What house cleaning actually costs in Toronto in 2026
Most answers to this question are a range so wide it tells you nothing. Here are our actual numbers, what four other Toronto companies charge for the same home, and the six things that move the figure.
Search this question and you get "$150 to $600". That range is technically true and practically useless, because it spans a studio condo and a five-bedroom house. The number you personally will pay is set by about six things, and once you know them you can predict it within a few dollars.
Everything below is what we charge, published in full. We are one company in one market, so treat it as a worked example rather than a survey. Where the wider Toronto market sits, we say so and say it is approximate.
Cost by home size
These are standard cleans at our published flat rates. They are generated from the same pricing model the calculator uses, so they cannot drift out of date.
| Home | One time | Every 2 weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Studio / 1 bed condo | $169 | $144 |
| 2 bed / 1 bath condo | $191 | $162 |
| 2 bed / 2 bath condo | $247 | $210 |
| 3 bed semi-detached | $329 | $280 |
| 3 bed detached | $363 | $308 |
| 4 bed detached | $506 | $430 |
| 5 bed large home | $617 | $525 |
Standard cleans, at our published flat rates. Generated from the live pricing model.
A deep clean on the same home runs about half again as much, and a move-out clean about two thirds again. Both are broken out below.
Cost by service type
The same home, priced four ways. Every Toronto company works from a base like this and applies a multiplier, so once you know the standard price you can predict the rest.
| Type of clean | Price | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Standard clean | $191 | Your regular top-to-bottom clean. |
| Deep clean | $282 | Everything in a standard clean plus baseboards, door frames, inside the microwave, hard-water buildup and the grime that a regular clean does not reach. |
| Move in / move out | $315 | Empty-home clean, inside every cupboard and closet, appliances in and out. |
| Post-renovation | $363 | Construction dust removal, multi-pass. |
A two bedroom, one bathroom home under 1,000 sq ft, cleaned once.
Post-renovation is the heaviest because construction dust keeps resettling for days, so it needs more than one pass. If someone quotes you a standard clean after a reno, they have not seen a reno.
What four other Toronto companies charge
Published prices for the same home, a two bedroom one bathroom under 1,000 square feet, cleaned once. This is the comparison nobody in the industry publishes, so here it is.
The most useful column turned out to be the second one. Three of the four will not tell you a price until you have handed over your postcode and your details.
| Company | Quoted | Recurring discount |
|---|---|---|
| Purple Sky Cleaning | $191 | 10 / 15 / 20% |
| Master Maid | $176 | 0% |
| Hellamaid | Not published | 10 / 15 / 20% |
| Maid4Condos | Not published | Not published |
| AspenClean | Not published | Not published |
A two bedroom, one bathroom home under 1,000 sq ft, one-off standard clean. Other companies' figures checked 10 August 2026 and rounded; ours is generated from the calculator on this site. Most Toronto quotes are shown before 13 percent HST is added, so ask each company which side of tax their figure is on before you compare two of them. Prices move, so treat theirs as indicative and confirm before you buy.
Two honest notes. Most of these figures are quoted before 13 percent HST is added, so check which side of tax any quote is on before you compare two numbers. And we are not the cheapest cleaner in Toronto. An independent cleaner working alone will beat all five of us on price, because there is no company behind them, which is the trade you are making.
Hourly vs flat rates
Toronto cleaners quote one of two ways, and the difference matters more than the headline number.
Hourly is common at roughly $35 to $65 per cleaner per hour across the market, with most established companies sitting in the middle of that. It sounds transparent. The catch is that you are buying time, not a finished home, so the risk of a slow day sits with you. A three-hour minimum at $59 is $177 whether or not the kitchen got finished.
Flat rate quotes the home, not the clock. We price on bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage and the type of clean, and that price holds whether the visit takes two hours or five. If a home turns out to be worse than described we say so before we start rather than quietly running the meter.
- Hourly suits odd one-off jobs where nobody can predict the scope.
- Flat rate suits recurring cleans, where you want the same number every time and no surprises.
