DesignerBox costs $0 to $200 a month across five plans. Free includes 112 credits. Basic is $15 for 500 credits, Pro is $35 for 1,000, Premium is $75 for 2,500, and Ultra is $200 for 8,000. Annual billing cuts the monthly rate by 50% to 60%. Credits are the real unit of cost: an image is 5, and video is billed per second.
Open the pricing page and the first number on Basic reads 6, not 15. That is the annual rate displayed as a per-month figure. Both prices are real. Only one of them applies if you subscribe month to month, and the gap between them is 2.5x.
That is the first thing worth getting straight, because plan price is the smaller half of what you actually need to know. The bigger half is credits: what one costs, what one buys, and which operations quietly consume a month of them in a single click. This covers all five plans, the credit math behind each, what every tier includes, and how to pick one without guessing.
Key Takeaways
- Five plans: Free, Basic $15, Pro $35, Premium $75, Ultra $200 a month. Credit allocations are 112, 500, 1,000, 2,500 and 8,000, reset monthly.
- Annual billing roughly halves the rate. Basic drops from $15 to $6 a month, Ultra from $200 to $100. The credit allocation does not change and still resets every month.
- The prices are the same number in dollars, pounds and euros. A European reader sees €15 where a US reader sees $15.
- An image is 5 credits. Video is billed per second and ranges from 150 credits for a short clip on a fast model to 6,400 for eight seconds with audio.
- Commercial use starts at Pro. Free and Basic carry a personal-use license, which matters the moment output goes into a paid ad.
- AI video, virtual try-on and relighting start at Premium. No credit balance on Basic or Pro makes them available.
- Credit packs cost more per credit than any subscription. Recurring overage is cheaper to fix by moving up a tier.
How much does DesignerBox cost?
Five plans, one of them free. Every paid tier is a single seat except Ultra, which includes five. The allocation resets monthly on both billing cycles, so an annual plan grants the same credits per month as a monthly plan, not a year of credits upfront.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | Annual saving | Credits/mo | Storage | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | n/a | 112 | 10 MB | 1 |
| Basic | $15 | $6 | $108/yr | 500 | 500 MB | 1 |
| Pro | $35 | $15 | $240/yr | 1,000 | 2 GB | 1 |
| Premium | $75 | $30 | $540/yr | 2,500 | 10 GB | 1 |
| Ultra | $200 | $100 | $1,200/yr | 8,000 | Unlimited | 5 |
Extra Ultra seats are $19 each. Pricing is identical across USD, GBP and EUR, so the currency symbol changes and the number does not (designerbox.ai/pricing, July 2026).
The free plan needs no card and includes 112 credits. Output on Free carries a watermark, and it is the only tier that does.
Why is the first price you see lower than the plan price?
Because the pricing page opens on the annual view by default, and it presents the annual cost divided by twelve. Basic shows 6, Pro shows 15, Premium shows 30, Ultra shows 100. Those are per-month figures for a plan billed twelve months at a time.
The month-to-month prices are $15, $35, $75 and $200. The saving line under each card is the honest tell: “Save $108 with an annual plan” on Basic is exactly the $9 monthly difference multiplied by twelve.
Neither number is wrong. Quote the wrong one in a budget and you understate the line item by 2.5x, which is the kind of error that surfaces in month two.
One caveat on the annual column specifically: annual rates are the ones DesignerBox runs promotions against, so the figure you see may be a promotional rate rather than the standing one. The monthly prices are stable. Confirm the annual rate at checkout before committing to twelve months of it.
What is a credit and what does one buy?
A credit is the unit every operation is priced in. One subscription covers all 13 image and video models, and switching models does not change your bill, only the credit cost of the specific operation you run.
| Operation | Credits |
|---|---|
| Simple text op (translate, hashtags) | 1 |
| Complex text (thread, image analysis) | 2 |
| Research or basic image upscale | 3 |
| Generate or edit an image | 5 |
| Generate post plus image | 6 |
| Instagram 3D Frame | 8 |
| Magnific upscale | 10 |
| Brand storyboard (2x2 to 5x5) | 10 to 25 |
| Create avatar, 9 images | 25 |
| Video | credits per second x duration |
Everything except video sits between 1 and 25 credits. Video does not live in that range, and no amount of careful prompting moves it there.
