The short answer
Buy a fixed-price project for a defined outcome with a deadline, like a new brand or website. Choose a monthly design subscription when you have a steady stream of smaller work: pages, features and tests. Hire in-house once design is a daily, full-time need and you can lead it. A common path is to go through them in that order as you grow.
| Fixed-price project | Design subscription | In-house designer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | A defined outcome: brand, site or product | A steady stream of smaller work | Daily, full-time design work |
| Commitment | One scope, one price | Monthly; pause or stop any month | An employment contract |
| Skills | The disciplines the project needs | A team: design and development | One person’s skill set |
| Time to start | About a week to a proposal | About a week to a proposal | Recruiting and onboarding |
| Who manages the work | The studio runs the project | You set priorities; the team runs the work | You manage the person |
| With Visinex | Websites from $5,500, fixed price | Price on request | Not applicable |
When a project fits
A project fits when you know the outcome and the deadline: a new brand before a raise, a website before a launch, a product redesign before a big release. You agree the scope and one fixed price up front, and the studio runs the work to a date.
At Visinex websites start from $5,500, brand identities from $6,500 and the Brand & launch package from $12,000, excluding VAT.
When a design subscription fits
A subscription fits when the work never really ends: new landing pages every month, product features, conversion tests, AI workflows and maintenance. Instead of scoping each small job, you keep a team that already knows your brand and code.
Our design subscription is monthly, run by the same senior team, and you can pause or stop it any month.
When to hire in-house
Hire when design is a daily, full-time need and someone on your team can lead it: give direction, review the work and protect the time for it. A good first designer often joins a system a studio set up, not a blank page.
One person rarely covers brand, product, web and code at a senior level, so many teams keep a studio for the disciplines their hire doesn’t cover.
How the costs compare
A project is one fixed price for one outcome. A subscription is a monthly fee you can pause. An in-house designer costs a salary plus everything around it: benefits, tools, equipment, recruiting and the time it takes to manage and onboard them.
Compare them on the work you actually need over the next six months, not on the monthly number alone.
Combining them
Most teams don’t pick one forever. A typical sequence: a fixed-price project to launch the brand and site, a design subscription for the stream of work after launch, and an in-house hire once design is daily work. Many of our projects start with one package and continue as a partnership.
Our take
We offer both fixed-price projects and a monthly design subscription, so we can recommend either. If your work comes in bursts with deadlines, buy projects. If it is a steady stream, a subscription saves you scoping every small job. When you’re ready to hire, we help your first designer start from a system, not from scratch.