How much does website maintenance cost?

Australian agencies typically charge $150 to $350 a month for WordPress maintenance on a standard business site, covering updates, backups and uptime monitoring, with published plans running from about $140 up to $900 a month and WooCommerce stores higher (published agency prices, checked 1 October 2026). Those numbers are mostly a WordPress reality, because the platform’s core, themes and plugins need constant patching to stay secure.

Web Blend builds hand-coded static sites instead, which have no plugin stack to patch, so hosting and care are included in the build price rather than billed as a monthly defence. If you are quoted maintenance, ask exactly what is being maintained and what happens if you stop paying.