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UGC Rate Calculator

Start from your base rate per video, then price the parts brands actually negotiate: usage rights, exclusivity, extra hooks, revisions, and rush, with a breakdown you can defend.

Your Baseline

Currency

Base rate per video (organic use)

Your number — one standard video, brand posts it organically

Number of videos

Extra hook / CTA variations

Alternate openings or endings for ad testing — priced at 25% of a video each

Bundle discount

Optional — only if volume genuinely saves you setup time

Terms (Uplifts Follow Common Conventions — Adjust to Your Market)

Usage rights Whitelisting / Spark Ads count as paid usage

Exclusivity uplift

+0%

Charged when you can't work with competing brands for a period

Extra revision rounds (beyond 1 included)

+10% of base each

Rush turnaround

Under ~72h delivery — +25%

Results

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Per video with terms applied

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Videos subtotal

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Suggested quote

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Knowledge Base

What This Calculator Does, and Deliberately Doesn't

It does not tell you what the market pays. UGC rates vary enormously by niche, region, experience, and demand, and any tool claiming to know your number would be guessing. What it does is protect the structure of your quote: the usage rights, exclusivity, extra deliverables, revision limits, and rush terms that brands negotiate hardest and new creators most often give away for free. You bring the base rate. The calculator makes sure the terms are priced instead of forgotten.

Usage Rights Are the Big One

The most common and expensive UGC pricing mistake is selling a video for an organic-use price while the contract quietly grants perpetual paid-ad rights. A video used in paid advertising works vastly harder for the brand (it can run to purchased audiences, with your face, indefinitely) and time-boxed pricing (3, 6, 12 months, renewable) is how the professional ad market has always handled that. The uplift percentages here are common conventions, not fixed truths: adjust them, but never leave usage unpriced. The UGC creator guide covers this in depth, and freelance contracts covers getting the terms in writing.

Revisions and Rush Protect Your Margin

"One round of revisions included" turns endless-tweak clients into paying clients, and a rush premium makes dropped-everything delivery a choice the brand makes with its budget. Both belong in the quote up front, adding them after the brief has gone sideways never works. If you're still working out what your underlying time is worth, start with the Freelance Rate Calculator and feed the result back in here as your base.

FAQ

Q: Where does the base rate come from?
A: From you: it's what one standard organic-use video is worth given your niche, quality, and track record, and no calculator can know that. What the calculator handles is the structure on top: the usage, exclusivity, volume, and revision terms that UGC creators most often forget to charge for. If you don't have a base rate yet, work one out from your time and target income first.

Q: Why charge extra for usage rights if the brand already paid for the video?
A: Because organic use and paid advertising are different products. A video the brand posts on its own feed has a short life. The same video run as a paid ad with your face on it can be shown to millions of people for as long as the rights last. Pricing by usage duration and scope is standard practice across the ad industry. The percentage uplifts in this tool are common conventions, and they're editable because your market may differ.