How much does a home cleaning cost in AZ?
The Arizona House Cleaning Price & Transparency Report – published by Tidy Casa, September 2026
Short answer: In 2026, a standard cleaning of a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home (about 1,900 sq ft) costs an average of $269 in Phoenix and $254 in Tucson (medians $240 and $242), based on September 2026 quotes from 21 home cleaning companies. Quotes for the same house ranged from $147 to $456. Deep cleans average $359 (Phoenix) and $365 (Tucson). Recurring biweekly visits average $174–$191. Hourly companies charge about $60-$75 per cleaner per hour, or $110–$150 for a two-person crew. Price told us almost nothing about what a company promised its customers, the fine print did.
Who this is for and how we got the numbers
This report is for Phoenix-metro and Tucson homeowners comparing cleaning quotes, and for anyone who writes about the cost of home services in Arizona.
Since 2022, Tidy Casa has mystery-shopped competing cleaning companies once a year. 28 companies in total across Phoenix and Tucson. Asking for quotes on the same three homes (1,900, 2,500 and 4,000 sq ft) and three service types (one-time standard clean, deep clean, and recurring biweekly). In September 2026 we added a second dataset: a line-by-line audit of what each of those 28 companies’ websites actually state about insurance, guarantees, contracts, cancellation fees, and whether you’ll get the same cleaner twice.
Every number below is in the downloadable dataset at the end of this post, with the source quote and URL for every website claim. Our own prices are in the data, scored by the same rules.
Average house cleaning cost in Phoenix, AZ
A standard one-time cleaning of a 1,900 sq ft home in Phoenix averaged $269 in September 2026 (median $240), based on quotes from 13 companies. Deep cleans averaged $359. Recurring biweekly visits averaged $174 per visit.
| Home size | Standard clean | Deep clean | Biweekly recurring (per visit) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,900 sq ft (3 bed / 2 bath) | $269 avg · $240 median · $147–$456 | $359 avg · $360 median · $191–$651 | $174 avg · $125–$223 |
| 2,500 sq ft | $342 avg · $290 median | $453 avg · $445 median | $222 avg |
| 4,000 sq ft | $479 avg · $400 median | $622 avg · $645 median | $328 avg |
Competitor quotes only; Tidy Casa’s prices are excluded from averages and listed separately below. Two companies (Maid Right, The Maids) do not sell a standard clean to new customers; the price shown is their required first deep clean. MaidPro Phoenix never returned our call; its row uses the MaidPro Tucson quote, since the franchise prices by the same formula. One company (Pretty In Pink Cleaning) did not return a voicemail.
The gap between average and median is the first thing to notice. A few high-priced franchise quotes pull the Phoenix average up; the typical quote is closer to $240.
Average house cleaning cost in Tucson, AZ
A standard one-time cleaning of a 1,900 sq ft home in Tucson averaged $254 in September 2026 (median $242), based on quotes from 8 companies. Deep cleans averaged $365. Biweekly recurring visits averaged $191 per visit.
| Home size | Standard clean | Deep clean | Biweekly recurring (per visit) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,900 sq ft (3 bed / 2 bath) | $254 avg · $242 median · $200–$351 | $365 avg · $356 median · $275–$480 | $191 avg · $152–$218 |
| 2,500 sq ft | $305 avg · $288 median | $450 avg · $444 median | $242 avg |
| 4,000 sq ft | $433 avg · $414 median | $657 avg · $643 median | $335 avg |
Tucson quotes were collected September 11, 2026. Four Tucson companies could not be quoted at all: one phone number was disconnected (A Maid to Order), one voicemail box was full (Flat Rate Maids), one phone tree hung up when we pressed the option for a quote (Time Maid Cleaning), and one did not return a voicemail (This Clean House). The Maids sells no standard clean; the price shown is its required first deep clean.
Tucson and Phoenix are close on average, but Tucson’s spread is much narrower — the highest Tucson quote ($351) is below the top five Phoenix quotes. Tucson recurring prices run about 10% higher than Phoenix’s.
