Prices

What an American Bully Costs

Name: Majestic American Bully
Address: Sedona, AZ, 86336, US
Telephone: (742) 306-3184

The real market range, why the spread is so wide, what the first year actually costs, and where my $700 sits in it.

American Bully puppies sell for roughly $800 to $3,500 across the United States, with fashionable colors and heavily marketed bloodlines running far higher. The spread is enormous for what’s often the same dog. Mine are $700 for every puppy, every size class and every color, and the rest of this page explains both what drives the market number and what the first year costs on top of whatever you pay.

What the market actually charges

Where you’re buying from	Typical range	What you’re paying for
A shelter or rescue	$50 to $400	Adoption fee. Often an adult, often already neutered
A small independent breeder	$700 to $1,500	The dog, and usually direct access to the person who raised it
An established kennel with a name	$1,500 to $3,500	The dog, plus the reputation and the marketing behind it
Fashionable color or bloodline	$3,500 to $10,000+	Scarcity and fashion. Not health, structure or temperament
A broker or listing site	$1,200 to $4,000	The dog, plus a margin for somebody who didn’t breed it

The important thing in that table is the bottom two rows. A great deal of what’s charged above about fifteen hundred dollars is buying scarcity and marketing rather than anything that reaches the dog. There’s no relationship between coat color and how long a dog lives or how it behaves, and I set that out in full on the colors page.

That doesn’t mean expensive kennels are dishonest. Plenty do genuinely good work and charge accordingly. It means the price tag on its own tells you very little, and the questions that do tell you something are free to ask.

What the first year actually costs

This is the figure almost nobody publishes, and it’s the one that matters, because the purchase price is the smallest line on it.

What	Typical cost	Notes
The puppy	$700	Mine. Every one, every class, every color
Neuter or spay	$250 to $600	Ask your vet about timing for a large breed
First-year vet visits	$200 to $400	Remaining vaccinations, checks, rabies
Flea, tick and worm	$150 to $300	Year round in most of the country
Food	$400 to $900	A dog reaching 70lb eats accordingly
Crate, bed, bowls, leads	$150 to $350	One-time, and a crate is worth buying adult sized
Training class	$100 to $300	Worth it on a strong breed. Not optional in my view
License and microchip	$20 to $80	Microchip available here for an additional fee
Insurance, if you take it	$300 to $700	Optional, and worth pricing before the dog arrives

Realistically, budget $1,900 to $3,600 for the first twelve months including the puppy. The purchase price is somewhere between a fifth and a third of it. A person choosing between a $700 puppy and a $2,500 puppy is deciding about eight percent of what they will spend on the dog over its life, which is worth keeping in proportion.

Over ten to thirteen years, food, routine veterinary care, preventatives and the occasional problem add up to something in the region of $12,000 to $20,000. That’s the actual commitment, and it’s a better thing to be sure about than the deposit.

What makes one puppy genuinely worth more than another

Not much of what gets charged for, and a few things that rarely do.

How it was raised. A puppy handled from birth in a house, around normal noise and normal people, is a materially different animal at a year old from one raised in a run. This is the largest real difference between two puppies and it’s almost never itemized.
Whether the breeder will name their vet. Mine is Bell Rock Veterinary Clinic, 45 Bell Rock Plaza, Sedona, AZ 86351, (928) 284-2840. Call them. A kennel that won’t give you a clinic and a number is telling you something without meaning to.
What happens if it goes wrong. I’ll take back any dog I’ve bred, at any point in its life, with no time limit and no questions asked.
Whether you can see the dam. In person or on a video call. If a seller can’t show you the mother, they may not have her.

Things that don’t make a puppy worth more: a rare color, a bloodline name in the advertisement, a claim of being the biggest, or a price that’s high enough to feel like a guarantee. I don’t screen or certify the parents here and don’t claim to, which is worth knowing when comparing me against a kennel that says it does. Ask them for the certificate and the registration number, and check it.

Where my $700 comes from

One kennel, one person raising the litters, no premises to rent and no staff to pay. What that saves isn’t spent on marketing and doesn’t go into a margin, so it comes off the price instead.

What it doesn’t buy you is less dog. The same vaccination schedule, the same clinic, the same written health record and the same takeback promise apply to every puppy here, and the price is identical whether the puppy is XL or pocket, blue or brindle. The longer answer to why it’s $700, and what XL specifically costs elsewhere.