Quick Answer: The best Kimp alternatives depend on the gap you're trying to close. Teamtown pairs a Project Manager with a dedicated Creative Lead who reviews every piece, a role Kimp's published plans don't list, from $3,000 a month. If the bill is the issue, Kapa99 and Draftss cost less, and ManyPixels includes video from $1,199. Penji and DotYeti put an Art Director on your work for under $2,000. If Kimp's full price still works for you once the intro offer ends, it's good value and worth keeping.
Key Takeaways
- Kimp's advertised price is an introductory offer. New customers get 50% off for four months. After that, Graphics or Video costs $1,397 a month and both together cost $1,697, so year one comes to about $13,970 or $16,970, and every full year after that to $16,764 or $20,364.
- Unlimited requests still run on about 2 to 2.5 hours of team time per business day. That's per subscription, with three graphic jobs in progress at once on Graphics and two on Video.
- Customers rate Kimp highly. It holds 4.9/5 on Trustpilot from 353 reviews. Individual positive reviews still surface trade-offs, including designer availability and quality that varies between designers.
- Kimp's plans include a Project Manager and three designers. They don't list a dedicated Art Director or Creative Lead responsible for creative direction, which matters once the work needs more than someone following a brief.
- The alternatives split by what you'd fix: a Creative Lead on every plan (Teamtown), an art director for less (DotYeti, Penji), full creative direction (Designity), a brand-trained team (Design Pickle), video included for less (ManyPixels), copy alongside design (Flocksy) and a lower bill (Kapa99, Draftss).
- Teamtown makes the most sense once you've outgrown directing every request yourself. From $3,000 a month, each plan pairs a Creative Lead with a Project Manager on US hours. Cherry Bo2mb was up and running within a week and kept $33,000 in year one. Book a demo.
Kimp is one of the easier design subscriptions to start with. There's a seven-day free trial, the first four months are half price, and each plan includes a project manager and three designers.
A natural moment to compare alternatives is month five, when the price doubles to $1,397 a month for Graphics or Video and $1,697 for both. That's a fair rate for what Kimp delivers, and it's also when you find out whether the setup still fits.
The other moment comes when the work changes. Kimp's Project Manager is your main contact, but its plans don't list a dedicated art director or creative lead. As campaigns get bigger, more of the creative calls can land on whoever writes the briefs.
Here are the 10 best Kimp alternatives, with full prices after any intro offers and what you'd give up by switching to each.
Teamtown is one of them. I started it in 2020 and put it first, but I've held it to the same price checks as the other nine.
Kimp Alternatives Side by Side
Full-rate pricing from each provider's website, October 2026.
Kimp Reviews: What Customers Like and What They'd Change
Kimp's reputation is strong. It holds 4.9/5 on Trustpilot from 353 reviews and 4.7/5 on Clutch from 30 verified reviews.
If you're weighing alternatives, the scores matter less than the trade-offs customers bring up when they're otherwise happy.
Quality Can Vary from One Designer to the Next
An agency that uses Kimp for its own retainer clients praises the project management and communication in a verified Clutch review. Its one wish was a higher bar from some of the designers, since quality could change from piece to piece.
Slow Video Turnaround Pushed One User to Switch
In a Reddit thread about Kimp and similar subscriptions, a commenter who'd used Kimp called the design quality underwhelming and said video took long enough to come back that they moved to Flocksy.
A Reddit comment isn't a verified review, so treat it as one person's experience.
Your Usual Designer Isn't Always Available
One five-star reviewer calls Kimp's designs the best they've found, but says the designer they usually work with isn't always free, and when someone else picks up the job, designs sometimes have to be redone.
Kimp's ratings say most customers are happy with the work. The reasons to look elsewhere are narrower. Quality can shift when a different designer picks up your request, and heavier jobs like video can take longer than you'd like.
What Kimp Costs Once the Intro Offer Ends
Kimp's advertised price is half price for four months. From month five you pay the standard rate, so year one costs about $13,970 for Graphics or Video and about $16,970 for both.