House cleaning cost per hour in Phoenix and Tucson
Companies that price by the hour charged about $60 per cleaner per hour in 2026, usually with a 2- to 4-hour minimum. A two-person crew runs $110–$120 per hour. Most Arizona companies quote a flat rate rather than an hourly one.
Hourly pricing is a minority model here — most of the 28 companies quote a flat price for the home — but the ones who do quote hourly are consistent:
- Single cleaner: $60/hour with a 4-hour minimum (The Cleaning Authority Phoenix), $60/hour with a 2-hour minimum (The Cleaning Authority Tucson), $60/hour (HomeHappy, Tucson); Valley’s Best charges $175 for three hours, then $45/hour — about $58/hour.
- Two-person crew: $110/hour (The Maid Connection, Tucson; Valley’s Best at $275 for 2.5 hours), $120/hour (Maid Right), $62 per cleaner per hour with two or three cleaners (Maid Brigade). Carole’s House Cleaning prices two cleaners for three hours, then $40 per additional hour.
- Three-person crew: $495 for three hours, then $135/hour (Valley’s Best).
Single-cleaner hourly rates were $45–$53 in our 2022–2023 quotes, so the hourly rate has risen roughly 15–30% in four years even as flat-rate prices came back down.
The Homeaglow exception. Homeaglow quoted us $22/hour — the lowest rate in the dataset by far. That rate requires a ForeverClean membership ($19 the first month, then $59/month) with a six-month minimum. Cancel inside six months and you owe the difference on the first month’s fee plus the difference between $22 and $36/hour on your first cleaning. Cancelling the membership and cancelling recurring service are two separate cancellations. Homeaglow also sets minimum hours by home size — four hours for a kitchen plus two bedrooms and two baths, six hours for anything larger — so the effective price for our 1,900 sq ft home was $147 before the membership fee. There is no phone number on the site. The membership model has drawn outside scrutiny: in September 2025 the nonprofit Truth in Advertising examined Homeaglow’s discounted first-clean offer and ForeverClean enrollment, citing a 2024 Pennsylvania enforcement action that settled for $30,000, roughly 3,000 FTC complaints, and more than 2,600 Better Business Bureau complaints over three years.
House cleaning cost per square foot in Phoenix, AZ
In Phoenix, a standard clean averaged $0.14 per square foot in 2026; a deep clean averaged $0.19 per square foot. Larger homes cost less per foot.
| Home size | Standard clean | Deep clean |
|---|---|---|
| 1,900 sq ft | $0.14 / sq ft | $0.19 / sq ft |
| 2,500 sq ft | $0.14 / sq ft | $0.18 / sq ft |
| 4,000 sq ft | $0.12 / sq ft | $0.16 / sq ft |
Nobody in our dataset actually prices by the square foot — they price by bedrooms and bathrooms, or by a flat quote — but the pattern is consistent: a 4,000 sq ft home costs about 15% less per square foot to clean than a 1,900 sq ft home, because kitchens and bathrooms take most of the time and big homes have proportionally more open floor.
House cleaning cost per square foot in Tucson, AZ
In Tucson, a standard clean averaged $0.13 per square foot in 2026; a deep clean averaged $0.19 per square foot.
| Home size | Standard clean | Deep clean |
|---|---|---|
| 1,900 sq ft | $0.13 / sq ft | $0.19 / sq ft |
| 2,500 sq ft | $0.12 / sq ft | $0.18 / sq ft |
| 4,000 sq ft | $0.11 / sq ft | $0.16 / sq ft |
Same curve as Phoenix, a penny lower.
How house cleaning prices have changed since 2022
Phoenix cleaning prices rose 46% between October 2022 and October 2024, then fell 10% by September 2026 (standard clean, same ten companies). Deep-clean prices fell 16% over the last two years. Tucson prices have drifted down 4–7% since 2023.
