With Baymard Premium you’ll get full access to 150,000+ hours of UX research findings, all distilled into 650+ design guidelines and 275,000+ UX performance scores — insights already used by most of the world’s leading e-commerce sites.
Use Baymard’s comprehensive e-commerce UX research to create “State of the Art” e-commerce experiences, discover which design patterns consistently cause usability issues for users, and see how your UX performance stacks up against leading sites.
We’ve distilled our 150,000+ hours of usability testing and UX research into 650+ guidelines.
Each of the 650+ guidelines focuses on a specific aspect, feature, or design pattern of the user experience and documents what consistently causes issues for users and what consistently performs well.
Each guideline offers in-depth test insights on how users behave and interpret a given UI/feature, and provides your team with concrete and actionable advice on how to implement the designs and features that are consistently observed to perform the best with users.
The research is structured into 90+ topics, each containing 5-15 guidelines, that cover every aspect of your online user experience. This supports both when your organization needs to make a complete site redesign, or when you need documentation on how to best design and implement a specific page, a UI component, or feature.
Unrestricted access to our UX benchmark database provides your team with systematic inspiration from 251 leading and competing e-commerce sites, showcasing what performs well with users and what doesn’t – all through real-world examples.
Each of the 251 case studies (US and European sites) provides you with:
The case studies are useful in showing what website elements and designs from leading and competing brands that your organization should, and, more importantly, shouldn’t draw inspiration from.
We continually add new UX research to Baymard Premium — roughly 37,000+ hours per year. This keeps your organization on top of the current design trends, the latest UX research findings, general changes in user behavior, and the current state of the competitive landscape.
We deprecate any guidelines and recommendations if the underlying user behavior or UX issue is no longer observed in large-scale testing.
Unrestricted access to the UX performance benchmark provides you and your team with a comprehensive overview of the current competitive e-commerce UX landscape, identifying industry leaders and common UX pitfalls to stay clear of.
Your team can drill down into detailed UX performance scorecards for today’s leading sites, with 275,000+ weighted UX performance scores and visual explanations of how they perform and stack up.
Self-assess your own site UX to produce a detailed UX performance scorecard, enabling you to see how your site stacks up against the industry, the competition, and ‘state of the art’ user experiences.
The Review Tool builds upon our audit team’s 9 years of experience conducting highly detailed UX audits, and has more than 7,000 site implementation scenarios available as an interactive questionnaire, allowing you and your team to conduct accurate and repeatable UX performance evaluations. The tool also guides you on how to address your site’s UX shortcomings.
You can also assess your prototypes or designs-in-progress to gauge how your individual design changes are improving the overall user experience.
Your team can create an unlimited number of self-assessments in the Review Tool.
175,000+ best- and worst-practice implementation examples, across different industries, illustrate how you can implement each of the 650+ UX guidelines.
The examples are all searchable and performance-verified, and are continuously updated to provide you the latest examples from leading brands and sites.
This allows you to quickly cherry-pick the most relevant inspiration from leading brands and competitors, to use, for example, in meetings with internal stakeholders or clients
Full access to the Page Design tool provides you and your team with 18,000+ full-page design examples, annotated with 175,000+ UX callouts by our UX research team.
This allows your team to systematically gather inspiration for a particular “page type” you are working on — e.g., “no results” pages, product pages, “shipping method” steps, top-level navigation, mobile filtering interfaces, etc.
The Page Design tool also highlights the UX pitfalls you should avoid for each of the 62 page types available.
When you sign up, Baymard staff will show you and your team around Baymard Premium in a private live onboarding call.
This onboarding call will ensure that your team hits the ground running, can ask questions, and can easily find the research that best matches the areas of most interest to you.
(All plans except the Personal plan qualify for an onboarding call.)
Unlock the full potential of your UX team and accelerate your individual career with Baymard's UX training and certification platform. The self-paced courses are based on Baymard’s 150,000+hours of UX research.
There’s 3 difficulty levels to match all UX backgrounds and ambitions, from the uninitiated to the UX veteran. Beyond training and certification, there’s also guest lectures from Google, Luke Wroblewski, Paul Boag, Brad Frost, etc.
Training access is only available on the Comprehensive, Specialty, and Organization plans, and costs $300 / year per seat. Largely the same as a conference ticket. (Learn more about UX training)
You can become “UX Certified by Baymard Institute” at 3 levels. You become certified by following the guided UX training program and passing the accompanying exams. Certification ensures a consistently high level of knowledge in your organization and documents your UX expertise externally with (optional) inclusion in Baymard’s public list of certified UXers.
