Pricing
How Much Does a 360 Photo Booth Cost in South Florida?
The same product is advertised at $350 and at $1,250 in the same three counties. Here is every published South Florida 360 price, what actually differs between them, and what $699 buys.
Short answer
Published South Florida 360 prices run from $350 for two hours to $1,250 for four hours. Motion charges $699 for 3 hours with an attendant included. The national range quoted for 360 booths is $1,200 to $2,500. At the bottom of the local range, an attendant is usually an add-on.
How much does a 360 photo booth cost in South Florida?
Published local prices run from $350 for two hours at the low end to $1,250 for four hours at the high end. Motion charges $699 for 3 hours. For contrast, the national figure quoted for 360 booths is $1,200 to $2,500, which tells you South Florida is a cheaper market than the country average for this specific product.
That local spread is roughly four to one for what the marketing copy describes as the same thing. It is not four to one because one company is greedy and another is generous. It is four to one because at the bottom of the range you are renting a platform, and at the top you are renting a crew.
Below is every 360 price we could find published on a live page in this market, followed by the reasons the number moves.
Every published 360 photo booth price in this market
Published 360 photo booth prices, South Florida and national benchmark
| Company | Market | Published 360 pricing |
|---|---|---|
| Esteem360 Studios | Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Broward | 1hr $600, 2hr $800, 3hr $1,000, 4hr $1,250 |
| Picture Perfect Photo Booths | Davie | Spin 360 $450 for 2hr. 360 Experience $850 for 3hr |
| Epic Events Booth | Miami | 1hr $300 to $500, 2hr $450 to $750, 3hr $600 to $950, 4hr $800 to $1,200, 5hr and up $1,000 to $1,500 and up |
| 360 Photo Booth Rental Miami | Miami | From $350 for two hours, two hour minimum |
| Motion Event Productions | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | $699 for 3 hours |
| Pixilated (national benchmark) | National | $1,200 to $2,500 for 360 booths |
Two things stand out. First, there is no consensus. A three hour 360 in this market is published at $600, at $699, at $850, at $950 and at $1,000 depending on who you ask. Second, a large share of the market publishes nothing at all for a 360 and asks you to fill out a form before you see a number. That includes the company with the strongest local search footprint in Broward.
One published claim is worth repeating because it comes from a competitor rather than from us. Esteem360 states that a two hour photo booth rental in the Fort Lauderdale and Broward market should not be priced below $550. You do not have to agree with the floor to notice that the company setting it also publishes its own prices, which is more than half this market does.
Why the same booth ranges from $350 to $1,250
The platform and the arm are the cheapest part of a 360 rental to buy. That is exactly why the price varies so much: the equipment is not what you are paying for. Here is what actually moves the number.
- Whether an attendant comes with it. This is the single biggest line. An attended booth requires a person on site for the whole window plus travel plus load in and out.
- Lighting. A 360 with no dedicated lighting produces dark, grainy clips at a dim reception, which is where most 360 booths actually run. Proper lighting is equipment, setup time and a person to aim it.
- Delivery of the clip. Sending on the spot needs a sharing station, a data connection and somebody watching it. Cheaper setups hand the files over later, or not at all.
- Whether travel is included. Miami to West Palm Beach is a real drive and somebody pays for it.
- Insurance. A venue that asks for a certificate of insurance will not let an uninsured vendor set up, and carrying coverage costs money that shows up in the price.
- How hours are structured. An hourly ladder and a flat package produce very different numbers for the same evening.
Notice what is not on that list: the video itself. A 360 clip from a $450 booth and a $1,000 booth are more similar than either company would like you to know. The gap is in whether the booth runs well for three straight hours with 150 people around it.
What a cheap 360 photo booth usually is
At the bottom of the published range, the product is usually a drop off. Somebody delivers a platform, switches it on, and leaves. That model is not a secret, and it is priced openly: Picture Perfect publishes a $350 two hour digital package with no attendant, where adding an attendant is a $50 upgrade. Once you know the drop off model exists, the low end of the 360 range stops being mysterious.
