Three Designjoy alternatives cover most of what a SaaS team actually asks for: Eleken when you want one dedicated designer on product UI work [5], Cluma when you need several design disciplines moving in the same week [6], and Awesomic when the monthly entry price has to stay low [4].
All three answer the same trigger. Designjoy runs one request at a time, and Brett, the founder, does the work himself [1]. That's a clean model with a ceiling, and your roadmap finds the ceiling the week it wants a pricing page, an onboarding flow and a launch campaign at once.
Cluma publishes this post and is one of the six services listed, on the same basis as the other five.
Every price, capacity limit, discipline and contract term below was read on the provider’s own live page on 17 October 2026 and carries a citation. None of it is independently audited.
You get two comparison tables, a section on where Designjoy still wins, and one profile per alternative.
What are the best Designjoy alternatives for SaaS teams?
The five covered here are ManyPixels, Penji, Awesomic, Eleken and Cluma, and they separate on two things: how much work runs in parallel, and which disciplines are in scope.
Price is the easy column, and it isn't the one that decides this. Parallel capacity is what sends people looking for a Designjoy alternative in the first place, so it sits right beside the rate.
| Service | Price per month | What runs in parallel | Contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Designjoy | $4,995, shown as a lifetime discount from a listed $5,995 [1] | One request at a time, up to 2 users [1] | Pause or cancel anytime, 75% back in week one [1] |
| ManyPixels | $699 to $2,599 on monthly billing [2] | One project, two on the $1,199 tier, one or two assigned designers above that [2] | No contract, cancel any time, pause for $10 a month [2] |
| Penji | $995 to $4,500 [3] | 2, 3 or 4 active workstreams by tier [3] | No contracts, cancel anytime, a 30-day refund the page also words as your first month [3] |
| Awesomic | $200 to $2,995, plus a tier on request [4] | One active task at a time, no per-tier breakdown [4] | Monthly has no commitment, quarterly cancels only after three months [4] |
| Eleken | $4,599 to $11,999 [5] | One part-time, one or two full-time designers [5] | Two-month minimum, pause or cancel anytime after it [5] |
| Cluma | $2,995 to $4,995 per module [6] | One request per module, nine modules [6] | 7-day trial, first month in full, then pause or cancel anytime [6] |
Two columns in that table need reading twice. The rate shown is monthly billing, and ManyPixels, Penji and Awesomic each publish a lower number against a quarterly or yearly commitment [2][3][4]. Cluma’s figure is per module, so three modules means three module rates [6].
The second table holds what usually decides a shortlist: who sits on the other end, and what they're allowed to touch.
| Service | Disciplines | Who does the work | Best fit in one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Designjoy | Landing pages, branding, ad creative, display ads, presentations, logos, social, email, print, packaging, mobile apps, UI/UX, Webflow and front-end development [1] | Brett, the founder, solo, employing no other designers and outsourcing to nobody [1] | Landing pages and brand work from one experienced designer |
| ManyPixels | Graphic design, web and landing page design, illustration, motion, video [2] | The ManyPixels design team on the lower two tiers, one or two part-time designers you pick yourself on the upper two, with a project manager assigning work [2] | A steady graphic queue with coordination included |
| Penji | Branding, ads, social, print, presentations, web and landing page design, front-end development on the top tier [3] | Full-time Penji employees across 20+ countries, by the company’s own description, under art-director oversight by tier [3] | Several marketing workstreams at once |
| Awesomic | Graphic design, UI/UX, web and app design, branding, video, no-code development, software development on the top tier [4] | Matched talent, part-time on the middle tiers, full-time with a dedicated project manager on the top tier [4] | A low monthly entry point into the model |
| Eleken | SaaS product design only: product redesign, MVP design from scratch, team extension, UX audit, design systems [5] | One assigned designer, trained for three months before assignment, in direct contact with no project manager [5] | Continuous product UI and UX from one designer |
| Cluma | Design only, in nine modules: brand, websites and landing pages, product UI and UX, paid creative, organic social, investor comms, reports, events and print, internal training [6] | A senior designer owns direction and signs off every deliverable, with mid-level and junior support behind the scenes | Two or three disciplines moving in the same week |
No scores and no ranking here, and that's on purpose. Each row is what the service publishes about itself, and the fit line is the job those published facts describe. You do the comparing, because only you know which queue is actually backing up.