- Be careful comparing the two. An hourly quote is not cheaper because the number is smaller, it is just unfinished.
What an hour of cleaning actually buys
If you are comparing an hourly quote against a flat one, this is the conversion you need. Ask how many hours they are budgeting for your home, multiply, and then check it against the table.
The honest answer to "is two hours a week enough" is that it depends entirely on the size of the home. Two hours in a one bedroom condo is a proper clean. Two hours in a three bedroom house is a tidy-up with the bathrooms rushed.
| Time on site | What that realistically covers |
|---|---|
| 2 hours | A one bedroom condo, kept up. Kitchen, one bathroom, floors, surfaces. |
| 3 hours | A two bedroom. Both bathrooms properly, kitchen including the hob, all floors, dusting. |
| 4 to 5 hours | A three bedroom standard clean, or a small deep clean. |
| 6 to 8 hours | A deep clean on a three bedroom, or a move-out on a condo. Often two cleaners. |
| A full day, two cleaners | Move-out or post-renovation on a house. Inside every cupboard. |
Our prices are flat, so these are for translating an hourly quote into something comparable, not what we bill.
One thing worth knowing: a cleaner working alone in a familiar home is faster than the same hours split across two people on a first visit. Time is not a straight proxy for how clean your home ends up, which is the core problem with buying it by the hour.
Key factors that change the price
In rough order of how much they matter:
- Bathrooms. The single biggest driver per unit. A bathroom takes longer than a bedroom and is the room a clean gets judged on. Each full bathroom adds meaningfully more than each bedroom.
- Bedrooms. Straightforward and roughly linear.
- Square footage. Floors, and the walking between things. Two homes with identical bed and bath counts price differently if one is 900 square feet and the other is 2,400.
- Type of clean. Standard, deep, move-out and post-renovation are progressively heavier and priced as multipliers of the same base.
- Frequency. Recurring work is cheaper to deliver because the home never gets far from clean. That saving is passed on rather than pocketed.
- Condition. Not a line item, but honest: a home that has not been properly cleaned in a year needs a deep clean first. Anyone who quotes a standard clean for that is either going to rush it or ask for more money on the day.
Why the first clean often costs more
This surprises people, so it is worth being direct about it. If a home has not had a thorough clean recently, the first visit is a deep clean and priced as one. After that, recurring visits are standard cleans at the standard rate.
It is not an upsell, it is arithmetic. Baseboards, shower glass buildup, the tops of door frames and the inside of the microwave take hours the first time and minutes thereafter. Companies that skip this step either take the money and do a surface clean, or come back asking for more once they are inside. We would rather say it upfront.
Recurring discounts, with the real maths
Discounts for recurring cleans are close to universal in Toronto, usually 10 to 20 percent. Ours:
| Schedule | Per clean | Discount | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly | $270 | 18% | $14,040 |
| Every 2 weeks | $280 | 15% | $7,280 |
| Monthly | $296 | 10% | $3,552 |
| One time | $329 | 0% | - |
Worked on a 3 bed semi-detached.
The number worth looking at is not the percentage, it is the annual total. Every two weeks at a 15 percent discount is 26 cleans a year. Monthly at 10 percent is 12. The per-visit price is lower on the biweekly plan and you get more than twice as many visits, so compare what you actually spend across a year rather than what you spend on Tuesday.
What is usually not included
Almost every Toronto cleaner treats the following as extras rather than part of a standard clean. They are genuinely additional work, not padding, but you should know they are separate before you compare two quotes.
| Add-on | Price |
|---|---|
| Inside the oven | $35 |
| Inside the fridge | $35 |
| Interior windows | $45 |
| Inside cabinets | $45 |
| Laundry (wash + fold) | $30 |
| Balcony or patio | $30 |
| Garage sweep-out | $60 |
| Heavy pet hair | $25 |
Flat, per visit. Tick them at booking.
