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Rate card

Also called pricing sheet, packages

A rate card is a published list of what a creator charges, and it is worth less than it looks because it fixes a price before the usage rights are known.

The honest case for one is filtering: it keeps brands with no budget from spending a week of your time. That is real.

The case against is that the same three videos are worth one price organic for 30 days and several times that as paid ads in perpetuity, and a printed card cannot know which is being asked for. So a published package gets negotiated down from and never up to.

The middle ground is a floor rather than a menu. One line saying where packages start does the same filtering and leaves every real number still to be agreed. The rate calculator is for working out the real number once the brief arrives.

Related terms

  • Usage rights

    Usage rights are what a brand is allowed to do with a video after you deliver it: which channels it can appear on, whether they can put ad spend behind it, and for how long.

  • Flat fee

    The flat fee is the fixed amount a brand pays for producing and delivering the videos, before any performance bonus and before any usage rights are priced in.

  • UGC portfolio

    A UGC portfolio is one link holding three to five finished vertical videos that plays on a phone with no login, and it is the only evidence a brand gets before deciding to reply.

Put a number on it

The free rate calculator prices a deal from the deliverable, the batch size and the licence, and hands you a sentence to send back. No account, nothing to sign up for.

Last reviewed September 12, 2026. Nothing here is legal advice.