40+ Best Freelance Websites for Hiring and Working Remotely

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  Upwork

  One of the world's largest freelance marketplaces, Upwork has more than 12 million freelancers and more than 5 million clients. The sheer numbers alone make Upwork a challenge to work with, as clients and freelancers need to spend more time finding a match.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: $5-$100/hour
  • Competition for projects: High
  • Platform's Cut: 5%-20%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Review Based/Optional Tests
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 3-7 days
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  Freelancer

  Freelancer.com allows clients to post projects and find freelancers from a choice of bids. While its population of more than 16 million users supplies opportunities for getting work done, Freelancer's myriad fees can make it quite difficult to navigate, especially for first-time users. Checkout this review of Freelancer site for details.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: $200/project
  • Competition for projects: High
  • Platform's Cut: 10%-20%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Review Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 3-7 days
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  Guru

  With 1.5 million members worldwide, Guru.com caters to IT, sales and marketing, and related freelance workers. Guru.com has a weaker search function and fewer options for getting projects done, partly due to its smaller population.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: $10-$200/hour
  • Competition for projects: High
  • Platform's Cut: 4.95%-8.95%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Review Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 3-7 days
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  Fiverr

  Fiverr works with a low entry price of $5 for freelance work, ranging from design to social media. The advantage of Fiverr is that you can try freelancers with exceptionally minimal risk until you find the exact skill level you need for your projects.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: $5 per task (extra for add-ons)
  • Competition for projects: High
  • Platform's Cut: 20%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Review Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 1-3 days
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  PeoplePerHour

  PeoplePerHour gives you access to thousands of freelancers in various fields. In addition to its bidding process, it allows job posters to select from hourly gigs that freelancers set up and can start at short notice.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: $20-$200 per task
  • Competition for projects: High
  • Platform's Cut: 15%-20%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Review Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 1-3 days

Best Freelance Websites for Writers

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  Problogger

  Problogger runs a popular job board for freelance work. While Problogger is a great source for writing jobs, it also includes other blog-related activities, making it a good one-stop shop for quality blog professionals.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: Varies
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Application Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
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  Scripted

  Scripted gives businesses access to writers who specialize in blog and social media content. Scripted makes it easy to select a writer for a task but offers some challenges if you want anything outside their streamlined workflow.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: From $39/post
  • Competition for projects: Low

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Language Proficiency Tests
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 1-3 days
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  Writer Access

  Writer Access is a content creation platform that gives businesses access to more than 15,000 freelance writers. Since the platform screens candidates and works with only U.S.-based writers, it supplies advantages for clients who require U.S. English writing.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: 2 cents-$2 per word
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Test Based/Customer Ratings
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 3-5 days
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  Text Broker

  Text Broker gives you access to writers across 15 languages as well as the possibility to buy articles from writers. Some of Text Broker's clients show turn-around time as an area of improvement.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: from 1.3 cents per word
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Rating Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 1-3 days
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  Contently

  Contently helps brands create content, from a pool of more than 100,000 professional freelancers. With Contently, clients select from a curated set of writers, which raises the bar in terms of quality.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: from $3000/month
  • Competition for projects: Low

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Pre-vetted based on Portfolio/Experience
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
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  Writers.ph

  Writers.ph is a freelance writing service that focuses on writers based in the Philippines. The site consistently gets good reviews due to the native level of English as well as high education level of the freelancers.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Freelancer Rate: $30/page
  • Competition for projects: Low

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Pre-vetted on Resume/Proficiency Tests/Educational Background/Technical Knowledge

Best Freelance Websites for Designers

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  99designs

  99designs lets you run design contests according to your design needs and you then pick the winning design. The site brings you the possibility of evaluating a high number of options, with the advantage being that you encounter a variety of freelance designers and creative options for your work.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: From $199 (you get multiple designs)
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Contest
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7 days
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  Behance

  Behance hosts designers' portfolios and other design showcases. Since the quality of samples across Behance is generally high, clients can reach out to a freelancer with confidence that the freelancer can deliver top-notch work.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Varies
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Portfolio Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
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  Design Crowd

  Design Crowd allows you to run competitions for designs ranging from corporate logos to web and print design. With anywhere from 25 to 100+ design submissions per competition, you are assured a range of options.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Quote Based
  • Competition for projects: High
  • Platform's Cut: 15% commission

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Contest
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 3-10 days
  • Platform's Cut: $59 posting fee + 4% transaction fee
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  Design Hill

  Design Hill is a crowdsourcing app for design, allowing you to get many submissions for your design briefs. With a $99 entry point, Design Hill connects you with many design options, but you need to offer higher amounts to attract the most skilled designers.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: from $99
  • Competition for projects: High
  • Platform's Cut: Membership-based commission

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Contest
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 3-10 days
  • Platform's Cut: $50 posting fee
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  Crew.co

  Crew connects you with a vetted designer or developer for your projects. Crew's main advantage is that it handles most of the project management and freelancer choice for you, based on its data-based recommendations.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Project Based, Varies
  • Competition for projects: Low

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Application Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
  • Platform's Cut: $100 posting fee
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  Dribble

  Dribbble is a site that displays designers' work, ranging from graphic design and packaging to web and 3D design. Dribbble is great for researching the skills of designers for the work you need, and for $299, you can post a job to their job board.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Varies
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Portfolio Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
  • Platform's Cut: $299 posting fee

Best Freelance Websites for Developers

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  Toptal

  Toptal connects businesses with top freelance developers who have passed a grueling selection process. Since it only admits 3% of applicants, Toptal's community can deliver stellar work at the highest level for your projects.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $60-$200/hour
  • Competition for projects: Low

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Language, Personality and Domain Knowledge Tests
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Gigster

