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Are Angi Leads Worth It for Window Contractors? The Ticket Math, Both Directions

Are Angi leads worth it for a window contractor?

Angi charges $25 to $120 a lead. Against an $8,000 to $15,000 window job, that math works differently than it does on a repair call.

The bigger question is who else got the same homeowner.

This guide runs the ticket math both ways, shows where Angi fits, and covers the contract and what a federal regulator found.

Valentyn Svit By , Founder of Bit House Digital
8+ years running Meta and Google ads for contractors · Published · Updated
What's in this guide

The Ticket Math: $25 to $120 a Lead Against an $8k to $15k Job

Start with what Angi publishes about window leads: nothing.

Its homeowner cost guide, built on 13,122 window projects from Angi pros, says windows average $750 each and a whole house runs $4,500 to $20,000.

Its pro-facing side publishes no lead price, no membership fee, and no contract term. Every Angi number below is what a contractor or an analyst reported, and we say which.

The reported range is wide. One agency write-up that ranks for this search puts Angi leads at $25 to $120 and claims contractors spend $1,400 or more per booked customer.

Third-party reviews put general remodeling leads at $50 to $100 or more.

Angi's own pro-facing page confirms the part that shapes all of it: a lead goes to 3 to 4 contractors.

Now the arithmetic, in Angi's favor:

Say each of those 3 to 4 companies had an equal shot at the appointment. Then you buy three to four leads per homeowner you actually sit with.

That's $75 to $480 per appointment at the reported $25 to $120, before a single dead number.

On a whole-home window replacement that runs $8,000 to $15,000, even $480 is 3 to 6% of one job.

The surprise?

On the ticket alone, Angi pencils. A handyman cannot say that. A window company can.

The comparison that decides it:

On one window replacement account, Bit House Digital's Facebook and Instagram ads produced 237 landing-page leads at $112.17 each on $26,584 of managed spend, for whole-home jobs that run $8,000 to $15,000.

A window replacement client reports booking 45% of the leads we generate; in a different period the same client reported 50 to 60%.

At the 45% booking rate the client reports, that's $249.27 per booked estimate.

Cheaper than the top of the Angi range, pricier than the bottom, and each of those leads asked for one company.

That last clause turns out to be worth more than the spread.

$25-$120
per Angi lead, one agency's reported range (Angi publishes none)
3-4 pros
get every lead, per Angi's own site
$249.27
per booked appointment on our window account at the client's 45%

Where Angi Genuinely Works for a Window Company

Worth it in three specific spots

Be fair to Angi. Three situations where a shared window lead earns its price.

Repairs, glass, and single-window jobs

An exterior contractor who does siding, painting, and windows summed up his Angi and Thumbtack years on r/Contractor. Shared leads he was competing on with other subs, nothing serious, "just small repairs under $3,000."

He meant it as a complaint. For a company with a service arm, it describes the product.

A foggy-pane swap or a broken sash is a 20-minute estimate, and the ticket is a few hundred dollars a window. Losing two of three to a faster caller costs an hour, not an evening.

If that is a real part of your business, Angi's job types fit it. So does Google's Local Service Ads under its Window repair category.

A new company with no reviews and no photos

A window replacement owner on ContractorTalk wrote, a year in, that flyers, cards, Angi, and HomeAdvisor had not made it work. Companies started after him were getting calls from their websites.

Angi did not fix his problem.

So why list it here?

Because with nothing else running, a $60 lead that turns into one $10k job has bought a review, a photo set, and a month of runway.

You rent a lead source you do not own to buy time to build one. Set an end date.

The December and January trough

Window replacement search runs about 1.4 times higher in July and August than in December and January, per Google Trends.

Angi's own guidance calls fall and winter off-peak, with faster scheduling and better pricing. A marketplace lead is a homeowner who went looking, so Angi's winter flow is thin too.

Thin isn't worthless, though:

A thin flow of homeowners who went looking in January, when most competitors have turned their ads off, is worth a month of credits for a crew that would otherwise sit.

A gap filler with a season, not a plan.

Where It Stops: The Appointment Is the Product

The equal shot is not real, and that is where the arithmetic stops.

So what does a window company buy from Angi?

In windows the product you are buying is not a phone number. It is an in-home appointment where the sale usually happens or does not, on one visit, at a kitchen table.

A shared lead puts you in a race to be the first of four companies into that living room. And the homeowner knows she is collecting quotes, because the form told her to.

Then the sit itself gets harder.

One homeowner on r/sales, referred by a friend and willing to pay more for a good reputation, walked away the moment the rep would not accept "I am not signing today."

Another wrote that his father's three-quotes rule means the family decides in one to two weeks, after all three have been through the house.

On a shared lead you are one of those three by design.

And the $600 federal credit that used to break the tie ended for windows placed in service after December 31, 2025. That problem is below.

