Designhill

Designhill is an India-founded crowdsourced design marketplace with a dedicated book cover contest vertical. Standard tier promises 70+ designs within 7 days drawn from a global pool of 70,000+ designers, with print-ready and web-ready files (PNG, JPG, AI, PSD) included across all packages.

• Best for: Authors who want more designs than 99designs Bronze (30) at a comparable or lower price point
• Pricing tiers: Fast Track ~$149 (20+ designs, 10+ designers), Standard ~$299 (40–70+ designs, 20+ designers), Executive ~$599 (60+ designs, 30+ designers), Premium ~$999 (80+ designs, top 40 designers); the Platinum-equivalent restricts entry to top platform talent
• Contest duration: Author-selectable from 24 hours to 10 days
• Copyright: Full copyright transfers to client on winner selection
• Money-back guarantee: 100% refund within 60 days if no winner is selected (does not apply to guaranteed prize contests)
• Quality caveat: Cheaper-than-99designs pricing means lower-tier contests attract proportionally fewer top designers; general-purpose graphic designers may not understand romance, fantasy, or thriller cover conventions — vet finalists' portfolios for genre fit
• Stock imagery risk: Like all contest platforms, designs are not audited for stock-image licensing — require winning designers to document every stock asset license in the author's name