What's the difference between Superside and Designify?
Superside is a creative-as-a-service company: a large, distributed pool of designers, illustrators, motion and video specialists, organized to produce a high volume of marketing creative for in-house brand and growth teams. Designify is a small studio where one team writes, designs and builds websites, landing pages and product UI for startups.
The models answer different problems. Superside suits a company whose bottleneck is output: dozens of ad variations, campaign assets, presentations and videos every month. Designify suits a startup whose bottleneck is the website itself: what it says, how it's structured and getting it live in code. If you're weighing other options in Superside's category, our Superside alternatives guide covers them.
How do Superside and Designify compare side by side?
The pricing below is Superside's published pricing as of 2026, so check their site for the current plans. We don't state their scope or limits beyond what our research confirms.
Superside | Designify | |
|---|---|---|
Model | Creative services subscription at scale | Studio: fixed-price projects or a retainer |
Published price | From $15,000/mo plus a $1,000 fee (as of 2026; check their site) | Projects from $3,000; retainer $6,000/mo |
Yearly minimum | About $192,000 a year | No minimum; a project is one fixed price |
Best at | High-volume ads, campaigns, video, motion | Startup websites, landing pages, product UI |
Team | Large distributed creative pool | One small in-house team, words to code |
Copywriting | Check their site for current scope | Included: we write first, then design |
Website build | Check their site for current scope | Next.js, Framer or Webflow included |
Trial | Check their site | $1,000 trial week |
How much does Superside cost compared with Designify?
Superside's published plans start at $15,000 a month plus a $1,000 fee as of 2026, which works out to about $192,000 a year at the minimum. For a team that fills that capacity every month, that can be fair value. For a seed or Series A startup that needs one new website, it's a large commitment for a single deliverable.
- Superside's minimum yearly spend, from published pricing as of 2026
- ~$192k/yr
- Designify website, up to 6 pages, fixed price
- $8,000
- Designify retainer, design and development
- $6,000/mo
- Designify retainer over 12 months
- $72k/yr
Our prices are fixed and published: a brand and design sprint for $3,000, a landing page for $6,000, a website for $8,000 for up to 6 pages plus $500 per extra page, and a retainer at $6,000 a month. See them all on our pricing section. For a wider view of what monthly creative and design costs, read design subscription pricing.
Who should pick Superside?
Pick Superside if you run an in-house marketing or brand team at a well-funded or enterprise company and you need a large, steady volume of creative across many formats. Paid social variations for several markets, campaign key visuals, sales decks, illustration and video are the kind of mix a large creative pool handles well.
Pros
- Built for volume: many formats and many requests each month
- Access to specialists such as motion, video and illustration
- A good fit for teams with clear brand guidelines and briefs
- Predictable monthly capacity for ongoing campaigns
Cons
- About $192k a year minimum, from published pricing as of 2026
- More capacity than most early-stage startups can use
- Assumes your team writes briefs and manages the work
- Check their site for how much copy and web development is included
Who should pick Designify?
Pick Designify if your startup needs a website that sells the product: positioning and copy worked out, pages designed and built, and a launch that doesn't wait on a separate developer. That covers most seed to Series B companies with a new product, a rebrand or a site that no longer matches what they sell.
- You need one great site, not 200 ads. A fixed $8,000 website or $6,000 landing page fits the job better than a yearly creative contract.
- Your product is hard to explain. AI, security and data products need the words worked out before the visuals. Our work for AI and security products includes Update.ai, Minexa and Wirefox VPN.
- You want the same people from copy to code. We build in Next.js, Framer or Webflow, so nothing gets lost between a designer and a developer.
- You want ongoing help without a big minimum. Our retainer is $6,000 a month and includes development and joining your customer calls.
We're not the right fit for high-volume ad production, video or 3D. If that's most of your need, a company built like Superside will serve you better.
What if you need both a website and ongoing creative?
Many teams split the work. A studio builds the website and the design system behind it, and an in-house designer or a creative service produces the campaign assets on top of that system. The website gets one owner who understands the code, and the ads get a team built for volume.
A hypothetical split for a Series A startup
For example, suppose a Series A AI company needs a new site and monthly campaign assets. It could book our $8,000 website for the homepage, product, pricing, about, careers and a use-case page, then move to the $6,000 retainer for new landing pages and product UI. Ad creative stays with an in-house designer working from the new system. A creative service at Superside's scale makes sense once ad volume outgrows that designer.
For a broader look at the choice between models, read design agency vs design subscription and our guide to design and development retainers.
