Flocksy review 2026: what the plans include and what they cost
Flocksy sells creative work by the hour rather than by the task. You pick a number of dedicated hours per business day, a fixed team of a designer, video editor, motion editor and illustrator works your queue inside those hours, and every minute is logged in the portal. Plans start at $1,699 a month, or $1,199 a month billed annually, and top out at $5,899 for eight daily hours.
This review sticks to what Flocksy publishes on its own site, read on September 7, 2026, plus our view on who the model fits. Where a figure comes from Flocksy's own platform data rather than an independent source, we say so. Hatchwise sells per project design, so treat the alternatives section as our own interest declared up front.
Flocksy in ten lines
- What it is
- Creative subscription priced by dedicated daily hours, not by task
- Entry price
- $1,699 a month, or $1,199 a month billed annually
- Highest published plan
- 8 Daily Hours at $5,899 a month, with custom teams above that
- Team
- Same designer, video editor, motion editor and illustrator, with copy support
- Turnaround
- Same day progress, prioritised from 4 daily hours up
- Requests
- Unlimited requests and unlimited revisions, multiple projects in parallel
- Unused time
- Hours roll over up to 30 days while the plan is active
- Tracking
- Every minute logged and visible in the client portal
- Files
- Working files and source files delivered with every project
- Commitment
- No contracts, cancel anytime, 14 day money-back guarantee
- 140+
- creative services across ten service lines, available on every plan
- 30
- days that unused hours stay available while your plan is active
- 14
- day money-back guarantee on a first plan
Every published Flocksy plan, monthly and annual
Hours are the unit. A daily hour is one hour of your team's time every business day, so two daily hours is about 42 hours a month across roughly 21 business days. Annual billing lowers the monthly rate on every tier.
| Plan | Hours a month | Monthly | Billed annually | Included roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Daily Hours | 42 | $1,699 | $1,199 | Dedicated creative team |
| 3 Daily Hours | 63 | $2,399 | $1,699 | Dedicated creative team |
| 4 Daily Hours | 84 | $3,099 | $2,199 | Adds a Production Coordinator |
| 5 Daily Hours | 105 | $3,799 | $2,599 | Adds a Production Coordinator |
| 6 Daily Hours | 126 | $4,499 | $2,999 | Adds an Art Director on every brief |
| 7 Daily Hours | 147 | $5,199 | $3,399 | Production Coordinator and Art Director |
| 8 Daily Hours | 168 | $5,899 | $3,799 | Production Coordinator and Art Director |
Custom teams are available beyond eight daily hours. Prices read from flocksy.com on September 7, 2026. Monthly hours shift slightly with the calendar, and a plan change takes effect on the next billing cycle.
What happens after you pick a plan
- Step 01
Onboarding call
Flocksy books an intro call, usually within a day of signing up, on every plan. The call covers your industry, time zone, working hours, the tools your team uses and the brands you run. On 4 daily hour plans and above, the Production Coordinator runs that call and traffics the work afterwards.
- Step 02
Specialists matched
You are assigned a designer, video editor, motion editor and illustrator, with copywriter support, matched to your brand and time zone. They stay on the account, so brand knowledge accumulates instead of resetting with each ticket.
- Step 03
Briefs and Brand Profiles
Requests start in the portal with AI-assisted briefs and reusable templates. Each brand you run gets a Brand Profile holding logos, fonts, colours, voice notes and the brand guide, attached automatically to every brief for that brand.
- Step 04
Work, feedback, delivery
Projects run in parallel rather than one at a time. Feedback lands as pin comments on images in the portal, or time-stamped notes in Frame.io for video. Comms run through Slack or Microsoft Teams. Revisions are unlimited, and working plus source files are packaged on delivery.
Ten service lines, open on every plan
Flocksy counts more than 140 individual services across these lines. Because you buy hours rather than a service list, a design only account pays the same as one spreading the same hours across video, motion and copy.
- Video and motion
- Branding and identity
- Marketing and advertising
- Illustration and artwork
- Web and digital design
- Presentation design
- Social media content
- Print collateral
- eBooks and infographics
- Apparel and merch
Pros and cons
What works
- You buy capacity, not a queue position. Daily hours are a number you can plan a week around, and the hours are logged to the minute.
- Rollover means a slow week is not money burned. Unused hours stay available for up to 30 days while the plan is active.
- The same creatives stay on your account, so you stop re-explaining brand basics on every brief.
- Requests and revisions are unlimited, and multiple projects move in parallel rather than one at a time.
- Ten service lines are open on every plan, so design, video, motion, illustration and decks all draw from the same hours at no extra charge.
- Working and source files ship with every project, and brands and team seats are unlimited.
- Senior roles are included rather than sold as add-ons: a Production Coordinator from 4 daily hours, an Art Director from 6.
- Commercial terms are light. No contract, cancel anytime, and a 14 day money-back guarantee if the fit is wrong.
What to weigh first
- It is expensive to start. $1,699 a month is well above task based subscriptions that begin near $149, because you are buying dedicated hours rather than a slot in a queue.
- Hours are the real limit. Two daily hours is 42 hours a month, so a heavy campaign month can outrun the plan and push work into the next cycle.
