Ceramic Coating
Ceramic coating being spread across a car's black hood with a suede applicator block
3,164 prices · 4,237 installers · nobody paid to be here

We read 552 shops' price lists so you don't have to

Almost nobody in this trade puts a number on a website. The ones who do are worth finding, and we've been writing down what they charge.

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3,164
prices, every one read off a shop's own site
4,237
installers across 288 cities, none of whom paid to be here
$0
what it costs a shop to rank higher, because that isn't for sale

Why trust a number you found online

You shouldn't, mostly. Most pages about what a coating costs are written by someone who wants to sell you one, or by someone who has never priced one and is guessing in round hundreds.

Everything here comes from somewhere different: the price list a shop published on its own website, where it committed to the number in public. When we say a five-year coating runs $1,200 in the middle of the market, that's 698 businesses saying so, not us estimating.

Where too few shops publish a figure to mean anything, the space stays empty and we say why, which is the other half of being able to trust the ones that are filled in.

How we rank shops

Work by four of the 552 shops on this site that publish their pricing.

What to work out before you book

Four things worth knowing before you hand over a car and four figures.

Coatings

What a coating really costs

Price follows the durability tier and almost nothing else. Every tier, what shops charge, and the per-year figure none of them print.

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Whether you want film instead

Film stops stone chips. A coating can't. It's the more expensive answer and sometimes it's the right one.

Read this Correction

The step people skip

Coat swirled paint and you've sealed the swirls in for years. Most of the money in a good job goes here.

Read this Aftercare

Not ruining the one you have

Most coatings don't fail. They get stripped by the wrong soap or buried under the wrong wash.

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One thing worth knowing now

The cheapest coating is usually the expensive one

Shops sell coatings in durability tiers and the sticker climbs with the tier. Divide by the years each tier is sold on and it inverts.

See every tier priced out
1 year
$600/yr
2 year
$375/yr
3–4 year
$271/yr
5–7 year
$200/yr
8+ year
$161/yr

Get a real number for your car

Published rates tell you whether a quote is fair. They can't tell you what yours will be, because that depends on the car, the state of the paint and what the shop finds when they look at it. Tell us what you've got and we'll put it in front of shops that do this work.

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Get a real number for your vehicle

Published rates are a range. What you pay comes down to size, paint condition and how much correction the finish needs first. Tell us the car and we will put it in front of shops that publish their pricing.

Get quotes for my carI already have a coating

Know what the market is actually charging

Once a month, read off the price lists of the 552 shops that publish one. Whether you are about to buy or about to quote, it is the same data from opposite sides.

For people about to spend four figures on paint, and wanting to spend it once.

  • What shops are actually chargingWhen the published price bands move in your state, and by how much. You will know whether a quote is normal before you are sitting in the office.
  • What a quote should spell outThe lines that separate a real quote from a number: correction stages, the warranty terms, what happens if it fails.
  • Aftercare that changes the outcomeThe few things that decide whether a coating reaches its term, and the ordinary products that quietly end it early.

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