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Upwork

Who runs Upwork, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest freelance marketplace alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Couldn’t check
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
PeoplePerHour.com

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Upwork

Upwork upwork.com

Wikidata: American freelancing platform

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Upwork tracks

We couldn’t read upwork.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Upwork

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Upwork, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

We can’t read upwork.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    PeoplePerHour.com peopleperhour.com English 1 tracker

    PeoplePerHour.com - Hire Freelancers Online & Find Freelance Work

    Get any project done on PeoplePerHour - the #1 freelancing community. Post a project for free to find professional freelancers and find freelance jobs in minutes!.

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  2. 02
    Guru.com guru.com

    freelancing site

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  3. 03
    Freelancer freelancer.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer

    Access the world's largest cloud workforce. 25.9+ million jobs completed across 3400+ skills. Post your job free, compare quotes, and hire top talent today.

    Compare Freelancer with Upwork →
  4. 04
    Toptal toptal.com

    online freelance employment marketplace company based in Silicon Valley, California

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  5. 05
    Fiverr fiverr.com Top 1K

    online marketplace for freelance services

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  6. 06
    99designs 99designs.com English 1 tracker

    Logos, Web, Graphic Design & More. | 99designs

    The global creative platform for custom graphic design: logos, websites and more. Hire a talented designer or start a design contest. 500k+ happy customers have used 99designs to grow their business.

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  7. 07
    YouDo youdo.com

    Russian website

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  8. 08
    Thumbtack thumbtack.com

    American online marketplace

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  9. 09
    Mercado Libre mercadolibre.com Top 10K 1 tracker

    Mercado Libre - Envíos Gratis en el día

    Compre productos con Envío Gratis en el día en Mercado Libre. Encuentre miles de marcas y productos a precios increíbles.

    Compare Mercado Libre with Upwork →
  10. 10
    MyMiniFactory myminifactory.com

    website

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  11. 11
    CGTrader cgtrader.com English 1 tracker

    CGTrader - 3D Models And 3D Printing Marketplace

    Explore 2M+ 3D models online for print, game, VR/AR & design projects. Download, customize, or hire 3D experts - all on CGTrader.

    Compare CGTrader with Upwork →
  12. 12
    etsy.com Top 1K

    American e-commerce company

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  13. 13
    Gumroad gumroad.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad

    Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.

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  14. 14
    ZipRecruiter ziprecruiter.com Top 10K

    Online employment marketplace connecting employers and job seekers through mobile and email services.

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  15. 15
    Creative Market creativemarket.com

    online marketplace for creative assets

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  16. 16
    TeePublic teepublic.com Top 10K English

    e-commerce crowdsourcing site where artists can upload and sell their designs

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  17. 17
    WooCommerce woocommerce.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    WooCommerce

    WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.

    Compare WooCommerce with Upwork →
  18. 18
    Groupon groupon.com Top 10K

    American worldwide e-commerce marketplace

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  19. 19
    Flippa flippa.com English 2 trackers

    Buy and Sell Online Businesses, Websites, Apps & Domains - Flippa

    Flippa is the #1 global platform to buy and sell online businesses, websites, SaaS, eCommerce stores, YouTube Channels, and Mobile Apps. Join over 600,000 investors and founders today.

    Compare Flippa with Upwork →
  20. 20
    Jimdo jimdo.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Bring Your Business Online | Websites & More – Jimdo

    Try Jimdo, the all-in-one small business solution. Websites, online stores, bookings, logos, SEO, analytics, domains, and hosting.

    Compare Jimdo with Upwork →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Upwork’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Upwork uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Upwork adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 13 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
27 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Upwork’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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