How much does Designjoy cost?
Designjoy costs $4,995 a month, shown on its page as a lifetime discount from a listed $5,995 and marked as a limited-time offer [1].
That rate carries one request at a time, up to two users on the account, unlimited brands and an average delivery the page states as 48 hours [1]. You can pause or cancel anytime, and the week-one guarantee returns 75% rather than the whole amount [1].
Every service in this post publishes a lower entry rate than $4,995, from $200 to $4,599 a month, and they don't buy the same thing at that number.
Are there free Designjoy alternatives?
No. None of these five is free, and all six services here are monthly subscriptions [1][2][3][4][5][6].
The lowest paid entry point in the group is Awesomic’s AI Designer tier at $200 a month, which the page describes as generating landing pages, websites and web apps [4].
Two services let you see output before a full month is due. Eleken publishes a three-day free trial that produces one or two sample screens, and that trial sits inside a two-month minimum contract [5]. Cluma publishes a seven-day trial, with the first month paid in full after it [6].
When is Designjoy still the better choice?
Designjoy is the better choice when one experienced designer working one request at a time is exactly the shape you want, and its own page makes that case in three places.
One person does the work. The page describes Designjoy as a one-man agency run by Brett, the founder, and says it does not employ other designers or outsource work to any other entity [1]. The same hand touches every file, and nobody's learning your brand for a second time.
Turnaround is fast and published. The page gives an average of 48 hour delivery and says most requests are completed in just two business days or less [1]. For a steady stream of single, well-defined requests, that's fast and it's predictable.
The scope is wide for a one-person service. Landing pages, branding, ad creative, presentations, packaging, mobile apps, UI/UX and Webflow development all sit on the same list [1].
So if your design work arrives one item at a time, and most of it is a landing page, a brand asset or an ad, this shortlist may be solving a problem you don't have yet. The Cluma and Designjoy side-by-side lays both models out field by field.
Which design subscription fits when one designer is not enough?
Capacity is the dividing line. One request at a time is a queue, and it holds up right until two teams need design in the same week. Then it doesn't.
Here's each alternative on its own terms: price, parallel capacity, who does the work, contract, disciplines, then the one job it's built for.
ManyPixels: a shared design team or an assigned designer
ManyPixels publishes four monthly tiers at $699, $1,199, $1,399 and $2,599, with lower rates against quarterly and yearly commitments [2].
The two lower tiers put the ManyPixels design team on your account with next-day delivery, working on one project at a time at $699 and on two projects simultaneously at $1,199 [2]. The two upper tiers assign one or two part-time designers you pick yourself, working Monday to Friday in your timezone from US Eastern, EU or Indochina, with same-day delivery [2]. A project manager assigns your work in every tier [2].
There's no contract. You can cancel any time with no fee, or pause for $10 a month and keep access to your files [2]. No trial period is stated on the pricing page.
Disciplines are graphic design, web and landing page design, illustration, motion and video [2]. Product UI, design systems and SaaS app work aren't on the page.
Best fit: a marketing team with a steady graphic queue that wants a named designer at the top of the range and someone coordinating in between.
Penji: two to four workstreams by tier
Penji publishes three tiers: Essentials at $995, Agency Partner at $1,995 and Dedicated Team at $4,500 a month, with 15% off quarterly and 20% off yearly [3].
Capacity is written as active workstreams, and every tier states a number. Two on Essentials with a one business day turnaround, three on Agency Partner with same-day, four on Dedicated Team with real-time collaboration [3].
Oversight rises with the tier, from project-manager oversight to an art director to a senior art director leading a dedicated creative pod [3]. Penji describes its designers as full-time employees across 20+ countries, and that is the company’s own account of its team [3].
There aren't any contracts and you cancel in the app or by email [3]. The page words the refund twice and the two readings differ: its FAQ says a full refund within 30 days, no questions asked, and the line above the tiers says a refund of your first month [3]. Scope covers branding, ads, social, print, presentations and web and landing page design, with full front-end development and senior-creatives-only staffing on the top tier [3].