Avatars are the one place the pricing bends in your favour. Nine images for 25 credits works out to 2.8 credits each against the standalone rate of 5.
How many assets does each plan actually make?
Divide the allocation by the operation cost. These are the same equivalences the pricing page publishes, and they hold for images and avatars.
| Plan | Credits | Images at 5 | Avatars at 25 | Short clips at 150 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 112 | 22 | 4 | 0 |
| Basic | 500 | 100 | 20 | 3 |
| Pro | 1,000 | 200 | 40 | 6 |
| Premium | 2,500 | 500 | 100 | 16 |
| Ultra | 8,000 | 1,600 | 320 | 53 |
For a still-image workflow, this table is reliable. A 100-SKU catalog at one packshot per product fits inside Basic with nothing to spare, or inside Pro with room for a second angle on every product.
The video column is where it stops being reliable.
Why is the video estimate the optimistic one?
Because it assumes the cheapest video model at the shortest useful duration. A clip at roughly 150 credits is five seconds on a fast model. Change either variable and the count collapses.
| Video output | Credits | Clips on Premium (2,500) |
|---|---|---|
| Fast model, 720p, 5s | 150 | 16 |
| Kling Standard, 720p, 5s | 225 | 11 |
| Sora 2, 720p, 8s | 1,600 | 1 |
| Veo 3 with audio, 8s | 6,400 | 0 |
A single eight-second clip with audio costs 6,400 credits. Premium issues 2,500 a month. The clip cannot be produced on that plan at any point in the billing cycle, and the same clip is worth 1,280 product images.
Two things follow. Model choice moves your monthly video output by more than 50x, further than clip length ever will. And AI video generation starts at Premium, so the video equivalence printed on the Basic and Pro cards describes what those credits would be worth rather than a feature available on that tier.
If video is the reason you are here, what each plan buys in clips works through the per-second math model by model.
What does each tier include?
Credits decide volume. Tier decides capability. This is the part that catches teams out, because a bigger credit balance on a lower plan does not open anything.
| Starts at | What the tier adds |
|---|---|
| Basic | Flux model, standard-resolution assets, 1 generation at a time |
| Pro | Commercial-use license, import your own photos, custom prompts, remix, high-resolution assets, 4 in parallel |
| Premium | AI video, virtual try-on, edit, crop, zoom out, relight, combine photos, magic upscaler, hyper realism, 8 in parallel |
| Ultra | API access, team collaboration, shared brand kits, white label, export brand models, priority queue, 16 in parallel, dedicated account manager |
The single most consequential line there is the commercial license at Pro. Free and Basic carry a personal-use license. If the output is going into a paid ad, a product page or a client deliverable, Pro at $35 a month is the real entry point for a business, not Basic at $15.
Support scales with the tier too: email on Free and Basic, priority email on Pro, priority chat on Premium, and a dedicated account manager on Ultra.
Which plan fits which team?
Match the plan to the constraint that actually binds you, which is usually licensing or a gated feature rather than credits.
- Free. Evaluating. 112 credits is about 22 images, watermarked, personal use. Enough to judge output quality on your own product photo before paying anything.
- Basic, $15. A solo marketer shipping roughly a campaign a month, where the work is stills and the use is not commercial. 100 images.
- Pro, $35. The first plan a business should consider, because commercial use starts here. Also where you can import your own photos and write your own prompts. 200 images.
- Premium, $75. Brands running always-on campaigns that need video, try-on or relighting. 500 images or 16 short clips, and the first tier where video exists at all.
- Ultra, $200. Teams and agencies. Five seats, API access, shared brand kits, white label and unlimited storage. 1,600 images.
Agencies running client work should note that team collaboration, shared brand kits and white label are all Ultra. There is no middle tier that carries them. For agency volume and shared credit pools, DesignerBox asks you to contact them about team pricing. That tool cost belongs in your cost of goods, and what to charge clients once production time drops is the harder question sitting underneath it.
