# YouTube thumbnail design

> YouTube thumbnail design at ellul.ai: £29 per thumbnail, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. Channels that want each video to stand out in the feed

- Price: £29 per thumbnail (per-item)
- Time: 1 to 2 days
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/thumbnail-design

## What is included
- One custom thumbnail at 1280 x 720
- A second version for YouTube's Test and Compare
- Text, cut-outs and colours matched to your channel
- Source file and one round of changes

## What other providers charge
Other providers publish a median of £29.25 across 4 comparable prices (middle half £25.31 to £42.94). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/thumbnail-design/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
338 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for YouTube thumbnail design between November 2025 and November 2026, 121 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/freelance_forhire, r/forhire, r/DesignJobs.

## Paid separately, at cost
- Paid stock images or fonts, if wanted, paid to the vendor

## What the buyer supplies
- The video or frames from it, and its title
- Your channel's fonts, colours and any photos to use
- A verified YouTube account, which custom thumbnails need

## What the price does not cover
- Clicks depend on the video, its title and YouTube; no click rate is promised
- One round of changes; further rounds are quoted
- The thumbnail shows what is in the video; misleading designs are not made

## Rules that apply
- YouTube's thumbnails policy bars a thumbnail that misleads viewers to think they are about to see something that is not in the video; a breach can remove the thumbnail and bring a strike. Source: [YouTube Help: Thumbnails policy](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9229980)
- YouTube lets a channel upload its own thumbnail only if the account is verified. Source: [YouTube Help: Add video thumbnails](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72431)
- YouTube's test compares up to 3 titles and thumbnails, on a computer in YouTube Studio with advanced features enabled, and shows viewers the one with the highest watch time. Source: [YouTube Help: A/B test titles and thumbnails](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13861714)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/thumbnail-design#quote