Best fit: marketing functions running several workstreams at once that want the oversight layer handled rather than managed in-house.
Awesomic: the lowest entry price in this group
Awesomic publishes AI Designer at $200 a month, Graphic Pack at $1,490, All-in-One at $2,995 and a Dedicated Talent tier on request [4].
The page puts one active task at a time beside the plan comparison and breaks it down for no individual tier, so this comparison reports that line as it stands rather than assigning a figure to each tier [4]. What it does state is the staffing: part-time talents on Graphic Pack and All-in-One, and a full-time dedicated talent plus a dedicated project manager on Dedicated Talent [4].
Monthly billing carries no commitment. The quarterly plan saves 20% and, in the page’s own words, can only be canceled after three months of use [4]. That matters if you're buying the discount to try the service.
Disciplines run from graphic design, UI/UX and web and app design to branding and video, with no-code development in Webflow and Framer, and software development on the Dedicated Talent tier [4].
Best fit: a small team testing the subscription model at a low monthly number, or one that wants design and no-code implementation on the same invoice.
Eleken: SaaS product design only, with a minimum term
Eleken publishes a part-time designer at $4,599 a month, a full-time designer at $6,599 and two full-time designers at $11,999 [5].
Both halves of the contract belong in the same sentence. The minimum contract is two months, and every tier also carries a three-day free trial producing one or two sample screens plus pause-or-cancel-anytime terms once that minimum is behind you [5].
Your designer is assigned to you individually and completes three months of Eleken training before any assignment, and you talk to them directly, with no project manager in the middle [5].
The scope is narrow by design: product redesign, design from scratch for an MVP, team extension, UX audit, design systems and product design engineering [5]. Branding, paid ads and social content aren't on the page.
Best fit: product teams that need continuous UI and UX work from one designer who stays on the product long enough to know it.
Cluma: nine modules, one request running in each
Cluma publishes modules from $2,995 to $4,995 a month, one flat rate per module: uReport and uTrain at $2,995, uCreate, uFund and uStage at $3,495, uBrand and uRun at $3,995, uPublish at $4,495 and uShip at $4,995 [6].
Capacity scales with the modules you switch on. One request is in progress per module, unlimited requests sit in the queue, and modules go on and off month to month [6]. Three active modules mean three requests moving at once, at three module rates.
A senior designer owns direction and signs off the final output on every deliverable. We don't claim one senior executes all of it, so mid-level and junior support sits behind the scenes.
The contract is a seven-day trial, then the first month paid in full, then pause or cancel anytime with no cancellation fee. A pause stops billing immediately and banks your unused days until you come back [6].
All nine modules are design: brand, websites and landing pages, product UI and UX, paid creative, organic social, investor comms, reports and data visualisation, events and print, and internal training [6].
Best fit: a SaaS team that needs two or three disciplines moving in the same week. Early-stage teams start on the startup plan, and every module rate is published on pricing.
How do you choose between design subscriptions?
Five questions decide it, and every answer already sits on the provider’s own pricing page.
Take them in this order. Capacity first, because it's the one that can stop you using the subscription at all.
| Question to ask | Why it decides the answer | Where to look it up |
|---|---|---|
| How many requests run in parallel? | Design arrives in bursts, and a one-at-a-time queue makes the second thing you need wait for the first | The pricing table, tier by tier, written as requests, projects, workstreams or active tasks |
| Which disciplines are in scope, and which cost extra? | A service built for ad creative may not touch product UI, and a product service may not touch brand | The discipline list beside each tier, and anything marked as an add-on |
| Who actually does the work? | A named designer learns your product, a rotating team spreads the load, and both can be the right answer | The team or talent section, and whether a tier says dedicated, assigned or rotating |
| What is the minimum term? | It sets the real cost of trying the service, which is rarely one month of the headline rate | The contract line, plus the small print under any quarterly or yearly rate |
| What happens if you pause? | A pause is how a subscription survives a quiet month, and the terms differ by service | The pause or cancel wording, including fees, file access and what happens to unused days |
Two of those answers are easy to get wrong from a homepage. Parallel capacity sometimes appears as hours a day rather than as a number of requests, and the lowest headline rate is often the one tied to a quarterly or yearly commitment.
