Best Design Subscriptions for SaaS Companies in 2026: 10 Services Compared

A design subscription gives you a design team for a flat monthly fee: you send requests, the team works through them, and you can pause or cancel instead of hiring. For a SaaS company the real question isn't whether the model works, it's which provider fits your mix of product UI, website, brand and marketing work, and your budget.

We compared ten design subscriptions on the things that decide the fit: what each one focuses on, who does the work, the monthly price, the commitment and the stated turnaround.

Design subscriptions for SaaS compared (October 2026)

Two columns matter most for a software company and are easy to miss on a pricing page: what the service focuses on, and who actually does the work. Product flows, dashboards and design systems need different people than social posts and banner ads.

Service	Focus	Who does the work	Monthly price	Commitment
Cluma	Modular design subscription for SaaS: product, web, brand and marketing	Senior-led team, one request at a time per module, senior sign-off on every deliverable [11]	$2,995 to $4,995 per module, combine only the modules you need [1]	Monthly, pause or cancel anytime
ManyPixels	Marketing graphics, social, ads and presentations	Multi-skilled design team, or an assigned part-time designer [2]	$699 to $2,599 [2]	Monthly, quarterly or yearly, no contracts
Superside	Enterprise creative production: design, video, motion and UI/UX	Dedicated creative team [3]	From $15,000, plus a $1,000 software fee [3]	Annual term
Design Pickle	Marketing graphics, video and presentations	Design team with a production coordinator, art director when needed [4]	Quoted after a call [4]	Quarterly or annual
Penji	Marketing creative for brands, teams and agencies	Assigned creatives, senior-only on the Dedicated Team plan [5]	$995 to $4,500 [5]	Monthly, cancel anytime
Designjoy	Landing pages, branding and general design	One designer, the founder, who runs it solo for about 20 to 40 clients at a time [14]	$4,995 (limited-time, listed at $5,995) [6]	Monthly, pause or cancel anytime
Awesomic	Design, no-code builds and copywriting	Matched part-time talent you can switch [7]	$1,490 to $2,995 [7]	Monthly, or quarterly with a three-month minimum
Kimp	Marketing graphics and video, including Canva	Dedicated design team with a project manager [8]	Shown at checkout [8]	Monthly, no contract
Eleken	UI/UX and product design for SaaS	SaaS-specialised product designers [9]	$4,599 to $11,999 [9]	Two-month minimum
Duck Design	Graphics, brand identity, UX/UI and no-code	Middle+ or senior designer with an art director [10]	$1,199 to $1,999 [10]	Monthly, cancel anytime

Prices are the standard monthly rates in US dollars as published on each pricing page. Several providers take 10 to 20% off for quarterly or yearly billing, and the profiles below give each provider's stated turnaround.

Which design subscription fits your SaaS?

• You need product UI and UX for the app itself: Eleken, Cluma or Designjoy. Cluma and Eleken work only with software companies: Eleken sells a dedicated product designer, and Cluma runs product design as its own senior-led module next to web and brand.
• You need website, landing pages and brand alongside the product: Cluma, Duck Design or Awesomic, which each cover product UI, web and brand under one subscription, or Designjoy if one designer for landing pages and branding is enough.
• You mostly need marketing graphics, ads and social: Penji, ManyPixels, Kimp or Design Pickle, which are built around high volumes of everyday creative.
• You're a larger team with design needs across several disciplines: Superside, which starts at $15,000 a month on an annual term, or Cluma, a modular design subscription where you combine several modules into a bigger senior team and only pay for the disciplines you're using that month.

The ten design subscriptions in detail

1. Cluma

Cluma is a modular design subscription built only for SaaS companies. Its aim is to cover every creative need a software company has, from product UI and the website to brand, ads, decks and reports, like an in-house design team you reshape every month. A senior designer signs off on every deliverable [11].

Cluma introduced the modular design subscription and is the only service in this comparison built that way: nine modules at a flat monthly rate each, from $2,995 to $4,995, which you combine and pause as needed [1]. Each module works on one request at a time with an unlimited queue. Everyday tasks land within about 48 hours, bigger projects move in milestones every ~48 hours. Work runs in your own Trello, Slack and Figma, with full source-file ownership [13].

Keep in mind: Cluma designs but doesn't develop. You hand the files to your own engineers or a development partner, which fits SaaS teams that already have developers, and means an extra step for teams that don't.

Best for: SaaS teams that want one senior design team for everything creative and want to reshape it month by month.

