EverLights Cost: The Only Brand Publishing Flat Kit Prices
EverLights is the only one of the four national permanent lighting brands that publishes flat prices rather than a range. Its DIY bundles run $750 for 100 feet of classic white, $1,000 for 150 feet and $1,500 for 200 feet; the color-changing bundles are $1,600 for 100 feet, $2,100 for 150 feet and $2,700 for 200 feet. Professional installation is quoted rather than published. Those bundle prices come from EverLights' own cost article.
- DIY classic white
- $750 / $1,000 / $1,500 (100 / 150 / 200 ft)
- DIY color-changing
- $1,600 / $2,100 / $2,700 (100 / 150 / 200 ft)
- Professional install
- Quoted, not published
- Effective DIY rate
- ~$7.50–$16 / ft, materials only
Flat prices are a real advantage, if you read them correctly
Everyone else in this category publishes a range or nothing. EverLights publishes six numbers you can put in a spreadsheet today, and that alone makes budgeting easier than with any of its competitors.
The thing to hold onto is that these are kit prices, not installed prices. Divided out, the classic white bundles work to roughly $7.50 per foot and the color-changing bundles to roughly $13.50 to $16 per foot, for materials arriving at your door. The $18 to $35 per foot published across the rest of the category is materials plus a crew plus their insurance plus their warranty. Setting one against the other and concluding EverLights is half the price of Trimlight is comparing a box to a finished job.
What the DIY route actually asks of you
The gap between $750 and a finished installation is a weekend on a ladder at your roofline, and how you feel about that sentence is most of the decision. You are measuring and cutting aluminum channel, fastening it under the drip edge along the full run, seating diodes, sealing connections against weather, and getting power to the circuit. Done well it looks like the professional job. Done impatiently it produces the two failures that are expensive to undo: channel fastened where it traps water against the fascia, and connections that are weatherproof in October and not in February.
The second consideration is the one people discover in year three. When something fails on a self-installed run, there is no crew whose name is on the work. You own the diagnosis and you own the ladder. For a single-story front elevation that is a reasonable trade for the savings. For a three-story roofline it is worth pricing the installed option before deciding.
Color-changing versus classic white is a bigger fork than the price suggests
At 100 feet, color-changing costs $1,600 against $750 for classic white, more than double. That premium buys addressable diodes and the app control that lets the system run orange in October and red, white and blue in July.
Classic white is the honest choice for a narrower want: architectural accent lighting and a warm holiday roofline, permanently mounted so nobody hangs strands again. If that genuinely covers what you would use, the cheaper bundle is not a downgrade, and the difference is close to a thousand dollars on a 200-foot run. The failure mode to avoid is buying color-changing for the demo video and then running warm white for eleven months, which is a common enough outcome that it is worth asking yourself honestly first.
Where EverLights fits against the installed brands
If you want a professional install with a crew and a warranty behind it, EverLights is competing on the same terms as everyone else and its installed price is quoted, not published, so you have nothing to compare until the quote arrives. In that scenario the brands that publish ranges give you a sanity check EverLights does not.
If you are genuinely willing to do the work yourself, EverLights is the only one of the four making that easy to price, and the published bundles are the clearest numbers in the category. Our crews install brand-agnostic architectural systems and we are not an EverLights dealer; if the DIY route suits your house and your tolerance for ladders, it is a legitimate answer and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Common questions
How much do EverLights cost?
EverLights publishes flat DIY bundle prices: classic white at $750 for 100 feet, $1,000 for 150 feet and $1,500 for 200 feet, and color-changing at $1,600, $2,100 and $2,700 for the same lengths. Professional installation is quoted rather than published, so the installed number has to come from a quote on your own roofline.
Is EverLights cheaper than JellyFish or Trimlight?
The DIY kits are cheaper than any installed system, but that is not the same comparison. The bundles work out to roughly $7.50 per foot for classic white and $13.50 to $16 for color-changing, and those are materials only. The $18 to $35 per foot published by Trimlight and JellyFish includes a crew, insurance and a labor warranty. Compare EverLights installed against those, or compare its kits against other kits.
Can I really install permanent lights myself?
On a single-story front elevation, plenty of people do, and EverLights sells the kits precisely for that. You are measuring and cutting channel, mounting it under the drip edge, seating diodes, weather-sealing connections and getting power to the run. The two mistakes that cost real money are trapping water against the fascia and sealing connections that hold in autumn and fail in a freeze. On a steep or three-story roofline, price the installed option before committing to a weekend at height.
Is the color-changing upgrade worth double?
Only if you will actually use it. It roughly doubles the kit price at every length and buys addressable diodes plus app control, which is what lets one system cover Halloween, Christmas, the Fourth of July and game day. If what you want is a permanently mounted warm white roofline and no more ladders, classic white does that for around half, and saving a thousand dollars on a 200-foot run is a real result rather than a compromise.
Sources
Every figure above is attributed. These are the pages the numbers came from, checked on the dates shown.