$ Neighbor Prices
Why this exists

A homeowner built this because the internet kept giving me useless answers

I got quoted $14k to replace my HVAC and spent three hours Googling whether that was a fair price. Every result was a national range saying it could be anywhere from $3k to $25k. ChatGPT guessed. My only real option was to call two more contractors and wait a week. I hated all of it.

So I started building this. NeighborPrices is a searchable record of what homeowners in your area actually paid, reported by real people after real jobs. No national averages, no contractor estimates, no AI guesses dressed up as prices. Drop your quote in and see where it lands against real neighbors.

Connor, founder

Access model

What is free and what is unlocked

  • Free for everyone: the top-line verdict, typical range, report count, and pricing context.
  • Unlocked by contribution: deeper detail is earned by submitting one real report, signing in with a confirmed email, and getting that submission approved. One verified approval unlocks Contributor access to detailed report views on your account.
  • Also available per result: contributors can gift an exact-result unlock, and non-contributors can buy a one-time unlock for that exact result.
  • No homeowner subscription: there is no recurring paywall tier for homeowners.
How we make money

Funding without turning into a lead marketplace

Verdicts and ranges are computed from community-reported prices. Referral partners appear below the analysis, labeled sponsored. Commissions we earn from those partners do not factor into the math or the reports shown.

  • Display ads: some public cost guide pages may include ads from a third-party network.
  • Sponsored referrals: on some results pages, when a quote looks high or local data is thin, we may show external quote options from third parties. They sit below the verdict, labeled sponsored.
  • Occasional one-time unlocks: some users pay for deeper detail on a specific result instead of contributing a report.
  • What we do not do: we do not sell your identifiable submission data to contractors as leads, charge booking fees, or run a contractor marketplace.

How the data works

  1. 1
    Homeowners submit what they paid

    After a job is done, anyone can submit the price, service, and location. Anonymous by default.

  2. 2
    We show report count and confidence

    Every result shows how many reports it's based on. Thin data is labeled honestly.

  3. 3
    More submissions make it better

    Every price report improves the data for the next homeowner in your area.

How AI is used

NeighborPrices is not an AI estimator. AI plays a supporting role only:

  • Service matching. AI helps interpret how homeowners describe a job so it maps cleanly into our service catalog.
  • Adding context. When you check a quote, AI helps explain what might affect pricing.
  • Never the source of truth. AI-generated context is always grounded in real community data.
Data quality

How we keep the data trustworthy

  • Verified contributors. To unlock deeper data, a contributor must sign in with a confirmed email, describe the work in a few sentences, and include the price they paid. One-word submissions and empty descriptions are rejected.
  • Human moderation. Every homeowner submission enters an admin review queue. A human approves, maps, or rejects it before it reaches the public dataset.
  • Confidence labeling. Every cost guide page shows the report count and a confidence tier (Early data, Growing sample, or Strong sample). We never present thin data as if it were definitive.
  • No AI-generated prices. Every number in the database came from a homeowner. AI helps match services and add context, but it never fabricates or adjusts price data.
  • Revocation. Admins can revoke an approved report and the contributor access it unlocked if the data turns out to be inaccurate, fraudulent, or a duplicate.
Always growing

How new services enter the system

NeighborPrices is intentionally open-ended. Homeowners can submit prices even when the exact job is new to the taxonomy.

  1. 1. Describe the job in plain language

    You don't need to know our category names. The form is built around how homeowners think about the job.

  2. 2. We match it to the closest canonical service

    Strong matches can be approved quickly, but every submission is still reviewed before publication so we don't pollute the taxonomy with bad guesses.

  3. 3. Repeated new patterns get promoted

    When enough homeowners submit the same kind of job, we map it, keep it as exact-job detail, or promote it to its own canonical service page.

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