Write your own five answers down before you take a sales call. Five answers side by side are the comparison, and the method works on any service this post doesn't cover.
Cluma runs this kind of work as design, never as development: product UI and UX sits in the Ship module, websites and landing pages in Publish. We design them, and the build stays with your engineers. Everyday graphic tasks come back in about 48 hours, and bigger product and website work moves milestone by milestone, with progress roughly every 48 hours in a shared board.
If you want the wider field instead of the Designjoy-specific one, our ten-service guide covers it, and the rest of the playbooks sit on the Cluma guides page.
Where this comparison stops
Five limits, and we'd rather print them here than let you find them later.
Every price, capacity limit and contract term above is the provider’s own published claim, read on 17 October 2026. We audited none of it, and no service here was hired or tested for this post.
Subscription pricing moves. The date is part of the claim, so open the current page before you sign anything or quote a number to your finance team.
Awesomic puts one active task at a time beside its plan comparison and breaks it down for no individual tier, so that cell says exactly that [4]. We report the page's own line rather than assigning a number to each tier.
Nothing here rates quality, speed or output. We hold no first-party data on any of the six, and a score built out of marketing pages would be a guess with a decimal point attached.
And Cluma publishes this post. We're one of the six listed, in the same columns, with the same single citation to our own page as everybody else got to theirs.
Related guides from Cluma
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- Best AI Design Tools for SaaS Product Teams in 2026
- Web Design Cost Calculator: Estimate and Check Your Quote (Free)
- SaaS Design Investment Statistics 2026: What Holds Up
From Cluma, the modular design subscription for SaaS teams: pricing, Cluma next to Designjoy, and the startup plan.
References
- Designjoy, pricing and service page, read 17.10.2026. Tier 4, vendor-published. Source of the $4,995 rate, the listed $5,995, one request at a time, up to 2 users, the one-man-agency description, the 48 hour average and the 75% week-one guarantee. Known weakness: the provider’s own page, so price, capacity, turnaround and scope are its own unaudited claims and can change without notice.
- ManyPixels, pricing, read 17.10.2026. Tier 4, vendor-published. Source of the four monthly tiers, the design-team and assigned-designer split, one project at a time at $699 and two simultaneously at $1,199, the Monday-to-Friday timezone terms on the two upper tiers, the $10 pause and cancel-any-time terms. Known weakness: vendor’s own page. It states no trial period, which is why this post says none is stated rather than that none exists. The published /faq path redirects to the homepage today, so every contract term here was taken from the pricing page.
- Penji, pricing, read 17.10.2026. Tier 4, vendor-published. Source of the three tiers, the 2, 3 and 4 active workstreams, the oversight tiers, the no-contract and 30-day refund terms and the front-end development on the top tier. Known weaknesses: the full-time employees across 20+ countries line is Penji’s own account of its staffing and is labelled as such in the text, and the page words the refund two ways, a full refund within 30 days in the FAQ and a refund of your first month above the tiers, so this post reports both.
- Awesomic, pricing, read 17.10.2026. Tier 4, vendor-published. Source of the $200, $1,490 and $2,995 tiers, the Dedicated Talent tier on request, the staffing by tier, the discipline split and the quarterly cancellation rule. Known weakness: the page gives one active task at a time beside the plan comparison and no per-tier breakdown, which is how this post reports it throughout.
- Eleken, pricing, read 17.10.2026. Tier 4, vendor-published. Source of the three tiers, the two-month minimum contract, the three-day trial with one or two sample screens, the three months of training before assignment, the no-project-manager model and the product-design-only scope. Known weakness: vendor’s own page, and the two-month minimum sits in a different place on it from the pause-anytime wording, so this post reports the two together.
- Cluma, pricing, read 17.10.2026. Tier 4, vendor-published, and it is ours. Source of the nine module rates, one request in progress per module with unlimited queued requests, and the trial, first-month and pause terms. Known weakness, stated plainly: Cluma publishes this post and is one of the six services listed, on the same basis as the other five.