There are 3 levels of UX certification, so there’s a level that matches both people new in the UX field, UX professionals, and the most savvy UX veterans.
Training & certification access is optional and available on the Comprehensive, Specialty, and Organization plans. (Learn more about UX training)
Baymard Premium includes unlimited employees within your company (legal entity) to create a user and access the entire research database. This means you can freely invite developers, product managers, team leads, marketing, and any stakeholders to access the UX research.
Empower your whole organization with UX research, for example:
Baymard’s research findings are based on 150,000+ hours of testing e-commerce sites. Specifically, they’re based on 4,400+ qualitative moderated in-lab usability test sessions following the “Think Aloud” protocol — real users testing live e-commerce sites — combined with in-lab eye-tracking testing and quantitative studies with 18,397 users.
During testing the desktop and mobile websites from more than 90 leading US and European brands, the test subjects encountered 34,000+ usability issues.
The insight from analyzing these issues has been distilled into 650+ user experience guidelines prioritized by UX impact — providing you with concise design guidelines that will help you improve your site’s UX performance and conversion rate.
Using data and insights from usability test findings, Baymard has benchmarked the online shopping experience of 251 leading US and European e-commerce sites across all of the 650+ UX guidelines.
This provides your organization with the most comprehensive e-commerce UX database in the world with 18,000+ manually reviewed pages with more than 275,000+ weighted UX performance scores to compare against. You also get access to 175,000+ best- and worst-practice implementation examples categorized across the 650+ guidelines (searchable & performance-verified).
Baymard’s team of researchers continuously updates the UX benchmark, providing you with the latest design patterns and an accurate picture of the current competitive landscape.
If you choose the ‘UX Audit Partnership’ plan, Baymard’s team of researchers will conduct a standard UX audit of your desktop or mobile website, across 100+ UX parameters relevant to your industry.
The UX audit enables your organization to compare your core UX performance directly to leading brands and user’s expectations. And it identifies the 10 most impactful research-backed UX improvements for your site.
Learn more about the ‘UX Audit Partnership’ plan, or book a call to get started.
Baymard’s research is organized into 7 themes, 3 platforms, and 26 industries. Learn more about the UX research below.
Empower your e-commerce UX and organization with Baymard Premium research and tools. Depending on your organization, budget, and needs, there are 4 plans to choose from:
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UX Training & Certification of Employees | $300 per certification seat | $300 per certification seat | 3 certification seats included, then $300 per certification seat | |
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Research Database | 100% |
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Annual UX Audit of your site UX performance measure across 100 parameters + 10 top UX issues on your site identified | |
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UX Training & Certification of Employees | $300 per certification seat |
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Research Database | 100% |
Number of Users | Unlimited Users(One Legal Entity) |
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Annual UX Audit of your site UX performance measure across 100 parameters + 10 top UX issues on your site identified | |
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UX Training & Certification of Employees | $300 per certification seat |
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Research Database | 100% |
Number of Users | Unlimited Users(One Legal Entity) |
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Annual UX Audit of your site UX performance measure across 100 parameters + 10 top UX issues on your site identified | |
On-Call UX Support from Baymard | |
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UX Training & Certification of Employees | 3 certification seats included, then $300 per certification seat |
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We stand by our research and offer you a 14 day full-refund period if you’re not satisfied. E-mail us at support@baymard.com for a full refund.
It comes down to how many customers the UX research costs can be shared across: industries with higher market concentration have fewer customers to cover the research expense. Most Specialty industries also require more costly research phases. To conduct UX research specific to industries like SaaS, B2B, Food & Grocery, Travel, and Telco, we have to price their access slightly higher.
You get the Baymard Premium toolset and 150,000+ hours of UX research at an annual cost that’s around the same as you’d pay for just 10–40 hours of consulting at a design agency.
Our clients find they get a very significant return on investment if they implement even just a small handful (2-30) of the 650+ UX guidelines.
Even when the gains in UX and conversion rate are set aside, the speed increase and reassurance it adds to the design and development phases deliver value significantly above the subscription cost (e.g., by having systematic research-backed answers & user behavior insights to inform your design challenges, documenting new UX design decisions towards decision-makers, avoid going down the wrong design paths, getting systematic inspiration on best- and worst-practice design patterns, etc.).
If in doubt, see our testimonials from other clients and note that we have a full-refund period within 14-days after signing up.
All listed prices listed in the plan matrix are in USD.
