How Much Does It Cost To Start A Finance Blog? (In 2025)

"We are living in a world where a blog can be started under $50 and paid courses can be launched on platforms like Teachable within a few minutes."

Pardeep Goyal is the founder of CashOverflow.com, a personal finance blog awarded as the best personal finance blog in 2017, dedicated to helping people manage their financial lives and achieve financial independence.

"Other than the cost of hosting and our site theme, we incurred very little cost over the first year."

Jeff Proctor is the co-founder of DollarSprout.com, a personal finance blog geared towards millennials interested in making and saving extra money.

"Startup costs were extremely low, and that’s one reason why I love blogging as a business. You can start for super cheap - less than $100."

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is the founder of Making Sense of Cents, a personal finance and lifestyle blog that has generated over $5,000,000 in revenue.

"Starting Fitnancials was incredibly inexpensive. I think I remember it costing less than $100."

Alexis is the founder of Fitnancials, a personal finance blog that started in 2013 and now helps over 100,000 people a month with saving and earning more money.

"As far as the funding - we did everything out of our own pockets for the launch. Mike and I started an LLC a few weeks before the course went live, and we also paid a copywriter to help us create the sales page and the initial launch emails. There were a few other small services we had to pay for like Teachable and Zapier, but overall our costs were less than $5,000 for the entire project from creation to launch."

Bobby Hoyt is the founder of Laptop Empires, an online business focused on helping people start and grow their own online ventures.

"The beauty of launching a website is that startup costs are minimal. Hosting can be had for a few dollars a month, and that’s pretty much all you need."

David Ning is the founder of MoneyNing.com, a personal finance website that started in 2007 and now attracts around 200,000 users per month.

"The MVP took just 2 weeks to build and cost only $400. I registered the domain and it cost $12.99. It really didn't cost much."

R.J. Weiss is the founder of The Ways To Wealth, a finance blog started in 2016 that earns over $30,000 per month teaching visitors how to save and make more money.

"Since this business model is not much of a money investment-based and more of a time investment based, you can start blogging with less than $4 a month. And this is why there is absolutely no chance of you losing money if things go south."

Sayan Neogie is the founder of Prosmartrepreneur, a personal finance and entrepreneurship blog that started in 2018 and has grown to garner over 160,000 monthly readers.

"In terms of startup costs I incurred launching Financial Samurai in 2009, I paid a guy I found on Craigslist $500 to launch the site. I then paid him $200 to design my site and logo."

Sam Dogen is the founder of Financial Samurai, a personal finance site that attracts about 1 million organic visitors a month.

"Low Startup Cost. You can technically start a blog with about $5.00 although I don’t necessarily recommend it. A bare bones blog can be run using a few tools & plugins that will run you about $150 per month."

Michael Morris is the founder of Pursuit of Passive Income, a blog-based business that helps guide aspiring entrepreneurs in creating passive income streams and achieving financial freedom.