keep the price vs maintain the price

Both are correct phrases, but are used in slightly different contexts. "Keep the price" implies not changing the price, while "maintain the price" suggests actively ensuring the price remains at a certain level.

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keep the price

This phrase is correct and commonly used to indicate not changing the price.

This phrase is used when you want to emphasize the importance of not altering the price of a product or service.

Examples:

We need to keep the price of the new product competitive.
The company decided to keep the price stable despite market fluctuations.

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But let's keep the price down.
Because they wanted to keep the price of coffee high.
We have to keep the price of carbon high to encourage research, innovation and substitution.
How do you know it will keep the price?
Might the USA be holding these large reserves in order to keep the price of oil artificially high, with all the adverse consequences this would have for the European economy?
Now, there's an underground vault where they put all the stones they buy up to keep off the market so they can keep the price high.
We keep the price where it is man, OK?
I'm a gardener and landscaper, so I like to help aids and cancer patients grow their own medicine to keep the price down and to just decentralize the whole economy.
In order to maintain its cost-containment policy and thus keep the price of its service low, the airline Ryanair has included a clause in its transport contract, according to which its customers may only board with an identity card or passport.
Almost a year after the energy crisis in California, it seems to be clear that electricity suppliers had gone so far as to withdraw electricity from the market in order to keep the price artificially high.
I dumped gallons of milk in the river to keep the prices up.
There is no vaccine for AIDS nor any treatment that is accessible to the people from the South, as the pharmaceutical laboratories that own the patents keep the prices at an exorbitant level.
Secondly, the competition of the Union industry with the third countries' producers, already present on the Union market, is likely to keep the prices down.
This keeps the prices of passenger cars and all road vehicles amongst the most expensive in the EU, including imports of used cars.
He ke - he keeps raising the price.
You keep raising the prices all the time.
These distortions would have contributed to allowing the Chinese producers to keep the low price level of the dumped imports from the PRC.
And the price keeps going up.
Thus, it can be presumed that the distributors aim to keep the resale price at the highest possible level whereby at the same time it is in their economic interest to keep the purchase price at the lowest possible level in order to maximise profit levels.
And the price keeps going up, as you know...

Alternatives:

maintain the price
retain the price
hold the price
keep the cost
keep the rate

maintain the price

This phrase is correct and commonly used to indicate actively ensuring that the price remains at a certain level.

This phrase is used when you want to convey the idea of actively managing or preserving a specific price point.