Year one is also the cheapest year you'll have. After that, a full year at the standard rate costs $16,764 for Graphics or Video and $20,364 for both, and since Kimp only bills monthly, there's no annual plan to bring that down.
Rates, team time and job limits as Kimp publishes them, October 2026.
Kimp doesn't limit how many requests or revisions you can submit, but the 2 to 2.5 hours a day it gives your account sets how quickly that queue moves.
On a single plan, that's about 42 to 52.5 hours of team time in a 21-business-day month, which works out to roughly $27 to $33 an hour at the full rate.
That's good value. Flocksy's two-hour plan gives you 42 hours a month for $1,699 on monthly billing, or about $40 an hour, while Kimp's combined plan doubles the team time you get each day for $300 more.
How the Alternatives Price the Same Needs
Depending on what you're missing, an alternative can cost less than Kimp or several times more:
Only DotYeti adds an art director within Kimp's own price range, at $1,595.
When Kimp Is Still the Right Call
Stay if you're past month five and $1,397 or $1,697 still feels like a good deal. The hourly math backs you up, and the reviews say the work is strong.
Stay, too, if someone on your team already directs the work and writes clear briefs. Kimp is built for exactly that setup, and switching to a service with a creative lead means paying for a role you've already filled.
How I Compared the Kimp Competitors
Several of the services here discount their first months, so I compared everyone at the full rate. All published prices are the ones each company listed on its own site in October 2026.
For each service here, I looked at:
- The price after any intro offer ends
- Who directs the work, and on which plan that person first appears
- How much runs at the same time, whether it's counted in jobs, slots, hours or projects
- What video costs, since it's half of what Kimp sells
- Trial, refund and notice terms
- G2 and Trustpilot ratings, including the trade-offs mentioned in positive reviews
I left out Superside, which starts at a $15,000 monthly budget, and Designjoy, a single designer who doesn't take on video. If either is on your shortlist, our Superside alternatives and Designjoy alternatives guides compare them with similar services.
Contest sites didn't make the list either, because they suit one-off projects better than a monthly queue. Our 99designs alternatives roundup covers those.
10 Top Kimp Competitors, Compared
1. Teamtown: Best for a Defined Creative Lead on Your Account
I run Teamtown. Hold this entry to the same checks as the others.
Kimp gives you a Project Manager and three designers. We pair a Project Manager with a dedicated Creative Lead who reviews each piece before it reaches you and keeps the brand consistent from one request to the next.
The designers on your account stay with you, and we work US time zones, so you can talk through a brief in a Slack channel during your own working day. Turnaround on most requests is 24 to 48 hours.
Like Kimp, our plans run on time: a monthly allowance of hours, with unused hours carrying into the next month. Essentials keeps two projects moving at once, and Pro keeps five.
On Essentials we handle social, ads, presentations, branding and web design, plus lighter video and animation. Pro brings in complex video, motion and 3D work.
For websites, we design the pages and hand your developers the files, since we don't do development.
- Pick it if: someone on your team spends a lot of their week on creative direction, and you'd rather hand that to a named senior person.
- Price: Essentials from $3,000 a month, Pro from $4,500 and Studio from $9,900. There's no annual term, leaving takes 15 days' notice, and you can get your money back within the first 15 days.
- Ratings: 4.6/5 on Trustpilot from 18 reviews, still a small sample. Fast replies, clear communication and working with the same designer are what reviewers bring up.
- Where Kimp wins: price and volume. Kimp's combined plan runs five jobs at once for $1,697, more than our Essentials plan handles at nearly twice the price, and Kimp lets you trial it free where we offer a refund window.
If you've rewritten the same feedback three times this month, or you're the one checking every file before it goes out, you're already doing a creative lead's job on top of your own.
Book a call and send me a few recent Kimp requests. I'll tell you whether a Creative Lead would have changed them, or whether Kimp is still the better buy.
2. ManyPixels: Best for Video at a Lower Monthly Price
ManyPixels' Business plan includes motion graphics and video editing for $1,199 a month, about $500 less than Kimp's combined plan at the full rate. It sizes plans by how many pieces it delivers a day, and Business delivers two.
