Directory website builder cost per month: six builders priced by basis

Directory website builder cost per month: the six prices

Billed monthly, the entry prices in the table run from $12 a month for Directify Starter to $99 a month for eDirectory Professional, as read on October 23, 2026. Brilliant Directories Essentials is $40 a month, billed monthly, and WildApricot is $66 a month at 100 contacts. Directify Starter does not list accepting payments; that starts on Pro at $39 a month.

Brilliant Directories shows two price layouts on its own pages, and the figures here come from its account pricing page, explained in Brilliant Directories pricing.

Join It's pricing page shows prices for its base capacity of 250 members, and they rise with each step of its member slider.

Monthly or yearly: what changes on each builder

• Brilliant Directories: the account pricing page opens on monthly billing, with Builder at $80 and Pro at $120 a month. Billed yearly, Essentials is $20 a month ($240 a year), Builder $40 ($480) and Pro $60 ($720), and those prices may change. The terms' seven-day money-back guarantee is for new, full-price subscription plans only, so a discounted yearly plan may fall outside it.
• Directify: yearly billing is paid upfront, and Starter prints $10 a month ($120 a year).
• Join It: the page labels yearly billing a 10% discount.
• WildApricot: at 100 contacts, prepaying two years is $56.10 a month.
• eDirectory: Enterprise cloud prints $149.25 a month, billed yearly.

Costs on top of the plan: blocks, service fees and processors

Brilliant Directories sells extra capacity in $1 blocks: $1 a month for each +1,000 members, +1,000 emails or +10 AI credits, and $1 a GB for storage or bandwidth, per its account pricing page. Instant Business Data, the vendor's tool for adding real business listings by category and place, sells credits in bundles priced on its own page.

Join It adds a service fee on online transactions of 3.0% on Starter, 2.0% on Total and 1.5% on Extra, with Stripe's fees applied separately. WildApricot says it takes no per-transaction fees. Directify says it charges only the subscription. Brilliant Directories words its $0 platform fees as taking no cut, and your payment processor's fees still apply. Stripe's pricing page lists 2.9% plus 30 cents for each successful domestic card transaction.

Setup help and hosting you may add

Brilliant Directories lists no setup fee in its account pricing FAQ. eDirectory sells setup help at $497 or $796, one time, and its source license runs on hosting you buy, from $29 a month on its hosting page. A WordPress route such as GeoDirectory needs hosting from a host you choose, and no vendor page read prices it. Brilliant Directories fees exclude taxes, are billed in advance and renew automatically, per its terms.

What to add up before you pick a builder

• Plan: the same Essentials tier prints $40 a month billed monthly and $20 a month billed yearly, so fix the billing basis first.
• First limit to run out: a 5,000 member capacity on Essentials, 250 at Join It's base capacity, 100 contacts on the first WildApricot tier, 10 listings on Directify Free.
• Fees on payments: Join It's 2.0% on Total, plus Stripe's 2.9% and 30 cents.
• Setup and hosting: eDirectory setup at $497 or $796, and hosting priced by your host on a WordPress route.

Pick Directify for the lowest monthly start, eDirectory for unlimited listings on one plan, WildApricot for a contact-priced association directory, and Brilliant Directories for hosted tiers whose limits stretch in $1 blocks. It offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card from its trial page. See best directory website builder for the shortlist and how to make money from a directory website for the charging side.