Things that are commonly excluded entirely, by us and by most others: exterior windows, anything requiring a ladder beyond a two-step, mould remediation, pest issues, biohazards, and moving heavy furniture. If a quote seems unusually low, check whether it includes the inside of the oven and the fridge, because those two are the most frequent silent exclusions.
How to compare two quotes fairly
A checklist that takes two minutes and saves the usual arguments:
- Is it hourly or flat? If hourly, ask for an honest estimate of hours for your home, then multiply.
- Is tax included, or added at checkout?
- Is the first clean priced differently from subsequent ones?
- Are oven, fridge and interior windows in or out?
- Are supplies and equipment included, or do you provide them?
- Do they keep notes on your home, or does each visit start from scratch? This is the difference between a clean that gets better over time and one that starts from zero.
- What happens if something is missed? Get the remedy in writing, not the sentiment.
Where this comes from
So you can check it rather than take our word for it. Each of these was read on 10 August 2026.
- Master Maid, published price list, the only one of the four with rates on the page
- Hellamaid, recurring discounts published, prices behind an estimator
- Maid4Condos, quote form only
- AspenClean Toronto, quote or call
- Squeaky Cleaning, Toronto market ranges, for the wider hourly and flat-rate ranges quoted here
Questions people ask about this
How much does house cleaning cost in Toronto per hour?
Roughly $35 to $65 per cleaner per hour across the market, with most established companies near the middle. Independent cleaners working alone often sit below that, around $25 to $45. We quote flat rates by home instead, so the price does not change if the visit runs long.
How much do 2 hours of cleaning cost?
At Toronto agency rates, roughly $70 to $130 for one cleaner, and most companies have a two or three hour minimum. Two hours is a proper clean in a one bedroom condo. In a three bedroom house it is a tidy-up with the bathrooms rushed, so check what the hours are being spent on before you buy them.
What will a cleaner do in 3 hours?
In a two bedroom home: both bathrooms properly, the kitchen including the hob and sink, all floors vacuumed and washed, surfaces dusted. Not baseboards, not inside the oven, not hard-water buildup. Those belong to a deep clean and take hours the first time.
Is 2 hours a week enough for a cleaner?
For a one bedroom condo, comfortably. For anything with two or more bathrooms, no. Bathrooms are the slowest rooms in any home and the ones a clean gets judged on, so count bathrooms rather than square footage when you are deciding how much time to buy.
How much do house cleaners charge in Ontario?
Outside Toronto the same work is generally 10 to 25 percent cheaper, mostly because wages and travel are. The structure is identical: hourly at roughly $30 to $60 per cleaner, or flat rates by home. Toronto sits at the top of the provincial range, along with Ottawa.
How much should a cleaner charge for a deep clean?
About half again as much as a standard clean of the same home. Ours works out at $249 for a one bedroom and $454 for a three bedroom. If a deep clean is quoted at the same price as a standard one, it is a standard one.
How much is house cleaning per month in Toronto?
Every two weeks on a two bedroom is about $351 a month at our rates, and weekly is about $680. Monthly visits are about $172. Compare the monthly total rather than the per-visit price, because the cheaper per-visit schedules are the frequent ones.
What is the 20 minute rule in cleaning?
A tidying habit, not a pricing rule: set a timer for twenty minutes and deal with whatever is most visible. It keeps a home from sliding, which genuinely lowers what a professional clean costs you, because a home in good condition needs a standard clean rather than a deep one.
Is a cleaning service worth it for a small condo?
For a one bedroom condo the flat rate is our minimum, and the visit is short. Whether that is worth it depends on what your own time is worth to you, but small units are the most predictable and the cheapest thing we clean.
Do I tip house cleaners in Toronto?
It is not expected and our prices are not set on the assumption of it. People often tip after a first deep clean or at the end of the year. Neither is required and nothing changes if you do not.
Why do some Toronto cleaning quotes look so much cheaper?
Usually one of four reasons: the quote is hourly rather than for a finished home, tax is added at checkout, it excludes oven and fridge, or it assumes a home already in good condition. Compare the six points in the checklist above and the gap normally disappears.
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