Windshield Price Index

The median lowest shop quote for a windshield replacement is $341, across 85 live lookups (August 18, 2026 to November 10, 2026). In 99% of lookups with a market price to compare, the cheapest local shop came in below the market average.

Written by Todd Whittington, Editor·Last reviewed November 12, 2026

As of November 12, 2026.

By vehicle class

Windshield replacement quotes by vehicle class
Vehicle class	Lookups	Median lowest quote	Middle half	Median market average	Lowest quote beat the average
SUV	48	$326	$275–$343	$518	100%
Sedan	22	$352	$259–$399	$483	100%
Luxury or EV	11	$537	$494–$537	$603	100%

2 vehicle classs are hidden because they have fewer than 5 lookups.

By state

Windshield replacement quotes by state
State	Lookups	Median lowest quote	Middle half	Median market average	Lowest quote beat the average
Arizona	44	$310	$261–$397	$483	98%
Ohio	29	$352	$340–$361	$603	100%
California	7	$537	$537–$537	—	—

3 states are hidden because they have fewer than 5 lookups.

"Middle half" is the range from the 25th to the 75th percentile: half of all lowest quotes fell inside it. "Lowest quote beat the average" counts only lookups where a market average came back.

Methodology

What a lookup is: One visitor using our windshield calculator with a ZIP code and a vehicle. We ask Glass.net's shop network for live quotes from local shops and keep the lowest one. Only windshield lookups that returned a quote count.
Market average: Safelite's published market band (low, average, high) for that vehicle's exact windshield in that ZIP code. We report the median of its average.
What the prices include: Retail quotes for the glass and installation. They don't include camera re-aim (ADAS recalibration), which many newer cars need after a new windshield and which often adds $150 to $600; see our re-aim cost guide.
Vehicle class: Sorted by make and model into sedan, SUV, pickup, minivan, or luxury or EV (any Tesla, BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus and similar). Anything we can't place is "other".
What we leave out: Any group with fewer than 5 lookups is hidden. We drop September 3, 2026, the day we ran our own test lookups, and any session that made more than 10 lookups in a day.
Who's in the sample: The cars and places our visitors looked up, not a random survey. States with more visitors count for more.
Download: windshield-price-index.csv (aggregates only: one row for the US, each vehicle class and each state shown above).
License: Free to quote and cite with attribution to Should I Claim It? and a link to this page. That covers the summary figures on this page and in the CSV. The shop quotes behind them come from Glass.net's network and aren't ours to license, so this dataset isn't licensed for resale or for republishing in full.

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