Website care, SEO and one-time work with real developer hours
Comparison
SiteCare sells premium WordPress maintenance bundled with its own hosting. Here is their published offer next to ours — plan prices, what is included, what extra work costs, and what each side guarantees. Every SiteCare fact is quoted from their own pages, with the capture date below.
Comparison
| What you get | SiteCare | web-svc |
|---|---|---|
| Published monthly price | Gold $435/mo ($4,680 billed annually) · Diamond $2,190/mo ($23,880 billed annually) | Essential $320 · Business $560 · Priority $790 /month, no tax added at checkout |
| Included work per month | Gold: 5 'Content Edits & Quick Fixes' per month. | 6 / 12 / 20 included developer hours (Essential / Business / Priority), logged in whole quarter-hours. Routine plan work — updates, backups, monitoring — never consumes your hours. |
| Work beyond the included amount | Billed as 'Flex Pack' time at $189/hour, sold in 5-hour blocks; Gold subscribers get a 10% Flex Pack discount. | Hourly Support packs of 2, 5 or 10 prepaid developer hours at published pack prices — unused hours refundable within the 90-day window, minus one hour. |
| Custom development | Not part of the Gold plan's included edits; development work is bought as Flex Pack hours. | Included — plan hours cover small development alongside fixes and content or design edits. A single task estimated over 8 hours becomes a separately quoted Custom Offer. |
| Response-time commitment | Gold advertises 'Rapid Response' without published numbers; a 1-hour SLA is listed on Diamond. | Printed on every plan: 2 business days on Essential, 1 business day on Business, 4 business hours on Priority — plus 24/7 response to critical incidents on Priority. |
| Hosting | Included — CoreSpeed hosting with CDN and a Web Vitals guarantee, on their infrastructure. | Not included by design — Managed Hosting Care is a separate monthly service, and you can stay on your current host. |
| Annual billing | Advertised as 'two months free'; the monthly and annual prices they publish work out to a 10.3% discount on Gold and 9.1% on Diamond (their pricing page, recalculated from the price row above). | Published as what it is: 10% off with annual billing — and if you leave early, months that have not started are refunded in full. |
| Money-back terms | 30-day money-back guarantee. | Written down per service family: 100% refund before work starts on one-time services, no-cure-no-pay on Emergency Fix, unused pack hours refundable within their 90-day window minus one hour. |
| More than 10 sites | Routed to a custom plan — 'talk to sales', per their FAQ; custom-plan pricing is not published. | Prices stay public at any site count; each extra site is an Additional Website add-on with a published monthly price. |
If you want maintenance bundled with managed hosting — CDN, performance tooling and a Web Vitals guarantee on their infrastructure — Gold packages exactly that, and Diamond adds a numeric 1-hour SLA at its published price.
Past a handful of quick fixes, extra work there is $189/hour (their FAQ); our plans include 6–20 developer hours in the monthly price.