The cost of a wordpress.com website

The major cost of running a website, not just a Wordpress site, is TIME.

The platform charges and the Hosting are insignificant to the cost of the effort that goes in to creating and maintaining content. For wordpress.com the account and hosting are quite reasonable and run at £36 per year for the first year and £36 plus the cost of the domain registration after that.

For a .org website the annual on-going cost is £46 per year.

Learning the platform

This should not be under estimated.

The Hostinger website sets this out:

There is a "free" option

However, this is using the wordpress.com (Automattic) option