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Average Cost to Buy French and English Bulldog Puppies
French bulldog puppies currently cost around £1,800 and English bulldog puppies cost around £2,400 to buy in the UK. If these prices seem much lower than a few years ago, you're right—Bulldog puppy prices have dropped significantly since their tremendous peak during the coronavirus lockdown, as the market has cooled and adjusted to the current cost of living. We've researched prices so you'll know what to expect to pay for a Bulldog in 2026, including the extra cost to get a health-tested puppy or a particularly desirable colour.
How Much are French and English Bulldog Puppies?
In 2026, the average cost of a French Bulldog puppy has settled to around £1,800, and the average cost of an English Bulldog puppy is around £2,400 in the UK. To find these current prices, we gathered hundreds of pricing data points for Bulldog puppies for sale in the UK from Pets4Homes, for puppies with a pedigree and without, and for puppies with a health check and without.
In particular, we found that puppies who've had a series of recommended health tests cost around £500 more on average—but this extra cost helps ensure you're buying a puppy who is less likely to suffer from health problems later in life.
| How Much are Bulldog Puppies? | French Bulldog | English Bulldog |
|---|---|---|
| Average Puppy Cost | £1,800 | £2,400 |
| Cost of Health-Tested Puppies | £2,300 | £2,900 |
| Cost of Popular colours (e.g., Merle) | £2,700 | £2,800 |
Popular colours still command a significant premium. In 2026, our data showed that breeders were asking an average price of £2,700 for merle French Bulldog puppies, and £2,800 for English Bulldog puppies—a 50% premium for French Bulldogs (but only a 16% premium for English Bulldogs). The most expensive French Bulldog puppy we found for sale was an Isabella (the rarest colour), health-checked puppy for £6,000; the most expensive English Bulldog we found was a "fully suited" girl going for £5,500. The cheapest French Bulldog puppies we found were around £800; English Bulldog puppy prices started at £1,200.
The Bulldog Price Correction
After more than doubling in price during the pandemic lockdown boom, Bulldog puppy prices have dropped significantly and returned closer to historical norms.
| How Have Bulldog Puppy Prices Changed? | French Bulldog | English Bulldog |
|---|---|---|
| Pandemic Peak (2021-2024) | £3,100 | £3,700 |
| Current 2026 Average | £1,800 | £2,400 |
| Percentage Decrease | -42% | -35% |
Why are English Bulldogs so expensive?
While the average cost of a scheduled dog C-section in the UK has inflated to around £1,000 in 2026, the cost of an emergency cesarean for litters born at night now jumps up to around £1,800.
Other Costs of Bulldog Ownership
Besides the purchase price of your puppy, the other major cost of Bulldog ownership is the cost of health care. Bulldogs are known for recurring health illnesses such as breathing problems, spinal, eye, skin and dental conditions, which can cost their owners hundreds or even thousands of pounds to treat. For this reason we recommend that you also budget enough for pet insurance. The cost of pet insurance for a bulldog starts from under £40 a month for Lifetime cover, but around 1 in 7 bulldog owners pays more than £100 a month for pet insurance.
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Change in Number of Bulldog Puppies for Sale
To get an idea of how many more (or less) bulldog puppies are for sale now than a few years ago, we looked back in time at the Pets4Homes website using the Wayback Machine, a tool that saves snapshots of webpages at various points of time. There we found snapshots of the French and English Bulldog 'inventory' from previous years. This shows there were 1,518 French Bulldogs for sale in 2016, 2,954 for sale in 2020, 1,309 in 2024 and 610 in March 2026. The number of English Bulldogs for sale on the site has changed from 712 to 1,162 to 351 to 113 over the same time period.
Methodology
To find out how much the average Bulldog puppy costs in the UK, we gathered over 250 data points on the cost of French and English Bulldog puppies for sale from Pets4Homes. We looked at the most recently posted ads. This included a mix of puppies that have been health checked and puppies that have not. We analysed this data to determine average costs for each type of Bulldog and also for the additional cost to buy a health-checked puppy, as well as the costs of premium colours.