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99designs publishes its prices, which is rarer than it should be: a logo contest starts at €289 excluding tax for roughly thirty concepts and tops out at €1,299 for the Platinum pack. Design Elite charges €949.90 to €2,099.90 per month excluding VAT for unlimited requests across your whole brand. These two models answer different questions.
The No. 1 subscription-based design studio in France
A 99designs contest produces a lot of directions at once and then stops. Design Elite produces fewer directions at a time and never stops, with the same team carrying your brand guidelines from one brief to the next.
After the logo come the variations, the social posts, the landing pages, the sales deck. Here that is the same subscription. With contests it is another pack to buy.
You do not re-explain your brand every time. Brief 30 starts with the same context as brief 1.
€949.90 to €2,099.90 per month excluding VAT, no commitment. The price does not track how many visuals you ask for.
Design Elite is a subscription design studio. Prestige at €949.90, Elite at €1,399.90 and Commando at €2,099.90 per month excluding VAT with no commitment, and lower rates on 3, 6 and 12-month terms. Motion design is on the Commando plan only.
Briefs are not capped and a project manager sequences them. The same team handles your identity, your campaigns, your sales collateral and your pages, which is precisely the thing a contest cannot do.
We do not do development, email marketing, video production, paid media, CRM setup or moderated user research.
99designs, owned by Vista, runs on contests: you post a brief with a fixed budget and dozens of designers submit concepts. The prices are public: Bronze at €289, Silver at €479, Gold at €859 and Platinum at €1,299, excluding sales tax, for roughly 30, 60, 90 and 60 concepts. Gold and Platinum are restricted to Expert-level designers and add a dedicated consultant.
What 99designs does better than us, clearly: breadth of exploration in a single shot. Thirty distinct creative directions for €289, with full copyright ownership and a money-back guarantee, is something no monthly retainer can match. If you are naming a new company and do not yet know which direction you want, that is the right purchase.
The limit shows up right after. The winning designer is not signed on for what comes next, no art director arbitrates between the submissions, and the designers who did not win worked for free, which explains part of the variance in quality. Keeping a brand alive all year would mean buying another pack every time.
€949.90 to €2,099.90 per month, excluding VAT
A few directed options, iterated until right
Hired and art-directed in-house
Same team, same guidelines, brief after brief
Rights to the deliverables assigned to you
Covered by the same subscription
Design only, motion design on Commando
You have a brand to keep running all year
Fixed price per contest, €289 to €1,299 excl. tax
Roughly 30 to 90 concepts, all in one wave
Intermediate and Expert tiers, depending on pack
A contest has no memory of the last one
Full copyright and money-back, included
A new pack for every new need
Logo, print, packaging, web: a very broad catalog
You are looking for a starting creative direction
Billing model
Number of directions
How designers are picked
Consistency over time
Rights and guarantee
What follows the logo
Scope
Pick this when
99designs
Bronze pack, roughly 30 concepts
€289 excl. tax
99designs
Platinum pack, Expert designers only
€1,299 excl. tax
Design Elite
Elite plan, unlimited requests
€1,399.90 / month
A contest delivers a creative direction and then ends. If what you actually have is a stream of visuals, pages and collateral that never ends, the subscription is the better shape.
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