flintery gives you the numbers.
You make the decisions.
Day rate, project prices, usage rights, invoices, cashflow. flintery handles the commercial side of your freelance work and shows you at any time where you stand.
No subscription, no commitment.
Funded by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia · Servers in Germany · Built in Düsseldorf
That is what self-employed creatives in Germany earn per year on average. 183,383 people, insured through the Künstlersozialkasse, Germany's social insurance fund for artists.
Highly skilled work, paid at less than 40 percent of the median wage. This is not a matter of talent, and it is not a lack of demand. It is structural.
Künstlersozialkasse, “KSK in Zahlen”, section 8, as of 1 January 2026. Earned income under the KSVG = profit after business expenses. · German Federal Statistical Office, earnings survey 2025: median gross annual earnings of full-time employees including special payments, €54,066.
And this is how it feels day to day.
Uncertainty
There is no market comparison and no price transparency. So the price comes from your gut. Too high means you lose the job, too low means you lose money. And you never find out which of the two it was.
No foundation
Creatives learn their craft, not their costing. What you need to cover fixed costs, taxes and reserves never makes it into the price.
Silence around money
Nobody talks openly about fees. Every negotiation you go into alone. Every mistake repeats itself a thousand times over, across the whole industry.
“flintery has made our project planning and calculation considerably simpler. Before, we worked everything out laboriously in Excel, which was not only draining but also time-consuming and hard to keep track of. Since we started using flintery, we have been able to improve our running costs and our prices, and we have an overview of capacity and usage rights. We can recommend flintery to every creative freelancer!”
Translated from German
An engine, not a toolbox.
It all starts with the question that stands at the beginning of every freelance career. What do you need in order to work profitably? That is where your day rate comes from, the foundation of every calculation.
Day rate
What you need to earn per day to make it work. flintery calculates your day rate from real fixed costs, taxes and your target net income.
- You know your floor
- Every rate is justified
- The base for every calculation
Calculate
B2B or B2C. Photographer, videographer or content creator. 21 industries, tailored fields. You enter what you do. flintery works out what it should cost.
- Every price has a foundation, and you can stand behind it
- Calculate in minutes, not hours
- Nothing gets forgotten
Licensing
flintery automatically calculates the recommended usage rights, for photo, video and content creation. Whether it is a social media package or a buyout, you see straight away what is appropriate.
- You stop giving away licenses
- Your client understands what they are getting
- You never miss a renewal
Quotes & invoices
From quote to finished invoice, without switching tools. flintery turns your calculation into a quote and then the invoice.
- From quote to invoice in minutes
- Data stays consistent, from project through to invoice
- Legally sound thanks to e-invoicing and GoBD
Finances
Income, expenses, cashflow. All in one place. A clear overview that shows you in seconds where you currently stand.
- You always know where you stand
- You plan instead of hope
- You spot bottlenecks before they hit
Capacity
How many projects realistically fit into your month. flintery shows your workload and free time, so you can say yes without overcommitting.
- You see what still fits
- Planning instead of constant stress
- Never overbooked again
You calculate. flintery thinks ahead.
One project calculated — and everything updates automatically. No manual upkeep, no second-guessing.
Your revenue engine.
flintery takes care of the business behind your work.
Try it yourself – 7 days freeFour typical cases. Four different calculations.
What flintery does here
Most of the work happens outside the shoot: the first conversation, planning, travel, image selection, editing, handover. flintery counts those hours too, whether you calculate freely or sell fixed packages, and shows you whether your price carries them.
What flintery does here
The effort counts here just as much, but it is only one half. flintery first calculates the full production, then derives the usage rights alongside it, from purpose, reach, duration and exclusivity. Your quote shows the two separately.
What flintery does here
Concept, shoot, edit, revision rounds. flintery calculates each stage on its own and carries the usage rights to the film as a separate line item, with its own derivation.
What flintery does here
The whole price sits between an organic post and a paid ad. flintery separates production from usage, so you do not charge for a day of work and hand over a campaign with it.
