Pergola buying guides
Independent pergola buying guides built from verified manufacturer specifications, current prices and side-by-side comparisons. Every pick links to a product page.
Best picks
Best Pergola Kits
Our picks for shade, wood, steel and louvered roofs, manual or motorized.
7 picks across every budget
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Cost
How Much Does a Pergola Cost?
What the kit costs, what installing it adds, and three real projects added up.
Three projects, every line priced
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Louvered
Best Louvered Pergola Brands
Ten brands compared on price, what’s in the box, warranty and sizes.
10 brands ranked
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Motorized Pergola Comparison
Which motorized kit has phone control, a rain sensor and a motor warranty that matches the frame.
7 brands compared
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Cost
Motorized Pergola Cost
What a motorized louvered pergola costs against a manual one at your size, what the motor itself adds, and the total once it’s up.
Motor adds a fifth to a third within a brand
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Pricing
Pergola Prices
What pergola kits cost by type, size and brand.
Prices by type, size and brand
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Where to buy
Costco Pergolas
Every pergola Costco sells, the one most members should buy, when it goes on sale and how it gets built.
2,100+ owner reviews read
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Gazebo vs Pergola
The roof is the difference. Here is what each kind costs at the same size.
Priced at the same footprint
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Gazebo vs Pavilion
Sellers define the two words differently, and some title one hardtop kit both. How to tell what you are buying.
Where sellers draw the line
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Compatibility
Pergola Over a Deck
Which kits are made for a deck, what the box leaves out, and who should check that your deck can take one.
Quotes from each maker
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Permits
Do You Need a Permit for a Pergola?
Build your pergola in the checker and see where 24 US cities and counties draw the permit line, then what to ask before you order.
Rules from 24 US places
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Patio Cover vs Pergola
A patio cover is a roof that stays shut. A pergola is a roof you can change. What that means against your house.
Check the warranty before you attach either
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Install
Pergola Installation, DIY Difficulty
Crew, hours, tools and what the box leaves out, brand by brand, from the manuals.
12 brands read
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Statistics
Pergola Statistics
Kit prices from our index, installed-cost estimates, permits, resale value and demand data, each with its source.
Every figure sourced and dated
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Review
Hansø Pergola Review
What the three models cost, what owners love and complain about, and who should buy one.
4.4★ from 1,100+ owners
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Review
PergoLux Review
What the Pergola 4 models cost, what owners like and complain about, and the trial’s fine print.
4.2★ from 650+ owners
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Cost
PergoLux Cost
What each PergoLux model costs, what installation adds, and three real totals.
Installers range from about $1,000 to $5,000
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Review
Erommy Review
Whether Erommy is legit, what its pergolas cost, what owners say, and the return catch.
3.2★ on Trustpilot, 4.5★ on Wayfair
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Review
Domi Outdoor Living Review
Whether Domi is legit, what owners say about its gazebos and pergolas, and the return catch.
4.2★ on Trustpilot
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Best picks
Best Gazebos
The hardtop gazebos worth buying, by budget, size, wind and snow.
5 picks
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Cost
StruXure Pergola Cost
What a dealer-installed StruXure costs by size, what adds to it, and what a kit costs instead.
$150–200 per sq ft installed
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Cost
Premium Louvered Roof Cost
What the dealer-sold brands after StruXure cost installed, what each one actually is, and when a kit does the job.
Eight brands, one price check
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Compare
Pergola vs Arbor, Pagoda, Pavilion
What each word means, what each costs, and which one fits a patio.
Four structures, one decision
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How to
Shade a Pergola
Shade cloth, curtains, sliding canopies and louvers: what each shades, what it costs and what wind and rain do to it.
Six ways, with costs
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Sizing
Pergola Sizes
Which size fits a table for four, six or eight, a lounge set, a hot tub or a grill, and where the permit line falls.
Sizes by what goes under it
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Where to buy
Costco Gazebos
The gazebo most Costco members should buy, what each size costs, and what owners report after delivery.
230 owner reviews read
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Compatibility
Gazebo on a Deck
What the deck must hold, what the box leaves out, and when a hardtop is the wrong roof for your deck.
Anchoring by maker
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Which to buy
Yardistry Gazebos
The Costco 12×16 most people should buy, the Meridian for every other size, and what the build and footings really take.
Costco and direct prices side by side
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Sizing
Gazebo Sizes
Which size fits a table for four, six or eight, how much room the posts take, and what the big sizes cost and need.
Sizes by what goes under it
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How to choose
How to Choose an Aluminum Pergola Kit
Roof, size, warranty and the costs outside the box: the checks that separate a good aluminum kit from a pretty photo.
Five checks before you order
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Price data
Pergola Price Index
What pergola kits cost per square foot and at common sizes, by type, from 8,494 public prices. Updated every quarter.
Manual louvered $17.31/sq ft · wood $33.61/sq ft · Q4 2026
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