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Vet prices

How we collect vet prices

The prices on Vet Verified come from the price lists practices publish on their own websites. Here is how we gather and check them, and what the figures in our cost guides mean.

See the cost guides

From a practice's website to our pages

We do not use quotes or prices reported by pet owners. Prices come from the lists practices publish, and from corrections practices send us.

  1. 01

    We find the practice's price list

    We look for the page where each practice publishes its prices, on its own website or its group's.

  2. 02

    We read it every day

    We check each price page daily, so a change a practice makes usually shows here within a few days.

  3. 03

    We match each price to a standard service

    Software reads each line and matches it to a standard service, such as a dog spay or an annual booster. It also records details that change the price, such as a dog's weight band or what the price includes.

  4. 04

    We check before we publish

    Automated checks, and a second independent review of a sample of prices, catch lines we cannot read with confidence. We leave those out rather than guess.

What the figures mean

These terms appear in our cost guides and in the prices on practice pages.

Listed price.
The price a practice publishes. It is not a quote: your bill depends on your pet, the treatment it needs and anything extra, so ask the practice before you book.
From prices and ranges.
Where a practice gives a starting price ("from £300") or a range ("£300 to £450"), we show it as the practice states it. When we compare practices or work out a typical price, we use the lower amount.
Typical price.
The median: half of price lists are below it and half above. A practice's price for a service is the lowest it lists, so a practice that prices by weight counts at its smallest band.
Middle half.
The range from the 25th to the 75th percentile: a quarter of price lists are cheaper than it and a quarter are dearer.
Price lists, not branches.
Branches that share one price page count once, by their middle price, so a large group cannot set the typical price on its own.
Dog sizes.
Sizes follow standard weight bands: small up to 10 kg, medium 10–25 kg, large 25–40 kg, extra large 40–60 kg and giant 60 kg and over. A price counts towards a size when its weight band spans that size, allowing for bands written in whole kilograms, such as 11–25 kg for medium.
Minimum sample.
We publish a cost guide only when at least 100 practices, across at least 20 price lists, give a price. A figure for a dog size, a place or a type of practice needs at least 10 price lists; with fewer, we leave it out.

No paid rankings

Practices cannot pay to change their prices, how they compare or the figures in our cost guides. A guide includes every practice whose price list we can read, whether or not it uses Vet Verified.

Correcting a price

Prices change, and software can misread a page.

If a price is wrong or out of date, tell us through our contact page. Include the practice's name, the price that needs changing and where the correct price is published. Our team checks each request before changing a price.

If you work at a practice, claim your listing to manage your profile and keep its details up to date.

Compare what vets charge

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