Heavily advertised online landscape design service selling discounted 3D yard design packages.
Real redesign: Luxury front yard. Drag to compare.
Price
$19
per month, 250 designs
Turnaround
Under 2 minutes
Unlimited re-rolls on every plan
Best at
Unlimited iterations on your own photo, before you spend a peso on plants
ShrubHub, as it looks today.
Price
$500–$3,000
one-time, promo pricing swings hard
Turnaround
1–2 weeks
Per design round
Best at
Full yard packages that go on sale often enough that patience pays
The short answer
ShrubHub wins if you want a human-produced 3D concept plus a shopping list and you catch it on a real discount. AI Garden Design wins if you want to iterate freely on your own photo, avoid a lump-sum commitment, or explore many directions before spending anything.
ShrubHub is an online landscape design service that delivers a 3D rendering of your yard, a plant list, and a shopping list, produced by a designer from photos and measurements you submit. It is best known for aggressive discount marketing, the list price is rarely what anyone actually pays, which makes its real cost confusing to compare against alternatives.
You submit photos, rough measurements, and a style questionnaire. A designer produces a 3D concept of the yard along with a plant list and a materials shopping list, typically inside one to two weeks, with a limited number of revisions attached to the package you bought.
Where the money goes
ShrubHub advertises packages in one range and sells them, very often, in a much lower one. Anyone comparing on the published number is comparing against a figure most customers do not pay.
Promotional pricing runs frequently enough that the discounted number is the realistic one. That is not a criticism, plenty of businesses price this way, but it does mean that a comparison table quoting list prices tells you almost nothing useful. Before you decide anything on cost, open the site and look at today's offer.
It also means the sensible move is to check the price twice: once when you start thinking about it, and once when you are ready to buy. If a package is near the top of the range this week, waiting is a real strategy.
What does not change with the discount is the shape of the deliverable. You are buying a designed plan produced from photos and a questionnaire, turned around in a week or two. The value question is whether a designed plan at the current price beats iterating yourself, and that depends entirely on which price you are looking at.
Promo price
Frequently in the $500 to $1,000 range. At this number the service is genuinely competitive for a full yard.
List price
Quoted as high as $1,500 to $3,000. Very few people appear to pay this, so do not plan around it either way.
What you get
A designed plan from your photos and brief, roughly one to two weeks out, with revision terms that depend on the package.
Practical order of operations: iterate on your own photo first so you know what you are asking for, then buy the package on a week when the discount is on. You will get more out of the revision rounds and pay less for them.
Every row is a real difference, not a checkbox. Where ShrubHub is genuinely stronger, the table says so.
| Feature | AI Garden Design | ShrubHub |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Photorealistic AI redesign of your actual photo | 3D concept rendering, plant list, and shopping list from a designer |
| Pricing | $19/month yearly ($228/yr) for 250 designs on Personal, $69/month yearly ($828/yr) for 1,000 designs and commercial license on Pro | Frequently discounted; roughly $500–$3,000 depending on the offer running |
| Turnaround | Under two minutes per redesign, unlimited iterations on every plan | About one to two weeks |
| Iterations | Unlimited, every style and space, no extra charge | Limited revisions bundled with the package |
| Plant list | Suggested plant guide per style | Yes, with a linked shopping list |
| Contractor sourcing | Not included | Not a core part of the offering |
| Photoreal output | Yes, built on your real photo | 3D model render rather than your photograph |
| Commitment | $19/mo yearly, cancel anytime | Pay per project, up front |
Not renders of someone else's garden. Drag the handle to see the original photo turn into the redesign.
Upload a photo and get a photorealistic redesign in under two minutes. Try as many styles as you like before deciding whether ShrubHub is worth it.
Redesign my gardenIt depends heavily on the price you actually pay. At a promotional $500 to $1,000 for a 3D concept plus plant and shopping lists it compares reasonably with other online services. At full list price it sits close to Yardzen, which delivers a more complete package. Check what the live offer is before deciding.
ShrubHub gives you one human-produced 3D concept of your yard. AI Garden Design gives you unlimited photorealistic redesigns built on your own photograph, returned in minutes, for a monthly subscription. One is a finished deliverable, the other is an exploration tool.
Yes, and it is a sensible order. Use AI Garden Design first to settle on a style using your real photo, then brief ShrubHub or any designer with that reference. A clear reference usually produces a better first concept than a written brief alone.
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