A bare platform with nobody standing next to it costs you four specific things.
- Throughput. Nobody moves the line, nobody resets props, nobody tells the group of nine that the platform takes seven. A 360 tops out around 40 guests per hour attended. Unattended it is slower, and the gap widens as the night gets louder.
- Safety. The platform holds up to 7 guests with a 1,200 lb limit, and guests in heels and long dresses are stepping up onto it after a couple of drinks. An attendant is the person who steadies them and the person who counts.
- Recovery. If the software hangs or a battery dies at 9:15pm, an unattended booth is done for the night. There is nobody there to notice.
- Lighting and framing. Rooms change over an evening. Somebody has to adjust, or the last hour of clips looks worse than the first.
None of that means a drop off is a scam. For a small backyard party with thirty guests and good light, a cheap unattended platform can be exactly the right purchase, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. For a 150 person wedding at a hotel ballroom, it is a false economy, and the failure mode is that the booth sits unused after hour one.
The hourly ladder, and what it actually tells you
Divide any published price by its hours and the pricing model shows itself. Here is that division run on the local numbers above.
Published 360 prices converted to cost per hour
| Offer | Total | Hours | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 360 Photo Booth Rental Miami, from | $350 | 2 | $175 |
| Picture Perfect Spin 360 | $450 | 2 | $225 |
| Epic Events Booth, 3hr low end | $600 | 3 | $200 |
| Motion 360 Photo Booth | $699 | 3 | $233 |
| Esteem360 Studios | $800 | 2 | $400 |
| Picture Perfect 360 Experience | $850 | 3 | $283 |
| Epic Events Booth, 3hr high end | $950 | 3 | $317 |
| Esteem360 Studios | $1,000 | 3 | $333 |
| Esteem360 Studios | $1,250 | 4 | $313 |
The one hour prices are the tell. A published one hour 360 at $600 is not a rate, it is a minimum with an hour attached. The crew still travels, still loads in, still sets up for 35 minutes and still tears down. That fixed cost is why per hour pricing falls sharply as the booking gets longer, and it is why almost nobody in this market will sell you a single hour at a third of the three hour price.
The other useful read is what a fourth hour costs inside an existing ladder. Going from three hours at $1,000 to four hours at $1,250 prices that extra hour at $250. Motion charges $150 to $250 for an extra hour depending on booth, which lands in the same band. If a company will not tell you its overtime rate before you book, assume it is at the top of it.
The fees that move the number after the quote
A 360 quote is a starting point at most companies. Three fees do most of the damage, and two of them are published locally, which is rare enough to name.
Overtime. Epic Events publishes $75 to $150 per hour. Add ons are published at $50 to $200. Those are real numbers on a live page, which already puts that company ahead of the half of this market that publishes nothing.
Travel. National figures put travel at $50 to $300. In a tri-county market that is not a rounding error, because a Miami company quoting a West Palm Beach wedding is quoting a real drive. Motion includes Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach at no travel fee, so the tri-county travel line is zero.
Idle time. This is the one people never see coming. If the booth is covered and closed during dinner and speeches, some companies bill that as a separate line. At Motion it is not a separate charge and it counts toward your booked hours. Ask the question before you sign, because the answer is rarely on the website.
Those are three of a longer list. We keep the full accounting of what gets left off a South Florida photo booth quote in its own guide rather than repeating it here.
What $699 covers
Motion's 360 is $699 for 3 hours. That includes the attendant, setup and teardown, travel anywhere in Broward, Miami-Dade or Palm Beach, an online gallery hosted for three years, $1M per occurrence liability with a COI issued within 48 hours, and a backup camera on the job. An extra hour is $150 to $250. Idle time is not billed separately.
Cost per guest, which is the number that actually matters
Price per hour is a useful sanity check. Price per guest reached is the number that tells you whether the booth was worth it. A 360 is a serial booth: one group on the platform, arm pass, step off, clip processes. That structure caps any 360 at roughly 40 guests per hour regardless of whose logo is on the platform.
