Every price this sitecompares yours against

Three kinds of row live here. Submitted quotes are real prices homeowners were quoted or charged — pasted in through the tool and contributed, or published openly by the homeowner and entered here by hand — stripped of anything identifying, contractor included. Cost-model estimates are equipment pricing plus a standard labor multiplier, standing in for scopes and areas with no real quotes yet. Showcase jobs are real completed jobs, entered by hand. None of the three are ever blended: a price position on the Quote X-Ray is only ever shown against submitted quotes, and a cost-model estimate is always labeled as a rule of thumb, not a comparison. Showcase jobs are shown, never averaged into anything. This page shows submitted quotes only by default — switch Source below to see the rest.

312 quotes match these filters. Showing the first 100.

No combined median is shown for these filters. They match 17 different kinds of job, and one median across a water heater and a whole-house repipe describes neither. Pick a single Job type above to see the full distribution for it.

A median needs 5 quotes before it means anything, which is the same threshold the Quote X-Ray uses before it will report a price position at all. Below that the range is shown and the median is not. Per unit divides the same quotes by what they buy, because a 2-ton and a 4-ton job look like a wide price range until you do — and units are never mixed across job types, since a boiler's kBTU and an air conditioner's ton are not comparable figures.

What permit records show over time

A separate dataset from everything above. These are public building permits — what the applicant told the city the work was worth — from three governments that share no infrastructure. They arenot contractor quotes, they are not mixed into the numbers above, and they cannot be subtracted from one. What they are good for is direction.

The same three sources again, this time as a spread rather than a line. Each band is the middle half of that place's permits — a quarter cost less, a quarter cost more — with the median marked. The medians differ; the bands very nearly do not, and the shaded column is the range that falls inside all three. It is the more useful of the two charts if the question is whether a number you are holding is ordinary.

New Jersey, Orlando, Seattle — the closest shape each source has to a heating and cooling equipment replacement. The definitions are not identical, which is why both charts are worth reading for their slope and their overlap rather than for the exact gap between them. Seattle counts jobs rather than permits, because it issues one permit per trade and a single job is often filed as two.

How a comparison is built

Comparables are chosen from submitted quotes only by narrowing until there is still something to compare against: same ZIP code area first, then same state, then everything. Within that set, quotes for similar equipment size are preferred when there are enough of them. Below 5 submitted comparables no position is reported at all — cost-model estimates never count toward that minimum, however many exist.

The confidence score weighs four things: how many comparables there are (40%), how close they are geographically (25%), how well the scope lines up (20%), and how recent they are (15%). It describes the strength of the comparison, not the fairness of anybody's price.

When submitted quotes are too thin, the Quote X-Ray shows a cost-model estimate instead — equipment pricing plus a standard labor multiplier, always labeled as a rule of thumb rather than a market position, and always replaced by real comparisons once enough exist.