Because our list of companies changes a little each year, the honest way to measure the trend is to compare only the companies we quoted in both years:
| Comparison | Standard clean | Deep clean | Biweekly recurring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix, same 9 companies, Oct 2022 → Oct 2024 | +46% | +56% | — |
| Phoenix, same 10 companies, Oct 2024 → Sep 2026 | −10% | −16% | −8% |
| Phoenix, same 9 companies, Oct 2022 → Sep 2026 | +38% | +25% | — |
| Tucson, same 7 companies, Oct 2023 → Sep 2026 | −4% | −7% | +1% |
Three things stand out.
Deep cleans are where the discounting happened. The deep clean is usually a customer’s first visit, so it’s the price companies cut to win new business. Standard and recurring prices barely moved by comparison.
The recurring rate is the real price. Across four years and both cities, the biweekly per-visit price has stayed in a $165–$210 band. If you want one number for “what does house cleaning cost,” it’s about $175–$195 per visit on a recurring plan.
Prices came down as the market got crowded. Market-intelligence firm Home Service Base counts roughly 3,000 house-cleaning companies in Arizona — about 53 per 100,000 residents — and shows the number of new cleaning-company websites launched in Arizona roughly tripling between 2021 and 2023 before falling sharply in 2025. We can’t prove one caused the other, but the timing matches: entrants surged, prices spiked, then gave some of it back.
What we found when we read the fine print
We audited 28 cleaning company websites for eight consumer protections. The correlation between a company’s price and the number of protections it clearly stated was −0.27 — weakly negative. The cheapest third of companies stated 4.9 of 8 protections on average; the most expensive third stated 3.3.
We expected to find that paying more buys you more: same cleaner every time, a real guarantee, no contract. It doesn’t. The $180 company scored 7 of 8. The two companies quoting $393 and $420 each scored 2 of 8. The most expensive quote in the dataset, $456, came with a 4.
What we scored, using only what each company’s own website says (a “yes” required a clear statement; “not stated” and “unclear” both scored zero):
- States it is insured and bonded
- States cleaners are background-checked
- Promises the same cleaner or team each visit
- Offers a satisfaction guarantee (re-clean or refund)
- States no contract is required
- Shows a phone number on the homepage
- Gives an instant price online
- Sells a standard clean to new customers without requiring a deep clean first
Of 28 Arizona cleaning companies…
- 7 publish an actual cleaning price on their website. The other 21 require a form, a call, or an in-home visit.
- 10 offer an instant online quote. Most of the rest offer a “request a callback” form — which only works if someone calls back.
- 9 promise you’ll get the same cleaner each visit. Two (Dirt Busters, Two Maids & A Mop) explicitly say you won’t. The rest don’t address it. One says it will “try.”
- 22 state they are insured and bonded. Only 5 mention workers’ compensation coverage for their cleaners — the coverage that matters if someone is hurt in your home.
- 3 offer a refund if you’re unhappy. Most guarantees are a re-clean only, and several require you to report the problem within 24 hours.
- 3 require a deep clean before they’ll sell you a standard clean, according to their websites. On the phone, Maid Right and The Maids told us they don’t offer a standard first clean at any price, and HomeHappy said it won’t do one if it decides the home needs a deep clean.
- 7 have binding arbitration clauses in their terms, waiving your right to go to court.
- 3 state that their cleaners are independent contractors rather than employees: Homeaglow, Handy, and Tidy Casa. The two national platforms are also the only two companies with no phone number anywhere on the site. Most of the other 25 don’t say either way — which is worth asking about, since it determines who carries workers’ compensation.
The cheapest sticker price is rarely the price you pay
The lowest quotes in our data almost all came with a commitment underneath:
- Homeaglow’s $147 requires a six-month membership at $59/month; cancel early and the first cleaning is re-billed at full price.
- The Perfect Clean’s $180 standard clean sits alongside a membership model ($150–$293/month). Its FAQ says “no cancellation fee, and no minimum number of visits”; its terms describe a 50% charge for cancellations inside 24 hours and an early-termination fee for membership terms — the site’s own worked example comes to $347.
- Queen of Maids states “no long-term contracts required” on several pages, and a four-month “starter period” with a forfeited discount for leaving early on its memberships page.
