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Pricing in South African Rand

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

Every plan is a once off setup fee plus a monthly care and hosting retainer. The setup covers the strategy meeting, the technical plan, and the build. The retainer keeps the site online, secure, fast, and improving every month. Pick a tier, add the extras you need.

Setup plus monthly

Starter

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

R11 250once 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 updates per month included
Start this tier

Typical delivery: 2 weeks

Most chosen

Growth

A ten page site with a blog and a light monthly ranking programme.

R22 500once off setup
+ R3 500per month
  • Everything in Starter
  • Up to 10 pages plus MDX blog
  • Keyword and intent mapping for ZA
  • 2 blog posts written per month
  • Monthly SEO and AEO tuning
  • Monthly Core Web Vitals report
  • 3 hours of updates per month included
Start this tier

Typical delivery: 3 to 4 weeks

Setup plus monthly

Scale

A flagship site and a full ranking programme across SEO, AEO, and GEO.

R38 500once off setup
+ R6 500per month
  • Everything in Growth
  • Up to 25 pages and templates
  • Custom design touches
  • 4 blog posts written per month
  • Monthly AI citation tracking
  • GEO mention share reporting
  • Quarterly strategy reviews
  • 6 hours of updates per month included
Start this tier

Typical delivery: 4 to 6 weeks

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.

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