About · Compare HVAC Pro
Who we are, and why this site exists.
Compare HVAC Pro is a consumer research site for homeowners evaluating licensed HVAC providers. We aggregate, verify, and publish what we can confirm about every company in our directory — state license status, service coverage, verified Google reviews, and locally-scoped cost ranges — and we do it without accepting payment for editorial placement.
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What we are
Compare HVAC Pro is an independent consumer research publisher focused on residential HVAC — heat pumps, furnaces, central air, and ductless mini-splits. We are not a contractor, not a lead broker, and not a franchise. We build programmatic city, county, and company pages from public licensing data, verified review signals, and our own editorial standards, then surface the information a homeowner would spend hours collecting on their own.
Every listed company has cleared the same entry bar: an active state contractor license at publication time, a real business entity, and no pattern of unresolved complaints that we could verify against public records. Sponsored and featured placements are always labeled as such — they do not bypass the license or conduct checks.
Who we serve
Homeowners. Specifically, homeowners in the middle of an HVAC decision — a failed compressor in July, a cracked heat exchanger in January, a furnace at end-of-life in shoulder season. Our content is written for the household researching a $5,000–$15,000 decision in two days rather than two months, and for the household doing long-range planning on electrification, rebates, and financing.
We do not serve contractors directly. Contractors who want to be listed go through license verification; contractors who want featured visibility pay for that placement separately and still must pass the same editorial bar.
What we actually do
- Verify licenses against public records. We cross-check every listed contractor’s state license (Oregon CCB, Washington L&I, Texas TDLR, Florida DBPR, and others as we expand) against the issuing agency’s public lookup. Lapsed licenses drop off the site on the next refresh cycle.
- Publish local cost ranges. Pricing on our city and “cost” pages reflects the specific market, not a national average. Ranges update when we refresh our underlying benchmarks — see the methodology page for how those numbers are sourced.
- Document rebates and credits. We track utility rebates (MassSave, NYSERDA, PSE, Energy Trust of Oregon, etc.) and federal incentives (IRA 25C, HEEHRA) so homeowners see total effective cost, not sticker price.
- Clearly label advertising. Sponsored listings, featured placements, and affiliate relationships are disclosed on the page they appear. See our affiliate disclosure for details.
For the full set of rules we hold ourselves to, read our editorial policy. For how our ranking algorithm works — what signals we weight, how we label tiers, what disqualifies a provider — read our ranking methodology.
Our research
We publish two evergreen research surfaces built on the same dataset that powers our city and company pages. Both are free to read, cite, and embed — journalists and bloggers are welcome to deep-link specific stats.
- State of HVAC 2026 — the inaugural edition of our national HVAC contractor report. Contractor density, license-verification rates by state, cost distribution across cities, and the strongest heat-pump rebate stacks. Downloadable as JSON.
- HVAC cost calculator — interactive tool estimating install cost, annual operating cost, local rebates, and heat-pump vs furnace break-even analysis. Built on our live
cost_benchmarks+utility_rebate_programstables. - Ranking methodology — the complete specification of how we tier + score providers on the ranked shortlist pages.
How we fund the work
Reading Compare HVAC Pro is free for homeowners. We are paid on the contractor side: partner pros pay to be featured in the shortlist and to receive matched homeowner quote requests. That business relationship does not affect whether a company gets listed, whether a license failure drops them off, or whether their reviews are accurately reported — the editorial bar is the same for sponsored partners and non-partners alike.
We also maintain affiliate relationships with a small number of HVAC-adjacent product and financing vendors. When those links appear on this site, they are labeled. See our affiliate disclosure for the specifics.
Contact us
Editorial questions, correction requests, and partnership inquiries: editorial@comparehvacpro.com. For homeowner questions about a specific quote or provider, please use the contact page.
Mailing address: ComparePros Editorial Team, [physical address TBD by user].
Spot something inaccurate? We take corrections seriously — see our corrections policy + log for how we handle them and what we’ve changed historically.
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