The Short Answer: Social Media Post Design Cost
A designed social media post costs about $5–$50 from a Fiverr freelancer at 2026 starting prices, where carousel design gigs start at a median of $15. A done-for-you service such as $99 Social works out to about $10 a post ($99 a month for 10), and an unlimited design subscription costs $699–$995 a month and up (ManyPixels, Penji).
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Those are other companies' published prices, checked October 26, 2026, not ours. Mark Studios designs posts, carousels and stories in each client's brand and quotes every order, so there is no Mark Studios price on this page.
Social Media Post Design Prices by Route
| Route | Published price | What it buys |
|---|---|---|
| Fiverr freelancer | Carousel gigs on page one start at $5–$250, median $15 | The seller's cheapest package; slides, copy and revisions vary by gig |
| $99 Social | $99 a month for 10 posts, $149 for 15, $189 for 20, $279 for 30 | Posts written, designed and published on one channel; extra channels $10 a month each |
| ManyPixels | $699 a month (one request at a time) to $2,599 (two part-time designers) | Unlimited design requests and revisions across social, ads, print and more |
| Penji | $995 a month (two active projects) to $4,500 (dedicated team) | Unlimited requests, including social graphics and Canva templates; 1-day turnaround on Essentials |
ManyPixels and Penji both discount longer billing: ManyPixels' entry plan falls to $629 a month billed quarterly and $559 yearly, and Penji takes 15% off quarterly and 20% off yearly. For running the accounts as well as designing for them, our guide to social media management cost covers the monthly retainers.
What a Carousel Costs on Fiverr
Fiverr lists 2,161 carousel design services, and 34 of the 48 on page one start at $25 or less (our count). Searches for one platform look the same: Instagram carousel gigs start at a median of $12.50 across 1,776 services, and LinkedIn carousel gigs at a median of $20 across 413.
A starting price is the seller's smallest package. Before you compare two gigs, check four things in the package table: how many slides it covers, whether you supply the text, how many revisions it includes, and whether you get the editable file (a Canva link or a source file) or only the exported images.
Per Post or per Month?
At three posts a week, a done-for-you service is the cheapest line in the chart, and it also writes the captions and publishes the posts. Its carousels are short, though: $99 Social's carousel add-on, starting at $5 a month, turns static posts into 2–4 slide carousels. A teaching carousel often runs 5 to 10 slides, and Instagram's carousels now hold up to 20 photos or videos, double the old limit of 10.
A design subscription costs more, but it isn't priced per post. One fee covers ads, flyers, presentations and anything else you queue, so it pays off when social posts are only part of the design you need each month. If social graphics are all you need, per-order design or a posting service costs less.
What Moves the Price
- Slides. A single image is one design; a 10-slide carousel is ten layouts that have to read in order.
- Copy. Writing the post text and caption is often an add-on on freelance gigs. $99 Social includes it.
- Brand setup. Someone has to build templates around your logo, colors and fonts before the first post. Ask whether the price covers a reusable template set.
- Sizes. Portrait 4:5 for the feed, square 1:1 and full-screen 9:16 stories are three exports. Ask which ones each design comes in.
- Revisions. $99 Social runs at least two rounds on your first batch, and ManyPixels includes unlimited revisions. Gigs vary.
- Turnaround. Penji's Essentials plan works to a 1-day turnaround, its Agency Partner plan same-day; freelancers set delivery per gig.
- Posting. Design-only orders hand you files. Posting services and managers publish them for you.
How to Get an Accurate Design Quote
Send these with your first message and quotes will compare like for like:
- How many posts a month, and which platforms.
- The mix: single images, carousels (and how many slides), stories.
- Who writes the words: your text, or the post copy and captions written for you.
- Your brand kit: logo, colors, fonts, photos and three posts you like the look of.
- The files you need: exports in each size, plus the editable templates if you'll make some posts yourself.
- Your first post date, and whether you want the posts published for you.
Where Mark Studios Fits
Mark designs single-image posts, carousels and stories in your brand, usually 5 to 10 slides to a carousel, and can write the angle, the post text and the caption for you. Standard delivery is up to 7 business days, every order includes 3 revision rounds, and files come sized for each platform. If you want them published too, our social media management service posts them.
For a coach, a carousel is authority content, and our page for coaches covers the video side of it. Across Mark Studios' 8,000+ projects for 4,500+ clients, with a 4.9★ average rating, the orders that go smoothly are the ones that arrive with the brand kit and the text in the first message.
Comparing a freelancer with a studio? Our freelance marketplace comparison sets the trade-offs side by side, and the best social media management services list covers the companies that design and post for you. Need video for the same feed? Our guides to social media video production cost and YouTube thumbnail design cost cover the rest of the design budget.
The Bottom Line
A designed social post costs about $5–$50 from a Fiverr freelancer, about $10 a post through a done-for-you service, and $699–$995 a month and up for an unlimited design subscription. Compare quotes on slides, copy, revisions and the files you get, not the starting price.
