How much does LeafFilter cost?

The number, and the number it replaced

These two bands do not touch. The 2026 average is $2.72 above the top of the 2023 range, by our subtraction.

Three years and two methods separate them. This Old House asked 1,000 homeowners what they actually paid. Bob Vila reproduced aggregated contractor pricing from Angi and HomeAdvisor. Our reading, marked as ours: what people pay a salesperson and what a price aggregator lists are different quantities, and the gap here is larger than three years of inflation alone would explain. Neither source comments on the other.

What LeafFilter costs by house size

From the This Old House survey, with their nationwide gutter guard average for comparison:

LeafFilter runs about $402 above the national average on the 200-foot house, a premium of roughly 5 percent. Both figures are theirs; the subtraction is ours. Among the five brands This Old House surveyed, only Leafguard came in cheaper, at $39.59 per foot, and that price includes a whole new gutter system rather than covers.

One figure worth holding on to. This Old House also reports that nearly 89 percent of their LeafFilter respondents paid between $4,000 and $8,000. The 200-foot benchmark, $8,344, is above that band. Our reading, marked as ours: that strongly suggests most jobs in their survey were on houses smaller than the 200-foot benchmark, which is worth knowing before you treat $8,344 as the normal price rather than the price for a specifically average-sized house.

The comparison that puts it in perspective

This Old House set LeafFilter against do-it-yourself guards, pricing 200 linear feet of each from Amazon:

Raptor is the same material class as LeafFilter, stainless steel micro-mesh. For the same 200 feet, LeafFilter costs almost eleven times as much ($8,344 against $775, our division).

This is not a like-for-like comparison, and we will not pretend it is. The LeafFilter figure includes professional installation, a limited lifetime warranty and a transferable guarantee. The Raptor figure is a roll of mesh on your doorstep with your own Saturday attached. This Old House's own testing found Raptor blocked around 85 percent of debris and may need more maintenance than LeafFilter.

What the comparison does tell you is where the money goes. On a $8,344 job, the mesh itself is a small fraction of it. The rest is labor, warranty, overhead and sales. This Old House reports that over half of their LeafFilter respondents paid $76 an hour or more in labor.

A note on who is telling you this

Rules we try to keep: when a source has a commercial interest in the number it publishes, we say so.

This Old House's gutter guard pages carry an advertiser disclosure stating that the listings shown are from companies from which the site receives compensation, which may affect how and in what order products appear. LeafFilter appears on those pages as "Best Overall" with a quote button and a discount banner.

The same publisher, on its LeafFilter cost page, writes that its review of customer feedback "suggests aggressive sales tactics and inflated prices."

We think both things are worth knowing at once. The survey figures are the most specific LeafFilter pricing published anywhere, because, as This Old House notes on its Leafguard page, neither LeafFilter nor Leafguard publishes prices on its own website. They are also published by a site that earns money when you click through. Use the number; know where it comes from.

What to do with a LeafFilter quote

1. Get the linear footage in writing. Everything above is per foot. A quote without a footage figure cannot be compared with anything.
2. Divide. Your quoted total divided by your footage is your per-foot price. Against $41.72 you now know whether you are being quoted high or low.
3. Price the alternative honestly. The real comparison is not LeafFilter against a roll of Raptor. It is LeafFilter against a local contractor fitting standard guards, which our gutter guard page puts at $1,885 to $3,430 for a whole system.
4. Check the gutters first. Guards go on top of what you already have. If the gutters underneath are failing, you are looking at replacement before anything else.

Our conclusion, marked as ours: LeafFilter is not an outlier within its own market segment, it is the second cheapest of the five surveyed brands. The decision is not LeafFilter against its competitors but whether the branded-installer segment is worth two and a half to four and a half times the contractor-fitted alternative (our division of $8,344 by Fixr's $3,430 and $1,885). That depends on the warranty and on how much you value never going up a ladder again, and neither source makes that call for you.