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How much should I charge as a creator?
Know your rate.
Name it well.
The honest answer is a range, not a number. Here is how to find yours, what other creators in your band charge, and how to hold the price once you have named it.
Sample rate brief
Illustrative estimateSponsored post · Recommended anchor
$250
Flexible floor
$175
Premium ceiling
$350
A range you can defend
The pricing principle
Price from your follower band, your engagement rate, and the rights the brand is asking for. Start at the median rate creators in your band charge for that deliverable, move toward the upper quartile if your engagement beats the band average, then price usage rights and exclusivity as separate additions to the base deliverable. Quote the result as a range so the conversation has somewhere to go.
In India, a creator with under 10K followers charges a median of ₹1,000 for a feed post, ₹500 for a story and ₹2,000 for a reel or video; with 10K to 50K followers, ₹2,000 for a feed post, ₹1,000 for a story and ₹5,000 for a reel or video; with 50K to 250K followers, ₹5,000 for a feed post, ₹2,000 for a story and ₹10,000 for a reel or video. These are medians of rate cards creators publish on Limurse, in rupees; the tables below show the typical range for every band. See the full tables
Build a rate you can defend
Set your audience signal, add the rights a brand wants, then use the live brief as your negotiation anchor.
Build your benchmark
Tell us your signal.
Comparing you with the 10K to 50K band.
Live rate brief
Feed post
$125
Your confident opening number. It sits at the centre of a defensible range, not at the edge of what a brand might accept.
Flexible floor
$65
Premium ceiling
$225
Switch deliverable
Use the anchor in your proposal, keep the range for negotiation. Scope, turnaround and brand fit can move the final fee. Agree usage rights in writing before you quote.
Turn this estimate into a campaign brief
Keep the calculator free and anonymous. When you are ready, carry the planning forward with goals, deliverables, usage rights, and a creator shortlist in one structured brief.
What creators charge, by follower band
Published percentiles from creator rate cards on Limurse. The median is the going rate; the spread is where negotiations land.
US dollars (USD)
| Followers | Feed post | Story | Reel or video |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10K | $50$15 to $100Median of 474 rate cards | $25$10 to $75Median of 473 rate cards | $70$25 to $150Median of 476 rate cards |
| 10K to 50K | $100$50 to $173Median of 146 rate cards | $50$20 to $100Median of 148 rate cards | $150$60 to $300Median of 149 rate cards |
| 50K to 250K | $200$100 to $400Median of 93 rate cards | $100$50 to $200Median of 93 rate cards | $300$150 to $500Median of 91 rate cards |
| 250K to 1M | $500$225 to $950Median of 22 rate cards | $250$100 to $500Median of 22 rate cards | $900$450 to $2,100Median of 23 rate cards |
| 1M and up | $500$300 to $1,800Median of 9 rate cards | $225$113 to $2,250Median of 10 rate cards | $1,500$700 to $4,650Median of 11 rate cards |
Bold figures are the median rate. The line beneath is the 25th to 75th percentile spread, which is the range most negotiations land in. Cells marked as estimated did not have enough published rate cards to report safely, so they show the calculator formula instead. Aggregated from 2240 published rate cards; groups below the minimum sample are suppressed so no individual rate is identifiable.
Indian rupees (INR)
| Followers | Feed post | Story | Reel or video |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10K | ₹1,000₹500 to ₹2,000Median of 1585 rate cards | ₹500₹300 to ₹1,000Median of 1575 rate cards | ₹2,000₹1,000 to ₹3,500Median of 1585 rate cards |
| 10K to 50K | ₹2,000₹1,000 to ₹5,000Median of 854 rate cards | ₹1,000₹500 to ₹2,500Median of 856 rate cards | ₹5,000₹2,000 to ₹10,000Median of 867 rate cards |
| 50K to 250K | ₹5,000₹2,000 to ₹10,000Median of 375 rate cards | ₹2,000₹1,000 to ₹5,000Median of 379 rate cards | ₹10,000₹3,125 to ₹20,000Median of 386 rate cards |
| 250K to 1M | ₹8,000₹4,625 to ₹13,750Median of 50 rate cards | ₹5,000₹1,500 to ₹8,000Median of 50 rate cards | ₹20,000₹8,000 to ₹32,500Median of 51 rate cards |
| 1M and up | ₹15,000₹6,250 to ₹47,500Median of 14 rate cards | ₹7,250₹5,000 to ₹19,500Median of 14 rate cards | ₹35,000₹15,000 to ₹68,750Median of 14 rate cards |
Bold figures are the median rate. The line beneath is the 25th to 75th percentile spread, which is the range most negotiations land in. Cells marked as estimated did not have enough published rate cards to report safely, so they show the calculator formula instead. Aggregated from 8655 published rate cards; groups below the minimum sample are suppressed so no individual rate is identifiable.
Quote a range rather than a single figure, and put the deliverable and the usage rights in writing before the number. Most underpricing happens because a creator quotes for one post and the brand later assumes paid amplification, a whitelisting licence, and category exclusivity were included.
How these numbers are produced
The method in full, so you can judge the figures rather than take them on trust.
Creators on Limurse publish a rate card as part of their profile. Those figures are grouped by deliverable and by audience band, and reported as the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of each group. Any group with fewer contributors than the minimum sample is dropped entirely rather than reported with a caveat, so no individual creator's rate can be worked back out of a published number.
Where a band has too few rate cards to publish, the calculator falls back to a transparent formula: a cost per thousand followers for a feed post, weighted by deliverable, scaled by engagement rate against a two percent baseline. Those cells are labelled as estimates throughout, and they are never mixed into the published percentiles.
Usage rights and category exclusivity are applied as uplifts on top of the base deliverable rather than as separate charges, because both extend how much value a brand takes from the same piece of work. Figures are rounded to negotiable numbers on purpose. A rate card that reads to the smallest currency unit implies a precision this data does not have.
These are starting points for a negotiation, not quotes, and not a guarantee of what any brand will pay. Brands comparing those asking rates with measured CPM, CPE and ROAS can use the Creator Commerce Index.
Republishing these figures
The benchmark tables are open data. Quote them, chart them, or build on them in your own analysis.
These percentiles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. You are free to reproduce the tables, quote individual figures, and adapt them for your own work, including commercially, provided you credit Limurse and link back to the page you took them from.
Source: Limurse creator rate benchmarks, https://limurse.ai/how-much-to-charge-as-a-creator
The tables are recalculated as creators update their rate cards, so cite this page rather than a saved copy. If your figures need to stay reproducible, name the date you read them.
Frequently asked questions
How much should I charge as a creator?
Price from three inputs: your follower band, your engagement rate, and what the brand is buying beyond the post. Start from the median rate creators in your band charge for that deliverable, move up if your engagement is above the band average, and add uplifts for usage rights and exclusivity. Quote a range, not a single number, so the conversation has room.
Should I charge more for higher engagement?
Yes. Engagement rate is the clearest signal that reach converts to attention, and brands price against it. A creator whose engagement is well above the band average can reasonably quote toward the top of their band's range rather than the middle.
What should I charge for my first brand deal?
Anchor to the lower quartile for your follower band rather than working for free or for product alone. A first paid collaboration sets the floor every later brand negotiates against, so an unpaid first deal is expensive in a way that is hard to undo.
How do I raise my rates without losing brands?
Raise on new conversations rather than mid-relationship, and lead with what changed: audience growth, better engagement, stronger past results. Existing partners are usually given notice at renewal, which keeps the relationship intact while the rate moves.
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