If what you miss at Kimp is working with the same designer, the Assigned Designer plan at $1,399 keeps one on your account. Our ManyPixels alternatives guide puts it next to 15 others.
- Pick it if: you use Kimp mainly for social graphics and short video edits and want the same mix for less.
- Price: Advanced $699 (graphic design, web design and illustration), Business $1,199, Assigned Designer $1,399 and Design Team $2,599. Paying quarterly takes off about 10% and paying yearly about 20%, and pausing costs $10 a month.
- Ratings: 4.8/5 on Trustpilot across roughly 150 reviews, plus 4.9/5 on G2. Reviewers single out quick first drafts and an easy portal.
- The trade-off: there are no refunds and no art director on any plan. The $699 Advanced plan leaves out video, so the saving on video starts with Business.
3. Flocksy: Best When Copy Has to Come With the Design
Every Flocksy account gets its own designer, illustrator, video editor and motion editor, with copywriting support on every plan. You buy hours a day instead of separate plans for design and video, and unused hours stay available for 30 days while you're subscribed.
- Pick it if: you're running Kimp alongside a copywriter or a separate video editor and would rather deal with one company.
- Price: $1,699 a month for two hours a day on monthly billing, or $1,199 billed annually, up to $5,899 or $3,799 for eight. An Art Director joins from the six-hour plan, and refunds are available for 14 days.
- Ratings: 4.9/5 on G2 across 50 reviews, and Trustpilot gives it a 4.5 TrustScore from around 140. Reviewers mention slow project starts and a noon Eastern cut-off for same-day work.
- Where Kimp wins: cost per hour. Kimp's 2 to 2.5 hours a day cost $1,397, while Flocksy charges $1,699 for two hours unless you pay for the year upfront.
4. Penji: Best for Art Direction and Video at $1,995
Penji's Agency Partner plan adds an Art Director, keeps the same designers on your account and includes short-form video and motion graphics. At $1,995, it costs $298 more than Kimp's combined plan.
- Pick it if: you like Kimp's mix of graphics and short video, but want someone senior checking it.
- Price: Plans run $995 for Essentials, $1,995 for Agency Partner and from $4,500 for Dedicated Team, and quarterly or yearly billing saves 15% or 20%. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Ratings: 4.7/5 on G2 from 180+ reviews and 4.8/5 on Trustpilot. Reviewers mostly praise the value and the portal, while the critical ones talk about extra revision rounds and work changing hands between designers.
- The trade-off: Agency Partner runs three jobs at once against five on Kimp's combined plan, and there's no free trial.
If you're also weighing Penji against its own competitors, our Penji alternatives guide lines them up.
5. DotYeti: Best for an Art Director Within Kimp's Price Range
DotYeti's Scale plan adds a dedicated Art Director, animated GIFs and short-form video ads for $1,595 a month, which sits between Kimp's single and combined plans. Summit, at $2,595, adds video editing, motion graphics, 3D, copywriting and basic web development.
- Pick it if: the missing art director is your main reason for leaving, and you don't want to pay much more than Kimp.
- Price: Base $995, Scale $1,595 and Summit $2,595, slightly less on quarterly billing. Above that, Apex Studio starts at $3,995, and first-time clients can ask for a refund within 14 days.
- Ratings: 4.8/5 on Trustpilot from 47 reviews. Reviewers praise how quickly proofs come back and how closely the team works with theirs.
- Where Kimp wins: volume and longer video. DotYeti runs two projects at a time below Apex Studio, and full video editing only arrives with Summit.
6. Designity: Best for a Creative Director Who Plans the Work
Designity puts a Creative Director on every plan who maps out each project and reviews the work before you see it, with 120 hours a month on its Plus plan. It can also code your site and set up the editor your team updates it in.
- Pick it if: direction is the gap, and your budget can stretch well past Kimp's.
- Price: Plus costs $5,995 for 120 hours and Premium $8,995 for 180, with Custom plans from $6,000. There's a two-week trial before you pay anything, and cancelling needs seven days' notice before a renewal.
- Ratings: 4.7/5 on G2 from 30+ reviews and 4.5/5 on Trustpilot. Quality gets the strongest praise, while price and the detail its briefs need are the trade-offs reviewers raise.
