 500once off setup
+ R1 500per month
  • Strategy and technical planning meeting
  • Custom Next.js 15 design and build
  • Up to 5 pages with full Schema.org
  • Core Web Vitals in the green on launch
  • llms.txt, robots.txt, sitemap hand written
  • Hosting on Vercel with uptime checks
  • Monthly security and dependency updates
  • 1 hour of small updates per month
  • First month of hosting and care free on signup
  • Add any ranking package separately if you want to rank
Start this tier

Typical delivery: 2 weeks

Most chosen

Growth

A ten page site with a blog, bundled with the Base ranking retainer at a steep discount.

R20 500once off setup
+ R3 500per month
  • Everything in the Starter build
  • Up to 10 pages plus an MDX blog
  • 3 hours of small updates per month
  • Base ranking retainer bundled in, normally R5,500 on its own
  • 2 answer first blog posts per month from the ranking retainer
  • Kick off sprint, monthly report, quarterly review included
  • Or strip the ranking and pay R1,500 per month for hosting only
  • First month free plus 2 free blog posts on signup
Start this tier

Typical delivery: 3 to 4 weeks

Setup plus monthly

Scale

A flagship site bundled with the Climb ranking retainer at a steep discount.

R36 500once off setup
+ R6 500per month
  • Everything in the Growth build
  • Up to 25 pages and custom templates
  • Custom design touches and motion
  • 6 hours of small updates per month
  • Climb ranking retainer bundled in, normally R8,500 on its own
  • Weekly publishing cadence, 4 posts per month
  • Mention share and citation tracking across six AI engines
  • Monthly working session with written recap
  • Or strip the ranking and pay R1,500 per month for hosting only
  • First month free plus 4 free blog posts on signup
Start this tier

Typical delivery: 4 to 6 weeks

Monthly ranking packages

Already have a site? Rank it with a monthly programme.

Three standalone ranking packages for brands that already own a performant site. Each one stacks answer first content, technical tuning, and AI citation work aimed at faster movement across SEO, AEO, GEO, SXO, and AIO.

Monthly retainer

Base

A steady ranking programme with two answer first blog posts a month.

R5 500per month
  • Kick off sprint: ranking plan, full site teardown, Google Business Profile configured
  • 2 answer first blog posts per month with bespoke meta copy
  • Technical defects from the teardown fixed in the first 30 days
  • On page tuning and answer first rewrites on priority URLs
  • Monthly ranking and citation report delivered in plain English
  • Quarterly review call with written action list
  • Map pack and suburb level tuning for local brands
Start Base
Monthly retainer

Climb

A weekly publishing cadence and deeper ranking work across SEO, AEO, and GEO.

R8 500per month
  • Everything in Base
  • Weekly publishing cadence, 4 posts per month
  • Continuous technical hardening after the initial fix list
  • Mention share tracking across Google AI Overviews and Perplexity
  • Citation monitoring across six AI engines
  • Monthly working session with written recap
Start Climb
Most chosen

Summit

A full court ranking assault built to move the needle faster on every surface.

R10 250per month
  • Everything in Climb
  • Twice weekly publishing, 8 posts per month
  • Full stack coverage across SEO, AEO, GEO, SXO, and AIO
  • Topical cluster building with aggressive internal linking
  • Dedicated landing pages shipped for high value intents
  • Weekly ranking and citation movement updates
Start Summit

Optional add ons

Extras you can add to any plan.

Need more blog posts, an audit, a dedicated landing page, or a WordPress migration? Pick any add ons and we will bundle them with your plan. Each add on is priced in South African Rand.

One off SEO and AEO audit

once off

A hands on technical audit of your current site with a prioritised defect list and a 30, 60, and 90 day action plan.

R2 500once off

Extra blog post

per post

An answer first 1200 to 1500 word blog post written in the RankSmith voice, with FAQ schema and internal links.

R525per post

Dedicated landing page

per page

A single conversion focused landing page built in the same stack as your site, with its own schema and tracking.

R1 350per page

AI citation growth pack

per month

Expanded prompt set, monthly citation report across six AI engines, and targeted answer first rewrites on under performing pages.

R1 800per month

WordPress migration

once off

Full migration from WordPress to Next.js with a 301 redirect map, schema port, and launch window. Priced per 20 pages of content.

R8 500once off

Extra development hours

per hour

Extra development, content, or design hours on top of the monthly allowance included in your plan. Billed in 30 minute blocks.

R575per hour

Pricing questions

What people ask RankSmith about pricing.

  • Every plan is a once off setup fee plus a monthly care and hosting retainer, both priced in South African Rand. The setup covers the strategy meeting, technical plan, design, and build. The monthly retainer covers Vercel hosting, uptime checks, security and dependency updates, Core Web Vitals monitoring, and a pool of free update hours each month.

Ready when you are

Want to rank in Google and in every AI at once?

Book a thirty minute strategy call with a RankSmith lead. We will walk through your current site, your current rankings in Google and in AI engines, and the fastest wins we can ship in the next sixty days.

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