  Gigster is a website that allows users to get tech projects built on demand. Gigster combines a pool of 700+ top freelancers with a scientific approach to quality and efficiency for their clients.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Quote Based
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Application Based (top 1% hired), Background check, Tests
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Codeable

  Codeable is a platform with more than 275 skilled WordPress developers available to handle your WordPress development and other WordPress work. You can count on Codeable's strict guidelines and workflow to deliver quality work, with little stress or delay.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $60-$90/hour
  • Competition for projects: Moderate
  • Platform's Cut: 15%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Rigorous Testing
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Hacker Rank

  Hacker Rank is a community of over 2 million developers solving tough coding challenges to showcase or improve their skills. You can post jobs to find freelancers or run contests to get advanced technical input from the developers.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Quote Based
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Interviews/Challenge Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
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  CodementorX

  CodementorX is an invite-only network of world-class software and app developers available for hire, built on top of Codementor’s community for developer mentorship. You can hire top developers for your projects, as CodementorX developers go through a 9-layer matching and vetting process that helps ensure the quality of the developer and their work.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $60-$100/hour
  • Competition for projects: Low

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Application Based, Behavioral and Technical Interviews, and more
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 10-30 minutes
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  Rent A Coder

  Rent A Coder connects clients with skilled freelance developers for any kind of development work. While navigating the platform can be challenging at first, Rent A Coder can significantly lower your overall development costs.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $50+/project
  • Competition for projects: Moderate
  • Platform's Cut: 7.5%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Review Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 3-5 days
  • Platform's Cut: 5%
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  Gun.io

  Gun.io connects you with verified freelance developers who are assessed on their actual, publicly available committed code. This ensures that your projects will be worked on by developers with a prominent level of technical ability.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Quote Based
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Application Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
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  Topcoder

  Topcoder crowdsources development, design and problem-solving. You can run a challenge on the site and pick from a variety of solutions to determine the winner.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Quote Based
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Challenge Based
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days

Best Freelance Websites for Business Experts

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  Hourly Nerd

  HourlyNerd (now known as Catalant) connects businesses with more than 25,000 business experts for project-based consulting. With about 10% of the Fortune 1000 as clients, Catalant's experiences with business needs of all kinds helps give clients top results.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Project Based
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background Check (10+ years' Experience)
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Cloud Peeps

  Cloud Peeps helps businesses get work done by matching them with handpicked expert freelancers for various business needs. The careful curation that goes into selecting talent and additional matching for each task helps raise the quality of business results.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $30-$100/hour
  • Competition for projects: Moderate
  • Platform's Cut: Monthly Membership ($0-$49+/month) + 5%-20% transaction fee

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background Check, 2+ years' Experience, Social Media Check, Video Interview
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
  • Platform's Cut: $99/month
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  MMO Freelance

  MMO Freelance gives businesses access to top consultants who have worked at prestigious consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and BCG. The platform's 48-hour match process allows you to match with a consultant and get moving rapidly.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Varies
  • Competition for projects: Moderate
  • Platform's Cut: 10% commission

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Undisclosed
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 48 hours
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  Consultingheads

  Consultingheads allows businesses to staff projects with part-time or full-time consultants. The platform selects candidates with top qualifications and consulting experience to deliver great outcomes for clients.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: Project Based
  • Competition for projects: Low
  • Platform's Cut: 15% commission

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Undisclosed
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 7+ days
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  Talmix

  Talmix brings together more than 25,000 management and business consultants who can help on business projects. Working with their hand-picked, well-experienced consultants can put your business at a strategic advantage.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $100-$2000/day
  • Competition for projects: Moderate
  • Platform's Cut: 0%

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background Check, at least 3 years' Experience
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 5-7 days
  • Platform Fee: 25%

Best Freelance Websites for Virtual Assistants

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  Zirtual

  Zirtual gives you access to a virtual assistant for a fraction of what an in-office assistant would cost. For busy executives and business people, Zirtual ends up saving you lots of time and starts at an affordable $398 a month.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $398/12 hours
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Social Media Background Checks, Video Call Interview
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Worldwide 101

  Worldwide 101 connects you with virtual assistants handling sophisticated tasks. The platform takes on only virtual assistants with a minimum of seven years of assisting experience, which makes it a fit for businesses with highly demanding workflows.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: £340/10 hours
  • Competition for projects: Low

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background Checks, 2 Video Interviews, Psychometric Testing, Reference, minimum 7+ years' Experience
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Fancy Hands

  Fancy Hands is a team of U.S.-based virtual assistants that gets your work done quickly. It comes with a range of price points, allowing you to start small, then ramp up as your work requirements grow.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $6/20 minutes
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background checks, Language and Communication, Fast Internet, Data Entry Skills, Telemarketing
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Time etc

  Time etc connects you with a U.S.-based virtual assistant at a fraction of the cost of an executive assistant. The platform allows you to create a long-term collaboration with an assistant who gets better and better at your business as you execute together.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $250/10 hours
  • Competition for projects: Moderate

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background checks, 5+ years' Experience, Video Interview, Skill Test
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Task Bullet

  Task Bullet's virtual assistants perform work for you at high efficiency, allowing you to get things done at a lower cost. The platform uses a bucket system that lets you know how much tasks will cost in advance so that you are never out of budget.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $10/hour
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background checks, 5+ years' Experience, Video Interview, Skill Test
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 24 hours
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  Red Butler

  Red Butler is an executive virtual assistant and administrative support service that helps business professionals, entrepreneurs, startup teams and executives get more done in less time.

  For Freelancers

  • Avg. Price: $450/15 hours
  • Competition for projects: High

  For Clients

  • Freelancer Vetting: Background checks, 3 years' Experience, Communication, Internet Research, Data Entry/Other Skill, Study Cases
  • Avg. Time Spent Hiring: 12 hours

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