Cost breakdown

How much SEO costs
to reach Google top-10.

Short answer: from 12 000 UAH a month for local SEO and from 22 000 UAH for full-scale work. Below is what makes up that number, how long you pay it and how to spot empty promises.

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Three budgets that actually exist

3 000 – 8 000 ₴

freelancer or bargain SEO

Eight to ten hours a month. Enough for a report and minor meta-tag edits.

12 000 – 30 000 ₴

full-cycle studio

Technical work, content, links and a person running the project weekly. Our range.

40 000 – 100 000 ₴

network agencies

The same scope plus an account manager, an office and the VAT you pay along with the work.

The gap between the first and second row is hours, not greed. The gap between the second and third is mostly agency overhead and VAT.

What the monthly budget consists of

25%

Analytics and technical work

Keyword research, competitor teardown, speed, indexing, structure. The dull part everything else depends on.

30%

Content and pages

Every query cluster needs its own page. The priciest line: it takes someone who understands the niche.

30%

Links

Placements on live sites with traffic. Cheap link blasts move nothing and take months to undo.

15%

Project management

Someone has to check rankings weekly, compare them to the plan and rewrite what did not work.

A worked example

A services site in Kyiv: 12 pages, 60 commercial phrases, medium competition. Full-scale SEO at 22 000 UAH a month.

Months 1–2: technical debt, structure, six key pages rewritten.
Months 3–4: the first 15–20 phrases hit the top-20, placements begin.
Months 5–6: 40–45 phrases in the top-10, organic calls become regular.
Total to results: 132 000 UAH over six months, billed monthly.

After that the budget either drops to maintenance or stays the same if you expand into new directions.

How long results take

2–3 months

First movement

Long-tail queries enter the top-20. No leads yet, but the site is clearly alive.

4–6 months

First leads

The commercial core reaches the top-10. This is where the project starts paying back.

10–15 months

Online stores

Thousands of product pages and a complex structure. Slower, but the traffic is another league.

How to vet a contractor before paying

KPI in the contract, not in chat

A phrase list, deadlines and what happens if they are missed. Everything else is a promise.

Paperwork

Contract, invoice, work acts. If the contractor takes card payments, accounting cannot book it.

You keep the access

Search Console, analytics and hosting stay in your account. Otherwise you lose the history.

A report you can verify

Rankings with dates, not a screenshot of a chart. The numbers must match your own Search Console.

Our rates and contract terms are open: see the pricing page or order a free audit and we will show what exactly holds your site back.

FAQ

Common questions about cost

How much does SEO to Google top-10 cost in Ukraine?

The working range is from 12 000 UAH a month for local SEO and from 22 000 UAH for full-scale work. Below 10 000 UAH nobody covers technical work, content and links at once. The exact figure depends on the phrase list, competition and the state of the site.

Why not name a price right away?

The price follows the scope: pages to rewrite, technical debt, how strong the competitors are. We quote after a brief and a short audit, then lock it in the contract with no mid-project surprises.

What do you get for 3 000 UAH a month?

Roughly eight hours of a specialist. Enough for a report and a few meta-tag edits. Content, links and technical fixes do not fit, so rankings stay flat while the money keeps leaving.

What is the total budget until results?

For medium competition it is about six months at 22 000 UAH, i.e. 132 000–154 000 UAH until the core reaches the top-10. Billing is monthly, not upfront: if there is no progress, you stop any month.

Is there VAT and what documents do you issue?

We work under a contract with a registered company: bank transfer, signed work acts. We are on the simplified tax system and are not VAT payers, so no VAT invoice, but also no 20% on top. The listed amount equals the invoiced one.

SEO or paid ads?

Ads bring leads from day one and stop when the budget does. SEO starts slowly but delivers traffic without paying per click after six months. Combining both early is usually the sane route.

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Thirty minutes and you know the number, the timeline and the scope.

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