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Pricing

Three team sizes.Published prices.Your saving, shown.

Every plan is priced against what the same roles cost to employ in Dubai — salary plus visa, insurance, gratuity, desk, kit and recruitment. The difference is 60–70%, and the arithmetic is on this page.

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01Team plans

Pick the team you'd otherwise hire.

Month to month, on 30 days' notice both ways. Strategist, specialists, tools and replacements are in the price; media spend never is.

Instead of 2 in-house hires

Core team

AED 8,500a month

62% less than hiring

AED 13,600 saved every month

Strategy, social and design for a business that needs to show up properly, every week.

Your team
  • Marketing strategist
    Dubai-based. Sets the plan, checks the work, runs the monthly review.
  • Social media & content specialist
    Calendar, captions, posting and replies.
  • Graphic designer
    Social posts, ad creative and everyday collateral.
Every month
  • Monthly content plan and calendar
  • Two social platforms, run end to end
  • Design for social, ads and day-to-day collateral
  • One always-on Meta campaign
  • Monthly report and review call

Best for: Businesses with one marketer, or none, and a founder covering the rest.

Price this team for my business
Instead of 4 in-house hires

Growth team

AED 21,000a month

67% less than hiring

AED 42,700 saved every month

Paid acquisition, content and design run as one team, with a strategist accountable for the numbers.

Your team
  • Marketing strategist
    Dubai-based. Owns the plan and the numbers. Weekly call.
  • Performance marketer
    Google, Meta and TikTok campaigns, tracking and testing.
  • Social media & content specialist
    Calendar, copy, posting and community.
  • Graphic designer
    Ad creative, social and landing pages.
  • Copywriter, English and Arabic
    Ads, emails and landing pages in both languages.
Every month
  • Paid campaigns on Google, Meta and TikTok
  • Three social platforms, run end to end
  • Ad creative and landing-page updates
  • Email and WhatsApp campaigns
  • Weekly report, monthly strategy review

Best for: Businesses replacing — or avoiding — a three-to-four person marketing team.

Price this team for my business
Instead of 7 in-house hires

Full department

AED 35,000a month

69% less than hiring

AED 76,800 saved every month

A complete marketing department, led by a fractional head of marketing — for less than it costs to employ a head of marketing alone.

Your team
  • Fractional head of marketing
    Dubai-based. Budget, plan and reporting to leadership.
  • Performance marketer
    Every paid channel, tracking and conversion testing.
  • SEO specialist
    Technical and content SEO in English and Arabic.
  • Social media & content specialist
    Calendar, copy, posting and community.
  • Arabic content writer
    Native speaker. Written in Arabic, not translated.
  • Graphic designer
    Campaigns, social, web and print.
  • Video editor
    Reels, ads and long-form edits.
  • Project coordinator
    Briefs, approvals and deadlines.
Every month
  • Marketing plan and budget, reported to leadership
  • Paid media on every channel you use
  • SEO in English and Arabic
  • Content and social on four platforms
  • Video editing for ads and social
  • Email, WhatsApp and CRM campaigns
  • Weekly report, monthly leadership review

Best for: Businesses that need the whole function and would rather not build it.

Price this team for my business
02The comparison

Check the arithmetic.

The same roles, employed in Dubai, next to the plan that stands in for them. Switch team sizes to see each one.

Hiring the same roles in Dubai
  • Marketing managerAED 20,000
  • Performance marketerAED 14,000
  • Social media executiveAED 8,000
  • Graphic designerAED 7,000
  • Visa, insurance, gratuity, desk, kit and recruitment (30%)AED 14,700
Every monthAED 63,700
Magnetic Keys · Growth team
  • Marketing strategist
  • Performance marketer
  • Social media & content specialist
  • Graphic designer
  • Copywriter, English and Arabic
  • Tools, management and replacements included
Every monthAED 21,000
What stays in the business

AED 42,700 a month. AED 512,400 a year.

−67%
03How we price the in-house side

No inflated salaries. No invented overheads.

A comparison is only as honest as its assumptions, so here are ours. The salaries are deliberately unambitious: if anything, they understate what hiring costs.

