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Is your agency quote fair?
Upload the quote, or describe it. Matchii prices the same scope against verified deliveries, so you have a real number to hold the quote against.
Works for a quote, a proposal or an invoice — and for an agency checking its own pricing.
Market score report
Your quote vs. the market
Five dimensions, each scored against completed deliveries in the same category. Here is what the report will read on — and what it will not claim until it can.
Price vs. median
Where the total sits against completed work of the same scope in the same category — as a percentile, not a verdict.
Scope completeness
Which deliverables a project like this normally includes, and which ones your quote is silent about.
Timeline realism
Whether the duration matches how long the work actually takes, including the revision rounds it leaves room for.
Transparency
Whether the money is broken down per deliverable or arrives as one bundled figure you cannot question a part of.
Overall value
The four above read together: good scope at a premium is a different problem from thin scope at a discount.
Not open yet
The five-dimension score is not scoring anything yet
We have not published the benchmark data behind this score yet, so it shows no numbers — an invented fairness score would be exactly the thing this page warns you about. What does work today is the brief: it prices your scope at all three tiers against verified deliveries, which is the comparison the score would be built on anyway.
What you are actually paying for
Six things move the number.
Two quotes for the same project can differ by half and both be reasonable. These are the terms that explain the gap — and the ones to ask about before you decide anything is expensive.
01
Named deliverables, not the project label
“Brand identity” is a category, not a scope. Eight artefacts cost roughly twice four, whatever the heading says. The count and specificity of the deliverables is the single biggest term in any quote.
02
Who actually does the work
A director-led team and a junior-led one can quote the same number for very different work. The seniority mix behind the hours is what you are really buying, and it is the term most often left unstated.
03
How many revision rounds are included
Two included rounds versus three is a material price difference, because round four is billed. A quote that does not name a number has not priced revisions; it has deferred them to you.
04
How much the timeline is compressed
The same scope in half the time costs more, because it means overtime, a reordered queue, or more people running in parallel. Urgency is a legitimate line item. It should be visible as one.
05
What you own at the end
Source files, editable artwork, font licences, guidelines a future supplier can work from. A quote that hands over flattened exports is cheaper for a reason, and the reason surfaces at your next project.
06
What happens after handoff
A support window, a bug-fix period, a retainer, or nothing at all. Clean handoffs are fine — undisclosed ones are how a finished project turns into an open invoice.
Read it twice
Red flags in a quote.
None of these means anyone is acting badly. Each one means a term has been left open, and an open term is settled later by whoever wrote the document.
Every one of them is answerable in a sentence. Ask, and read what comes back — a supplier who has scoped the work can answer all seven without hesitating.
One line, one number
A single bundled total with no per-deliverable breakdown. You cannot remove what you cannot see priced, so you cannot negotiate scope at all.
No revision count
Revisions unnamed means revisions unlimited in your reading and billable in theirs. This is the most common source of an overrun.
Deliverables described by adjective
“Full suite”, “complete package”, “everything you need”. Ask for the artefact list. If it cannot be written down, it has not been scoped.
More than half up front
A deposit is normal. A deposit past 50% before anything is shown moves the entire delivery risk onto you and removes the supplier's reason to finish quickly.
No named owner of the files
Silence on IP and source files is not neutral — it usually resolves in favour of whoever holds them, which is not you.
A duration with no dates
“Four to six weeks” with no milestone dates gives you nothing to hold. Dated milestones are what make a slip visible while there is still time to react.
TBD line items
“As required”, “to be confirmed”, “estimated”. Every one of these is a price that has not been agreed yet, sitting inside a document that looks like it has been.
Questions
About the analyzer.
Do I have to upload the quote?
What happens to a file I upload?
Does Matchii see which agency quoted me?
Is the benchmark the price I would pay on Matchii?
Can an agency use this on its own pricing?
What happens to what I type?
Then do something with it
A benchmark is only useful if you can act on it.
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