We also accept EURO and GBP if paying by invoice, bank transfer, or PO (options available on the Comprehensive, Specialty, and Enterprise plans).
All of our Baymard Premium plans are billed annually. There is no monthly option. There are two key reasons for this:
Note that we offer a 14-day refund period in case you feel there’s nothing of value in Baymard Premium. Most of our clients find that they get a very significant return on their investment if they implement just a small handful (2-30) of the 650+ guidelines on their site – and even when the gains in conversion and UX are set aside, the increases in speed and quality of your design and development phases — by getting accurate and validated answers to design questions at the start of the process, thereby avoiding going down wrong paths — often result in significant value above the subscription cost.
Got questions? Want a demo? Book a call with a Baymard researcher who will answer your questions and show you around Premium.
Baymard’s research is used by 29,000+ brands, agencies, researchers, and UX designers, across 80+ countries, and includes 71% of all Fortune 500 e-commerce companies.
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“Baymard has been a great resource in helping us improve the customer experience. We are continually applying these best practices to our sites.”
“These reports are fabulous. The content is exactly what our team has been looking for, and so much more! Extremely helpful, thank you!”
“We implemented “E-Commerce Checkout Usability” guide for all our stores and saw doubling of checkout conversion rates. We will soon work on implementation of other usability guidelines. Thank you Christian and Jamie for your excellent work!”
“Some time ago we purchased the Ecommerce Homepage & Category report - the research and insights are extremely useful to us and help us a lot in our work!”
“I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for the amazing work on this audit. You should know that this has been very well received internally and there’s a lot of excitement around adopting the ideas you have shared.”
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“This was indeed very helpful guidance and a very well-documented roadmap for us to fix, validate, organize, collectively understand and continually improve our ecommerce foundation.”
“I can confirm that the list was fully implemented. Every time we put up a change we either A/B test or we watch it very closely to determine that it’s doing better and not the opposite. So I can confirm that these fixes have improved our checkout. Thanks for everything.”
“I can not tell you how much help your benchmark studies have been for our company, e-commerce and UX teams. We have used and continue to use these reports for baseline benchmarks as we build test protocols or eye tracking scripts etc. in lab.”
“Excellent tool – looking forward to using it with our other sites and prototypes as they’re developed.”
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“I really like the work Baymard Institute does around usability. Their articles often get my Ecom gears turning.”
“We’ve received some awesome feedback from our Merchant Success team as well as our merchants about all of the UX Audits we’ve had thus far with Baymard. Thank you so much to you and your team for all of your hard work. The pilot with Baymard has been going fantastic and I’m really excited with all that we’re learning! You have an amazing platform, team and super helpful data base for us to work with.”
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“I am just thrilled by this study, it’s helped me in the construction of my online store checkout. All points in this study make incredible sense, and I cannot help but incorporate all of these suggestions. Incredible.”
“Thanks for everything. The audit was extremely useful, I think we have gained valuable insight.”
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“The recommendations in our audit were awesome - well prioritized, actionable and helped us focus on what to optimize. This audit, along with the e-Commerce Reports & Benchmark Databases, are my go-to resources for thorough, insightful information. Thank you!”
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“The walkthrough today was great. The report was very, very well done and loaded with great opportunities for us to improve our business. I wanted to again express my appreciation for working with us on such a condensed time frame last month. You and your team have been amazing partners to us and we very much appreciate the work, expertise and partnership.”
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“We have worked with a number of third party companies before on various projects/audits, and I can certainly say that working with Baymard was not only a pleasure; but you delivered on time; to the level of depth we wanted; addressing important issues; and answering all our questions; and you did all this for a great price. A big THANK YOU on behalf of N11.”
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“We found the audits extremely helpful and validated a number of changes we have been wanting to make or are in the process of making, so thank again for all the great insights.”
“The Baymard reports have proven to be an invaluable resource for us. Comprehensive, pragmatic and actionable. We have redesigned our checkout process and made changes to our category pages based on usability guidelines in the reports.”
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“Baymard’s UX training week was invaluable. Christian presented the company’s vast research in an organized and digestible format that encouraged actionable takeaways. I can’t wait to share these learnings with my colleagues!”
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“after benchmarking checkouts for a couple of hours last week… this resource is magical ”
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“Baymard has helped so much: UX was a brand new role at my company when I was hired. I was researching, planning, and designing UX & UI for 5 different products, all by myself. After showing real-world, bottom-line results from a UX centered approach to our products, we have expanded our UX team and greatly improved our UX-to-product process. Baymard’s research database was a critical component to my (and my company’s) success. Thank you!”
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