A useful reference point on the value question: a product photoshoot costs $25 to $75 per image for listing shots, or $1,000 to $5,000 for a studio day. Pro at $35 a month covers 200 images.
What happens if you run out of credits?
You buy a credit pack or move up a tier. Packs are one-time purchases, require an active paid subscription, and expire after 12 months.
| Pack | Credits | Price | Cost per credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 100 | $5 | $0.050 |
| Standard | 500 | $20 | $0.040 |
| Bulk | 1,500 | $50 | $0.033 |
Compare that against what a credit costs inside a subscription. Monthly plans land between $0.025 and $0.035 per credit, and annual plans between $0.012 and $0.015.
Packs are the most expensive credit available on either cycle. They earn their place as a one-off for an unplanned campaign. If you are buying them two months running, the arithmetic says move up a tier instead, and the tier upgrade usually brings capability you were not going to get from extra credits anyway.
One note on the trial: paid signups get 7 days and 5 credits, which is exactly one image. The free plan’s 112 credits is the better way to evaluate output quality.
The transparent pricing decoder sets this against how the rest of the category prices.
FAQ
Is there a free DesignerBox plan?
Yes. The free plan includes 112 credits a month and needs no credit card. That is about 22 images at 5 credits each. Output is watermarked on Free, and the license is personal use, so it is built for evaluation rather than production work.
Why does the pricing page show a lower number than $15?
The pricing page opens on the annual view and shows the annual cost as a per-month figure. Basic displays 6, which is $72 billed once a year. The month-to-month price is $15. Switch the billing toggle to see the monthly rates.
Do annual plans give you all the credits upfront?
No. An annual plan grants the same monthly allocation as a monthly plan, and it resets every month. Paying yearly lowers the rate you pay, not the pace at which credits arrive. Unused monthly credits are not a yearly pool you can save toward one large campaign.
Can I use DesignerBox images in paid ads?
A commercial-use license starts on the Pro plan at $35 a month. Free and Basic carry a personal-use license. Any output headed for a paid ad, a product detail page or a client deliverable needs Pro or higher.
Which plan do I need for AI video?
Premium, at $75 a month. AI video, virtual try-on, relighting and the upscaler all start at that tier. Credits alone do not make video available on Basic or Pro. Budget carefully once you are there, because an eight-second clip with audio costs 6,400 credits against Premium’s 2,500 monthly allocation.
How many product photos does $15 a month buy?
- Basic issues 500 credits and an image costs 5. Pro doubles that to 200 images for $35 and adds the commercial license, which is the version most businesses need.
Does DesignerBox charge extra for premium models?
No. All 13 image and video models are included in every paid subscription, and you switch between them without a separate license or bill. What changes is the credit cost of the operation, which is why a video clip and a still image differ so widely. You can see the full catalog at designerbox.ai/models.
The short version
Price the plan on capability first and credits second. Commercial use starts at Pro, video starts at Premium, and teams start at Ultra. Once the tier is settled, the credit math is simple arithmetic: 5 credits an image, 25 an avatar, and per second for video.
Then check which number the pricing page is showing you before it reaches a budget. Full current rates are at designerbox.ai/pricing, and seven workflows teams actually run shows what a month of credits looks like in practice. To see where those prices land against the rest of the market, compare eleven DesignerBox alternatives on true monthly pricing.
Sources
- DesignerBox plan prices, monthly and annual, and the billing toggle that changes which figure the page shows: designerbox.ai/pricing, July 2026
- DesignerBox model catalogue and the models included in every paid tier: designerbox.ai/models, July 2026
- Credit allocations, per-operation credit costs, credit pack pricing and feature gating verified against live product configuration, July 2026
- No third-party pricing or capability claims are made in this article
DesignerBox monthly plan prices, credit allocations, credit costs, pack pricing and feature gating verified against the live pricing page and product configuration as of July 2026. Annual rates are promotion-sensitive and were accurate on the pricing page at that date. Pricing and feature availability change. Check designerbox.ai/pricing for current rates before budgeting.
