Arizona guide
There is no single Arizona rate, because the price of an assignment is set by the work it requires — the method, the county, the defendant and the deadline. Here is what actually moves the number, and what a quote should tell you.
A flat published rate only works when every assignment is the same. In practice a service in a Maricopa County apartment complex and a service on a defendant in a rural county with two prior addresses are not comparable — one is a single stop on a route, the other is a planned trip with a diligence record at the end of it.
Price follows scope. The useful question is not "what is the rate" but "what does this assignment include, and what does it cost if the first attempts fail."
Personal service on an individual is priced differently from substitute service, registered-agent service on an entity, or service coordinated after an alternative-service order. The method decides how much documented work the assignment requires.
A Maricopa County address inside a dense route costs less to reach than a rural address in Mohave, Yavapai, Gila, Cochise or Navajo county, where a single assignment can consume most of a day of driving.
A cooperative defendant who is home in the evening is one assignment. A defendant with three known addresses, a gated complex and a history of avoiding papers is a different one, priced as additional documented attempts.
Every additional defendant or address is a separate service. Multiple documents served together on the same defendant at the same time generally do not multiply the fee the way separate trips do.
A filing-ready affidavit, notarization, exhibits and venue-specific return formats are work products, not paperwork attached for free. If the issuing court requires a particular return, that requirement should be stated at intake.
Standard queue placement, expedited dispatch and same-day coordination are priced differently because rush work displaces other scheduled assignments rather than changing the paperwork.
Both are legitimate routes in Arizona, and neither is universally cheaper. They differ in what you are buying.
The most common budget surprise in service of process is not the price of service — it is the cost of what happens when service does not complete.
Deadline pressure is a cost variable
When a hearing or a limitations period is close, the options narrow to expedited dispatch and whichever attempt windows are still available. That is a cost decision made under pressure. Where procedure allows, the cheaper route is to schedule service early enough to use the standard queue and still build a full diligence record.
A quote that only gives a number is not a quote you can compare. These are the items that should be explicit before the assignment is accepted:
Arizona assignments
Get the scope and the price before anything is dispatched.
Open a request with the county, defendant and documents. We confirm jurisdiction, the attempt plan and the price with you before the first attempt is scheduled.
Phone intake is open 24/7 at (602) 675-8633. Nothing is charged until scope is confirmed.
Not legal advice
Cost and procedure information only. Whether a particular method is valid for your case should be confirmed with counsel.
It depends on the service method, the county, the number of defendants and how difficult the defendant is to reach. Because those variables change the amount of documented work, this site quotes each assignment and confirms scope and price before anything is dispatched.
Constable fees are set by law and are often lower for a straightforward service. A private server is chosen when the assignment needs scheduling flexibility, multiple attempts at varied hours, statewide reach or faster documentation — which constable schedules cannot always provide.
Multiple addresses, an evasive defendant, rural travel, rush deadlines, and additional documentation such as a diligence package supporting an alternative-service motion.