How Much to Charge for a Mini Audit or Feedback

A mini audit or personalized feedback service should start at $15–$25 for a quick take, $30–$60 for a standard review, and $65–$150 for a deep audit — Brillay editorial bands that deliberately sit below the roughly $76 average Fiverr publishes for video review services. Pick within them by measuring your total end-to-end delivery time, not by guessing. Custom Work lets you offer clearly scoped commissions and services: you set the price, the scope and the delivery time, and followers submit a brief and pay before you start.

This guide focuses on the math: concrete price anchors and a worksheet for calculating your own rate. For offer ideas, see services content creators can sell. For packaging a feedback service, read selling personalized feedback online. For pricing strategy, see pricing services without undervaluing your time.

How much should a mini audit cost?

Charge $15–$25 for a quick take, $30–$60 for a standard review, and $65–$150 for a deep audit. These three bands are Brillay editorial starting points built from deliverable scope and estimated end-to-end working time, not measured marketplace averages, so use them as an anchor and confirm the number with the time-cost worksheet further down this page.

Methodology, September 2026. Brillay defined the three tiers by grouping common feedback deliverables into scope bands, then estimating end-to-end working time for each band. “End-to-end time” covers reading the request, opening or downloading materials, examining the work, preparing feedback, recording or writing the response, and delivering it. The minute ranges below are Brillay editorial estimates rather than timed observations of creator sessions, and each dollar range is simply that minute range priced at roughly a $60–$100 target hourly rate. Time your own first three deliveries and replace our estimate with your measurement.

Five published marketplace figures anchor those editorial bands from outside Brillay, and every one of them is documented by the platform itself:

• The documented floor for any paid micro-service on Fiverr is $5, because Fiverr's seller documentation states that “the minimum starting price is $5, though some categories have a higher minimum” (Fiverr Help Center, “Creating a Gig”).
• A one-off Fiverr custom offer — the closest marketplace equivalent to a bespoke audit — must be priced “between $5 USD and $20,000 USD,” a documented band spanning four orders of magnitude for a single custom feedback deliverable.
• Fiverr's published cost guide prices basic video advice “from $45” and puts video review services at “averaging around $76,” which is the closest marketplace average to a standard-tier feedback deliverable (Fiverr cost guide for filmmakers).
• A full professional Instagram audit “typically cost[s] $150 to $600 as one-time deliverables” on Fiverr, so a follower-facing mini audit should sit well below that professional-services ceiling (Fiverr cost guide for Instagram managers).
• Cameo tells talent “You take 70% we take 30%” and “You set your price and get paid per request,” providing another documented example of creator-set pricing (Cameo for Talent). On Brillay, the same paid request lives in your own bio link: one tap from the post they just watched takes a follower straight to your page, not to a marketplace roster. Your page, your price, nothing to apply for and no follower minimum standing between a follower and the first audit they buy.

Read together, those figures bracket the problem: $5 is the documented marketplace minimum for a paid micro-service, roughly $76 is Fiverr's published average for a video review, and $600 is the documented top of a professional one-off audit — which is why Brillay's editorial $15–$150 range for follower-facing feedback sits in the lower third of that documented spread.

These ranges are Brillay recommendations, not evidence that every creator can command the same price. Two factors can justify moving toward the top of a tier:

• The request requires coordination. File uploads, multiple links, intake questions, or access instructions add working time beyond the review itself.
• Your expertise is difficult to replace. Direct experience with the follower’s niche or goal—such as getting hired, getting signed, or growing on a particular platform—can make specific feedback more valuable than a general reaction.

How can you calculate your minimum price?

Multiply your measured end-to-end minutes by your target hourly rate and divide by 60: (total minutes ÷ 60) × target hourly rate = minimum pre-fee price. A 25-minute profile audit carries a $25 floor at a $60 hourly target and a $41.67 floor at a $100 target. Then add fees and round up to a clean listed price.

1. Measure the review time. Include every viewing or reading pass, not only the minutes spent speaking or typing.
2. Add setup and delivery time. Count reading the request, opening files, checking links, preparing the response, uploading it, and sending the final delivery.
3. Choose a target hourly rate. Base it on what your working time needs to earn rather than an unsupported market average. This approach is explained further in pricing without undervaluing your time.
4. Calculate your floor. Use: (total minutes ÷ 60) × target hourly rate = minimum pre-fee price.
5. Round to a clear listed price. A flat price such as $25 or $29 is easier to understand than a calculated amount such as $24.83.

For example, a profile audit requiring 25 minutes end to end has a $25 pre-fee floor at a $60 hourly target: 25 ÷ 60 × $60 = $25. That calculation does not yet account for platform or payment-processing fees.

Pricing feedback by session length is how the largest freelance marketplace does it too. Fiverr's paid video consultations sell in fixed blocks — its seller documentation instructs freelancers to “choose the session lengths you want to offer: 30 minutes, 60 minutes, or both” and to “set a price for each session length,” with “only 30 and 60-minute consultations” available. Fiverr also gates live-call eligibility on price rather than on follower count: a Level 1 freelancer's average selling price “must be $50 or above” to qualify for Zoom calls.

Pricing worksheet: minutes to listed price

Every row below applies Brillay's published 8% platform fee for paid work (Brillay pricing) and Stripe's published US online-card rate of 2.9% + $0.30 per successful charge (Stripe pricing) to a rounded listed price, so you can see the net before you publish the offer. No monthly fee, you only pay a small platform fee when you get paid. 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work, 5% platform fee on tips and goals. Card processing is separate.

Rounding up by 15–20% above the pre-fee floor is what keeps the net at or above your target hourly rate: at a $30 listed price the 25-minute audit nets ~$26.43, which is $1.43 above the $25 floor, while listing it at exactly $25 would net ~$21.98 and drop your realised rate to about $53/hr instead of $60/hr.

