What stuffed animal repair costs
Most of this trade does not publish prices, which is understandable and unhelpful in equal measure. A few do. We read every repairer we could find, took down every figure they published, and built these bands out of them.
Every band below says how many real quoted prices sit behind it, so you can see which ones we are confident about and which ones rest on two numbers.
33 published prices from 7 repairers · read on 23 August 2026
One small thing
$10-$50
from 11 published prices
- A torn seam
- A hole
- Reattaching a limb
- New eyes
The spread here is enormous and it is not noise. A doll hospital taking stuffed animals as a sideline charges ten dollars to restring; a plush specialist charges fifty to mend tears, facial features and limbs. Ask what is included before you compare two numbers.
Cleaning only
$10-$200
from 9 published prices
- A surface clean
- A good brush out
- A full unstuff and deep clean
Twenty times between the ends of this band, because a brush-down and a full unstuff-and-deep-clean are both called cleaning. Twenty dollars gets you a bath and a fur brush. Two hundred gets the stuffing taken out first.
The standard package
$100-$250
from 5 published prices
- Unstuff, deep clean, restuff
- Mending
- Brushing matted fur out
- Air drying
The US market prices restoration as a set package far more than the UK does, and the packages are considerably dearer. One operator runs three tiers: full, partial, and a memorial package at a hundred dollars.
Weighted, memorial and memory work
$75-$89
from 2 published prices
- Weighted teddy bears
- Memory bears from clothing
- A memorial clean and a keepsake envelope
What a full restoration actually costs
$300-$450
from 1 published price
- The restoration itself
- Shipping both ways
- Any special materials
One operator publishes an all-in average rather than a service price, which is more honest than most and worth knowing before you compare the numbers above.
On hourly rates
Nobody here charges by the hour.
We read 108 repairers and not one of them publishes an hourly rate. They price by the package, by the item, or not at all until they have seen it.
Three ways the same work gets billed
A set package
Pick full, partial or memorial and pay a flat figure. Commoner in the US than anywhere else.
Itemised menu
Mostly the doll hospitals, whose lists run to fifteen or twenty lines covering dolls with a few bear entries among them.
Quoted per job
No published price, a figure once they have seen it.
A minimum charge, plus a deposit
One specialist charges a $100 floor on any toy and takes 50% before starting. Ask about both before you ship.
Ask which of these they use before you send anything. The same repair can be a line on a menu, part of a package, or an open-ended quote depending on who you have gone to.
Shipping, one way
$20
Published by one operator as a flat rate. Getting it to them is on you almost everywhere, and insurance on top is worth it.
The tier above all of this
Reweaving, which means rebuilding the fabric itself thread by thread, is quoted per square inch and runs into the hundreds. Waiting lists past a year are normal. Of every repairer we surveyed, the ones who mention it at all mention it to say they do not do it.
Before you spend any of it, check whether you should.
Three questions, and it will tell you honestly if replacing it is the better call.
Is it worth repairing?