What a locksmith costs in Gwinnett County
Most locksmiths will not give you a number until they are standing in your driveway. We publish ours, so here they are.
Updated November 2026
| Service | Starting at |
|---|---|
| Car lockout | $60 |
| Key fob programming | $75 |
| House lockout | $80 |
| Lost car key | $85 |
| Commercial | $100 |
| Rekey locks | Free quote |
Those are starting prices. The final number depends on the job, and the technician gives it to you in person before anything begins. Looking costs nothing. You can see all of them on the pricing page.
What actually moves the price
The vehicle. A 2012 sedan with a basic transponder and a 2023 push-to-start with a proximity fob are not the same job. The second one needs different equipment and more programming time.
Whether there is a key to copy from. Cutting a duplicate is quick. Making one from scratch means pulling the code from the vehicle itself, because there is nothing to copy.
Cut, programmed, or both. A plain mechanical key gets cut. A transponder key gets cut and coded. A proximity fob gets programmed and never cut at all.
The lock, on a house. A standard deadbolt, a high-security cylinder and a smart lock are three different jobs. Most open with no damage. Some can only be opened by drilling, and then you need a replacement too.
Distance. We run out of Lawrenceville and cover about 30 miles. The far edge of that is a longer drive than the near edge.
The number that is not the number
There is a pattern worth knowing about, and it is not specific to any one company.
You call. Someone quotes something very low — $19, $29, "service call only." A car shows up, usually unmarked. The technician looks at the lock, and the price is suddenly three or four times what you were told. By then you have waited forty minutes, it is dark, and you are in no position to argue.
That first quote was never the price. It was the cost of getting you to stop calling other people.
The tell is the gap between the number on the phone and the number on your driveway. A real quote either holds, or the difference gets explained before any work starts.
After another locksmith charged me $100 just to pop my door—leaving me stuck because the anti-theft system triggered and the car wouldn’t start—Unlockme came through and saved the day.
He paid $100 and still could not drive away. The cheapest quote and the cheapest outcome are not the same thing.
Four questions to ask on the phone
They take thirty seconds and they tell you most of what you need to know.
- Is that the total, or just the call-out? If the answer is vague, that is your answer.
- What is the business name, and is the vehicle marked? A company that works under its own name arrives in a van with that name on the side.
- What happens if the price changes when you get here? You want to hear that you will be told before any work begins, and that you can say no.
- Will you ask me for ID? A locksmith who will open your car without checking that it is yours will open someone else’s car the same way.
How we handle it
The technician looks at the job and gives you the price in person, before starting. If the number does not work for you, you pay nothing and we leave.
Our vans are marked. We ask for ID and proof of ownership on every vehicle job, without exceptions. You can see the jobs we have published, each with the city and the month it happened.
Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, Saturday 8am to 2pm. Sundays and outside those hours by appointment.