Use 40 per hour as the working ceiling and a three hour 360 delivers about 120 guest turns. Motion at $699 works out to roughly $5.83 per turn. Run the same division on the other published three hour prices in the table above and you get a range from about $5.00 up to about $8.33. That is the honest spread, and it is far narrower than the headline price gap suggests.
Two consequences follow. First, a cheap 360 is only cheap per guest if it actually runs for the full window, which is the exact thing an unattended booth cannot promise. Second, if your head count is well above 120, a 360 alone will not reach your room no matter what you paid. Our guests per hour guide has the full arithmetic and the comparison against print booths.
Any 360 caps at roughly 40 guests an hour. You are not buying speed. You are buying whether it still runs at 10pm.
What Motion charges for a 360, and what comes with it
The 360 Photo Booth is $699 for 3 hours. An extra hour is $150 to $250. A custom printed backdrop is $250, a full booth wrap is $250, a second attendant is $150, and data capture and reporting is $75. Those numbers are on the site, not behind a form.
Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach carry no travel fee. Idle time counts toward your booked hours rather than appearing as its own charge. An attendant is included on every booking, the crew arrives 60 minutes before doors, coverage is $1M per occurrence and $2M aggregate with a COI to your venue within 48 hours, and the work is backed by a written guarantee.
If you have a competing 360 quote in hand, the fastest way to compare is to ask that company three questions: is an attendant included, is travel to my venue included, and what is the overtime rate. See the 360 booth page for the full spec, or see pricing for the rest of the lineup.
Common questions
How much is a 360 photo booth rental?
In South Florida, published prices run from $350 for two hours up to $1,250 for four. Three hour packages are published locally at $600, $699, $850, $950 and $1,000 by different companies. Motion charges $699 for 3 hours with an attendant included. Nationally, 360 booths are quoted at $1,200 to $2,500.
Why are some 360 photo booth rentals so cheap?
The cheapest listings are usually drop offs: a platform delivered, switched on and left. That model is published openly in this market, including a $350 two hour package where adding an attendant costs $50 more. You are not paying less for the same thing. You are paying less because nobody is standing next to it.
How much is a 360 photo booth for 4 hours?
Published four hour prices in this market run from $800 to $1,250, with one company listing a $800 to $1,200 range. Inside an existing ladder, the fourth hour tends to price at about $250. Motion starts at $699 for 3 hours and charges $150 to $250 for each additional hour depending on the booth.
What do you need for a 360 photo booth?
A clear circle about 10 feet across so the camera arm can complete its pass, and a 7 foot ceiling. No power outlet is needed, which is why a 360 can sit in the middle of a dance floor or out on a lawn. Setup takes 35 minutes. The platform holds up to 7 guests with a 1,200 lb limit.
Does a 360 photo booth rental include an attendant?
It depends entirely on the company, and it is the question that explains most of the price spread. At Motion an attendant is included on every booking with no upcharge. Elsewhere in this market an attendant is published as a paid add on, so confirm it in writing before you compare two quotes.
Are there travel fees for a 360 photo booth in Miami or Fort Lauderdale?
Often yes. National figures put photo booth travel at $50 to $300, and in a tri-county market a Miami company quoting a Palm Beach venue is quoting a real drive. Motion includes Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach in the price, so there is no travel fee anywhere inside the tri-county area.
Is a 360 photo booth worth the money?
It depends on your crowd and your head count. A 360 reaches about 40 guests per hour, so three hours covers roughly 120 turns. At a large wedding it will not reach the whole room, and older guests frequently will not step onto the platform. For a quinceanera or a crowd in its teens and twenties, it is the booth people line up for.
Motion Event Productions
Every price on this page is on our pricing page
No form to see a number. No travel fee in Broward, Miami-Dade or Palm Beach. Idle time counts toward your booked hours instead of being billed on top. An attendant comes with every booking.
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