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How much does cleaning work cost? A 2026 price guide.

If you are trying to figure out what a house cleaner should cost in 2026, the honest answer is that it depends on the size of your home, how dirty it is, and how often you want it done. But "it depends" is not very helpful when you are staring at a quote and wondering if it is fair. We could print a national range for each job. We have decided not to, and the reason is worth a sentence: almost every range you can find for cleaning traces back to two or three lead-generation sites that quote each other, so five results agreeing is one source repeated five times. A number we cannot stand behind is worse to you than no number.

What is below is more useful when you are on the phone. For each job, the one thing a cleaner is really counting when they price it. Big cities still run higher and rural areas lower, and a single visit still costs more per square foot than a recurring plan. The number that matters is the one your cleaner gives you after they understand your specific home, and knowing what they are counting gets you there in a minute.

Common cleaning jobs and what decides the price

Prices are per visit unless noted. The note next to each one tells you what pushes you toward the high end.

Standard clean

A routine top-to-bottom clean of a maintained home. Square footage, the number of bathrooms, and pets are what a cleaner is counting, and bathrooms weigh more per unit than floor area.

Bathrooms, then square footage

Deep clean

Everything in a standard clean plus baseboards, inside appliances, grout and built-up grime. The longer since the last deep clean, the longer it takes, and that is the whole story. Say roughly when, and you will get a real answer.

How long since the last one

Move in or move out clean

An empty home cleaned for handover, including inside cabinets, drawers and the oven. Size matters, but the condition the last occupant left it in matters more, and it is the one thing a cleaner cannot guess from an address.

The state it was left in

Recurring clean

Per visit on a weekly or biweekly plan. It costs less per visit than a one-off because the home never falls far behind, and weekly is cheaper per visit than monthly for the same reason. Pick the interval first and the price follows.

How often, not how big

Post construction clean

Removing fine drywall dust, paint specks and debris after a renovation. The amount of dust, and whether windows are included, are the two lines that move it. Fine dust settles twice, so some jobs need a second pass.

How much dust, and the windows

Window cleaning

Interior and exterior glass. The number of panes, how many stories, and whether screens and tracks are included decide it. Hard-to-reach upper windows bring in access equipment, which is a different line entirely.

Panes, stories, and screens

Carpet cleaning

Usually priced per room or by floor area. Heavy stains, pet-odour treatment and high-pile carpet are each an addition rather than a variation. Count the rooms before you call.

Rooms, and what is in the carpet

Office or commercial clean

Per visit for a small office. Floor area, the number of restrooms, and how often you want it serviced set the rate, and nightly plans price lower per visit than weekly ones.

Restrooms and how often

Every home and every cleaner is different, so what is below is not a rate card. It is what a cleaner is counting when they price the job, which is what you need to know before you call.

Why two quotes for the same job can look different

A cleaner is not pulling a number out of the air. Here is what they are weighing when they price your home.

Size and layout

More square footage and more bathrooms mean more time. A two bedroom condo and a four bedroom house are not the same job, even if both are "a standard clean."

How long since the last clean

A home cleaned every two weeks stays easy. One that has not been cleaned in months needs a deep clean first, which is why the same address can get two very different prices.

Pets and people

Pet hair, litter, and a busy household all add time. It is not personal, it is just more surface area to cover and more to reset.

How often you book

Recurring customers cost less per visit because the work is predictable and the home never gets far behind. A one time clean carries the full setup every time.

Add ons you want

Inside the oven, inside the fridge, interior windows, laundry, or baseboards are often extras. Asking for them up front keeps the quote accurate.

Where you live

Labor and travel cost more in big metros and less in smaller towns. A fair price in San Francisco is not the same fair price in a rural county.

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Why this page has no price on it. It used to. The ranges were ours in the sense that we wrote them down, and they came from nowhere we could point at, which we only found when we went looking for the source. Almost every price range you can find for this work traces back to two or three lead-generation sites that quote each other, so five results agreeing is one source repeated five times. We are not willing to republish that and call it research, and we are not willing to print a number you would take to a tradesperson and be told it means nothing.

What we put here instead. For each job, the one thing that actually decides which end of the price you land on. That we do know, from building the questions a quoting engine has to ask, and it is the more useful half. A range you cannot use tells you nothing. Knowing which single question the price turns on lets you answer it before you are asked, and get a real number back in about a minute.

They are not what Tono prices with. When a business runs its quotes through Tono, every price comes from that business's own rate sheet. Nothing on this page feeds into it.

Written and maintained by the Tono team. Updated August 2026. If a number here looks wrong to you, tell us and we will fix it: support@tonovoice.com.