Angi vs Google Local Services Ads: Compare Job Costs

Google Local Services Ads charges for valid leads, not completed jobs. Google’s lead guidance says prices vary with factors including location, job type, lead type and bidding mode.

Angi’s current guidance says fees apply on receipt of a lead, with charging dependent on the account. Neither statement tells you what a won job will cost your business.

Compare the charge with the outcome

Decision	Google Local Services Ads	Angi
What creates a bill?	A valid lead under Google’s rules	A received lead or accepted Opportunity under the applicable account rules
What changes the cost?	Google lists location, job and lead type, and bidding factors	Review the actual product and account offer
What should you track?	Charged leads, credits and eventual job outcomes	Charges, additional Opportunities and eventual job outcomes
What must you confirm first?	Eligibility and setup for your service and market	Service coverage, account settings and agreement
What decides whether to continue?	Your observed cost and value of completed work	The same business measures

Check eligibility and the live offer before allocating the test. Google publishes Local Services Ads requirements; have your provider confirm what applies to your trade and location.

Avoid a universal cost-per-lead prediction

A plumber buying drain-cleaning inquiries and a roofer pursuing replacements are not buying the same opportunity. A national average cannot price either account precisely.

Obtain the actual terms and record your own charges. Include management fees, fixed fees and staff time when comparing total acquisition cost.

Use the same cost definition for both sources. Comparing one platform’s media bill with another’s all-in managed cost will distort the result.

Do not treat every unbooked lead as refundable

Google’s lead guidance lists examples that are not credited, including a customer cancelling a booking or failing to respond to a return call or message. Review the rules applicable to your account and market.

Check Angi’s applicable terms separately. Keep evidence of the lead and the reason you believe a charge is wrong, then use the provider’s current process.

Do not budget on recovering every charge for a job you failed to win. Your test needs room for valid inquiries that never become work.

Calculate the result at the job level

Here is an illustrative comparison, not platform pricing or a benchmark:

Test source	All-in acquisition cost	Completed new-customer jobs	Cost per completed job
Source A	$1,200	6	$200
Source B	$900	3	$300

Source A costs more in total and less per completed job. You still need to compare the work’s contribution after direct labor and materials.

Keep the sales cycle visible. An open replacement estimate should not count as a lost job merely because a small repair from another source has already been completed.

Run the test with your office

Choose the services, territory and intake hours your team can support. Assign someone to respond and record what happened to each inquiry.

Review out-of-area requests, unsuitable work, unanswered inquiries, bookings and completed jobs separately. Fix an intake failure before using the result to condemn a source.

Do not assume a homeowner will speak only to you. Neither a paid inquiry nor a booking guarantees that you will win the work.

Decide what earns the next budget

Continue the source that produces suitable work at an acceptable acquisition cost and commitment. If you cannot explain the result, improve the records before increasing spending.

Use Angi vs HomeAdvisor vs Thumbtack to compare marketplace offers. If you already have traffic, visitor identification is a separate follow-up opportunity, with matched visitors counted separately from requested quotes.

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