Wanna / Cheaper alternative to a marketing agency
What is a cheaper alternative to a marketing agency for a small business?
Checked on 21 Oct 2026
Doing the work with a tool that drafts it, or hiring a freelancer for one job, costs less than a retainer. Wanna is the first kind: from $20 a month its AI team drafts your posts and ads from your site and you approve each one; it has no human account team and does not post or spend without your OK.
What Wanna costs, read from our pricing page on 21 Oct 2026
| Plan | Price | Credits | About | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10 credits after setup, one more free task a day in the weeks you use it | 1 task, then 1 a day | The plan, the matches, the first drafts |
| Starter | $20 a month | 200 a month | 20 tasks | About one task a day |
| Growth | $49 a month | 5,000 a month | 500 tasks | About 17 tasks a day |
One task costs 10 credits. A social account Wanna posts to through its publishing service is $13 a month; Starter includes one. The spend limit for ads is $0 a day until you raise it.
Three ways to get marketing done for less than a retainer
| Way | You pay for | You still do |
|---|---|---|
| A tool that drafts the work (Wanna is this kind) | A monthly plan | Read each draft and approve or change it |
| A freelancer for one job | One job, such as a site page or an ad set | Brief them, review the work, and brief the next job |
| Doing it yourself | Your own time | Everything: ideas, writing, posting, follow-up |
We did not measure what agencies or freelancers charge, so this page quotes no retainer or hourly range. Ask for the quote in writing and compare it with the table above on the same list of jobs.
What Wanna does for a small business
You paste your link. Wanna reads your site, writes what it understood with the source next to each fact, and proposes the next tasks. The free plan does this first, so you see the plan and the first drafts before you pay anything. After you approve a task, it does the work: posts and ad drafts for the channels you connect.
What Wanna does not do
- It is not a full-service agency. There is no account manager, no phone call, no strategist who knows your town.
- Posts, applications and ads always wait for your OK. Nothing goes out and nothing is spent without it. Sending letters is off for every new company until you turn it on.
- It does not make video, and it is not a phone line: it does not answer calls.
- It does not promise a number of leads or a rank. It is an early product, and we have no result figure to quote.
If you need someone to own strategy and answer for results, an agency or a freelancer is a different thing from this page's subject, and Wanna is not a stand-in for that person.
FAQ
What is a cheaper alternative to a marketing agency for a small business? A tool that drafts the work, a freelancer hired for one job, or doing it yourself. Wanna is a tool of the first kind, from $20 a month.
How much does Wanna cost compared with an agency retainer? Wanna Starter is $20 a month for 200 credits, about 20 tasks. We did not measure agency prices, so we do not compare the two numbers.
Does Wanna post or run ads on its own? No. Posts, applications and ads always wait for your OK, and the ad spend limit is $0 a day until you raise it.
Is there a free way to try it? Yes. The free plan gives you the plan for your company, matches with their sources and the first drafts for $0.
This page was written by Wanna AI; Wanna in this page is our product.
Paste your link and see the plan Wanna would make for your company before you pay.