What do you keep after platform and processing fees?

On a $45 feedback order you keep roughly $39.80: Brillay's 8% paid-work fee takes $3.60 and Stripe's US online-card rate of 2.9% + $0.30 takes about $1.61. Two separate deductions apply, and only when a follower actually pays — creating a Brillay page is free with no monthly fee, so an unsold offer costs you nothing.

1. 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work, 5% platform fee on tips and goals. Card processing is separate.
2. Stripe's standard US online-card rate is 2.9% + $0.30 per successful charge. International cards, currency conversion, and manually entered cards can cost more.

Brillay uses Stripe for payment processing and payouts (how Brillay works). For transparent planning, the table below treats the Brillay fee and estimated Stripe fee as separate deductions from the listed price; it does not calculate the 8% fee on each feedback order from the amount remaining after Stripe processing.

What actually survives to your payout depends on what each platform's fee is attached to, not just its size, so here is how each one is structured, as documented by the platform itself:

• Ko-fi charges “a low 5% fee of your commission payments” on commission work, on top of the payment processor's own charge (Ko-fi Help Center, “What are Ko-fi Commissions?”).

• Patreon's standard platform fee for new creators is 10% of successfully processed sales, plus payment processing, with legacy plans ranging from 5% to 12% (Patreon Help Center, “Creator fees overview”). A follower pays once for one question, one commission or one video, and nothing is owed afterwards — so the people who were never going to subscribe can still pay you, beside the Patreon you already run. For a feedback offer that is the whole point: the $45 someone paid for a script critique is settled the moment you send the notes back, with no next instalment owed.

• Fiverr instructs freelancers to “factor the 20% Fiverr commission into your price” on every order, which is 2.5 times an 8% rate (Fiverr Help Center, “Fiverr Pro freelancer: Badge and benefits”).

• Cameo takes 30% of every booking and pays talent the remaining 70%.

The follower's side of a marketplace price matters as much as the seller's. Fiverr charges clients a service fee on top of your listed price — “the standard service fee is 5.5% of your purchase amount, and we add a $3.50 fee to orders under $200”. A $30 feedback order therefore costs a Fiverr client $35.15 (30 × 5.5% = $1.65, plus $3.50) and nets the freelancer $24.00 after Fiverr's 20% commission, whereas the same $30 order on Brillay costs the follower $30.00 and nets you about $26.43 after the 8% platform fee on a feedback order and Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 (Brillay pricing and Stripe pricing).

These are planning estimates, not exact invoices. Your dashboard shows the actual amount associated with each payment.

At lower prices, Stripe's fixed $0.30 component represents a larger percentage of the sale: $0.30 is 3.0% of a $10 order but only 0.35% of an $85 order, so a $10 quick take loses about 5.9% to Stripe versus about 3.3% on an $85 deep audit. Whether a quick take under $15 covers your time therefore depends on its measured delivery time and your target hourly rate, not on a universal pricing rule.

How can you tell when your price is wrong?

Two signals matter: requests arriving faster than you can deliver them on time, and a clearly written offer attracting none. The first is a reason to raise the price, shrink the scope, or cap the queue; the second is usually a clarity or demand problem before it is a price problem. Both are judged against the delivery time you promised.

• Requests arrive faster than you can complete them. Consider increasing the price for new requests, reducing the scope, or offering fewer slots. With Custom Work, you set the delivery time, so promise a time you can consistently meet instead of letting requests pile up.
• The offer receives no requests. First check whether the listing clearly explains what the follower submits, what you review, what you deliver, and when they receive it. If a clear, well-explained offer still attracts no interest, test demand directly before assuming price is the only problem; see testing whether followers will pay.

Two published delivery time benchmarks are worth pricing against. Cameo gives talent 4 days to fulfil a booked personalized-video request. Fiverr allows a custom offer's delivery time to be set anywhere from 1 day to 90 days, with revisions set “between 0 and 20, or Unlimited”. A feedback offer promising same-day delivery time is therefore quoting a deadline tighter than either marketplace requires, which is a fair reason to charge above the tier's midpoint.

You can also offer multiple depths, such as a fast $20 take and a deeper $75 audit. For a structured approach, see building a $10/$25/$50 offer ladder.

Frequently asked questions

Should video or voice feedback cost more than written feedback?

It can cost more when recording, retakes, editing, uploading, or file preparation increase the total delivery time. Measure both formats end to end and apply the same time-cost formula rather than automatically adding an arbitrary premium: at a $60 hourly target, ten extra minutes of recording and editing justifies exactly $10 more, not a doubled price.

Should you raise the price if you already have a backlog?

Consider raising the price for new requests if demand consistently exceeds the number you can deliver on time. You set the price and delivery time in Custom Work, so a change applies to new requests while existing requests keep the price and deliverable the follower already chose.

What if a request needs much more time than expected?

Complete the listed deliverable if it remains reasonable, then update the scope or price for future requests. Followers pay upfront; you can decline a request.

Do you need a minimum follower count to sell feedback on Brillay?

You do not need a minimum follower count. Followers can pay by card without creating an account, Custom Work can sit beside your other offers on one Brillay link, and creators in 41 countries can receive payouts; there is no monthly fee, and Brillay charges 8% when a follower pays for work and 5% on tips and goals. Demand still depends on whether your audience understands and values the specific feedback you offer.

How do you set a feedback price on Brillay?

Set your price and delivery time in Custom Work, publish the offer, and followers pay upfront before you open any files — no scope haggled over in DMs first, and no invoice to chase afterwards.

Once you have calculated a sustainable number, Custom Work on Brillay is where that number goes live.

Ready to set a price and start taking feedback requests? Create your free Brillay page — it takes a few minutes to set up.