- What you give up: money. $5,995 is about three and a half times Kimp's combined plan, and unused hours don't carry over.
If you like the model but not the price, our Designity alternatives list covers ways to get similar direction for less.
7. Kapa99: Best for the Lowest Price With No Task Cap
Kapa99 doesn't cap how many tasks you have in progress, which removes the three-at-a-time limit you hit on Kimp's Graphics plan. Its standard plan delivers within two days and costs $499 a month after a $349 introductory rate for the first two months.
- Pick it if: you mainly need graphics, and Kimp's limit on jobs in progress is what slows you down.
- Price: Async Standard $499, Async Priority $999 with one-day delivery, Dedicated Team $2,500, each with a lower rate for the first two months. There's a 15-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Ratings: a 4.2 TrustScore on Trustpilot from only seven reviews. Most praise the designers and turnaround, while one critical review mentions missed deadlines and a price increase.
- Where Kimp wins: video and track record. Kapa99's plans cover graphic design, and its review base is a fraction of Kimp's.
8. Draftss: Best for a Cheap Start You Can Grow Into
Draftss prices its plans by how many tasks you can have open, and each one includes a project manager. The Graphic Team plan costs $530 a month for one task at a time, and new customers currently pay half that for their first six months.
Moving up to Creative Team adds video, motion and illustration, and Full Team brings in copywriters, plus developers working in WordPress, Webflow and Shopify.
- Pick it if: you want a lower bill now and room to add video or development later.
- Price: Graphic Team costs $530 a month for one task at a time or $1,180 for three. Creative Team costs $1,190 for one or $1,980 for three, while Full Team costs $2,780 for one or $3,580 for three. There's a seven-day free trial and no contract.
- Ratings: 4.6/5 on Trustpilot from 126 reviews and 5/5 on G2 from 11. Reviewers like the responsive project managers and quick delivery, and the critical reviews mention extra revisions and text mistakes in final files.
- The catch: the cheaper plans run one task at a time, and no plan lists an art director. Creative Team with three tasks costs $1,980, more than Kimp's combined plan at the full rate.
9. No Limit Creatives: Best for Sizing Your Plan by Slots
No Limit Creatives sells four tiers, from Digital Ads up to Full Stack, and lets you run up to six design slots at once. Plans start at $500 a month, and its pricing lists a dedicated Creative Director, a Project Manager and copywriting among the support included.
- Pick it if: most of your work is ad creative or ecommerce graphics, and you want to size the plan by how many jobs run at once.
- Price: from $500 a month, with more than six slots priced on a sales call. There's no contract, but there's also no free trial, and its terms say all sales are final.
- Ratings: 4.9/5 on Trustpilot from 261 reviews. Responsiveness and staff who stick around are the recurring themes.
- The trade-off: only the $500 starting point is published, so anything larger means getting a quote. Kimp shows every price upfront and lets you trial it free first.
10. Design Pickle: Best for a Brand-Trained Team on Longer Terms
Design Pickle matches you with a team trained on your brand, with human review on every piece. A Production Coordinator is included from four creative hours per business day, while an Art Director is included from eight hours and can be added to smaller plans as an upgrade.
First drafts usually land within a day or two, and its services stretch to presentations, packaging, motion and video. It's also an official Canva partner, which helps if your team edits its own templates in Canva between requests.
- Pick it if: you'd commit to a quarter or a year in return for designers who get to know your brand, and you need enough hours a day to bring in an Art Director.
- Price: quote only. Design Pickle sizes each plan on a sales call around volume, turnaround and services, bills quarterly or annually, and lets you cancel any time before the next renewal.
- Ratings: 4.4/5 on G2 from 228 reviews and a 3.4 TrustScore on Trustpilot from 365. Reviewers like how responsive the team is, and the critical ones mention account managers changing and uneven design quality.
- Where Kimp wins: open pricing and shorter terms. Kimp publishes every price, bills monthly and lets you try it free. Design Pickle is quote-only, and once a plan renews, you pay through to the end of that quarter or year.