- Maid Easy lists a $100 late-cancellation fee, a $50 fee if home conditions aren’t met, a 20% fee for pet-related rescheduling, and a $20 lockbox fee.
- Merry Maids of Tempe quoted us $456 — the highest in Phoenix. Its $200–$400 first-clean discount requires committing to six cleanings; cancel before the sixth and the discount is charged back. Pet hair is an added fee.
- Dirt Busters advertised $100 off the first clean as an “add-on”; making beds is $10 per bed extra and doors and frames are an $80 add-on regardless of home size.
- Homeaglow — see the hourly section above: $22/hour, six-month membership, two separate cancellations.
None of this is hidden, exactly. It’s on page four of the terms.
Companies contradict themselves
Five of the 28 websites say one thing on the FAQ page and another in the terms: cancellation fees (The Perfect Clean), guarantee windows (Two Maids: 24 hours vs. 48; One Click Maids: 7 days vs. 3), contract requirements (Queen of Maids), and, in one case, the year the company was founded (Dirt Busters).
Getting a quote is itself a filter
More than half the companies required a phone call to get any price, and none of those offered a way to book online without first speaking to someone. In our September 2026 round, six of the 28 couldn’t be quoted at all. None of the six publishes a price, and none offers instant online booking — the website path is a “request a callback” form, and the phone path didn’t produce a callback.
| Company | Market | What happened when we called (Sep 9–11, 2026) | Online option on website |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Maid to Order | Tucson | Phone number disconnected | Website did not load fully during our audit |
| Flat Rate Maids | Tucson | Voicemail box full; could not leave a message | Callback request form only |
| Time Maid Cleaning | Tucson | Automated menu; pressing the option for a quote ended the call | Callback request form only |
| This Clean House | Tucson | Left voicemail; no callback | Callback request form; no online booking |
| MaidPro (Phoenix) | Phoenix | Left voicemail; no callback | Callback request form only |
| Pretty In Pink Cleaning | Phoenix | Left voicemail; no callback | Not audited |
These are our experiences on the dates shown, from a single attempt per company as a prospective new customer. A company may have been closed, short-staffed, or between phone providers; we’re reporting what a homeowner calling that week would have encountered, not judging the business.
Put another way: roughly one in five companies on a Phoenix or Tucson search results page could not, that week, be reached for a price by phone or website. If a company won’t tell you its price before it’s in your house — or can’t be reached to ask — that’s information.
Why cheap headline prices come with fine print
Arizona cleaning companies pay roughly $9–$12 per click on Google and about $33 per lead through Google’s Local Services Ads. A company advertising a $147 first clean has spent a large share of that just to get your call.
That’s the economics behind the membership model. A deeply discounted first visit only works if the customer stays, so the discount gets tied to a six-month or four-month commitment with a penalty for leaving. Homeaglow, the #2 paid search advertiser for house cleaning in Arizona , is the clearest example, but the pattern now shows up at local companies too.
Where Tidy Casa fits
We put ourselves in the dataset and scored our own site by the same rules, because a transparency report that leaves out the author isn’t one.
Tidy Casa quoted $346 for a standard clean of the 1,900 sq ft home — 29% above the Phoenix average and 36% above Tucson’s — and $512 for a deep clean, about 40% above both markets’ averages. We scored 8 of 8 on the website audit: insured and bonded, background-checked cleaners, the same team each visit, a re-clean-then-refund guarantee, no contract, phone on the homepage, instant online price, and a standard clean available to new customers. We’re also one of three companies in the dataset whose website says its cleaners are independent contractors rather than employees — and one of five that state workers’ compensation coverage. We’d rather say that plainly than leave it in the 25 companies that don’t say either way.
We’re one of the more expensive options in this data. What that buys, in our case, is on the page: no membership, no commitment, a published price, a refund if we can’t fix it, and a phone that a person answers. Whether that’s worth $75–$90 over the average is your call — and the point of this report is that you should get to make it with the numbers in front of you.
