5-Year Cost Comparison

With Lay Theme you pay once for the theme and only for webhosting. With most alternatives, you keep paying every month forever — on average 80% more over 5 years. Here’s what you’d pay:

Approximate prices in EUR. Toggle "19% VAT" for German pricing. Other EU countries may have different VAT rates added at checkout — this applies to both Lay Theme and the webhosting cost shown. Webhosting prices are Netcup — one of the few webhosts without hidden price increases after the first year. The 3 Websites scenario uses Netcup Webhosting 2000 (3 .de domains or 1 alternative domain), the 10 Websites scenario uses Netcup Webhosting 8000 (12 .de domains or 3 alternative domains, 1 TB SSD) — one plan can host all your sites. Alternative rows include one custom domain registration per website at ~€20/year where the domain is not included for the full period. Framer, Squarespace and Wix rows keep their first-year free domain offer in the 1-year totals, then include domain renewals for the 5-year totals. Readymag and Figma Sites require external domain registration. Cargo rows include extra domain connections plus domain registration. Figma Sites rows use one Professional Full seat and the current beta limit of up to 10 custom domains.