What an hour costs, depending on who you hire
Here are the hourly rates Swiss providers publish on their own sites, sorted by team size. “Typical” means the middle half of the published rates: a quarter are lower, a quarter are higher.
| Type of provider | Team size | Typical hourly rate |
|---|---|---|
| Freelancer | 1 person | CHF 100–150 |
| Small agency | 2 to 9 people | CHF 140–190 |
| Mid-sized agency | 10 to 29 people | CHF 150–190 |
| Large agency | 30 people or more | rarely published |
Published prices, surveyed in October 2026. Large agencies rarely publish their hourly rate: they price each project with a quote. Many of these rates exclude VAT. In that case, 8.1% is added to the invoice.
What each type of provider does well, and where it falls short, is explained on the freelancer or agency page.
Our prices: by plan and by project, with no VAT on top
With us, each monthly plan has one price, and each project a fixed price. It works the same way for your website, your SEO, your AI visibility or your Google Ads campaigns. We aren’t registered for VAT: nothing is added to the invoice.
A 5-page brochure website, with your text and photos, costs CHF 2,500. Google Ads management, with three campaigns, costs CHF 2,500 a month. The audit, with its written action plan, costs CHF 800. Everything we’ll do is written into the quote, step by step, and you’ll find the same price on the invoice.
Our offers are written in advance, like an agency’s, each with its price. And you talk to the same person from the first call to launch. The other plans, SEO & AEO, Growth and the part-time marketing lead, also have one price a month each: they’re all on the prices page.
What an hourly rate tells you, and what it doesn’t
An hourly rate tells you what an hour costs. It doesn’t tell you how many hours your project will take. And that’s often where two quotes drift apart, even at the same rate.
Before you compare two providers, ask them these questions:
- How many hours for each step? That number, multiplied by the rate, is what makes the price.
- Is VAT included? On a rate that excludes VAT, the invoice comes to 8.1% more.
- Is management time billed? In a bigger team, the project manager’s hours are often added to the hours of the work itself.
- Who does the work? The person you met, or someone else on the team.
Plan or hourly rate
With a plan, you know the budget before you start. With an hourly rate, you pay for the work done. Both make sense. A plan does have one flaw, though: it rarely says how much work it contains. Without that, you can’t compare two plans.
We keep the plan and fix its flaw. Every plan has one price a month, set in advance, and everything we’ll do is written into the quote. You know the price before you sign, and you see what it pays for. Any work that doesn’t fit a plan gets its own fixed price before we start.
When another provider is a better fit
Our way of working doesn’t suit every project. In these cases, you’ll be better served elsewhere:
- You need a full team at the same time, with designers, developers and writers working in parallel. A mid-sized or large agency has that capacity.
- Your project covers several sites and several languages, or calls for brand strategy. That’s the work of large agencies.
- You’re mainly targeting German-speaking Switzerland. A provider who works in German every day will serve you better.
- You need support day and night. Choose a team that’s organized to provide round-the-clock coverage.
- You have a small fix to make and a trusted freelancer who already knows your site. Stay with them.