Three things change as a window company grows, and each moves the math against shared leads.

The estimate gets expensive. A whole-home quote is a two-hour appointment plus a measure, and three or four per signed job is a week of evenings.

The ticket climbs. A window manufacturer and installer on r/Contractor watched a competitor bid $48,000 for five replacement windows. Homeowners at that end compare crews and warranties, not callback speed.

And the calendar fills. At that point you need fewer, better appointments, not more of the lead three other companies also bought.

Bottom line: past that line, exclusive ads under your own name beat paying per shared lead.

Every source, ranked the same way, is on our window replacement leads page.

And before you join the race, look at what it takes to leave it.

The Contract: 12 Months, 60 Days' Notice, 30 to 35% to Leave

Angi does not publish its contractor agreement.

Here's what contractors and third-party reviewers report instead:

  • a 12-month term
  • 60 days' notice to cancel
  • an early-exit penalty of 30 to 35% of the remaining contract value
  • a membership fee paid whether or not any lead becomes a job

Picture the timing:

Sign in September to carry the winter, decide in February that the leads do not sit, and you still owe a third of the months you never used.

Bad leads come back as credits, not cash.

A dead number, a renter, a homeowner two counties away, a screen repair when you only do full replacement: all disputed for account credit, spendable only on more leads.

A door and window company owner on r/Contractor with nearly 150 five-star reviews wrote that however much he poured into Google, Facebook, and Thumbtack, every lead landed just outside the wealthy ZIP code he targeted.

On a marketplace you cannot fix the targeting. On your own ads you can, with no term to wait out.

Get the term, the notice window, and the cancellation penalty in writing, and put the end date in your calendar on day one. Then decide whether a lead that goes to three other window companies is worth a year of your budget.

The contract is one half of the risk. The other half is what a federal regulator found about how those leads were sold.

What the FTC Order Says About Lead-Conversion Claims

This part is not on Angi's site.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against HomeAdvisor, Inc., doing business as HomeAdvisor Powered by Angi.

It charged that since at least mid-2014 the company had made false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims about the quality and source of the leads it sells.

It also charged that the company had often told providers its leads turn into jobs at rates much higher than it could substantiate.

What came of it?

The FTC issued an order requiring HomeAdvisor to pay up to $7.2 million.

The order bars the company from presenting paid products as free and from making unsubstantiated claims about how often its leads convert into paying jobs.

Later, the FTC returned more than $3 million to businesses that had paid for HomeAdvisor memberships.

Precision matters. Angi's statement, as reported by TechCrunch, said the company does "not admit nor find any wrongdoing" and settled to focus on its business.

It is a signed consent order, not a fine and not a verdict.

Why does a window company care now?

The order specifically bars unsubstantiated conversion claims, and lead sellers in this category don't publish a window close rate. Modernize and Thumbtack do not publish theirs at all.

Most "shared leads close at X%" figures online trace to a vendor selling the alternative.

The one industry number that exists is Qualified Remodeler's Top 500 survey: a median cost per issued lead of $396 across 252 replacement contractors.

That's a replacement-industry figure across all sources, not an Angi one.

When a rep quotes you a close rate, ask for the denominator.

We ran the same order against a smaller ticket on Angi leads for fence contractors, where the answer is shorter.

The Post-Credit Problem a Shared Lead Cannot Solve

For three years the easiest line in a window sales sit was "and you get up to $600 back from the government."

The federal 25C tax credit, capped at $600 a year for ENERGY STAR Most Efficient windows, ended for anything placed in service after December 31, 2025, per the IRS.

Any company still saying it today is making a false claim. And on a shared lead all four companies could say it anyway, so it rarely separated anyone.

That is the problem a marketplace cannot solve.

On a shared lead, your offer is one of four the homeowner hears that week. The marketplace's form set her expectations before you arrived.

On your own ad, the offer is the reason she submitted:

  • a monthly number she can feel
  • the transferable warranty on the line you carry
  • the crew she will get
  • the three business days the FTC's Cooling-Off Rule gives her to cancel any in-home sale, said out loud instead of hoping she does not know

What you can say about payments now, without tripping Meta's financial-products rules, is on window replacement financing and rebates after the credit.

The ad structures that carry it are on window replacement ad examples.

What Exclusive Window Leads Look Like Without the Race

One window replacement account. Real spend, real leads, nobody else on the lead.

So what does a window lead cost when it goes to one company?

One account answers it, over three years of spend.

A window replacement account we run · Facebook and Instagram

237 leads at $112.17, for $8,000 to $15,000 jobs, all asked for one company

Over three years, Bit House Digital's Facebook and Instagram ads produced 237 landing-page leads at $112.17 each on $26,584 of managed spend, on a window replacement account, for whole-home replacement jobs that run $8,000 to $15,000.

