Leased Line Pricing by Speed Tier
The from-prices most providers make you fill in a form to see: 100Mbps from £69, 1Gbps from £129, 10Gbps from £349 a month. What install really costs, what moves your quote, and how to get the exact figure for your postcode.
Quick answer: what does a leased line cost?
UK leased lines start from £69/month for 100Mbps, £129/month for 1Gbps and £349/month for 10Gbps on 36-month terms in well-served areas, with installation typically £500–£2,000 depending on the civil works your address needs. Prices are postcode-dependent floors, not averages: the same 1Gbps circuit can quote very differently two streets apart, which is why every serious price is quoted per address across BT Openreach, CityFibre, Virgin and other carriers.
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Leased Line Prices by Speed Tier (2026)
Monthly from-prices on 36-month terms in well-served UK areas — the floors we actually quote, not teaser rates. Every figure is postcode-dependent; installation is quoted separately per address.
| Speed tier | From-price / month | Bearer | Typical buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Mbps | from £69 | 100Mb or 1Gb bearer | Small offices, cloud-first teams up to ~30 users |
| 1 GbpsMost popular | from £129 | 1Gb bearer | 50–250 users, VoIP + cloud workloads, multi-service sites |
| 10 Gbps | from £349 | 10Gb bearer | Data-heavy firms, media, large sites, HQ aggregation |
| 100 Gbps | from £1,999 | 100Gb bearer | Data centres, HPC and hyperscale workloads |
What actually moves a leased line quote
Two identical-looking businesses can get very different prices. These are the variables doing it.
Distance to fibre
The single biggest factor. Premises near an existing carrier fibre route cost little to connect; a rural site needing new ducting carries real civil-works cost.
Carrier competition
Postcodes served by BT Openreach, CityFibre and Virgin simultaneously price sharpest. One-carrier areas have no competitive floor.
Bearer vs speed
A 100Mbps service on a 1Gb bearer costs more upfront but upgrades by config change, not construction — usually worth it for growing businesses.
Contract term
36-month terms carry the published floors; 12-month terms price higher monthly and often move install from included to charged.
Installation
Typically £500–£2,000 (2026 UK range) covering civils, fibre and the carrier hand-off — quoted exactly per address, occasionally waived on longer terms by carrier promotion.
SLA and management
Business-grade circuits carry SLA-backed uptime (typically 99.99%) with defined fix times. A cheap quote with a weak SLA is a different product, not a bargain.
100Mbps leased line cost
From £69 a month on a 36-month term in well-served areas. At this tier the decision is rarely the monthly price — it's whether to take the 100Mbps service on a 1Gb bearer, which raises the monthly slightly but turns a future upgrade to 500Mbps or 1Gbps into a configuration change instead of a second installation. For most businesses buying 100Mbps today, the honest advice is: take the bigger bearer, because bandwidth demand only moves one way.
1Gbps leased line cost
From £129 a month — and the reason it's our most-quoted tier is that the step up from 100Mbps is small in cash terms and large in headroom. A 1Gbps symmetric, uncontended circuit comfortably carries VoIP, video, cloud backup and a full office's SaaS workload simultaneously. If your quote for 1Gbps comes back far above this floor, it's usually a one-carrier postcode — worth checking alternative routes before accepting it, which is exactly what we do across carriers.
10Gbps and beyond
From £349 a month for 10Gbps, and from £1,999 for 100Gbps. These tiers stop being about user counts and start being about workloads: large file movement, site-to-site replication, media, CAD, or aggregating branch traffic at a head office. Install lead times matter more here too — higher-bearer circuits are more likely to need carrier network build, so start the conversation before the capacity crunch, not during it.
Installation costs, honestly
UK leased line installation typically runs £500–£2,000 (2026), covering the civil works, fibre, carrier hand-off and router. The spread is almost entirely about your address: urban premises near existing fibre sit at the bottom of the range, sites needing new ducting or wayleaves at the top — and a genuinely difficult site can exceed it, which a proper survey will tell you before you commit, not after. Carriers periodically waive or subsidise install on 36-month terms; when that promotion exists on a route we quote, it shows up in your quote.
Why "from" prices are honest here
Every leased line price on this page is a floor, not an average — the best case in a well-served area on a 36-month term. We publish them anyway because the alternative, quote-form-only pricing, wastes everyone's time. Your exact figure depends on postcode, carrier routes, bearer and term; the leased line checker turns those floors into a real per-address price within 24 hours, compared across BT Openreach, CityFibre, Virgin and route-dependent carriers such as Zayo, Colt and regional networks. For the full budgeting picture — including router, resilience options and what happens at renewal — see the leased line cost guide, or compare against a cheaper alternative in leased line vs broadband.
Leased line deals: what a good one looks like
The deals worth taking are structural, not promotional: the right bearer for your growth, install included on the term you'd have chosen anyway, an SLA with defined fix times, and a price benchmarked across every carrier that reaches your postcode rather than one provider's list price. That last one is the whole game — most "expensive" leased line quotes are simply single-carrier quotes. We compare routes as standard, and customers who take connectivity alongside managed IT get the circuit, the network edge and the support under one SLA.
Leased line pricing questions
From £69/month for 100Mbps, £129/month for 1Gbps and £349/month for 10Gbps on 36-month terms in well-served areas, plus installation typically £500–£2,000 depending on the address. These are floors, not averages — the exact price is always quoted per postcode because carrier routes and civil works vary street by street.
From £69/month on a 36-month term where carrier competition is good. Consider paying slightly more for the 100Mbps service delivered on a 1Gb bearer: it makes the eventual upgrade a configuration change rather than a second installation.
From £129/month on a 36-month term in well-served areas — the most popular tier we quote, because the uplift from 100Mbps is small against the headroom gained. Quotes far above that floor usually indicate a single-carrier postcode, which is worth challenging with alternative routes before accepting.
Because the price is mostly the cost of reaching you. Premises near existing fibre routes from BT Openreach, CityFibre or Virgin connect cheaply; addresses needing new ducting, road crossings or wayleaves carry real construction cost. Carrier competition matters too — postcodes served by multiple networks price sharpest.
Sometimes, on longer terms, when a carrier is running an install promotion on your route — but the honest default is to budget £500–£2,000 (typical UK 2026 range). Any quote claiming universally free installation is recovering the cost somewhere else, usually in the monthly.
The circuit itself — symmetric, uncontended, SLA-backed (typically 99.99% uptime) — with the router and proactive monitoring, quoted per address across every carrier that reaches your postcode. Options like 4G/5G backup, managed firewalls and a second diverse circuit are priced separately so you only pay for the resilience you actually want.
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