Short answer
Website maintenance in India commonly costs ₹3,000 to ₹15,000 a month for a small business site, and more for online stores or custom builds. Price follows the platform, the number of plugins or apps, and how fast you need fixes. Our WordPress plans start at ₹3,999 a month and Shopify plans at ₹5,999.
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What you are paying for
Maintenance is the recurring work that keeps a live site safe and working: software updates, backups, security scans, uptime monitoring, speed checks and fixes. None of it is visible when it goes well, which is why it is easy to skip and expensive to skip for long.
A plan is really three things bundled together: routine work done on a schedule, monitoring that watches the site when you are not, and someone to message when it breaks. A quote that covers only the first is cheaper and leaves you alone on a bad day.
Typical monthly price by site type
Quotes vary a lot between agencies, so treat these as a rough map and not a rate card. A simple brochure site with a handful of pages sits at the low end. A business site with a blog and forms costs more. An online store costs more again, because every update has to be checked against the cart, the payment gateway and the order emails.
Plans for WordPress sites commonly start in the low thousands of rupees a month and climb with traffic, plugin count and response time. Shopify plans often start a little higher than WordPress ones, even though Shopify patches its own core, because the work shifts to apps, theme code and checkout. A custom web application or a very high traffic store is quoted individually.
Our own starting points are ₹3,999 a month for WordPress and ₹5,999 a month for Shopify. Sites with WooCommerce, a heavy plugin stack or several languages cost more, and you get a fixed figure after a short audit.
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What pushes the price up or down
Platform and size come first: the number of pages, plugins or apps, and whether the site sells anything. Then risk: a store taking payments needs checkout testing after every update, a brochure site does not.
Response time matters next. Fixes within one working day cost less than a promise to look at it within hours. Finally, scope: whether small content edits, speed work and reports are included, or billed separately each time.
What a plan should include
At minimum: core, theme and plugin or app updates tested before they go live, backups stored away from your hosting with a restore tested now and then, malware scanning, uptime monitoring with alerts, and SSL and domain expiry tracking.
Good plans add speed checks, database cleanup, broken link and form checks, small content edits and a plain monthly report. Ask for the list in writing. A cheap quote that does not say what it excludes is usually the most expensive one.
- Tested updatesChecked before they go live
- Real backupsOff-site, with restores tested
- Security scansMalware and login protection
- Uptime alertsWatched around the clock
- Speed checksSlowdowns caught early
- A person to askFixes through one channel
Monthly plan or annual contract
A monthly plan lets you leave any month. An annual maintenance contract, often called an AMC, is the same service paid for a year, normally at a lower effective monthly price in return for the commitment.
If you are not sure the agency is right for you, start monthly. If you already trust them and the site is stable, an annual contract usually saves money.
Red flags in a maintenance quote
No list of what is included. A price far below everyone else's with no explanation. Backups kept on the same server as the site, which fail together. No mention of testing updates before they go live. Support that is a ticket form with no named person. A long lock-in with no exit if the service is poor.
Also check who owns the logins and backups. You should hold admin access and be able to take everything with you if you leave.
Can I do it myself?
For a small, simple site, partly yes. You can switch on automatic updates, keep a backup plugin running and check the site now and then. The risk is that nobody checks the result: an update can break a form or a checkout and stay broken for weeks.
Paying for maintenance makes sense when the site earns money, takes orders or holds customer data, because the cost of one silent failure is higher than a year of fees.
How to compare two quotes
Put both lists side by side and tick what each includes: tested updates, off-site backups, restore tests, malware scanning, uptime alerts, speed checks, content edits, response time and reporting. Then compare price per tick, not price alone.
Ask each agency what they will not cover, and what happens if the site is hacked while on the plan. The honest answer to the second question is worth more than a discount.