2026 price survey

What dog grooming actually costs in the Bay Area.

Name: Bay Area Mobile Dog Wash
Telephone: (408) 599-8317
Price range: $55–$115

We collected the published prices of 309 local grooming businesses — every one we could find. 178 publish real numbers. Here they all are.

Short answer: a mobile bath for a small dog runs a median of $85 across the Bay Area. A mobile full groom with a haircut medians $120. And 42% of groomers won't tell you their price until you call.

The part nobody advertises

131 of 309 groomers hide their prices.

We surveyed every dog grooming business we could find operating in the Bay Area: websites, booking widgets, Yelp menus, even archived copies of pages that have since been taken down. 42% publish no price at all — “call for a quote” is the industry default. The medians below come from the 178 that do publish, so you can walk into any quote conversation knowing what the market actually charges.

Every number is an advertised starting price, as of September 2026. Coat condition, matting, and behavior can move a real quote up from these.

Bath, no haircut

Bath & tidy prices by dog size.

Bay Area dog bath prices by size, mobile vs salon
Dog size	Mobile — median	Salon / shop — median
Small (under 20 lbs)	$85	$22
Medium (20–60 lbs)	$100	$70
Large (60–90 lbs)	$130	$85
XL (90+ lbs)	$150	$105

“Salon / shop” includes self-serve wash stations, which is why that column starts near $10 — that price buys you a tub, not a service.

Full groom, with haircut

Full-groom prices by dog size.

Bay Area full groom prices by size, mobile vs salon
Dog size	Mobile — median	Salon / shop — median
Small (under 20 lbs)	$120	$75
Medium (20–60 lbs)	$130	$112
Large (60–90 lbs)	$170	$137
XL (90+ lbs)	$202	$170

The haircut is worth roughly $30–60 over a bath at every size. If your dog's coat doesn't get cut — most short and double-coated breeds — a bath service covers everything a groom does except the scissors.

City by city

Where grooming costs more (and less).

Median grooming prices by Bay Area city
City	Priced groomers	Median starting price	Median small-dog groom
San Jose	37	$15	$83
Fremont	14	$22	$72
Santa Clara	13	$30	$80
San Mateo	10	$60	$115
Mountain View	6	$13	—
Morgan Hill	5	$20	$85
Redwood City	5	$22	$55
Hollister	5	$20	$130
Foster City	5	$25	$119
Milpitas	4	$12	$50
Belmont	4	$27	$60
Campbell	4	$40	$80
Los Gatos	4	$15	—

Only cities with at least four priced businesses shown. Peninsula cities (San Mateo, Foster City) run visibly higher than the South Bay for the same service.

The extras

What add-ons cost.

A $25 nail trim is the market's highest-margin five minutes. Ours is included in every wash, along with ears and de-shedding — worth checking what any quote already covers before adding extras.

The list itself

The most-reviewed groomers on the list.

A sample from the directory — the twelve most-reviewed businesses of the 178 that publish prices, with their advertised starting numbers. The full list, all 178 groomers by city, is in the free PDF below.

Most-reviewed Bay Area groomers and their published prices
Business	City	Type	From	Bath, small dog	Groom, small dog
Lush Spaw	Santa Clara	Salon	$10	$10	$80
Pawradise Mobile Grooming	Santa Clara	Mobile	$60	$130	$170
Pawbabies Pet Salon	San Jose	Salon	$12	$12	$30
Groombuggy Mobile Dog Grooming	Santa Clara	Mobile	$15	—	$145
Allie's Doggie Day Camp	San Jose	Salon	$10	$30	—
The Tails In The City	Santa Clara	Salon	$15	$75	$50
Unity Bulldogs Pet Grooming	San Jose	Salon	$55	$55	—
The Dog Pawlor	San Jose	Salon	$10	$10	$86
Olly’s Dog Grooming	San Jose	Salon	$45	—	$45
Pawssentials	Milpitas	Salon	$10	$10	$30
Classy Canine's Wiggle Rumps	Castro Valley	Salon	$55	—	$55
Ringo Pet Grooming Home Service	San Jose	Mobile	$130	$130	—

“From” is the lowest advertised price on their menu — often a nail trim or self-serve tub, not a full service. The other 166 businesses are in the PDF.

For the record

Where we sit in this data.

We charge $55–115 for a mobile wash-and-tidy, flat by size, published for anyone to see on our pricing page. Against the survey, that lands under the mobile median at every size — because we don't do haircuts, we don't carry a stylist's overhead. Bath, dry, brush-out, de-shed, nails, and ears, at your door.

If your dog does need scissor work, the Bay Area mobile grooming vans compared guide covers who does full grooms and what they charge.

Want the full 178-groomer price sheet?

The PDF lists every priced groomer by name — city, mobile or salon, and starting price — so you can comparison-shop from one page instead of thirty tabs. We email it to you and it is yours to keep.

One email with the guide, plus seasonal dog care reminders that are actually useful. Reply unsubscribe any time and we stop.

Frequently asked

Grooming price questions.

We pulled the published price lists of 309 dog grooming businesses across the Bay Area — websites, booking widgets, Yelp pages, and archived menus — in September 2026. 178 of them publish at least one real price; the medians above come from those. We excluded our own prices from every statistic, so the table describes the market, not us.

"Call for a quote" lets a shop price each dog after you are already invested in the conversation. It is also the single biggest source of grooming-bill surprise. Our view: if a business knows what it charges, it can write it down. Every price we charge is on our pricing page.

You are buying one groomer's undivided time plus the van they drive to you. A salon washes several dogs at once and spreads staff and rent across all of them. Mobile is one dog, one person, at your curb — no car trips, no cage time, and typically 45 minutes instead of half a day.

The salon/shop column includes self-serve wash stations, which run $10–25 — you rent the tub and do the work yourself. A full-service salon bath with drying and brush-out sits meaningfully higher, and you still make two car trips with a wet dog.

A bath (what we do) is wash, dry, brush-out, de-shed, nails, and ears — no cutting. A full groom adds a haircut and scissor work, which is why it runs roughly $30–60 more at every size. Most dogs that do not need a haircut are paying for one anyway.

No — these are advertised starting prices. Many mobile operators add travel or fuel fees for outlying addresses, and some price 'from' a number few dogs actually get. Ours don't: the published price is the whole price anywhere in our service area.

Priced like it says on the page.

A mobile wash runs $55–115 by size — published, flat, no travel fees, no quote call. Nails, ears, and de-shed included.

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