What should an extra revision cost?
Enter your rate, how long a round takes and how many rounds clients really ask for. See the price per extra round and what free rounds cost you.
Updated November 9, 2026 · By Mo Arfaj, founder of Creepless
Price an extra revision round from the time one round takes: hours per round × your hourly rate, plus a 10–25% premium for the scheduling and context switching it causes. A round that takes 3 hours at $90 an hour costs $270 of your time, so charge about $315 for each round beyond the ones included.
Revision Cost Calculator
Type of work
Typical for this work: 2 included rounds.
The project
The revision pricing formula
Price the round from your time, not from what feels polite.
- Hours per round
- Reading the feedback, making the changes, exporting and sending back. Usually 1–4 hours for design work.
- Premium
- Extra rounds arrive unplanned and push other work. 10–25% covers that.
- Rounds used
- What clients actually ask for. Check your last few similar projects.
A $3,000 web design project
Two rounds are included. A round takes 3 hours at $90 an hour: $270. The client usually asks for 4 rounds, so 2 are extra.
Given away free, those rounds cost $540: 18% of the fee. Charged at $270 + 15% = $310.50, rounded up to $315 each, they bring in $630 instead.
Charge $315 per extra round, and label every version “Round 2 of 2”.
How to price and limit revision rounds
Start from the time a round takes
The fair price of a revision is the time it takes you, at your rate. Look at your last few projects: how long did a typical round of feedback take, from reading the notes to sending the new version? That number, times your hourly rate, is your round cost. Add a modest premium, because extra rounds arrive unplanned and push other work around.
Include enough rounds, then price the rest
Two rounds per deliverable is the industry default for most design, copy and development work. Brand identity often gets three, because the feedback is more subjective. Whatever you include, the cost is built into your base price. Everything after that is a paid round, at a price the client knows before they ask.
Define a round, or the limit means nothing
A round is one consolidated set of feedback, from one person, on one version. Without that definition, a client can send twelve emails over a week and call it “round one”. Ask for feedback in a single list from the named approver, and treat anything sent after you’ve started as the next round.
Make the count visible
Label every version you send: “Homepage, round 1 of 2”. When round 3 comes, the price is expected, not a surprise. This one habit prevents most revision arguments.
Know what free rounds cost
Free rounds feel generous, but on a fixed fee they come straight out of profit. If clients consistently use more rounds than you include, either include more and raise the price, or keep the limit and charge for extras. Both are fine. Silently absorbing them isn’t.
Separate revisions from new requests
A revision changes work within the approved direction: wording, colours, layout, a swapped image. A new page, a new concept or a change to something already signed off is new work, quoted separately. Writing that distinction into your revision policy stops new work from being slipped in as “just another revision”.
How to use the revision cost calculator
- 1
Pick the type of work
See the typical number of included rounds for it.
- 2
Enter price and rate
The project or deliverable fee and your hourly rate.
- 3
Time one round
Hours from reading feedback to sending the new version.
- 4
Set included and expected rounds
What you include, and what clients really ask for.
- 5
Choose a premium
10–25% for the disruption of unplanned rounds.
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Put the price in your policy
Write the per-round price into your revision policy.
How much should I charge for extra revisions?
Hours one round takes × your hourly rate, plus a small premium (10–25%) for the disruption. For a 3-hour round at $90 an hour, that’s $270 of time and about $315 as a price.
How many revision rounds should I include?
Two rounds per deliverable is the common default. Three for logos and brand identity, where feedback is more subjective. Whatever you include, build it into the base price.
Should I charge per round or per hour?
Per round is easier for clients to approve when rounds are similar in size, as in design or copy. Per hour is fairer when rounds vary a lot, as in development. If you charge per round, cap the hours per round.
What counts as one revision round?
One consolidated set of feedback on a deliverable, from one person, that you act on and return. Feedback that arrives after you’ve started a round counts towards the next one.
What does giving away extra rounds cost?
Each free round is your round cost in unpaid time. Two extra rounds of 3 hours at $90 is $540 on a $3,000 project: 18% of the fee, and usually most of the profit.
Do I charge for fixing my own mistakes?
No. Errors you introduced, or work that doesn’t match the approved brief, should never count as a round.
Keep running the numbers
Round 3 gets a price, automatically
Creepless counts revision rounds per client and turns the extras into quotes. Free for 2 clients.
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