Where our repair prices come from

Every price on this site is hand-maintained and traceable to a source. This page is the whole log — including the parts we could not verify, which is usually the more useful half.

256 priced repairs · 32 devices · 11 faults · last full verification pass 2026-09-01

Confidence levels

Every row carries one of three levels, and we show it on the page the price appears on. The current split across 256 priced repairs: 34 high, 222 medium, 0 low.

high: The manufacturer's official price was read live off their own pricing tool, on the date noted. The independent-shop and DIY figures on these rows are still cross-checked from multiple sources — it is the headline official number that is primary.
medium: Researched and cross-checked against multiple secondary sources, and consistent with the manufacturer's known pricing tiers, but not confirmed against a live primary page — usually because no such page exists.
low: A plausible placeholder, not researched. We do not ship these. As of the date above, no row on this site carries this level.

What we verified, brand by brand

Manufacturers differ enormously in what they publish. Apple posts flat out-of-warranty prices; most others do not publish any per-fault price at all. That is the single biggest constraint on how confident these numbers can be.

Apple — iPhone 12, 13, 14, 15

Primary source

Official out-of-warranty prices were read live off Apple's own interactive repair estimator on 1 September 2026, by driving the device and model dropdowns rather than reading a cached page. Apple itemises only four repairs — battery, back glass, rear camera and screen. Everything else is billed as one flat “Other damage” fee.

See the full Apple table →

Apple — Mac laptops

Secondary source

Apple's Mac estimator itemises battery service only — every other Mac fault returns “Other damage — we'll need to inspect your product” with no published number. We checked it again during the September pass, but no fresh number carried over for battery either: the figure here is the same corroborated estimate from our July research, not a live September read. Every Mac figure on this site, battery included, is a cross-checked estimate — no Mac row reaches high.

Samsung — Galaxy S21, S23

Partial source

Screen prices ($174 for both) were read live off Samsung's published cracked-screen repair table on 1 September 2026, using the front-glass-only tier rather than the bundled module replacement. No Samsung page publishes per-fault pricing for anything else — the repair flow requires signing in with a device IMEI — so those rows are cross-checked estimates.

Google — Pixel

Secondary source

We checked, and Google publishes no flat out-of-warranty per-fault pricing: the repair store redirects to a sign-in wall and Pixel repairs route through a partner whose prices are gated behind a postcode. One live figure did come through — the genuine Pixel 8 battery kit at $49.99 from iFixit. Everything else is cross-checked from third-party chain pricing.

Dell, Lenovo, HP, OnePlus, Nothing, Framework

Secondary source

Dell and Lenovo were checked directly and confirmed to publish no flat out-of-warranty per-fault prices — both route through custom depot quotes. We did not find published per-fault pricing for HP, OnePlus, Nothing or Framework either, though we did not check each of those as directly; their figures are modeled the same way — from repair-chain pricing, parts retailers and model-specific repair guides, scaled against the confirmed Apple and Samsung tiers for the same fault classes.

What we have not verified

Stating this plainly is the point of the page. Three things are open:

Refurbished prices and trade-in values. These are estimates — anchored to marketplace listing and buyback pricing that moves constantly, not confirmed against a live buyback quote. They were last set in July 2026 and were not re-checked in the September pricing pass.
Most of the 222 medium-confidence rows have nothing further to promote from. Samsung, Google, Lenovo and Dell were checked directly and simply do not publish flat out-of-warranty per-fault pricing; HP, OnePlus, Nothing and Framework are priced the same secondary-sourced way. For those, moving to high needs a real repair quote captured for a real device, not another search. The iPhone 12/13/14/15 battery and back-glass rows were the one exception still open as of the September pass — that gap closed on 2026-09-07, when the live Apple reading (see above) was reconciled into the price table and those rows were promoted to high. Their independentUSD and diyPartsUSD figures are still secondary-sourced, same as every other high row.
Software-support end dates are estimates. They follow each manufacturer's stated update policy applied to the device's release date. Where a maker has not committed to a policy, the figure is our read of their track record.

How a price gets verified

Open the manufacturer's repair page, or a live marketplace listing for refurbished, trade-in and DIY parts.
Update the low–high range to match what the page actually shows.
Raise the confidence level and record the source and the date it was read.

Found a price that does not match a real quote you were given? That is the single most useful thing you can tell us — use the feedback button on any verdict.