If you’ve spent any time shopping for technical services or digital development, you’re likely familiar with the standard agency song-and-dance: a completely opaque services page, a “Contact for Quote” button, and a mandatory 45-minute discovery call, only to discover that your budgets and scopes are miles apart.
We think that model is broken.
As we expand our offerings at long.press in 2026, we’ve decided to put our pricing, our package floors, and our service boundaries out in the open.
Two problem spaces, three lanes
Clients typically come to us with one of two needs: keeping their existing platform healthy and updated, or solving complex architectural challenges. Treating both with a single, generic hourly bucket creates misaligned incentives. That is why we offer three distinct lanes (maintenance, consulting, and development) matched to the problem.
WordPress Maintenance & Care (Capacity & Reliability)
If you run a high-traffic production site, you need hands-on availability. You need staging-tested plugin updates, backups (offsite on Growth & up), and guaranteed developer hours to handle layout tweaks, supplied-content swaps, and form updates without billing surprises.
For routine site care, we publish clear, tiered plans with dedicated monthly hours. You know exactly what you get, how fast we respond, and the dedicated time reserved on our calendar each month.
Explore maintenance plans: Essential Care, Growth & Support, and Priority Partner.
Engineering Consulting & Sprints (Outcome & Architecture)
If you need to migrate to Full Site Editing, architect a design token system, eliminate legacy technical debt, or fix broken Core Web Vitals, counting raw billable hours distracts from the actual objective.
For high-leverage engineering, we structure engagements as fixed diagnostic audits, dedicated two-week build sprints, or fractional advisory retainers. You pay for the deliverable, the expertise, and the architectural outcome, not open-ended clock-watching.
Explore consulting and development sprints: audit $2,500 flat, sprints from $7,500.
A commitment to guaranteed capacity
Whether you hire us on an Essential Care maintenance plan or a Fractional Advisory retainer, our pricing reflects reserved capacity, not an infinite line of credit.
We don’t overbook our schedule, and our retained hours do not roll over from month to month. When you retain long.press, you are buying dedicated availability from senior engineers who know your codebase inside and out. Limiting our client roster is how we maintain thorough staging QA and reliable response windows.
Transparent today, adaptive tomorrow
Publishing our pricing is a commitment to honesty, but it isn’t set in stone forever. The web development landscape in 2026 continues to evolve rapidly, from headless runtimes and edge compute to AI-driven workflows and shifting browser standards.
As tooling, platform demands, and market conditions shift, our pricing strategies will adjust with time and the market. What will not change is our stance on clarity:
- We will never lure you into a discovery call under false pretenses.
- We will always give you clear pricing floors before you invest time with us.
- We will always tell you upfront if a project is better suited for a maintenance tier, a build sprint, or a diagnostic audit.
Good engineering is built on trust, clear documentation, and predictable delivery. We believe the business side of web development should work the exact same way.
Compare all three services: maintenance, consulting, and development. Start with the lane that matches your bottleneck.