Overview
A professional WCAG accessibility audit typically costs somewhere between $1,250 and several thousand dollars, depending on how many pages are in scope and how complex the site is. Most providers price per page, which means the final number is hard to know until you get a quote. This page breaks down what actually drives that price, and what you get for it.
We are Axevoo, so read this knowing who wrote it. We charge a flat $799 for a manual audit, which is on the lower end of the market. The reasoning for that is below, alongside the honest tradeoffs.
What drives the price
Number of pages or screens in scope. This is the biggest factor. Industry pricing commonly runs $100 to $250 per primary page and $25 to $100 for lighter pages, so a typical 7 to 15 page audit lands in the $1,250 to $2,750 range before anything else is added.
Complexity of each page. A static About page takes far less time to test than a checkout flow with forms, filters, and dynamic states. Interactive elements mean more manual testing time, which means a higher price.
Business size and scope. As a rough industry benchmark, small businesses typically spend $2,000 to $7,000 on a full audit, mid-size businesses $7,000 to $25,000, and large enterprise platforms $50,000 or more. Most Shopify and WooCommerce stores fall at the small end of this range.
Add-ons. A VPAT or Accessibility Conformance Report, needed mainly for enterprise procurement, often adds $350 or more on top of the base audit. Consulting hours, mobile-specific testing, and remediation support are usually priced separately too.
Manual versus automated. A pure automated scan is cheap or free, but it only reliably catches a fraction of WCAG success criteria. The reasons why are covered in why automated tools miss accessibility issues. A real audit costs more than a scan because a person is actually testing with a screen reader and a keyboard, not just running a crawler.
Why Axevoo prices flat
Most providers quote per page because scope genuinely varies. We price flat at $7799 because most ecommerce stores share the same handful of high-risk pages: home, product, cart, checkout, and account. Auditing that core path catches the majority of what actually gets cited in lawsuits, without a drawn-out scoping call first. It also means a store owner can compare our price to a quote instantly, instead of waiting on a custom estimate. The tradeoff is that very large or unusually complex stores may need more than a single flat-rate audit covers, which we say upfront rather than after payment.
Example
A supplement store with around 10 unique page templates requested quotes from three providers. Two quoted per page, landing at $1,800 and $2,400 after a scoping call. The third, a flat-rate manual audit, came in at $799 covering the same core shopping flow. The owner picked the flat-rate audit, received a report with 14 documented issues within a week, and fixed the highest-severity ones before their next paid ad campaign launched. What a completed report actually looks like is covered in what a real accessibility audit looks like.
Common mistake
Comparing an audit’s price to a free accessibility scanner or widget subscription and assuming the audit is overpriced. A scanner does not test with a real screen reader, and a widget does not fix code at all, it only adjusts the page with a script. The real comparison is not audit price versus scanner price, it is audit price versus lawsuit cost. Settlements alone commonly start in the thousands, before legal fees, as shown in ADA lawsuit settlement amounts. A $799 to $2,750 audit is cheap next to that. The widget-versus-audit tradeoff in more detail is in manual audit vs accessibility widgets.