About AirconPrices

AirconPrices is an independent Australian price database for air conditioning. We publish what installation actually costs across 89 cities and 1,033 suburbs, and we pass homeowners who want quotes to licensed local installers. We do not sell, supply or install air conditioning ourselves.

How we make money

Installers pay us a fee when we pass them a quote request. Homeowners pay nothing, and no part of what you eventually pay an installer comes back to us as a commission on the job.

That model has one obvious risk and we would rather name it than let you find it: a site paid per lead has an incentive to make every reader submit a form. So the rule we hold is that the information has to stand on its own whether you enquire or not. Every price range, sizing figure and rebate amount on this site is published in full, on the page, with its source — not gated behind a form, not softened to make quoting feel more urgent than it is. If a repair is worth doing rather than a replacement, our pages say so, even though replacements are worth more to us.

What installers cannot buy

• Their way into the price data. Published ranges come from the market, not from what an installer would like the market to look like.
• A better position. There is no paid placement, no promoted tier, and no ranking that money moves.
• A quieter review. Where we publish feedback, we publish it as given.
• Exclusivity over a suburb. Nobody owns a postcode here.

Where the numbers come from

Prices are compiled estimates reviewed monthly and published as ranges, because a single number is marketing. Suburb pages go further and compute sizing and running costs from that suburb's own Bureau of Meteorology climate record, its electricity network's tariffs and its Census housing mix, rather than repeating a metro average that fits almost nobody. The full pipeline, including the things we refuse to publish, is set out in our methodology.

What we will not publish

We have left real pages unbuilt over this. We do not publish decoder tables a manufacturer has never documented, repair prices for which no Australian source exists, or sizing rules imported from another country's climate. Where we are estimating rather than measuring, the page says "estimate" and shows what it was derived from. Where a figure would be useful and we cannot stand it up, we leave it out and say why.

Tell us when we are wrong

Prices move, rebate schemes change mid-year, and a figure that was right in August is not automatically right in March. If a quote you received sits well outside a range we publish, that is useful to us and it is the main way this dataset gets corrected. Send it through and we will check it against the market before the next monthly review.

AirconPrices is published in Australia. Prices reviewed August 2026.