A private house cleaner in the Netherlands charges €17–€25 per hour in 2026, and a registered cleaning company €25–€35 per cleaner, per hour, according to Trustoo's price guide. At company rates, the hours our crews budget put a standard visit at about €50 for a small flat up to €245 for a large family home. Deep cleans, move-out cleans, and neglected homes price above that band.
This guide breaks those bands down by home size, type of clean, and schedule — plus what moves a quote and how to bring one down. Short on time? Our instant price calculator turns four questions into a number for your exact home — free, and faster than reading this page.
What does house cleaning cost per visit in 2026?
Multiply the hours our crews budget for your home by Trustoo's €25–€35 company rate and most mid-size homes land between €88 and €175 per standard visit. Where you land inside that band comes down to size, type of clean, and how often the crew comes back.
Source: Trustoo's price guide.
Private cleaners run €17–€25; intensive one-off work prices above the company band at €25–€40 per cleaner-hour (Trustoo).
Those rates are drifting up, not down. Cleaners' CAO wages rose 3% plus €0.10–€0.25 per hour on 1 January 2026, per RAS, the May accord adds just over 6% more across 2026–28 plus full travel reimbursement, per Schoonmakend Nederland, and sector prices were up 6.7% year on year in Q4, per CBS figures via Facto.
Prices by home size
Company crews price on time, so the honest way to estimate by size is cleaner-hours multiplied by Trustoo's published €25–€35 hourly range — the hour budgets below are the ones our crews plan against.
| Home size | Cleaner-hours our crews budget | Ballpark at €25–€35/hr (Trustoo) |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or 1-bed, 1 bath | 2–3 hours | €50–€105 |
| 2-bed, 1–2 bath | 2.5–4 hours | €63–€140 |
| 3-bed, 2 bath (~120 m²) | 3.5–5 hours | €88–€175 |
| 4-bed+ or 150 m²+ | 5–7 hours | €125–€245 |
Two caveats: visit minimums mean a small studio rarely books at the bottom of its ballpark, and the €88–€175 mid-size band covers the middle of the table — kept-up homes on a schedule, not first visits or big footprints.
Prices by type of clean
The same house carries three price tags depending on what you ask for:
| Type of clean | Typical 2026 price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Standard visit | €88–€175 for a mid-size home at €25–€35/hr (Trustoo) | Maintenance of lived-in rooms: kitchen, bathrooms, dusting, floors |
| Deep clean | €250–€850 as a one-off, or €25–€40 per cleaner-hour (Trustoo); from €175 at Gleaming | Everything above plus inside appliances, baseboards, vents, grout, and door frames |
| Move-out clean | €16–€30 per hour on the one-off market (Werkspot); from €165 at Gleaming | Empty-home scope: inside cabinets and oven, spot-washed walls, landlord-inspection detail |
We keep the deep-clean line to one row on purpose — the full task-by-task split lives in our comparison of deep cleaning vs. regular cleaning, and the visit itself books through our deep cleaning service page. If a landlord inspection is driving your search, start with the move-out cleaning checklist that gets deposits back.
Prices by frequency
The schedule you pick changes the per-visit rate itself: nearly every company prices recurring weekly and biweekly visits below one-time jobs, because a home cleaned two weeks ago takes far less work than one cleaned two months ago.
| Schedule | How companies price it | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly | Lowest per-visit rate on the card | Light soil each visit; the crew maintains rather than recovers |
| Every two weeks | Modest premium over weekly | Still maintenance-level work in most households |
| Monthly | Priced closer to one-time | Soil rebuilds between visits, so each one runs longer |
| One-time | Quoted as one-off work at €16–€30/hr (Werkspot) | Often scoped as a deep clean if it's a first visit |
That per-visit discount is the logic behind our recurring cleaning plans: the first visit resets the house — subscribers take 10% off it — and every visit after is priced as maintenance, not recovery.
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Calculate my price or call +31 615 098864What do house cleaners charge per hour?
Private cleaners charge €17–€25 per hour in 2026, and registered companies €25–€35 per hour each, per Trustoo. Platforms sit between: Helpling's price page lists rates from €12.90, typically €16.90–€20.40, plus a service fee of about €2.90. Rates are local, too — Expatistan's crowd-sourced index puts cleaning help at €18 an hour in Amsterdam, €16 in The Hague, €15 in Utrecht, and €14 in Rotterdam.
The gap between those bands is mostly law, not margin: a private cleaner usually works under the Regeling dienstverlening aan huis — the national scheme for household help of fewer than four days a week — while a company carries payroll, insurance, and VAT on every hour.
That "each" matters. Companies usually send two cleaners, so double the per-cleaner rate. A pair splits the work the way we train ours to: one takes the wet line, bathrooms before kitchen so the sanitizing solution gets its dwell time; the other takes the dry line, dusting top-down, blinds tilted closed one way and wiped, then the other way. Two hours on your calendar, four cleaner-hours of work.
Most companies quote a flat per-visit price rather than an open hourly meter — flat pricing protects you from a slow day and them from an underestimated one. Hourly billing mostly appears on first visits and heavy-recovery jobs, where nobody can predict the finish time.
What makes your quote higher or lower?
Seven inputs decide nearly every residential cleaning quote. When a number surprises you, one of these is usually why.
- Bathroom count, not just floor area. Bathrooms are the slowest rooms in the house — our crews budget about 90 minutes for a neglected one on a first visit.
- Time since the last professional clean. After a long gap without professional cleaning, expect the visit scoped as a deep clean — at Gleaming, from €175 instead of the standard rate.
- Pets. Hair works into carpet fiber and settles on baseboards faster than any other soil, adding vacuum passes to every room.
