Cost

What it costs, from the people who charge it

We read the pages basement window installers publish, keep only what we can tie to a specific job, and show you where every number came from. No averages, no sponsored order, and no estimate of your particular basement.

The window, bought direct

$500–$1,000

Manufacturer list price across 5 models, 3 of them code-compliant for egress.

See which models clear egress code

The job, done by a contractor

$2,500–$20,000

24 prices published by 9 installers across 7 states, each one named and dated.

See every published price

Two questions, two pages

Which of the two jobs is yours?

The gap between them is most of the bill. One cuts concrete, the other drops a unit into an opening that already exists.

Egress window cost

Every price we could source, with the company that charges it and the page it came from.

Basement window replacement cost

Why the question splits in two, and which half your job is on.

What the collection actually holds

Small on purpose, and every line of it traceable.

We would rather show you two dozen prices you can click through to than a national average nobody can check. Here is the whole of it, today.

24
installed prices

Each one read off a page the company publishes itself, and dated.

9
companies

Named on the page, linked, and never paid to appear.

7
states

CO, IA, IN, MN, OH, PA, RI. Prices move with the market, so this matters.

See every company and what it publishes

How we get these numbers

Published, not estimated.

Every amount goes through three independent checks before it is allowed on the site, and we throw out far more than we keep. We also separate the price of a window from the price of a job: mixing the two produces a range that describes nothing.

Companies that never answer us stay listed with whatever they publish publicly, and giving us prices does not move anyone up a page.

Which side am I on?

A large basement window looking out onto trees at ground level
Photo: The Great Egress Co.
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