A WordPress maintenance contract generally costs between €30 and €300 excl. VAT per month in France. The gap has less to do with the quality of the updates than with what happens when something goes wrong: staging, response time, clean-up after a hack, hours included.
Prices seen on the market
- €30 to €40 per month: automated updates and backups, limited support. Suitable for a small business website.
- €60 to €100 per month: the most common range among specialists, with monitoring, a monthly report and restoration in case of downtime.
- €150 to €300 per month: WooCommerce stores and business-critical websites, with staging, checkout testing, intervention hours and guaranteed response times.
- Beyond that: agency contracts with several hours of development per month and on-call support.
What must be included
- Off-site backups (stored somewhere other than your hosting provider) that are tested.
- Updates carried out after a prior backup, ideally validated on a copy for an e-commerce website.
- Uptime monitoring with alerts.
- A clear commitment on response time in the event of an outage or a hack.
- A monthly report you can understand.
Pitfalls to avoid
Beware of long commitments with no way to cancel, contracts that exclude clean-up after a hack, and “automatic updates” run without any testing: that is precisely what breaks online stores.
The subscription-free alternative
A business website that rarely changes does not always need a monthly contract. At Altikode, the WordPress update is a one-off intervention at €190 excl. VAT (20,000 DZD in Algeria): backup, updates tested on a copy, checks and report. You request it when you need it, two or three times a year, and in the event of a hack, the clean-up costs €390 excl. VAT.