How much does WordPress website maintenance cost?

The cost of WordPress website maintenance averages €60/month for a business website in 2026. Some companies offer prices as low as €30/month, but that isn’t enough to keep a website properly looked after.

Maintenance for a WordPress site running WooCommerce starts at €90/month for a good service. Online stores are more complex and take longer to maintain than business websites.

Before choosing your provider, read on.

The different types of maintenance

There are two types of maintenance:

• Full management: monthly plans where the developer takes care of the technical side of your website and gives you the assurance that it keeps working.
• One-off interventions: you can contact a developer to fix a specific technical problem, without necessarily committing to a monthly plan.

If you want to focus on your core business and delegate the technical side, full management is ideal. If you already have a provider or want to test a developer’s skills, a one-off intervention is a great option.

Why do maintenance prices vary?

To stay profitable, a developer calculates an hourly rate: how long a typical intervention on your website takes, what needs to be done, and what it must bring in given their costs and the profit they expect.

The provider’s experience, cost structure and type of business then determine their final prices.

So two different providers can charge the same price for very different work.

That’s why it’s essential to compare not only the price of the service, but also the detailed tasks and guarantees included in the plan you’re considering.

Why choose a freelancer rather than an agency?

An agency, even a small one, has high profitability targets and its employees are “on the clock”. Human contact with the person assigned to you is therefore kept to the bare minimum.

It often ends in disappointment too, because the work doesn’t get done for lack of time. Many contracts are signed to pay the staff without taking actual workload capacity into account.

With Jennifer (that’s me!), you stay close to your developer while fully delegating the tedious technical side. A real human relationship with a maintenance professional who cares about the health of your website.