Comparisons
A retainer buys a human who can say no. Bizzit buys a product with a public ceiling.
A retainer is a person: bugs, features, "can you just." Bizzit is $12 with a list. If you need the person, pay the person. If you needed a shop URL, do not hire a retainer to avoid writing a brief.
Keep a developer when the work is custom (integrations, apps, booking sync we do not have). Use Bizzit when the site is the product we actually sell. We will not invent typical retainer rates.
What a retainer is
A monthly fee for access to a developer. Scope fights are the cost nobody puts on the invoice. Rates vary. Ask them. We will not fake a national average.
What Bizzit is
Bizzit Free is $0 on you.bizzit.io after Google sign-in, with 50 Cipher turns and no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month for unlimited Cipher, a custom domain, overnight jobs from the brief, checkout on your payment account with no Bizzit sales cut, and no badge.
Who should keep the retainer
Keep it if you have a real roadmap: CRM glue, inventory sync, a member area, GitHub deploys. Those empty cells on our table are their job.
Who should drop the retainer for the site
If the only tickets are "change Saturday hours" and "add a photo," that is Cipher and a brief, not a senior engineer's month.
What we will not pretend
We are not your developer. Overnight jobs are not a sprint team. No booking-system sync. No analytics suite.
A clean split
Bizzit hosts the public site. The developer builds the thing we refused to fake. Two vendors, two invoices, no overlapping lies.
A table, not a slogan
Empty cells stay empty. We name our prices. We do not invent theirs.
| Job | Developer retainer | Bizzit |
|---|---|---|
| You are buying | Labor and judgment | A hosted product |
| Price | Whatever you signed | $12 Pro |
| Custom integrations | Yes if scoped | Only what we shipped |
| Cipher / overnight jobs | Yes on the plans we list |
Limits and caveats
Firing a good developer to save $12 is foolish if they are shipping real software. Hiring a developer because you will not write hours on a page is also foolish.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Comparisons. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Questions people actually ask
Can my developer use Cipher?
They can write a better brief. They cannot open a GitHub we did not give them.
Do you have an API for them?
Do not assume an API because retainers like APIs. Empty cells stay empty until we ship it.
Is Pro unlimited development?
Unlimited Cipher edits, not unlimited custom engineering.
Should they rebuild in Webflow instead?
Only if the project is a Webflow project. See that comparison.