Key Copies in Cancun | Duplicates Cut On Site
This is the least dramatic page on this site and the one that saves the most money. A spare key costs a few dozen pesos. A lockout costs several hundred and takes an hour out of an evening. The maths has never been close.
We cut copies for houses, apartments, condos, padlocks, roller shutters, mailboxes, offices and storerooms, and we come to you rather than the other way round — which is worth knowing if you are a host with six units in three buildings and no interest in spending an afternoon at a hardware counter.
There is a category of key that ordinary copy machines get wrong, and it is worth knowing which one you have. Restricted and high-security profiles — the ones with a wavy groove milled into the flat of the blade, or a card that came with the lock — need a different machine and often the card itself. A cheap copy of one of those either does not turn at all or, worse, turns for a month and then jams inside the cylinder, which is how a $60 peso problem becomes a $900 peso one.
Why get copies from us
We come to you
Houses, condos, offices, several units in one visit. If you manage rentals, doing the whole set at once costs less per key and takes one appointment instead of five.
We cut the profiles shops turn away
Security profiles, restricted keys, shutter and padlock keys, tubular keys. If a copy needs the security card that came with the lock, we will tell you before charging you rather than after the key fails.
Every copy is tested in your lock
A key that turns on the machine and not in the door is not a key. Each copy gets tried in the actual lock before we leave, which is the one thing a hardware counter physically cannot do.
Copies from a lock, not just from a key
Lost every key you had? We can read the cylinder and cut a working key from it, no locksmith-fiction required. It costs more than a copy and far less than replacing the lock.
How we work
Step 1 · Photograph the key
Send a picture of both sides on WhatsApp. From that we can tell whether it is a standard profile, a security one, or one that needs its card.
Step 2 · Say how many and for how many doors
Copies are cheaper per key in batches, and if several doors share a profile we can often key them alike.
Step 3 · We come and cut
Standard profiles are cut on the spot in a couple of minutes each.
Step 4 · Every copy is tested
In your lock, both directions, before payment.
What key copies cost in Cancun
A standard house key is $40 to $80 pesos, about $2 to $5. Security and restricted profiles cost more because the blank and the machine cost more. Reading a lock to cut a key with no original is a separate job.
| Service | Range (MXN) | What affects it |
|---|---|---|
| Standard house or apartment key | $40 – $80 MXN · ~$2 – $5 USD | Common profile, cut on site |
| Security or restricted profile | $150 – $400 MXN · ~$9 – $23 USD | Blank cost; may need the security card |
| Padlock, shutter or mailbox key | $60 – $180 MXN · ~$3 – $10 USD | Type of blank |
| Key cut from the lock, no original | $400 – $900 MXN · ~$23 – $51 USD | Reading the cylinder, type of lock |
| Call-out for on-site cutting | $150 – $300 MXN · ~$9 – $17 USD | Waived on batches; ask when you call |
Batch pricing for hosts and building managers. Ask when you call.