And if you do several of these: flintery knows the mixed case and calculates photo and video separately within the same project.
Do you know what others in your industry charge?
The flintery benchmark shows you.
The benchmark is not a ranking and not a list of competitors. It shows you what is actually being charged in your industry, so you have the confidence to name your price. Every calculation made through flintery feeds in anonymously. And where creatives have connected their bookkeeping or their bank account, flintery checks the calculation against what actually came in.
Real numbers, not gut feeling
You see what creatives charge for comparable projects. Filtered by industry and project type.
Confidence, not guesswork
The most common reason for pricing too low is the worry that you are the only one asking that much. The benchmark shows you that you are not.
Together the picture gets sharper
You decide whether your anonymised data feeds in. Every calculation makes the picture more accurate. And the more accurate the picture, the better the starting position for everyone who negotiates next.
The benchmark grows with the community and will be fully available soon.
I built flintery because I needed it myself.
Hi, I'm Rafik. As a photographer and video producer I know the pain of guessing: “good enough” was my way of pricing, and “sure, that works” my answer to questions about licensing. That's how I left five-figure sums on the table every year. To change that, I built myself a system. That's how flintery came to be: built to give creatives exactly what they'd been missing. I lovingly call flintery the “Revenue Engine”. Everything inside is built to give you clarity about your self-employment — so you can keep being creative and earn a good living from it.
Rafik Halabi · Founder of flintery
Same project. Different price.
Gut feeling vs. flintery.
Scenario: Corporate shoot · 1.5 days · Web + Social · 2 years · national · exclusive
More per project
+€1,213
Less than a coffee a day. More clarity than any Excel acrobatics.
Professional
For everyone who wants to calculate and plan.
or €290/year — 2 months free
- Project calculations (B2C & B2B)
- Licensing (Photo, Video & UGC)
- Financial planning & cashflow
- License reminders
- flintery BenchmarkBeta
- Export & accounting integration
- Quotes & Invoices
- Customizable Invoice Templates
- Capacity Planning
- Bank sync
- Retainer management
Premium
For pros who want everything in one tool.
or €490/year — 2 months free
- Project calculations (B2C & B2B)
- Licensing (Photo, Video & UGC)
- Financial planning & Cashflow
- License reminders
- flintery BenchmarkBeta
- Export & accounting integration
- Quotes & Invoices
- Customizable Invoice Templates
- Capacity Planning
- Bank sync
- Retainer management
Professional costs €29 a month plus VAT. A single project brings you €1,213 more in the example above. That covers flintery for over 3 years.
All prices exclude statutory VAT.
“I am absolutely delighted with flintery. Once you have entered everything for the day rate calculation, you have a tool at your side that genuinely supports you in calculating your projects. And the best part: the usage rights are covered right along with it. It makes project calculation simple and quick.”
Translated from German
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. flintery guides you step by step. It is that easy.
You decide. No automatic subscription, no hidden fees.
Yes. Monthly at month-end. Yearly until contract end. Full access until expiration.
Yes. Small jobs are the biggest margin killers, which is exactly why it pays off.
No. flintery gives you the numbers your accountant wishes you had shown sooner.
On servers in Germany. GDPR-compliant and encrypted.
When creatives think commercially, more changes than a bank balance.
per year. That is the additional income created among the 183,383 KSK-insured creatives alone, if they hold their prices just ten percent better on average.
Germany's cultural and creative industries generate over 120 billion euros in gross value added. More than mechanical engineering. Fair prices stabilise an industry that carries this country culturally and economically.
And it starts with a single quote that has been properly calculated.
Lower bound. Derived from 183,383 insured creatives × €21,336 average earned income × 10 % = around €391 million. Prices ten percent higher raise profit by ten percent of revenue; since revenue is at least as high as profit, the actual figure is higher. Künstlersozialkasse, “KSK in Zahlen”, section 8, as of 1 January 2026. · German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Monitoring Report on the Cultural and Creative Industries 2024: gross value added €123.2 billion (2023).
So you can stay creative
and make a good living from it.
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