CAR DETAILING PRICING GUIDE
Car detailing pricing: how much to charge
The 2026 US prices for washes, interior, exterior and full details by vehicle size, paint correction and ceramic coating, add-ons and mobile service — and a free calculator that turns them into a price you can put on your website.
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The short answer
Most car detailing businesses charge $180 to $350 for a full detail on a sedan and $230 to $500 on an SUV, truck or van, and the national average sits around $220 for a sedan and $310 for an SUV or truck (QuoteIQ).
By package, an interior detail runs $100 to $180 on a sedan and $150 to $330 on a larger vehicle, an exterior detail $100 to $175 and $130 to $250, and an express wash and vacuum $50 to $90 and $65 to $130 (QuoteIQ).
Paint correction and ceramic coating are priced as projects: $250 to $750 or more for paint correction and $700 to $2,000 for a ceramic coating (Housecall Pro, October 2026). Mobile detailers typically charge 10% to 20% more than shop prices (QuoteIQ).
Price by package and vehicle size, not by the hour: customers compare packages, and you keep the gain as you get faster.
FREE PRICE CALCULATOR
What should I charge for this detail?
Pick the package and the vehicle, choose shop or mobile, and tick the add-ons. The range uses the published 2026 US prices in the table below.
Suggested price
$180–$350
full detail (inside and out), sedan or car
A starting range from published US prices, not a quote for a customer. Time your first few details, check the range against your own costs (the formula below), then set your prices.
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RATES · NOVEMBER 2026
Car detailing price list by package and vehicle (2026)
Typical US prices for a sedan and for an SUV, truck or van. Jobber's full-detail ranges by vehicle run $150–$250 for a sedan, $200–$350 for an SUV, $200–$500 for a truck and $250–$500 or more for a van (April 2026).
| The job | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| Full detail (inside and out) | Sedan or car: $180–$350 · SUV, truck or van: $230–$500 · QuoteIQ |
| Interior detail | Sedan or car: $100–$180 · SUV, truck or van: $150–$330 · QuoteIQ |
| Exterior detail | Sedan or car: $100–$175 · SUV, truck or van: $130–$250 · QuoteIQ |
| Express wash and vacuum | Sedan or car: $50–$90 · SUV, truck or van: $65–$130 · QuoteIQ |
| Paint correction | Paint correction, quoted on the paint: $250–$750+ · Housecall Pro |
| Ceramic coating | Any vehicle: $700–$2,000 · Housecall Pro |
| Hourly (detailing labor) | $50–$100 an hour · Jobber |
Rates read off each publisher's page in November 2026. The calculator above uses exactly these numbers, rounded to whole dollars and to the nearest $5 from $100 up. Full source list below.
ADD-ONS AND ADJUSTMENTS
What to charge for add-ons and mobile service
Pet hair, odors and headlights take real time — price each as its own line.
| What | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| Where: mobile (at the customer's) | 10%–20% more · QuoteIQ |
| Pet hair removal | +$40–$100 · QuoteIQ |
| Odor (ozone) treatment | +$50–$120 · QuoteIQ |
| Engine bay detail | +$40–$100 · QuoteIQ |
| Headlight restoration (pair) | +$60–$120 · QuoteIQ |
| Clay bar treatment | +$50–$100+ · Housecall Pro |
Where a row shows a sum (a rate × a quantity, or a percentage worked out from published dollar ranges), the arithmetic is ours and the inputs are the publisher's.
THE PRICING FORMULA
How to price a car detailing job
Six steps from your costs to the number on your price list.
Know your cost per hour
Supplies, insurance, equipment and — if you're mobile — fuel and drive time for a month, divided by the hours you work, plus what you pay yourself.
Time each package
How long each package takes on each vehicle size. An SUV or van takes longer than a sedan, so time your first few.
Add labor, materials and overhead
Jobber's formula: (labor hours × hourly labor rate) + material costs + overhead costs + markup.
Add your margin
Jobber puts the industry's average margin at 15%–35%; Housecall Pro says there's no universal benchmark for detailing and works its example at 30%: price = break-even cost ÷ (1 − margin).
Check it against the market
Full detail $180–$350 for a sedan and $230–$500 for an SUV, truck or van (QuoteIQ).
Price add-ons and mobile service
Pet hair, odor treatment and headlights as their own lines, and 10%–20% more when you go to the customer.
The formula, worked through
Say it's a full interior detail on a mid-sized SUV. QuoteIQ's range for an interior detail on an SUV, truck or van is $150–$330.
Now the cost side, from Housecall Pro's worked example (October 2026): three hours of labor at $25 an hour is $75, materials are $35 and overhead is $33 — $143 in all. At a 30% margin, $143 ÷ 0.70 is $204, which leaves $61 of profit.
About $205 sits inside the market range, so “SUV interior details from $205” is a fair line for your price list. If your own total lands above the range, look at your time per car and your supplies before you cut the price.
The figures are Housecall Pro's example; your hours, your supplies and your overhead are what make it yours.
