Hire an agency when
You need original brand strategy, art direction, research with your own customers, or a build with real systems behind it. Expect a scoped project, a timeline measured in months, and a budget in five figures or more.
Web design agencies in the United States
Web design agencies in the United States combine brand strategy, product design, and engineering under one roof, and charge between $100 and $350 an hour for it. This directory covers studios across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Austin, Seattle, and Miami, with what each one charges, the platforms it builds on, and the work it publishes.
US agency rates run higher than almost anywhere else, so the practical question is not who is best in the abstract but which studio matches your budget and your platform. The city pages below narrow it down.
Web design agencies in the United States
41 web design agencies in the United States, including 97 Switch, Anderson Collaborative, ArtVersion, Athletics and Avenue Z. Each entry lists what the studio does, what it charges where that is public, and a link to its own work. The list is alphabetical, editorial, and unpaid. Last reviewed August 2026.
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97 Switch
Chicago, United StatesChicago agency covering web design, custom development, creative, and digital marketing for brands across industries.Web design · Web development · SEO
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Anderson Collaborative
Miami, United StatesMiami agency pairing custom web design and development with performance media for brands across a wide range of industries.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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ArtVersion
Chicago, United StatesChicago consultancy working across brand, interface design, and web builds for startups through large enterprises.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Athletics
New York, United StatesBrooklyn design studio with a strong identity and editorial practice alongside web work.Web design · Brand identity · Motion design
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Avenue Z
Miami, United StatesMiami-headquartered agency combining ecommerce design and development with PR, search, and performance media for consumer and fintech brands.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Big Human
New York, United StatesNew York studio building brands and digital products for startups and growth-stage companies.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Bilberrry
Seattle, United StatesSeattle agency building websites, custom applications, and headless commerce for startups, nonprofits, and large organizations.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Bizango
Seattle, United StatesSeattle agency building story-driven websites and brand identities for law, architecture, and construction firms.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Brightscout
Austin, United StatesAustin studio combining brand strategy with web and app development for B2B technology companies.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Buena Vista Creative
Miami, United StatesMiami agency offering custom web design and development, interface work, and ecommerce for direct-to-consumer and local brands.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Cantina
Boston, United StatesBoston consultancy building digital products, web experiences, and service design for enterprise clients and startups.Web design · Web development · UX research
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Clay
San Francisco, United StatesSan Francisco agency blending brand strategy, interface design, and web development for enterprise and B2B software clients.Web design · Brand identity · UX research
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Coalition Technologies
Los Angeles, United StatesLos Angeles agency working on web design, development, ecommerce, and search for small businesses through large retail brands.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Code and Theory
New York, United StatesNew York agency working across editorial, brand, and product for media and enterprise clients.Web design · Web development · Content strategy
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Culture Foundry
Seattle, United StatesSeattle agency designing, building, and supporting CMS-driven sites and web applications for media, health, and nonprofit clients.Web design · Web development · UX research
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Fuzzy Math
Chicago, United StatesChicago consultancy focused on user-centered design for complex B2B, enterprise, and healthcare software.Web design · UX research · Design systems
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GLIDE
Austin, United StatesAustin B Corp agency building websites and ecommerce stores for purpose-led brands and nonprofits.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Genuine
Boston, United StatesBoston agency working across web design, development, rebrands, and campaigns for healthcare, finance, and nonprofit clients.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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HMG Creative
Austin, United StatesAustin studio pairing brand identity work with custom site and ecommerce builds for growth-stage companies.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Heyday Marketing
Miami, United StatesMiami agency building websites alongside search, paid media, and content work for South Florida businesses.Web design · Web development · SEO
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Huge
New York, United StatesLong-established New York experience design agency working with enterprise clients.Web design · Brand identity · UX research
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Mad Mind Studios
Los Angeles, United StatesLos Angeles agency working on custom web design, brand identity, and search for legal, healthcare, real estate, and ecommerce clients.Web design · Brand identity · Ecommerce
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Mighty Citizen