For a fuller picture of how it compares, our Design Pickle alternatives roundup covers 15 options.
Moving Off Kimp Before Month Five
The best time to leave Kimp, if you're going to, is before the intro offer ends.
- Judge Kimp at the full rate. In month three or four, ask whether you'd pay $1,397 or $1,697 for what you're getting. If not, start testing alternatives before the price doubles.
- Plan around the no-refund policy. Kimp doesn't give refunds, so line up your last requests with your final billing period.
- Collect your source files. Kimp says you keep the rights to everything it designs, and paying subscribers get source files. Download them before you cancel.
- Write down what your Kimp team learned. Sizes you use every week, brand rules they picked up and the feedback you've stopped needing to give all belong in your new team's first brief.
- Test the replacement on live work. Use its trial or refund window on real requests. Draftss gives you seven free days and Kapa99 fifteen, while Teamtown and Penji offer money-back windows of 15 and 30 days.
Which Kimp Alternative Fits What You're Missing?
- You want a senior person directing the work, without an annual contract: Teamtown
- You need an art director without leaving Kimp's price range: DotYeti
- You want art direction and short video together: Penji
- You need a creative director on everything, budget allowing: Designity
- You want video for less than Kimp's combined plan: ManyPixels or Draftss
- You're juggling Kimp plus a copywriter: Flocksy
- Kimp's three-jobs-at-a-time limit is the bottleneck: Kapa99 or No Limit Creatives
- You just need a smaller bill: Kapa99 or Draftss
- You'd sign up for a quarter or longer to get a brand-trained team: Design Pickle
- You're happy at the full rate and already direct the work: stay with Kimp
Ready to Hand Off the Directing?
Kimp's team and Project Manager will turn your briefs into finished work. If the harder part is deciding what to brief and judging what comes back, that's the job our Creative Lead takes on, with a Project Manager keeping the schedule.
You get both from $3,000 a month, on US working hours. The first 15 days are covered by a money-back guarantee, and you can leave with 15 days' notice.
Book a demo with Teamtown and bring a handful of recent Kimp requests. If Kimp is still the better buy for the way you work, I'll say so.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the top competitors to Kimp?
The top competitors to Kimp are Teamtown, ManyPixels, Flocksy, Penji, DotYeti, Designity, Kapa99, Draftss, No Limit Creatives and Design Pickle.
They split into cheaper production services (Kapa99, Draftss, ManyPixels), services that add an art director or creative director (DotYeti, Penji, Designity, Design Pickle) and managed teams with a creative lead, like Teamtown.
How much does Kimp cost?
At the standard rate, Graphics costs $1,397 a month, Video costs the same, and the combined plan is $1,697. New customers currently get 50% off for the first four months, so the opening price is about $699, or about $849 for the combined plan.
A full year at the standard rate comes to $16,764 for one plan or $20,364 for both.
What does "unlimited" mean at Kimp?
It means unlimited submissions and revisions, not unlimited working time. Each subscription gets roughly 2 to 2.5 hours of team time per business day, which sets how fast your queue moves, and Graphics keeps three jobs in progress at once while Video keeps two.
Is Kimp worth it?
If its setup fits your team, yes. At full price Kimp works out to about $27 to $33 per hour of team time, and its Trustpilot rating is 4.9/5.
It's a weaker fit if you need someone senior directing the work, since its plans don't list a dedicated art director or creative lead.
Does Kimp have a free trial?
Yes. Kimp offers a seven-day free trial with a limited number of requests, and you aren't billed until it ends. Kimp doesn't give refunds after that, and source files for trial work only arrive once you're a paying subscriber.
What's the best Kimp alternative for video?
ManyPixels includes motion graphics and video editing from its $1,199 Business plan. Flocksy puts a dedicated video editor and motion editor on every plan, and Penji adds video along with an Art Director at $1,995.
How does Kimp compare with Teamtown?
Kimp costs less and runs more jobs at once: up to five for $1,697 on its combined plan. Teamtown starts at $3,000 and adds a Creative Lead who reviews every piece, with designers who stay on your account and a team on US hours.
Both plans run on team time with a project manager included.
