Zyner and PitchWorx sell close to the same thing: one flat monthly subscription covering decks, brand, web and the design work around them. The prices are not close. This is an honest look at what the difference actually buys, written by the cheaper one, which is a bias you should read this with.
What Zyner charges, checked directly
Taken from Zyner's own site on August 12, 2026, not from a comparison article. Several roundups quote Zyner at $4,995/month, which does not match either of their published tiers, so it is worth going to the source.
- Starter: $3,195/month, one active request at a time, unlimited queued requests and revisions, fractional creative director, dedicated project manager and senior design talent.
- Immersive+: $5,195/month, two work streams in parallel, weekly progress and strategy calls, senior design and motion talent, 24 to 48 hour priority turnaround.
- Discounts for quarterly ($900 off) and yearly ($6,000 off) commitments.
- Scope covers brand identity, web design and development, UI/UX, deck and presentation design, motion, social and ad creatives, print, packaging and illustration, with marketing add-ons.
- Stated proof: 320+ startups served, YC-backed founders across several cohorts, and a claim that clients save $250k to $450k a year versus hiring the equivalent team.
What PitchWorx charges
Creative Assist is $699 per month. Two active requests at a time, unlimited queued requests, unlimited revisions, unlimited team members, editable source files, and most everyday first deliveries in about 72 hours. Scope covers eight disciplines: presentation design, brand identity, marketing creatives, web design and development, video and motion, print and outdoor, books and magazines, and illustration and infographics.
So the two scope lists overlap almost completely. The meaningful differences are price, concurrency and what sits around the design work.
The comparison that matters
- Price: Zyner Starter $3,195/mo, PitchWorx $699/mo. That is 4.6x, or roughly $30,000 a year.
- Concurrency: Zyner Starter runs one active request. PitchWorx runs two. On the entry tiers we are cheaper and more parallel at the same time, which is unusual and worth checking yourself.
- To match our two parallel streams on Zyner you move to Immersive+ at $5,195/mo, which is 7.4x.
- Strategy layer: Zyner Starter includes a fractional creative director and a dedicated project manager, and Immersive+ adds weekly strategy calls. We do not sell a fractional creative director. If you need someone to own creative direction rather than execute against yours, that is a real difference and it is the main thing the price gap buys.
- Track record shape: Zyner cites 320+ startups and YC cohorts. We cite 13 years, 500+ brands including Wipro, Samsung, Honeywell and PepsiCo, and $50M+ raised on decks we designed. Theirs is startup-native and recent; ours is enterprise-heavy and long. Neither is strictly better, they are different proofs for different buyers.
When Zyner is the better buy
Three cases, and they are genuine.
- You need creative direction, not just execution. A fractional creative director sets direction and makes taste calls. If nobody internally can brief and judge design, paying for that role is rational and we do not offer it.
- You want weekly synchronous strategy calls and a named project manager in your standups. Our model is asynchronous by design, with briefs and comments in the dashboard.
- You are a YC-cohort startup and want a partner whose entire reference list looks like you. Social proof works best when it mirrors the buyer, and on that narrow axis theirs will land harder than a Samsung logo.
When we are the better buy
- You already know what you want and need it built well. Execution capacity at $699 versus $3,195 is a $30,000 a year decision, and if you do not need the direction layer you are paying for a role you will not use.
- Decks are a serious part of the mix. PitchWorx started as a presentation design company in 2012, so deck structure, data visualisation and investor narrative are the core discipline rather than one line on a service list.
- You want two things moving at once without paying $5,195 for the privilege.
- You want to test before committing. There is a 7-day trial and you can send a real brief during it.
The honest problem with a 4.6x gap
A large price gap invites a fair question: what is missing? The straight answer is the direction layer described above, and scale. Zyner is venture-adjacent and staffed accordingly. We are a 13-year design company that moved to a subscription model, so the same senior people who did enterprise deck and brand work now do it on a flat fee. That is why the number is what it is, not because the work is junior.
You should not take that on faith from a page we wrote. Take the trial, send a real brief, and judge the output. Any subscription that will not let you do that before committing is asking for more trust than it has earned, and that applies to us as much as anyone.
If you want the fuller picture of what multi-discipline design costs across the market, including the cases where a single-discipline specialist beats both of us, the all-in-one design subscription cost breakdown has the arithmetic.