Austin, United StatesAustin agency working on brand, websites, and marketing for nonprofits, universities, and government bodies.Web design · Web development · UX research
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Monkee-Boy
Austin, United StatesAustin agency building custom CMS-driven sites and digital marketing programs for growing organizations.Web design · Web development · SEO
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Neuron
San Francisco, United StatesSan Francisco agency specializing in product strategy, interface design, and design systems for B2B software, SaaS, and fintech.Web design · UX research · Design systems
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Optimum7
Miami, United StatesMiami agency specializing in custom ecommerce builds and platform migrations for B2B and industrial businesses.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Orbit Media Studios
Chicago, United StatesChicago agency focused entirely on websites, with in-house strategy, design, and CMS development.Web design · Web development · SEO
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Propane
San Francisco, United StatesSan Francisco agency offering brand strategy, experience design, and web and ecommerce development for large consumer and enterprise brands.Brand identity · Web development · Ecommerce
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RNO1
San Francisco, United StatesSan Francisco agency working on brand strategy, interface design, and web engineering for venture-backed startups and technology companies.Web design · Brand identity · UX research
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Ramotion
San Francisco, United StatesSan Francisco studio delivering branding, interface design, design systems, and web development for technology companies.Web design · Brand identity · Design systems
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SPINX Digital
Los Angeles, United StatesLos Angeles agency building strategy-led websites, ecommerce platforms, and applications for mid-market and enterprise clients.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Seattle New Media
Seattle, United StatesSeattle studio building websites, ecommerce stores, and CMS-driven experiences with no-code and low-code tooling.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Slam Media Lab
San Francisco, United StatesSan Francisco studio delivering web design, search, brand identity, and content strategy for startups and nonprofits.Web design · Brand identity · SEO
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Solid Digital
Chicago, United StatesChicago agency working with B2B brands on website strategy, design, development, and ongoing optimization.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Upstatement
Boston, United StatesBoston studio building brand systems, editorial platforms, and large-scale websites for media and education clients.Web design · Brand identity · Web development
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Use All Five
Los Angeles, United StatesLos Angeles studio building websites, digital products, and content platforms for cultural institutions, universities, and technology companies.Web design · Web development · UX research
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Velir
Boston, United StatesBoston-area agency pairing experience design with platform engineering for enterprise, higher-education, and nonprofit clients.Web design · Web development · UX research
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Weberous
Los Angeles, United StatesLos Angeles agency building conversion-focused custom websites and ecommerce stores for B2B and retail clients.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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Work & Co
New York, United StatesBrooklyn-based studio known for shipping digital products for large consumer brands rather than campaign work.Web design · UX research · Design systems
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efelle creative
Seattle, United StatesSeattle agency delivering web design, development, and digital marketing for businesses across professional services and retail.Web design · Web development · Ecommerce
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thoughtbot
Boston, United StatesBoston-headquartered consultancy working on product strategy, design, and web application development for startups and enterprises.Web design · Web development · UX research
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Hire a studio in the United States, or build it yourself
Both are real answers. The difference is what you are buying.
Build it yourself when
You already know what you want to say and mainly need the site to look right, work on mobile, and go live. That covers most marketing sites, launches, and landing pages, and it takes days instead of months.
Build it in Modulify
Describe the site and get a designed, responsive one back, then edit it and publish yourself. No handover, no change requests, and nothing to wait on the next time the copy needs to move.
Hiring a web design agency in the United States
What buyers ask most before they shortlist.
Across the agencies listed on this page, minimum project budgets start around the low five figures. Rates vary with scope: a marketing site costs far less than a site with a CMS, ecommerce, or custom application behind it. Each profile lists the studio's own stated minimum and hourly range.
Every studio here is listed on its own merits, with the services, pricing, and published work it states publicly. The list is alphabetical, there is no ranking or scoring, and no agency has paid to be included or placed higher.
Ask who will actually do the work rather than who is in the pitch, what happens after launch and what it costs, whether you own the code and the design files outright, and how you will edit the site yourself once it is live. Get that last answer in writing, because it decides how much you depend on them afterwards.
Hire an agency when you need strategy, original art direction, or a complex build with integrations. Build it yourself when you know what you want to say and mainly need it to look right and go live. AI site builders now cover the second case at a fraction of agency cost, which is what Modulify does.
