Stairlift Costs’ UK Stairlift Price Tracker puts the median published price of a new UK stairlift at £2,800 (straight £1,995, curved £4,395), from 73 prices published by 25 UK sellers and captured 20 August 2026.
| Figure | Median | Prices | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|
| New stairlift, all types | £2,800 | 73 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| New straight stairlift | £1,995 | 31 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| New curved stairlift | £4,395 | 28 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| Reconditioned stairlift, all types | £1,595 | 56 | 20 Aug 2026 |
This page explains how those four numbers are produced, what goes into them, what is left out and what they cannot tell you. Everything here can be checked against the downloadable CSV, which lists every datapoint with its source URL, the wording on the page and the date we read it.
What counts as a published price
A published price is a figure that a UK stairlift maker, dealer or seller shows on its own public web page. We record the figure exactly as worded, the page it came from and the date we read it. A price from the brand’s own site is graded A. A dealer’s or retailer’s price for a brand it sells is graded B.
Private quotes are not published prices, and neither are survey averages, forum posts or the prices a reader tells us they were offered. Those can be useful, and some of them are in the dataset, but they never go into the medians.
What the 290 datapoints contain
| Group | Rows | Grade | Used in the medians? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail prices from makers, dealers and sellers | 180 | A and B | Yes, after filtering |
| Public-sector records (tenders, contracts, council papers) | 34 | n/a | No |
| Published benchmarks from named organisations, including the Which? survey | 36 | C | No |
| Prices reported by individual buyers | 40 | D | No |
Some rows record an absence rather than a price. Where a brand publishes no price at all, that is logged too, because it is one of the main things the tracker found: most UK stairlift makers do not publish one.
Which prices go into the median
From the 180 retail rows we keep one-off prices for a single stairlift of these types: straight, curved, outdoor, heavy duty and perch. Rental prices, weekly or monthly payments, installation extras, service and repair charges, buy-back offers and rows covering several products at once are all left out. That leaves 73 new and 56 reconditioned prices.
Three sellers publish a range rather than a single figure. We use the upper figure of each range. Using the midpoint instead gives the same £2,800.
The median is the middle value once the prices are sorted from lowest to highest. With 73 prices, it is the 37th.
What published prices include, and what they leave out
Stairlift sellers do not publish prices on a common basis, and the tracker records them as published rather than adjusting them. Among the 73 new prices:
- 34 are “from” prices, the cheapest configuration the seller advertises.
- 19 do not say whether fitting is included, and 9 more mention fitting without itemising what it costs.
- One, an online price for the Otolift Air, is for supply only, delivered to the kerb.
- VAT is handled differently from seller to seller. Many price for buyers who qualify for VAT relief on mobility equipment, some show prices excluding VAT and some do not say.
Only one source in the whole dataset states the staircase its price assumes. That is the biggest gap in how UK stairlifts are sold online, and it is why a quote for a particular staircase, especially a curved one, can come in above these medians.
Why we use the median, not the average
The average (mean) of the same 73 new prices is £3,308. It sits higher because a few prices for multi-bend curved and heavy-duty lifts, up to £10,000, pull it upwards. A single £10,000 lift cannot move the median, so it describes the typical published price better.
How this differs from the £3,867 figure
£3,867 is the average price that Which? members reported paying for a stairlift, in a member survey with fieldwork in December 2022 (straight £3,371, curved £4,728). It measures what buyers paid after a home survey and any negotiation. The tracker measures what sellers publish today. They are different quantities taken three years apart, so neither one corrects the other.
The Which? article carries a later date stamp, and several sites now repeat the figure as 2025 research. The fieldwork date is December 2022.
How often the tracker is refreshed
The tracker is published in monthly editions. Each edition re-reads the grade A source pages, records any change in a change log with the old figure, the new figure and the date, and recomputes the medians. The change log sits above the price tables on the tracker page.
For the September 2026 edition, all 12 grade A pages were re-read on 31 August 2026. None of the figures had changed.
What we could not reach
Stannah’s UK site could not be loaded on 20 or 31 August 2026, so Stannah has no grade A price in this edition. Acorn and most other makers publish no price on the pages we read. The Which? brand survey from June 2026 is behind a paywall and has not been read. None of these gaps is filled with an estimate.
How Stairlift Costs makes money
Stairlift Costs is published by Whito Ltd (company number 10918465). When a reader asks for quotes through the site and goes on to buy from a partner supplier, the supplier may pay Whito Ltd a commission. No partner quote and no reader-submitted quote is used in the tracker’s medians, which are built only from prices anyone can see on a public web page. The full details are on how we make money and our editorial policy.
Cite this figure
Stairlift Costs, UK Stairlift Price Tracker, September 2026 edition, stairliftcosts.co.uk/stairlift-price-tracker/. Median published price of a new UK stairlift: £2,800 (n=73, captured 20 August 2026). Data free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with this credit.
Download the data
The full dataset as a CSV holds all 290 datapoints, each with its grade, source URL, the wording on the page and the capture date. It is published under CC BY 4.0: you can reuse it for any purpose as long as you credit Stairlift Costs.
Frequently asked questions
How is the £2,800 median worked out?
Stairlift Costs listed every new, one-off stairlift price published by UK sellers, 73 prices from 25 sellers captured 20 August 2026, and took the middle value: £2,800. The mean of the same prices is £3,308.
Is the average stairlift cost in the UK £3,867?
£3,867 is the average that Which? members reported paying in a survey with fieldwork in December 2022. It measures what buyers paid, not what sellers publish. Stairlift Costs’ UK Stairlift Price Tracker puts the median published price of a new UK stairlift at £2,800, from 73 prices captured 20 August 2026.
Why might my quote be higher than the median?
Almost half of the 73 published prices are “from” prices, and only one source states the staircase it assumes. A quote is priced for your stairs, so it can come in above the median, especially for a curved lift, where the published median is £4,395.