Not counted, but real
  • Around 90 days to hire each role, while the work waits
  • Another two months before a new hire is fully productive
  • Cover for 30 days of annual leave per person
  • Starting again when someone resigns
  • Your own time spent managing the team
Monthly package, mid-level hire, Dubai SME, 2026
Head of marketingAED 30,000
Marketing managerAED 20,000
Performance marketerAED 14,000
SEO specialistAED 11,000
Marketing executiveAED 10,000
Arabic content writerAED 10,000
Social media executiveAED 8,000
Graphic designerAED 7,000
Video editorAED 6,000
Plus 30% of salary for
  • Visa, Emirates ID and labour fees
  • Medical insurance
  • End-of-service gratuity
  • A desk, in an office or co-working space
  • Laptop and software seats
  • Recruitment fees, spread over two years

Published UAE employer-cost estimates put visa, insurance and gratuity alone at 1.20–1.35× salary — before the desk, the laptop or the recruiter.

04Not in any plan

Paid separately.

Listed as plainly as what's included, because a price only protects you if the boundary is written down.

01Media spend — paid straight to Google, Meta and TikTok, never through us
02Photo and video shoots — we brief and direct them; production is quoted per shoot
03Software you choose to own, such as your CRM or email platform
04Website builds, quoted as a project
05Influencer and creator fees
05Custom teams

What moves the price.

When a plan doesn't fit, these are the variables that move the number. We size them with you in the cost review.

01How many specialists the work needs
02How much of each specialist's month you use
03Channels and platforms in scope
04Languages — English, Arabic or both
05Content and creative volume
06Media spend under management
06One-off projects

Need a project first?

Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline — for the jobs that are better bought once than staffed monthly. No plan required.

Growth Audit Sprint

2 weeks

A written diagnosis of where your marketing leaks money, and a costed 90-day plan to stop it.

AED 18,000

AI Content Engine

6 weeks

A private brand-voice model and production pipeline installed in your stack, run by your team.

AED 65,000

Conversion Site Build

8 weeks

A fast, bilingual, conversion-led marketing site with SEO architecture and CRM wired in.

From AED 48,000

Pipeline Install

5 weeks

Measurement, routing and lifecycle automation rebuilt so no lead leaks and every dirham is traceable.

AED 42,000
07Questions

On pricing, plainly.

Including the ones agencies usually avoid.

01Why publish prices when most agencies don't?

Because hiding them wastes everyone's time — and because our whole argument is a number. If a plan costs 60–70% less than hiring, you should be able to check that in ten seconds, not after two calls and a proposal.

02How do you work out the in-house cost?

We add up the salaries for the roles a plan stands in for, using mid-market Dubai packages for 2026 set at or below published medians, then add 30% for visa and Emirates ID, medical insurance, end-of-service gratuity, a desk, a laptop and software, and recruitment fees spread over two years. Hiring time, ramp-up, leave cover and churn aren't counted, so the real gap is usually wider.

03What if my team doesn't fit a plan?

Most don't, exactly. The plans are starting shapes: we add or remove specialists, or change how much of their month you use, and the free cost review rebuilds the comparison around your actual roles and salaries.

04Is there a minimum term?

No. Plans run month to month on 30 days' notice, in both directions. If we aren't the smartest line on your P&L, you should be able to leave without arguing with a lawyer about it.

05Is media spend included?

No. Ad budgets are paid straight to Google, Meta and TikTok from accounts in your name, so you see every dirham and nobody earns a margin on your spend. Production shoots, software you own outright and influencer fees are quoted separately too.

06Can the team work alongside our existing marketing staff?

Yes, and it's a common setup: keep your marketing lead in-house and let the remote team supply the specialists around them. The price covers the roles we add, not the ones you keep.

07Do you still take one-off projects?

Yes — websites, tracking rebuilds, AI installs and growth audits, at the fixed prices on this page. Plenty of teams start with one, but you don't need a plan to buy a project.

Next step

Price it againstyour own payroll.

Send us the roles you have, or were about to hire. We'll rebuild the comparison with your real numbers and come back within 72 hours — with a team, a price, and a straight answer on whether it fits.

WhatsApp us
hello@magnetickeys.comWhatsApp +971 52 529 5577Al Khawaneej, Dubai · United Arab Emirates