# 99Designs Reviews **Vendor:** 99Designs **Category:** [On-Demand Staffing Services](https://www.g2.com/categories/on-demand-staffing-services) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 31 ## About 99Designs 99designs is the world’s largest on-demand design marketplace, connecting a global community of freelance designers with businesses of all sizes to complete their design needs. ## 99Designs Reviews ### 1. Great resource for designers and design searchers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Сергей . | Художник компьютерной графики, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **Describe the project or task 99Designs helped with:** This site has helped me a lot in developing my portfolio and improving my design skill. With 99 designs contests, I can earn high sums for my work and encourage myself to produce high quality product and fast design process. **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Most of all I like the possibility of direct access to clients and real projects around the world. Also, I noted that thanks to 99 designs, I can work continuously and compensate for the unsuccessful tenders with a high price for the project. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I am not very happy with the level of perception of the design itself by clients, you often understand that in order to please the client you need to do not a high-quality design, but something that the client likes. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** I definitely recommend this site, specially to designers beginners. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** This site has helped me develop my design skill and expand my portfolio. By participating in contests, I can simultaneously develop my other resources, such as microstocks and social networks. ### 2. Great Platform to fulfil your design requirements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Professional work quality very interesting contest mode hire designers with ease **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** no standard way to rate designs in a contest. have to choose manually can offer more value for designers **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** connecting with design professionals across the globe getting all types of design requirements completed with good quality ### 3. Great way to get quick designs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie D. | Website Department Head, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The logo contest helps you widen your horizon for design inspiration - designers compete for your approval and you can get to choose from far more options than if you just picked a single designer. Once you choose a winning design it is easy to continue to work with the designer to perfect your logo. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** It's pricier than working directly with a designer so if you already know what you want in the logo it would be better for you to find a cheaper option - this is just great if you are open to new ideas and aren't sold on any specific design yet. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** If you don't know what you want for your logo or are open to new ideas 99designs is a great choice for you. If you know exactly what you want and just need someone to create it - just go with a single designer (99designs offers this option though too!) **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Logo and Branding needs ### 4. Online System for Great Logos **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris W. | Assistant Director of Housing and Residence Life for Marketing and Communications and Technology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2019 ### 5. One-stop shop for high-quality custom designs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Net R. | Marketing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Customer service and communication efforts always exceed expectations. We have been utilizing 99Designs for the past 3 years for all of our banner creatives. Would recommend this platform to anyone and everyone. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** Sometimes when we have a tight deadline it can be difficult due to the betting feature for freelancers. Overall NetReputation as a company admired the work 99Design does. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** If you are seeking a design to make a quick yet high-quality engaging creative we highly recommend that you check 99Designs out. Zero commitment you can hire as you please. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a startup company, we sometimes have a limited marketing budget. Being able to connect quickly with a freelancer at a fraction of the price as hiring an employee is an excellent feature for SMBs like us. ### 6. Good results, but complicated old school process **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian M. | Owner/CEO, Computer & Network Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** Access to a large number of talented designers that would be difficult to reach otherwise. The results were above my expectations and returned very quickly. It was relatively easy to filter through low quality results and narrow down the selection to just a few high quality designers that I continued to work with. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** I think the chat feature is somewhat broken in terms of UX design. It suggests to be a chat but new responses don't show up, you have to reload the page manually. Notifications are partly for comments in conversations and partly for comments on individual drafts which makes handling error prone. 99Designs should make the messenger a real live-chat feature. E.g. in an overlay box next to the designs, but always just one conversation per designer, not per design draft please. 99Designs should let go with those strict rules that make clients feel like in a prison. People like me want to communicate freely. It's my own risk to have conversations outside 99Designs anyway, so why do they threaten me if I want to? Proxying/censoring all conversations is not the way to go to earn trust from clients. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Make sure your specifications are complete and well thought through. That saves time and avoids conflicts with the 99Designs staff later. Alterations of the specifications are not welcome and designers get their drafts deleted if they exceed the scope of the specified project (even if designer AND customer welcome them). **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time savings when finding and hiring designers. Bigger variety of ideas and drafts than when working with just one designer or agency. ### 7. Convenient Logo Outsourcing Marketplace for Businesses and Freelancers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicole B. | Senior Brand Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** I like how 99Designs have grown from simple contest site to one if not the biggest marketplace for creative design. I myself have bought great creative work for our campaigns and have made tremendous success working with impeccable talents all over the globe. They have escrow system that will ensure you get the best possible deal without being run-over. You can opt for a blind contest to make sure the entries are unique and it follows your strict brief. You can be very specific with your brief and still get great results. I used 99Designs everytime we have huge projects and market launches. I have several freelancers of my picks ready to be hired, and they are all thanks to 99Designs. