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$0 to $0 for a typical job through Hyrde, which works out at $24–$60 an hour depending on seniority. A small, well-defined piece of work lands near the bottom of that range; a whole build sits at the top.
The price is agreed before anyone starts and only changes if you change the scope. Your first three projects carry no Hyrde fee — you pay the specialist their price and nothing else.
01—Three jobs people buy
Hours at a vetted specialist's rate, as a range — an estimate that pretends to be exact is a lie.
01
A landing page, designed to convert one action
One page, one goal, delivered as a file a developer can build from without asking questions.
$600–$850
About 18 hours of design work at $40/hr for a mid-level specialist.
02
A screen set for one feature
Every state of the feature drawn: loading, empty, error, success — not just the version that demos well.
$1,300–$1,900
About 40 hours of design work at $40/hr for a mid-level specialist.
03
A design system your team can build on
Components, spacing, type and colour with the rules that keep them consistent when someone else uses them.
$4,300–$6,500
About 90 hours of design work at $60/hr for a senior-level specialist.
02—By the hour
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Junior
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Mid
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Senior
What a vetted specialist costs here. For what the open market charges by city, see the rate index.
03—What moves the number
04—Before you hire
How much does it cost to hire a UI Designer in 2026?
Through Hyrde, $600 to $6,500 for a typical job. A landing page, designed to convert one action costs $600 to $850; a design system your team can build on costs $4,300 to $6,500. Hourly, a vetted UI Designer works out at $24 to $60 depending on seniority.
Is it cheaper to hire a freelance UI Designer or an agency?
A freelancer, usually by a wide margin: an agency prices the same work with account management, overhead and margin on top. What an agency buys you is someone else managing the work. On Hyrde the scoping and the quality check are automated instead, so you get the structure without the markup — and no commission is added to the specialist's price.
What makes a UI Designer quote go up?
The number of unique screens, not the number of pages. Whether brand assets exist already. Desktop only, or every breakpoint. Whether you need the files in a specific tool. Each of those is asked before you get a number, which is why the price does not move later unless you change the scope.
Can I get a fixed price instead of an hourly rate?
Yes, and that is the default. The work is priced per milestone before anyone starts, you approve each milestone, and an AI checks the delivered work against your brief before you pay. Your first three projects carry no Hyrde fee at all.