About Freelancer
Founded in 2009, Freelancer.com is one of the largest and most well-established freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplaces worldwide. Clients use this platform to find diverse talents, while freelancers use it to earn money with their skills.
General Details 📜
| Status: | Active, Legit |
|---|---|
| Helps You: | Make Money |
| Platform Type: | Freelance Marketplace |
| Opportunities: | Administration Audio Production Competing Computing Copy Editing |
Details for Freelancers 💰
| Work Type: | Freelance |
|---|---|
| Income Type: | Active |
| Work Schedule: | Flexible |
| Workplace: | Remote |
| Minimum Payout: | $30 |
| Payout Options: | Direct Deposit PayPal Skrill Wire Transfer |
| Payout Speed: | 1-15 days For first withdrawals, freelancers need to wait for 15 days before the request is processed. After that, withdrawal requests will take 1-5 business days depending on the payment method and day of request. Payment cut-off days are on Monday and Thursday. Freelancer.com also offers Daily Withdrawal Requests to users who have successfully withdrawn their earnings before and are under a Plus, Professional, or Premier membership. |
| Commissions / Fees: | For fixed-price projects, Freelancer.com collects $5 USD (or its equivalent in other currencies) or 10% of the winning bid — whichever is greater — when the freelancer accepts the project. Subsequent payments above the original bid amount will have a 10% project fee. For hourly projects, Freelancer.com will collect 10% of every milestone payment as a project fee. Additionally, tips are subject to a 10% fee, and government taxes may apply depending on the country. |
Pros:
- Easy to use.
- Lots of jobs available in many different skillets.
- Clients pay relatively well.
- Chance to find recurring work.
- No hefty withdrawal fees.
- Flexible bidding system.
- Freelancers who build up a good rating can receive a lot of work.
Cons:
- Lots of competition, either from freelancers undercutting your prices or from well-established freelancers with high ratings.
- Scammers on the platform will ask you to pay before being able to take on a job, only to run off with your money.
- High minimum payout compared to other similar platforms.
- Payments can sometimes take a while to process.
Tips:
- Bid on jobs early and often.
- Be patient.
- Build a strong profile listing all of your skills, achievements, etc.
- Participate in contests.
- Don't pay any money in order to land a job.
- Overdeliver (especially as a beginner) to impress clients and increase your chance at recurring work.
- Ask clients for ratings and/or referrals.
- Before accepting a task, research the client to ensure they're legit and have a valid payment method.
- Learn new skills when you can in order to offer new services.
Note: The pros, cons, and tips featured above are manually curated summaries and/or direct excerpts from our 19 Freelancer Freelancer reviews.
Freelancer Freelancer Statistics
We've gathered 19 Freelancer Freelancer reviews from 10 unique countries/regions.
Here are some insights and statistics from those reviews:
Reported Hourly Earnings
Reported Monthly Earnings
Reported Time to Reach Minimum Payout Amount (For the 1st Time)
- Unknown (0%)
- <= 5 minutes (0%)
- <= 1 hour (0%)
- <= 1 day (0%)
- <= 1 week (47.37%)
- <= 2 weeks (21.05%)
- <= 3 weeks (5.26%)
- <= 1 month (10.53%)
- > 1 month (15.79%)
- > 1 year (0%)
Statistics above are based on self-reported data from our 19 Freelancer Freelancer reviews.
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About the Reviewers
Reviews By Total Earnings
- Unknown (0%)
- Less than $100 (31.58%)
- $100-$999 (47.37%)
- $1,000-$9,999 (21.05%)
- $10,000-$49,999 (0%)
- $50,000-$99,999 (0%)
- $100,000+ (0%)
Reviews By Age Range
- Unknown (0%)
- 13-17 (0%)
- 18-24 (63.16%)
- 25-34 (31.58%)
- 35-44 (5.26%)
- 45-54 (0%)
- 55-64 (0%)
- 65+ (0%)
Reviews By Length of Use
- < 1 month (0%)
- 1-3 months (10.53%)
- 3-6 months (21.05%)
- 6-12 months (15.79%)
- 1-2 years (10.53%)
- 2-3 years (5.26%)
- 3-5 years (36.84%)
- 5+ years (0%)
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Rating Breakdown
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Used to be the best platform a year ago, but has seen decline
Freelancer.com used to be the best platform a year ago but now it has seen a decline in the number of clients. They have a simple Hiring process although there are very many freelancers making it so competitive. But with good rating, you'll get many clients.
You can bid your own price irrespective of the other freelancers. With a good rating you can really get alot of clients.
Its very competitive due to large number of freelancers offering same service. Low number of clients as of late due to the site losing its reputation.
Apply for many bids and have an appealing profile to attract clients. Bid for many orders and maintain a good success rate this will make clients come for you for your services
It's very efficient for very skilled individuals
Clean and easy to use. Project based.
Many clients aren't specific enough
Master your craft and have a good portfolio. Only go for projects you know you can do.
It's a little tight but you can manage well if you push harder
Some clients pay very well, hence high rates. Some jobs are recurring.
Competition from established freelancers. Lack of clients.
Make a nice profile with help from a professional. Pitch as much as you can. Do superb work to get repeat clients.
If you're skilled you can make a good living on the site
There's a lot of jobs on it
Take too long to process payments. Free account has very few bids, 5 bids a month is not enough to get started.
Do everything on the platform. Pick high paying skills (IT pays well) while avoiding low paying ones (writing jobs pay the least).
I like it
I can make much money through many basic tasks.
I don't like the design.
Watch some Youtube videos to improve your skills. Offer basic tasks.
Nice one for making money even for beginners
I would recommend it to anyone since you can make money immediately after signing up
Easy to use site. Lots of jobs available.
Competition
Bid on a lot of projects at once
It's a little bit like Fiverr but requires to be far more skilled
If you're skilled it might work well, but I don't recommended to newbies.
There's a lot of people with so much tasks
A lot of tasks requires experience and skills
Work on your reputation and be the first on the ads
Good site
Alot of jobs available
none
Good profile. Bid on jobs early.
The site is okay but has a few scammers
This site is generally good if you deferentiate bad bad clients.
Has multiple jobs posted each hour which a freelancer can choose from.
Some users will scam you (by asking you to pay in order to get a job) if you are not careful.
Always analyse a person before accepting any task. I make sure than the client has added money to escrow before I start working.
Good for freelancers
The site seems to be the best and have earned a lot of money here. There are only few scammers who must be avoided by requesting deposit before you start working
The site protects it's users from fake clients by allowing the client to make a deposit before you start a project. This is only available on demand.
The site has a lot of scammers.
Work with clients who have proven their payment. Offer more than what the client wanted. Ask clients to refer to other clients.