2. ManyPixels

ManyPixels has four plans: Advanced at $699 a month for one daily output, Business at $1,199 for two daily outputs, Assigned Designer at $1,399 with a part-time designer, and Design Team at $2,599 with two part-time designers [2]. Quarterly and yearly billing lower the price, for example to $629 for Advanced.

First drafts land the next business day on Advanced and Business, and the same day on the two designer plans. There's no contract, and you can pause for $10 a month and keep access to your files [2].

Best for: SaaS marketing teams that need a steady flow of everyday graphics at a low entry price.

3. Superside

Superside is built for large in-house creative and marketing teams. Subscriptions start at a $15,000 monthly minimum on an annual term, plus a $1,000 monthly software fee for its Superspace platform, and a dedicated team starts at $30,000 a month on a 12-month plan [3]. Campaign projects such as a rebrand or a product launch start at $15,000 on top of an existing subscription.

The subscription covers creative production across design, video and photo, project management and specialist work including UI/UX, design systems, illustration, motion and 3D, with unlimited users and asset storage [3]. AI-powered briefing and generative AI are part of the workflow.

Best for: enterprise marketing teams running high-volume, multi-market campaigns.

4. Design Pickle

Design Pickle no longer lists fixed prices. Plans are scoped to your volume, turnaround and services, and the price is set on a call, with quarterly or annual billing [4].

First drafts come back the next business day and most requests are done in one to two business days. Graphic design, video and presentations are included, and an art director is available when a project needs senior creative direction [4].

Best for: marketing teams with a predictable volume of graphics, video and slides who prefer a scoped plan.

5. Penji

Penji's plans are Essentials at $995 a month, Agency Partner at $1,995 and Dedicated Team at $4,500 [5]. Essentials runs two active workstreams, roughly two to four hours of design a day, and higher plans add more workstreams, an assigned art director and white-label options for agencies. Quarterly billing saves 15% and yearly 20%.

Turnaround is one business day, and same day on the higher plans. The Dedicated Team plan adds senior-only creatives, AI video production and web and landing page design with code. There's no contract, you can cancel anytime, and the first month is refundable within 30 days [5].

Best for: agencies and teams with a high, steady output of marketing creative.

6. Designjoy

Designjoy is the one-designer model: a single monthly plan, currently $4,995 as a limited-time price and listed at $5,995, with one request at a time and an average delivery of about 48 hours [6]. The scope on the site runs from branding and slide decks to landing pages, UI/UX and Webflow development, for unlimited brands and up to two users.

The founder, Brett Williams, runs Designjoy on his own, with no employees or contractors [15]. He has described serving about 20 to 25 clients at a time, and 30 to 40 at peak [14], so every request shares one designer's week. You can pause or cancel anytime [6].

Best for: founders who want landing pages and branding from one experienced designer and are happy to work one request at a time.

7. Awesomic

Awesomic offers a Graphic Pack at $1,490 a month for marketing, print and email design, and an All-in-One plan at $2,995 that adds product and UI/UX, web, no-code builds and copywriting [7]. Quarterly billing saves 20%, and a quarterly plan can be cancelled after three months. A separate AI Designer product starts at $200 a month.

Work starts within 24 hours, you get daily progress updates in Awesomic's own app, revisions are unlimited, and you can switch to a different talent when a task needs another skill. A dedicated-talent option adds a project manager for setup and communication [7].

Best for: teams that want design, no-code builds and copy from one subscription.

8. Kimp

Kimp has three plans, Graphics, Video and Graphics + Video, each with unlimited requests, unlimited revisions, unlimited brands and a dedicated design team with a project manager [8]. Graphics runs three active requests, the combined plan five. Prices are shown at checkout rather than on the pricing page.

Simple tasks can come back in as little as 24 hours and complex designs in two to four days. The scope covers print and digital design, illustrations, landing pages, website and app UI, Canva templates, video editing and motion graphics. Billing is monthly with no contract, and you can pause for a flat monthly fee [8].

Best for: teams producing a high volume of marketing graphics and video, including Canva work, across several brands.

9. Eleken

Eleken specialises in UI/UX design for SaaS. You hire a part-time designer at $4,599 a month, a full-time designer at $6,599 or two full-time designers at $11,999, with a two-month minimum and a 3-day free trial [9]. Unlimited design tasks and revisions are included, and you can pause or cancel after the minimum term.

