Calibration cost

Calibration Price Index

Last updated 2026-10-28

Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 6 of 35 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 6 of the 35 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 29 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 6 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 70 figures, never sentences; 44 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): per lab its own published price per instrument type (torque, pressure, electrical testers, multimeters, temperature, mass and scales, dimensional, gas detection, acoustic) and per certificate class (traceable versus UKAS), ex VAT, with collection and on-site charges kept apart; per instrument type the median, quartiles and range, the UKAS premium over traceable, and the share of labs that publish versus quote

• The median published figure is £48 across 70 readings, with the middle half between £32 and £70. (Calibration Price Index: every row, with its source)
• 6 of 35 providers read publish a price at all; 29 publish none. (Calibration Price Index: every row, with its source)
• The cheapest published figure is £5, by PASS / calibrate.co.uk price list. (PASS / calibrate.co.uk price list)
• The dearest published figure is £146.80, by Klipspringer: UKAS temperature calibration. (Klipspringer: UKAS temperature calibration)