They are definitely cheaper, as long as you already employ technical staff. I've worked as an IT volunteer in a small org, and there was no dedicated tech beyo

They are definitely cheaper, as long as you already employ technical staff. I've worked as an IT volunteer in a small org, and there was no dedicated tech beyond me. Any kind of setup that I built for authoring the website would have to be as usable by non-technical users as possible, so I went with Wordpress. I had no replacement and there was no-one with enough technical know-how to handle authoring and troubleshooting a cheap static site, so I deliberately chose WP to minimise problems. The cost was 2-3x larger than the cheaper alternatives, but ultimately it was keeping the website up that mattered.