Neighbor Prices
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Why this exists

A homeowner built this because every quote felt like a guess.

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.

C
Connor
Founder · NeighborPrices
How the data works

Three steps, then a real homeowner sees your number.

  1. 1
    Homeowners submit what they paid

    After a job is done, the homeowner can submit the price, service, location, and a few sentences of scope. Anonymous by default.

  2. 2
    A human moderator reviews

    Every submission enters a review queue. A real person classifies it under the right service page and checks for safety issues before it joins the dataset.

  3. 3
    It joins the public record

    Approved reports show up in the cost guide for that service in that city. Every result page shows count + freshness so thin slices are labeled honestly.

Access model

What's free and what's earned by contributing.

Free for everyone
  • The verdict on your quote: fair, high, or low
  • The typical price range and median for your service in your area
  • How many homeowner reports the verdict is built on
  • One unblurred preview of a real homeowner report
Earned by contributing
  • Full detail on every locked homeowner report across the site
  • Provider names and star ratings on every receipt, where the homeowner shared them
  • Gift links to share full results with friends getting quotes
  • Lifetime access. No recurring subscription, no resets

One verified submission unlocks all of the above. Sign in with a confirmed email, describe the work in a few sentences, include the price you paid.

There's also a $3 per-result unlock for visitors who don't have a job to share, and contributors can gift one full result to a friend. There is no recurring homeowner subscription tier.

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, developing, 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. It never fabricates or adjusts price data.
  • Content safety. Submissions are scanned for outbound links, contact info, and other unsafe patterns. Provider names stay behind the contributor wall and never appear on Google-indexed pages.
  • 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.
AI's role

How AI is used (and isn't).

NeighborPrices is not an AI estimator. AI plays a supporting role only. It helps interpret messy homeowner descriptions and add context, but it never invents prices or moves a verdict.

Service matching

AI helps map "I got my AC fixed" and "compressor swap on a 5-ton" to the same service bucket so reports cluster correctly.

Adding context

When you check a quote, AI helps explain what might affect pricing: system size, urgency, brand, scope. Grounded in the underlying data, not generated from it.

Never the source of truth

Every price comes from a homeowner. The verdict math uses the typical and the typical-low / typical-high range across those reports. AI doesn't touch the numbers.

How we make money

Funding without turning into a lead marketplace.

Verdicts and ranges are computed from community-reported prices. Ad placement never affects the math or the reports shown.

What we do
  • Display ads on some public cost guide pages
  • $3 per-result unlocks for visitors who don't have a job to share
What we don't do
  • Sell your identifiable submissions to contractors as leads
  • Charge booking fees or run a contractor marketplace
  • Route quote checks into paid contractor referrals
  • Charge homeowners a recurring subscription for any tier
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 catalog. We'd rather grow the taxonomy from real demand than guess at it.

  1. 1 · Describe in plain words

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

  2. 2 · We map it

    Strong matches go through quickly, but every submission is reviewed before publication so we don't pollute the catalog with bad guesses.

  3. 3 · Repeated patterns get promoted

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

Two paths in

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Drop a quote in to see how it lines up against real homeowner receipts. Or contribute one of your own and unlock the full detail across the site.

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