None of the leads behind these numbers came from Meta's native instant forms. All are landing-page conversions.

Each one answered how many windows and what is wrong with them before anyone called. None went to another company.

A window replacement client reports booking 45% of the leads we generate; in a different period the same client reported 50 to 60%. At the 45% booking rate the client reports, that's $249.27 per booked estimate.

For scale, across eight trades and $139,167 of managed spend, Bit House Digital's cost per lead ran from $29.45 to $119.18, 2,635 leads in total.

Our full window Meta ads guide shows how the campaign is built; what Facebook ads cost for a window company runs the budget table.

$112.17
per exclusive lead, for $8k to $15k jobs
45%
booked into appointments, the client's own report
0
other companies calling the same homeowner

Facebook and Instagram · over three years

What We Do Instead, For Your Window Business

Exclusive appointments under your own name. No term, no notice window, no exit penalty.

1

Build the offer the marketplace form cannot

A reason to choose you that does not depend on a credit that ended: warranty, crew, monthly number, said plainly.

2

Produce the ads and landing page

Install footage and the window that bothers the homeowner most, then a form that asks how many and what is wrong, so the lead is an appointment request to you alone.

3

Launch under your name

Every lead, review, and pixel's worth of data belongs to you, and the targeting is yours to fix.

4

Manage to cost per appointment

We watch cost per booked appointment weekly and kill anything that produces phone numbers instead of sits.

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Angi Leads for Window Contractors: Straight Answers

Angi publishes no lead price, so every figure is reported. One agency write-up puts Angi leads at $25 to $120 each; third-party reviews put general remodeling leads at $50 to $100 or more; and Angi's own site says each lead goes to 3 to 4 contractors, plus an annual membership paid whether or not any lead becomes a job. For comparison, Bit House Digital's exclusive leads on a window replacement account cost $112.17 each across 237 landing-page leads, for whole-home jobs that run $8,000 to $15,000, and nobody else got them.
On the ticket alone, yes: even at $120 a lead shared four ways, an appointment costs a few hundred dollars against an $8,000 to $15,000 job. Where it stops is the appointment itself. A window sale happens on one in-home visit, and a shared lead makes you one of three or four companies racing into the same living room with a homeowner who was told to collect quotes. It works for repairs and single-window jobs, a new company buying time, and the winter trough. For a whole-home seller with a full calendar, exclusive leads under your own name win.
Angi's own pro-facing page says a lead goes to 3 to 4 contractors. Contractors report it can feel like more, because the homeowner has often been called by everyone within minutes. In windows that matters more than in most trades, because the lead is an in-home appointment request and the sale usually happens on that first visit. Three companies through the same house in a week is the normal shared window lead, and the homeowner planned it that way.
Angi does not publish it. Contractors and third-party reviewers report a 12-month term, 60 days' notice to cancel, an early-termination penalty of 30 to 35% of the remaining contract value, and an annual membership fee on top of the per-lead charge. Bad leads are disputed for account credit, not refunded as cash. Get the term, the notice window, and the penalty in writing before you sign, and put the cancellation date in your calendar on day one.
Not a fine, and it is worth being precise. The FTC issued an order requiring HomeAdvisor, doing business as HomeAdvisor Powered by Angi, to pay up to $7.2 million over what the FTC called false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims about the quality and source of its leads and how often they turn into jobs. It is a signed consent order; Angi said it did not admit wrongdoing and settled to focus on its business. The FTC later returned more than $3 million to businesses that had paid for memberships.
Nothing the other three companies can also say. The federal 25C credit ended for windows placed in service after December 31, 2025, per the IRS, so "up to $600 back" is now a false claim, and on a shared lead every company could offer it anyway. What separates you is an offer the marketplace form did not set: a monthly number the homeowner can feel, a transferable warranty, the crew she will get, and the three business days the FTC's Cooling-Off Rule gives her to cancel, said out loud. That offer works best on a lead that asked for you alone.

More on Marketing Your Window Business

The rest of the window playbook.

Our full window Meta ads guide: the exclusive-lead alternative to a shared lead, built and timed for windows.

How to Get Window Replacement Leads: every source ranked, and the vendor roster with what each one actually publishes.

What Facebook Ads Cost for a Window Company: the measured lead cost, the booked-appointment cost, and a budget table.

Local Service Ads for Window Contractors: the other pay-per-lead option, and the repair-framed category you enter under.

Google Ads for Window Replacement Contractors: catching the homeowner who already decided, once the negative list is built.

Window Replacement Financing and Rebates After the 25C Credit: the credit ended; here is the offer that replaces it.

Window Replacement Ad Examples: the honest structures that book estimates, and the gimmicks to skip.

Window and Door Marketing: where shared leads sit in the full stack, and what to build first instead.

Google Business Profile for Window Contractors: the free listing that converts the homeowner who already heard your name.

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