- Clutter. Crews clean surfaces, and every object on a surface is a lift-wipe-replace cycle. An emptied, picked-up room cleans dramatically faster, and clutter prices accordingly.
- Schedule. As the frequency table shows, weekly and biweekly visits price below one-time work.
- Add-ons. Inside the oven, inside the fridge, interior windows, and laundry are almost always separate line items, not included courtesies.
- Access. Walk-up floors, gated parking, and long carry distances add unbillable minutes that get priced in up front.
Hidden costs to watch for
Hidden fees cluster in five places: minimums, first-visit uplifts, supplies, cancellations, and payment surcharges. Ask about each before booking — a good company answers without flinching.
- Visit minimums. Small apartments often can't book below a floor price, whatever the hourly math says.
- First-visit uplift. Most companies scope visit one as a deep clean. Reasonable — but it belongs in the written quote, not announced at the door.
- Supply and equipment fees. Some cleaners bill product and vacuum use separately — ask whether supplies ride inside the rate.
- Cancellation and lockout fees. Rescheduling on short notice, or a crew that can't get in, usually bills as a partial visit.
- Card surcharges and VAT. A quote marked "excl. btw" grows noticeably by invoice time — household quotes should include VAT, so ask when it isn't stated.
Your best defense is knowing what a standard visit covers, so add-ons can't masquerade as scope. This is the list we work to; most reputable companies mirror it:
- Kitchen: counters and backsplash wiped, sink scrubbed and dried, appliance exteriors degreased, floor vacuumed and mopped
- Bathrooms: toilet, tub, and shower sanitized, mirrors polished, chrome wiped dry so it doesn't water-spot by evening
- All rooms: reachable surfaces dusted top-down, sills and ledges included
- Floors throughout: carpets vacuumed edge to edge, hard floors vacuumed then damp-mopped
- Trash emptied and liners replaced, beds made on request
Anything outside that list — inside appliances, walls, windows, laundry — is an add-on. Priced up front, add-ons are fair; discovered on the invoice, they're not. Our calculator prices your add-ons before you book, so the number you see is the number you pay.
How to pay less without cutting corners
The cheapest clean isn't a cheaper cleaner — it's giving a good crew less to do. Every tactic below trims billable time without touching quality.
- Do a 10-minute pickup before the crew arrives. Clear the counters, corral the toys, get dishes out of the sink. You're paying cleaning rates — don't spend them on tidying.
- Rotate deep tasks instead of stacking them. Inside the oven this visit, inside the fridge the next — add-ons spread across the month instead of landing on one invoice.
- Move to a recurring schedule. The per-visit rate drops when the house never gets bad — that's the frequency table working in your favor.
- Fight pet hair between visits. A used dryer sheet run along the baseboards lifts hair and leaves a film that slows it resettling — an old crew trick that cuts vacuum passes from your next visit.
- Bundle add-ons with a scheduled visit, not as a special trip. A crew already on site prices interior windows far better than a crew dispatched for them.
What doesn't work: haggling below the market floor. A registered company quoting under €25 per cleaner-hour — below the bottom of Trustoo's company range — doesn't clean cheaper, it cleans shorter, and the corners get cut where you don't look: baseboards, blind slats, behind the bathroom door.
Is it worth paying for a house cleaner?
A typical two-hour, two-cleaner visit comes to €100–€140 at Trustoo's company rate — and most working households come out ahead. A two-person crew clears in about two hours what usually costs a homeowner most of a Saturday.
The value case is bigger than the hours. A home on a schedule never slides far enough to need an expensive recovery clean, supplies and commercial equipment ride with the crew, and an insured company covers the vase your own vacuum cord would have claimed.
It isn't worth it for everyone. If you live in a small studio, enjoy the work, or your budget allows one visit a quarter, cleaning yourself plus an occasional professional deep clean is a sound system.
Frequently asked questions
How much should I pay a house cleaner in 2026?
Budget €17–€25 per hour for a private cleaner and €25–€35 per cleaner, per hour for a registered company, per Trustoo's 2026 price guide. One-off jobs quoted through Werkspot run €16–€30 per hour. Recurring schedules price below one-time visits at nearly every company.
How much does it cost to clean a 120 m² family home?
A standard clean of a 120 m², three-bedroom home usually books about 3.5–5 cleaner-hours at Gleaming, which works out to roughly €88–€175 at Trustoo's €25–€35 company rate. A one-off deep clean runs €250–€850 on the same guide; at Gleaming, deep cleaning starts from €175.
Do you tip house cleaners?
Tipping is not a custom in the Netherlands, and no cleaner will expect it. Private cleaners set their own hourly rates, so the rate is the rate. For company crews, an occasional small thank-you after a heavy visit — or a holiday gesture for a regular crew — is welcome but never assumed. A detailed review helps a crew just as much.
What is included in a standard house cleaning?
Maintenance of the lived-in home: kitchen counters, sink, and appliance exteriors; full bathroom sanitizing; top-down dusting of reachable surfaces; vacuuming and mopping every floor; trash emptied. Inside the oven or fridge, interior windows, walls, and laundry sit outside standard scope on most rate cards and price as add-ons.
Why does the first cleaning visit cost more?
Because the first visit is a reset, not maintenance. Built-up grease, soap scum, and settled dust take far longer to remove than to keep away, so most companies scope visit one as a deep clean — at Gleaming that starts from €175 — then drop to the recurring price. Subscribers get 10% off that first visit.
Prices tell you what the market charges; they can't tell you what your Tuesday evenings are worth. If these numbers put a professional clean within reach, start with the room that bothers you most and a schedule you'll keep — everything we offer, from one-off deep reset to weekly plan, starts from our home cleaning services. Cleaning is priced locally, so our Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Eindhoven cost guides break these numbers down city by city.
