# Data cleaning and migration

> Data cleaning and migration at ellul.ai: £39 per 1,000 records, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. A business moving systems with years of messy records.

- Price: £39 per 1,000 records (per-item)
- Time: Within a week
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/data-cleaning

## What is included
- Duplicates merged and formats made consistent
- Addresses, emails and phone numbers checked
- Clean data imported into your new system
- A log of every change, so nothing is lost

## What other providers charge
Other providers publish a median of £40 across 3 comparable prices (middle half £25 to £50). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/data-cleaning/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
81 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for data cleaning and migration between November 2025 and November 2026, 31 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/slavelabour, r/forhire, r/freelance_forhire.

## Paid separately, at cost
- Any paid address or email validation service, at cost

## What the buyer supplies
- An export of your records, and admin access to the new system
- Your rules for which record wins when duplicates merge
- A signed data processing agreement before personal data is shared

## What the price does not cover
- Priced per 1,000 records; part batches round up to the next 1,000
- A checked email or phone number can still stop working later
- Moving a whole system, beyond the records, is a separate migration

## Rules that apply
- UK GDPR Article 28 says processing by a processor on a controller's behalf must be governed by a contract or other legal act, in writing, including in electronic form. Source: [UK GDPR, Article 28: Processor](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/article/28)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/data-cleaning#quote