- Value depends on your volume being steady. If you go weeks without briefs, rollover only cushions 30 days of it.
- A plan switch takes effect on the next billing cycle rather than immediately.
- Same day means progress starts, not that every project finishes that day. Larger builds still run across days.
- It is the wrong shape for one off work. A single logo or one brand identity does not need a monthly subscription.
The volume that makes hours cheaper than tasks
Flocksy fits a company sending creative work every week across more than one discipline: ads that need resizing, a deck before a board meeting, a product video, an illustration set, a landing page. At that cadence the coordination cost of a freelancer stack is the real expense, and a dedicated team that already knows the brand removes most of it. Four daily hours at $3,099 is 84 hours a month with a Production Coordinator running the queue.
It fits poorly if your work is lumpy or occasional. A single logo, one website or one campaign a year does not justify a monthly plan, and rollover only carries thirty days of an unused plan. If you send one or two simple graphics a month, a task based subscription starting near $149 will cost less. If you want one strong concept rather than a stream of output, a per project brief is the cheaper shape.
Alternatives worth comparing
Undullify
$149 a month, the cheapest published plan in our comparison, but one active task at a time.
Read moreKapa99
$499 a month standard, with a 15 day free trial and a 30 day money-back guarantee for testing the model cheaply.
Read moreDesign Pickle
No longer publishes prices. You book a call and get a quote, so it cannot be compared on paper.
Read moreHatchwise projects
A per project brief instead of a subscription. Dozens of designers submit original concepts, you award the one you want, logo projects start at $99 all inclusive.
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Flocksy review FAQs
What is Flocksy?
Flocksy is a creative subscription that assigns you a dedicated team, a designer, video editor, motion editor and illustrator with copywriter support, and sells you a block of their time every business day. You submit unlimited requests through a portal and the team works your queue during those daily hours. Flocksy has operated since 2016.
How much does Flocksy cost in 2026?
Published plans run from $1,699 a month for 2 Daily Hours, which is 42 hours a month, to $5,899 a month for 8 Daily Hours at 168 hours, with custom teams above that. Paying annually lowers the rate, for example $1,199 a month on the entry plan. Prices read from flocksy.com on September 7, 2026.
What do Flocksy's daily hours actually mean?
You are buying a fixed block of creative time each business day rather than a number of finished assets. Two daily hours is roughly 42 hours a month across about 21 business days. Every minute your team spends is tracked in the portal, so the number is auditable rather than a promise.
Do unused Flocksy hours roll over?
Yes. Flocksy publishes rollover of unused hours for up to 30 days while your plan is active. That covers a quiet week, but it is not a permanent bank, so a plan sized far above your real volume still wastes money.
How fast is Flocksy's turnaround?
Flocksy publishes same day progress on every plan, prioritised from 4 daily hours up, and says a first request starts in under 24 hours. That describes when work begins, not when every project is finished. Small assets can land the same day, while a multi-asset campaign or a longer video runs across several days of your hours.
Is there a Flocksy free trial or money-back guarantee?
There is no free trial. Flocksy publishes a 14 day money-back guarantee: try it for 14 days, cancel inside that window and you get a full refund. There is no contract and you can cancel at any time.
Does Flocksy give you the same designer every time?
Yes, that is the core of the model. You keep the same designer, video editor, motion editor and illustrator rather than drawing from a rotating pool. From 4 daily hours a Production Coordinator runs your queue, and from 6 an Art Director reviews every deliverable.
What can you request from Flocksy?
Ten service lines are open on every plan: video and motion, branding and identity, marketing and advertising, illustration and artwork, web and digital design, presentation design, social media content, print collateral, eBooks and infographics, and apparel and merch. Flocksy counts 140 plus individual services across them, and you can spend an entire plan inside one line if that is all you need.
Who is Flocksy not right for?
Anyone with occasional or one off needs. If you want a single logo, one website or one campaign a year, the monthly cost is hard to justify and a per project brief is cheaper. It also suits you poorly if your volume is unpredictable, since rollover only carries 30 days.
Is Flocksy worth it?
It is worth it when creative work arrives every week across more than one discipline, and when the cost of coordinating freelancers is real. Buying 84 hours a month at $3,099 works out cheaper per finished asset than paying rush fees on a queue that never clears, and cheaper than one loaded in-house hire. If your briefs are occasional or single discipline, a task based subscription or a per project brief will cost less.
How does Flocksy compare with Design Pickle and Penji?
The difference is what you buy. Design Pickle and Penji sell task based plans, where a set number of requests move at a time, and Design Pickle no longer publishes prices at all. Flocksy sells tracked hours with several projects in parallel. Task based plans are cheaper to start, hour based plans give you a capacity figure you can plan around.
What are the alternatives to Flocksy?
For cheaper task based subscriptions look at Undullify from $149 a month or Kapa99 from $499 a month. For one off work without a subscription, a Hatchwise design project starts at $99 all inclusive, with full commercial rights and source files on the design you award.
Need one design instead of a monthly plan?
Post one brief on Hatchwise and designers submit original concepts for it. You award the one you want and take full commercial rights and the source files. Logo projects start at $99 all inclusive, with no subscription.