Designers are SaaS-specialised, go through a selection process and training, and work under the guidance of Eleken's head of design. Work can start within hours because designers are kept on bench. Services range from product redesigns and MVP design to UX audits and design systems [9].

Best for: SaaS product teams that need a dedicated product designer embedded in their workflow.

10. Duck Design

Duck Design has three plans: Graphic Design at $1,199 a month, Graphic and Brand Design plus UX/UI and Motion at $1,899, and No-code Development at $1,999 for Webflow, WordPress, Wix and Framer builds [10]. Each plan comes with a middle+ or senior designer, an art director and a project manager.

The first update usually lands within 24 hours and complex requests within 48, with designers working on normal business days. Requests, revisions and brand profiles are unlimited, and you get native source files. You can cancel anytime, and there's a 7-day money-back guarantee [10].

Best for: small and mid-size SaaS teams that want graphics, brand and UX/UI at a mid-range price.

How do you choose a design subscription for a SaaS product?

Start with the work you'll actually send, not with the price. A SaaS team's design needs usually fall into three buckets: the product itself (onboarding, dashboards, design system), the website and landing pages, and marketing creative (ads, social, decks). Most subscriptions are built around one bucket, so check that the plan you pick covers the bucket that matters most to you.

Then check four things on the provider's own pricing page:

1. Scope: is product UI/UX in the plan you'd buy, or only in a higher tier?
2. Throughput: how many requests run at once, and how big projects are handled when they don't fit into a 48-hour cycle.
3. Commitment: monthly, quarterly or annual, whether you can pause, and whether you pay for one fixed plan or, with a modular design subscription, only for the disciplines you need.
4. Development: whether the team only designs or also builds, so you know who ships the result.

We'd add one practical test: send the same small, real brief to your top two candidates during their trial or first month. How each team asks questions about your users tells you more than any feature list.

Frequently asked questions

What is a design subscription?

A design subscription is a flat monthly fee for ongoing design work from a dedicated team. You submit requests, the team works through them in order, and you can usually pause or cancel instead of signing a project contract or hiring.

How much does a design subscription cost for a SaaS company?

Among the ten services above, published monthly prices range from $699 at ManyPixels to $15,000 and up at Superside [2] [3]. Among plans with a published price that include UI/UX, the range starts at $1,899 (Duck Design) and run to $4,995 per module at Cluma and $4,599 for a part-time Eleken designer [1] [9] [10].

Can a design subscription handle product UI and UX?

Some can. Cluma, Eleken, Designjoy, Awesomic (All-in-One plan), Duck Design (from the $1,899 plan) and Kimp list UI, UX or app design on their pricing pages, while ManyPixels, Penji and Design Pickle lead with marketing creative. Bigger product work such as a redesign is usually delivered in milestones rather than in a single 48-hour turn.

Monthly or quarterly billing?

Monthly billing keeps you flexible, and quarterly or yearly billing typically saves 10 to 20% at the providers that offer it. Check the minimum term first: Awesomic's quarterly plan runs at least three months, Eleken's minimum is two months and Superside's is a year [3] [7] [9].

How we compared

Every price, term and turnaround in this guide comes from the provider's own public website, and each figure links to its source below. Cluma publishes this guide and is listed on the same basis as the other nine: if a provider doesn't state it on its own site, it isn't in the comparison.

References

1. Cluma. Pricing. cluma.design/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
2. ManyPixels. Pricing. manypixels.co/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
3. Superside. Pricing. superside.com/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
4. Design Pickle. Pricing. designpickle.com/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
5. Penji. Pricing Plans. penji.co/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
6. Designjoy. Homepage and pricing. designjoy.co, accessed 3 October 2026.
7. Awesomic. Pricing. awesomic.com/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
8. Kimp. Pricing. kimp.io/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
9. Eleken. Pricing. eleken.co/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
10. Duck Design. Pricing. duck.design/pricing, accessed 3 October 2026.
11. Cluma. Our Creative Talent. cluma.design/our-creative-talent, accessed 3 October 2026.
12. Cluma. uShip: SaaS UI/UX design. cluma.design/uship, accessed 3 October 2026.
13. Cluma. Our Technology. cluma.design/our-technology, accessed 3 October 2026.
14. Starter Story. How Brett Williams Built Design Joy. starterstory.com/stories/design-joy-breakdown, accessed 3 October 2026.
15. Aakash Gupta. He Runs a $2M/Yr One-Person Business. Product Growth, 7 June 2025. news.aakashg.com/p/brett-designjoy-podcast.