Frequently asked questions
Is it cheaper to pay hourly or flat rate?
For a typical 3/2 home, they converge: a two-person crew at $110–$120/hour finishes a standard clean in about two hours, landing near the $240 flat-rate median. Hourly is better for a small or very tidy home; flat rate protects you if your home takes longer than expected.
Why does the first cleaning cost more?
Most companies price the first visit as a deep clean (about $360 median) to bring the home to their baseline before recurring visits. Some companies require it. Ask before booking whether a standard clean is available as a first visit — in our data, roughly one company in five wouldn’t sell one.
Will I get the same cleaner every time?
Only if the company says so. Nine of 28 websites promise it; two say explicitly they don’t. If it matters to you, ask, and get the answer in writing.
Do I have to sign a contract?
Four of 28 companies require a contract or membership commitment, and at least two more have commitment periods described in their terms but not on their main pages. The tell is a heavily discounted first clean — ask what happens if you cancel after it.
What does a deep clean include?
It varies more than you’d expect. Nearly all include baseboards, ceiling fans, vents, and door frames. Inside the oven and refrigerator are included by some, extra at others, and excluded by a few. Two companies exclude hard-water and grease removal from a “deep” clean. Ask for the checklist.
How much should I tip a house cleaner in Arizona?
Tipping isn’t expected but is common: $10–$30 per visit for a standard clean, or 10–15% for a deep clean. Several companies’ sites list a suggested tip; ours suggests $10–$30.
How often should I have my house cleaned?
Biweekly is the most common recurring plan and the best-priced per visit ($175–$195 average). Weekly plans are typically 10–15% cheaper per visit than biweekly; monthly plans are often priced close to a one-time standard clean.
Are house cleaners in Arizona insured?
22 of 28 companies state they are insured and bonded. Only 5 mention workers’ compensation. Ask specifically about workers’ comp, and whether cleaners are employees or contractors — together they determine who is responsible if a cleaner is injured in your home.
About this data
Pricing: Tidy Casa staff requested quotes by phone or online from each company as a new customer, for a 1,900 sq ft (3 bed / 2 bath), 2,500 sq ft, and 4,000 sq ft home, for a one-time standard clean, a deep clean, and a biweekly recurring plan. Phoenix quotes: October 2022, October 2023, October 2024, September 2026. Tucson quotes: October 2023, October 2024, September 2026. Averages exclude Tidy Casa. Companies that could not be quoted are listed with blank cells rather than dropped. Where a company sells no standard clean, its required first deep-clean price is shown in the standard-clean column and noted. MaidPro Phoenix did not return our call; its row uses the MaidPro Tucson quote, since the franchise prices by the same formula. Two quotes were removed as probable recording errors: a 2022 deep-clean price below the same company’s standard price, and a 2026 biweekly price of $59 that appears to be a typo.
Website audit: Conducted September 7–8, 2026. For each company we read the homepage and up to 12 internal pages (FAQ, pricing, services, terms, guarantee, contact) and recorded what the site states for 30 fields. A protection was scored “yes” only when clearly stated; “not stated” and “unclear” both scored zero. Every “yes” and every “no” is backed by a verbatim quote and URL in the Evidence tab of the dataset. The audit measures what a company says on its website as of that date, not the service it delivers. Three sites (A Maid to Order, Maid Right, The Cleaning Authority Tucson) did not load fully and are scored on what was reachable.
Market data: Home Service Base, “House Cleaning Industry in Arizona,” accessed September 2026 — company counts, advertising costs, new-website counts. U.S. Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics for new employer firms in Arizona’s NAICS Sector 56 (the finest industry detail Census publishes at the state level; includes janitorial services alongside staffing, landscaping, security and waste management, and excludes owner-operated businesses with no employees).
Download: Full dataset (.xlsx) · All quotes 2022–2026 (.csv) · Website audit with evidence (.xlsx)
This report is free to cite and reproduce with attribution to Tidy Casa and a link to this page. Corrections: support@tidycasa.com. We’ll update the data annually.
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