What to charge in your area
The ranges on this page are US national figures. Prices follow local costs: the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts overall prices in California at 110.7 against a US average of 100, and Arkansas at 86.9 (2024 regional price parities, released February 2026). So a full detail that's $250 in an average market is about $275 in California and about $215 in Arkansas.
Mobile work adds its own local cost — the drive. QuoteIQ puts mobile service at 10%–20% above shop prices; the longer your drives, the nearer the top of that band you'll need to be.
Outside the US, treat the ranges as a shape, not a price: the relationships hold (a full detail costs more than an interior or exterior alone, bigger vehicles cost more), but check what local detailers list on their own websites.
Put your prices on your website
A price list — even “from” prices — answers a customer's first question before they pick up the phone, and it's the line an AI assistant can quote when someone asks what car detailing costs near them.
If you build your site with Zarla, tell the editor “add a pricing section: full details from $180, SUV interior details from $205” and your prices go on the site, in a section you can edit any time. Want to see a finished site first? Browse car detailing website templates or see how Zarla builds car detailing websites.
Still setting up? Write your car detailing business plan, and when the prices are set, read how to get your business on Google. A price travels better with a sheet to go with it: hand the customer the free car detailing checklist alongside the quote. Billing the job? The free car detailing invoice template carries the lines. Raising prices you set a year ago? The price increase letter tells customers a month ahead.
Starting the business? How to start a car detailing business covers the kit, the wash-water rules, the insurance and the first cars.
Car detailing pricing: common questions
$180–$350 for a sedan and $230–$500 for an SUV, truck or van (QuoteIQ). Housecall Pro puts a full interior-and-exterior detail at $150–$500 or more. The calculator above works it out for each package and vehicle, with add-ons.
$100–$180 for a sedan and $150–$330 for an SUV, truck or van (QuoteIQ). Housecall Pro's range for an interior detail is $150–$350 (October 2026). Interiors vary most, so pet hair and odor treatment are best priced as extras.
QuoteIQ's full-detail range is $180–$350 for a sedan and $230–$500 for an SUV, truck or van — $50 more at the low end and $150 more at the top. Bigger vehicles take longer, so the gap grows with the package.
Yes — typically 10%–20% above shop prices (QuoteIQ). The extra covers fuel, drive time and setting up at the customer's place. Housecall Pro's October 2026 page puts mobile packages on a midsize SUV at $158 basic, $278 standard and $443 premium before any travel fee (a 2026 analysis of 89 operators).
Write it down before you price it. Our free car detailing checklist lists what an express wash, an interior, an exterior and a full detail each include, step by step, with the add-ons priced separately — and the vehicle inspection form is the walk-around that catches the condition surcharge before you start.
Four packages down the side (express wash and vacuum, interior, exterior, full detail), two columns across (sedan or car, and SUV, truck or van), and a "from" price in each cell. Under each package, one line on what it includes, so a customer comparing you with the detailer down the road compares like with like. Then the add-ons as their own short list (pet hair, odor treatment, headlights, engine bay, clay bar), one line saying mobile service costs more, and paint correction and ceramic coating as "from" prices quoted after you've seen the paint. The calculator above gives you a starting number for every cell.
Buffing out swirls and light scratches is paint correction, priced as its own project: $250–$750 or more (Housecall Pro, October 2026), or $400–$1,200 or more on QuoteIQ's 2026 price list — the stage the paint needs sets where you land. A quick machine polish before a wax is smaller work, so price it as an add-on to an exterior or full detail rather than a project. Look at the paint under good light before you quote: the stage the paint needs sets the price, not the size of the car alone.
Jobber puts detailing rates at $50–$100 an hour. Use the hourly rate to check your packages, but sell packages: customers want a number up front.
$700–$2,000 (Housecall Pro, October 2026); QuoteIQ puts it at $600–$2,500 or more and Jobber at $450–$2,000. Paint correction usually comes first: $250–$750 or more (Housecall Pro), $400–$1,200 or more (QuoteIQ).
Jobber puts the industry's average at 15%–35%; Housecall Pro says there's no universal benchmark for detailing and works its example at 30% (October 2026). Work it into the price: labor + materials + overhead, then divide by one minus the margin.
Yes — at least “from” prices for each package, by vehicle size. It answers the first question before the call and gives an AI assistant a real number to quote. On a Zarla site, tell the editor “add a pricing section” with your prices, and change them any time.
Where these numbers come from
Every range on this page is read off a published source, dated below. They're US figures for residential work — typical, not a rule; your costs and your market come first.
- QuoteIQ — Free Car Detailing Price List Template — no date on the page, read November 2026
- Housecall Pro — 2026 Car Detailing Price Guide: Average Rates and How Much to Charge — dated October 2026, read November 2026
- Jobber — Car Detailing Prices 2026: How Much to Charge for Detailing Services — dated April 2026, read November 2026
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — regional price parities by state, 2024 — dated February 2026, read September 2026
Put your car detailing prices on your website
Add your town and your business name, and Zarla builds the site from that one line. Your prices go in a pricing section you edit by chat.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.