Six factors set the price of a house cleaning: the type of clean, the home’s size in bedrooms and bathrooms, its condition, how often you book, which part of Miami you are in, and the add-ons you include. They do not weigh the same — and almost nobody tells you the order. Measured against JAS’s published prices: service type first, add-ons last.
The order is the useful part. National cost guides list the factors and stop there, because ranking them takes published prices to rank against — and their advertisers publish none. Every figure below is published, and each links to the page that owns it.
1. The type of clean — the widest published spread
The same house, cleaned two different ways, produces the widest gap any single factor can. A Standard residential clean starts at $225 — a 28-item checklist over a 2–3 hour visit with a 2-person team — while a deep clean runs $375 to $595 on its 42-item checklist. That is $150 between the two published starting prices — subtraction on two published rows, not a quote — before any other factor touches the number.
So when two quotes for your house land far apart, the first thing to check is not size or area — it is whether they describe the same clean.
2. Size — but watch what it actually moves
Size is the factor everyone expects, and it works differently per service — you can read it straight off the two published tables. On the Standard table, everything from a studio to a 3-bed, 2-bath house starts at $225; what rises is the visit, from 2 hours to 3–4 (a 4-bed+, 3-bath home is listed at $225+ across 4–5 hours). On the deep-clean ladder the price itself climbs every rung: $375 for 1 bed and 1 bath up to $595 for 3 and 3 — $220 end to end, subtracting the two published rows.
The reason is where the labor lives. As the residential page itself puts it: bedroom and bathroom count sets the baseline, because bathrooms and the kitchen carry most of the work. That is why the tables never ask for square footage — it is the wrong variable.
3. Condition — and in Miami, condition has a climate
Condition matters on the first visit: if it has been months since the last professional clean, that first appointment runs longer — the reset that makes every visit after it faster. In Miami that clock runs fast: humidity, salt air and year-round pollen lay down film and grit at a pace drier climates never see, and the fine dust of hurricane season — June through November — is part of the local reset calendar. None of that changes a published table; it changes how soon a home moves from “maintenance” to “reset”.
Condition is also the one factor with a written rule behind it. The Terms put it this way: quotes reflect what you told us about the property, and if the scope on arrival is materially different — for example, additional rooms or heavy build-up — we re-quote with you before doing extra work, never silently.
“Two quotes for the same house are almost never arguing about the house. They’re arguing about which clean is being bought.”
4. Frequency — the only factor that moves the price down
Weekly HomeCare saves 15%; every two weeks saves 10%; every four weeks uses the Standard rate — for customers planning at least 3 cleanings, as the services package cards publish it. The mechanics are honest: recurring visits stay shorter because nothing has time to build up, which is why recurring plans are discounted against one-off visits.
5. Which part of Miami you are in
There is a published area adjustment: from the base rate up to 20%, applied only on approved operational ZIP codes — never inferred from income, neighborhood, or a similar-looking ZIP. The band-by-band list lives in our Miami house cleaning cost guide, which owns those numbers; we link it rather than reprint it.
6. Add-ons — the smallest numbers, the biggest surprises
The add-ons are the smallest figures on the site: empty refrigerator $65, refrigerator with food $85, inside oven $65, interior windows from $10 per pane. They surprise people anyway — not because of their size, but because many companies leave them unpublished until the invoice. Details of the home add time the same way: pets that shed, and building logistics — gated communities, condo elevators, front-desk check-in. Say them up front and the quote reflects reality.
Why two quotes for the same house disagree
Because a quote prices a scope, not a house. Two companies looking at the same 3-bed, 2-bath home can be pricing different types of clean, different checklists, and differently bundled extras — and produce honestly different numbers. Normalize the type of clean first, then the checklist, then what is billed separately, and most of the gap explains itself. Which questions produce the number — and when a walkthrough is genuinely needed — is covered in our guide to how cleaning companies calculate a quote.
At JAS the process is written into the Terms: you request a quote, see it, and then request a time. There is no payment at booking; after each completed visit we issue an invoice for the quoted amount. The number these six factors produce on screen is the number you approve.
Quick answers
Which factor affects the price of a house cleaning the most?
The type of clean. On the published tables, a Standard clean starts at $225 while a deep clean runs $375 to $595 — a wider spread than size, frequency, area or add-ons produce. Two quotes that disagree sharply are usually describing two different cleans.
Does square footage decide the price?
Not at JAS: the published tables ask for bedrooms and bathrooms, because bathrooms and the kitchen are where most of the labor lives. On the Standard table, size mostly moves the visit length; on the deep-clean ladder, it moves the price rung by rung.
Can the price change after the team arrives?
Only openly. The Terms say quotes reflect what you told us about the property, and if the scope on arrival is materially different — additional rooms, heavy build-up — we re-quote with you before doing extra work, never silently. Nothing is charged at booking; the invoice follows the completed visit.
The short version
Ranked by what they move on the published tables: service type first ($225 Standard versus $375–$595 deep), then size — hours on the Standard table, dollars on the deep ladder — then condition on the first visit, frequency pulling downward (15% weekly, 10% biweekly), the ZIP adjustment (base through 20% on approved ZIPs), and add-ons last, small and published. When two quotes disagree, they are almost always describing two different cleans.
This guide is part of the JAS operating playbook — written to put in ranked order, in public, the factors the rest of the industry prefers to leave at “it depends”.