September 29, 2026·8 min read
Accessibility Pricing for Agencies: The 10-Client Math
What accessibility tooling really costs an agency at 10 client sites, from enterprise contracts to overlays to code-level fixes, with the per-client math.
At 10 client sites, the number that matters isn't a tool's headline price, it's what you pay per client per month, and that number varies by more than 20x depending on which kind of tool you pick. Enterprise platforms are built for a legal department with a budget cycle. Overlays are cheap per site but never touch the code. Budget scanners are inexpensive but mostly stop at reporting. Here's the math for a small agency, including where Axeazy's own Agency plan fits and where it doesn't.
Key Takeaways
- Enterprise accessibility platforms are sold through sales calls, not price lists. Buyer-reported contract data commonly starts around $15,000 a year and climbs to $50,000 or more for small to mid-sized teams. At 10 clients, that's roughly $125 to $415 per client per month.
- Overlay pricing scales per site, so 10 clients means 10 subscriptions. The headline price looks small. The fix never reaches the client's actual code.
- Budget agency scanners are the cheapest real option, often $50 to $200 a month for a whole portfolio, but many stop at detection and reporting, and some hand your developers suggested code to apply themselves.
- Axeazy's Agency plan is $199 a month or $1,799 a year for up to 10 client sites, about $15 to $20 per client per month. It isn't the cheapest option on the market. What it adds is code-level fix pull requests on GitHub-connected sites and a dated remediation record.
- None of these prices buy you a claim that a client's site meets the standard. Agencies that sell remediation and monitoring, not guarantees, are the ones that stay out of trouble.
Four Kinds of Tool, Four Different Price Shapes
Most confusion about accessibility pricing comes from comparing tools that don't do the same job. There are really four categories, and each one is priced differently.
| Category | Typical price shape | What you actually get | Where it strains at 10 clients |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise platform | Annual contract, sales-quoted, commonly $15,000 to $50,000+ | Deep monitoring, dashboards, workflow, support | Sized for one large organization, not ten small ones |
| Per-site overlay | About $290 to $3,990 a year per site | A script layered on top of the page | Cost multiplies per client, and the underlying code never changes |
| Budget agency scanner | About $50 to $200 a month flat | Multi-site scans and white-label reports | Often detection only, so the fixing is still on you |
| Code-level fix platform | Axeazy Agency: $199 a month or $1,799 a year | Scans plus real fix pull requests and a dated record | Limited to 10 client sites on the base plan, and full automation depends on the client's platform |
A fifth line item sits outside the table: a manual audit by a human specialist. Small-site audits from firms that publish their rates often land between $1,250 and $2,750, and larger scopes cost far more. That's a one-time deliverable, not a monitoring subscription, so it complements the categories above rather than replacing them.
Why Enterprise Platforms Strain a Small Agency
Enterprise accessibility platforms aren't overpriced for what they do. They're built for a different buyer: a company with a compliance team, dozens of properties, procurement, and a legal department that wants audit trails, SSO, and a contract with service levels.
A 10-client agency has a different problem. Its clients are small businesses, each with one site, none of them with a legal team. A $15,000 to $50,000 annual contract, split across ten clients, works out to $1,500 to $5,000 per client per year before you've billed a single hour of your own time. Few small-business clients will pay a retainer that covers that, so the agency ends up absorbing the difference or not offering the service at all.
That's the gap this whole category of agency pricing is trying to fill: something priced for the portfolio you actually have, not the one an enterprise buyer has.
The Per-Client Math
This is the same comparison expressed the way an agency actually thinks about it, at 10 client sites.
| Approach | Total cost | Per client per month |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise platform | $15,000 to $50,000 a year | About $125 to $415 |
| Per-site overlay | About $2,900 to $39,900 a year for 10 sites | About $25 to $330 |
| Budget agency scanner | About $50 to $200 a month | About $5 to $20 |
| Axeazy Agency | $199 a month or $1,799 a year | About $15 to $20 |
Two notes on reading that table honestly. First, enterprise figures come from third-party buyer data, not published price lists, so treat them as a range, not a quote. Second, the cheapest row isn't automatically the best deal. It depends entirely on what the money buys.
Where the Cheap Options Fall Short
Overlays. A script on top of a page doesn't change the page's actual code, which means the underlying violations a scan finds are still there. It's also the category where a vendor was fined $1 million by the FTC for claiming its product could make any website meet the standard. An agency that resells this and repeats those claims to clients takes on that risk directly.
Detection-only scanners. A tool that scans and reports is genuinely useful, and at $50 to $200 a month it's an easy purchase. But a report isn't a fix. The client still needs someone to write the code changes, and if that someone is your team, you're now billing hours the tool's price didn't include. Some tools in this tier generate suggested code for a developer to copy in, which shortens that work without removing it. If the goal is a report your client will actually read, what to ask for in a white-label accessibility report covers the details.
Skipping tools altogether. Doing this manually per client costs more than it looks. It's slow, inconsistent from client to client, and gives you no single view of who needs attention this week. The real workflow, without hiring a specialist, depends on having something that handles the repeatable parts.
What Axeazy's Agency Plan Includes
The Agency plan is $199 a month, or $1,799 a year billed annually, and covers up to 10 client sites. Each plan includes a white-label portfolio dashboard, bulk weekly scans, per-client risk indicators, white-label PDF reports and compliance pages, GitHub App pull request generation for React and Next.js client sites, and state-level filing context. There's no per-component pricing on top. See how the plan works for web accessibility for agencies, or compare every plan on the pricing page.
How to Price Your Own Service
A tool's price sets your floor, not your rate. The tool cost matters less than the review time your team spends on flagged items, the approvals, and the client communication.
As a purely illustrative example, not a market benchmark: an agency that charges each of 10 clients a monthly monitoring and remediation retainer of $150 brings in $1,500 a month against a $199 tool cost. What each client pays should reflect the work you do, and tool cost is a small part of it.
What you sell matters as much as what you charge. Sell remediation, monitoring, and a dated record of real effort. Don't sell a promise that a client's site meets a legal standard, because nobody can honestly promise that, and that's the exact claim regulators have gone after.
FAQ
How much do enterprise accessibility platforms cost?
There's rarely a public price list. Buyer-reported contract data commonly places small to mid-sized team deals around $15,000 to $50,000 a year, with larger estates and managed services going well beyond that. Treat those figures as estimates, since actual quotes depend on scope and negotiation.
Is an overlay cheaper for an agency?
Per site, the headline price often looks lower. But cost multiplies with every client, and the overlay doesn't change the client's underlying code, so the problems a scan finds are still there. It's also the category regulators have acted against for overstated claims.
What does Axeazy's Agency plan cost?
It's $199 a month, or $1,799 a year billed annually, for up to 10 client sites. That works out to roughly $15 to $20 per client per month if all ten slots are in use.
What if I have more than 10 clients?
Ten sites are included in the plan. For a larger portfolio, the agency page directs you to talk to the team rather than listing a fixed higher tier.
Can I tell my clients their sites meet the standard once I've fixed things?
No. An automated scan and code fixes address part of what a standard like WCAG requires, and whether a site meets a legal standard is decided by a court or a qualified human auditor. What you can tell a client honestly is what was found, what was fixed, what still needs review, and when each step happened.
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