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Upwork
Global freelance marketplace connecting clients with independent professionals across diverse industries
Upwork is a large online work marketplace where businesses post projects and contract independent professionals across tech, design, marketing, and admin fields. Freelancers can create profiles, search for fixed-price or hourly contracts, submit proposals, and receive payments in USD. It provides built-in time tracking, invoicing, and escrow payment protection.
What it's for
- Find remote contract work and freelance projects across various professional fields
- Hire freelance developers, designers, writers, and AI specialists for business projects
- Submit proposals and manage client communications and milestones
- Track billable hourly work with integrated time-tracking and payment protection
Features
- Searchable job board for fixed-price and hourly contracts
- Freelancer profiles showcasing portfolios, past reviews, and job success scores
- Proposal and bidding system using Connects
- Built-in contract management, milestone funding, and escrow payments
- Work Diary desktop app for verifiable hourly time tracking
- In-platform messaging, file sharing, and video calling
- Catalog for pre-packaged freelance project purchases
Pricing
Freemium. Free to join; freelancers pay platform service fees per contract (typically 10%) and purchase Connects to submit proposals
Details
- Type
- Website
- Category
- Business & Money
- Topic
- Freelance Marketplaces
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux
- For
- Freelancers seeking remote client work and businesses looking to hire contract talent
- Alternative to
- Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Toptal
- Tags
- freelance, remote work, job board, contracts, outsourcing, gig economy
Why it was saved
- @python4dev: Enables freelancers worldwide to find contract work, submit proposals, and earn in USD.
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