heat pump cost Little Rock Fayetteville Fort Smith

A whole-home ducted heat pump costs $7,000–$12,000 installed in Arkansas in 2026, with a typical job landing near $9,000. Arkansas is one of the cheapest states in the country to run a heat pump — power averages 13.6 cents a kilowatt-hour and the heat pump beats gas on fuel at every efficiency tier — yet it is also one of the thinnest rebate states: SWEPCO pays in the northwest, OG&E pays around Fort Smith, and Entergy Arkansas, the utility serving Little Rock and about 615,000 homes, pays $0 for a heat pump. This guide prices every system from one mini-split head to geothermal, compares Little Rock, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, and Jonesboro, works the running-cost sums in full, and is blunt about the federal money that is not here: the tax credit is $0 and Arkansas’s HEAR rebates have not launched.