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** The betting process takes some time, but of course everything that is worth it really does take some time. But when you have a tight schedule, better improve their betted freelancers if people are wary of running their own contests. That's just one thing I noticed, but aside from that, nothing much that will hinder a good result from them. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Yes, 99deisgns have grown from its humble beginning to one of the largest freelance marketplaces in creative space. Highly recommended especially when you are in doubt about outsourcing your work. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot, if I mentioned all, it would take a whole day. It saved our department a load of money hiring an in-house talent that usually is not a good fit for how we wanted it to be. Since we are a department of resul-basis, we like to keep things simple. So we decided to outsource the creative work, and we found 99Designs has a huge marketplace of talents and creatives we can choose from. We can be very specific with our brief and still get it on our target schedule. ### 8. 99 Designs is one of our secret weapons **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The best thing about 99 Designs is the quality of talent on the platform. Other gig-based platforms have a wide range of talent, but 99 Designs trends towards the higher end. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** There's not much to dislike. We've always received what we've paid for and have been quite happy with the results. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** If you've tried other gig-based design services and been disappointed, try 99 Designs. We've always been happy with the results. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't have regular design needs. 99 Designs gives us access to high quality talent on an as-needed basis at a fair price. ### 9. Good Cheap Brand Building Platform for a Starting Point. **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ximena G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The way you get to choose to explain in a seamless way, what you want your brand to look like to the people who are going to help you create your brand. I liked the way you could speak to your designers in order for them to change what you did and didn't like, so they could improve and upload a better logo. I liked the timing for both the "manager" and the "designer", giving us a time frame to do things and when to do the things we need to. **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** The fact that the people creating a logo are just recycling something they have used in the past without looking at the title of your project. The fact that the "designers" grab existing well-known logos and use them as their own. example: I had a person try to sell me their idea with the adobe creative suite logo edited. I disliked that the designers had no experience and were not interested in helping my brand but were more interested in the money on the plate. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** I would do a little bit more research before getting into this site or get real designers that are committed to making your brand stand out from other brands. These designers are just in for the money and not much for the design of the brand you are seeking or for your company's culture. **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** An adjacent company needed a new brand look to better portray their business to their clients. We needed something that could differentiate this company from us. ### 10. Great website for professional designs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lovely K. | Manager | Online Sales and Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about 99Designs?** The way of getting professional designers is more easier now. 99 design is a great platform to communicate with thousands of professional designers and get the expected design perfectly. I used 99 design for many times to get the design for our logo, business card and packaging design. Creating a contest and managing is very easy and interesting. I can talk with the designers when I need to discuss and need to cooperate my necessity to them. A to Z of getting a design done is more easier in 99 design than other platforms. Always enjoy the cooperation with the designers! **What do you dislike about 99Designs?** No exact idea about the refund policy of 99 design. I think the refund policy should more easier. **Recommendations to others considering 99Designs:** Recommended to get done your final design as quick as possible **What problems is 99Designs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used 99 designed to get our logo and business card done when We ware started our new projects. Got quick response and quick service from 99 design. I got the final design as quick as possible. Like it to stay with 99 design. ## 99Designs Discussions - [What is 99design?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-99design) - [Is 99designs free for designers?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-99designs-free-for-designers) - [Which software is best for designing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-software-is-best-for-designing) - [Is 99designs good for designers?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-99designs-good-for-designers) - [What is the main role for designer when takes part in contest?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-main-role-for-designer-when-takes-part-in-contest) - 1 upvote ## 99Designs Pricing - **Bronze**: $299 Creative design on a budget - **Silver**: $499 Best value for money - **Gold**: $799 Attract expert designers - **Platinum**: $1,199 Work only with the best [View full pricing details](https://www.g2.com/products/99designs/pricing) ## 99Designs Features **Planning** - Needs Assessment - Resource Allocation - Stayed within Budget - Statement of Work - Best Practices **Delivery** - Technical Expertise - Met Deadlines - Meeting Management - Project Updates - Scope Management - Roll-out **Team Quality** - Change Management Skills - Executive Presence - Vertical Expertise - Technology Partnerships ## Top 99Designs Alternatives - [DesignCrowd](https://www.g2.com/products/designcrowd/reviews) - 2.9/5.0 (20 reviews) - [Upshift](https://www.g2.com/products/upshift/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (82 reviews) - [Thumbtack](https://www.g2.com/products/thumbtack/reviews) - 3.4/5.0 (57 reviews)