Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Freelancer

The 20 closest freelance marketplace alternatives to Freelancer, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Freelancer? The closest matches are Upwork, Fiverr and ZipRecruiter. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Freelancer

Freelancer freelancer.com

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.

Wikidata: freelancing site

Top 10K · #4,834 English 13 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Freelancer

Summary by Claude

An online marketplace where clients post jobs and freelancers bid to complete them, covering software, design, engineering, writing and thousands of other skills, with milestone payments and messaging.

Who it’s for
Businesses and individuals hiring freelancers; freelance workers
Business model
Transaction fees and membership subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Freelancer’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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

OLXSurveyMonkeyZazzleetsy.comCanvaeBayEventbriteZipRecruiterFiverrUpwork

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Freelancer

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    Upwork upwork.com Top 10K English

    American freelancing platform

  2. 02
    Fiverr fiverr.com Top 1K English

    It needs a human touch

    Complete the task and we'll get you right back into Fiverr.

  3. 03
    ZipRecruiter ziprecruiter.com Top 10K

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

  4. 04
    Eventbrite eventbrite.com Top 1K English

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

    Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do

  5. 05
    eBay ebay.com Top 1K English

    Error Page | eBay

    American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com

  6. 06
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

  7. 07
    etsy.com Top 1K English

    etsy.com

    American e-commerce company

  8. 08
    Zazzle zazzle.com Top 10K English

    Uh-oh! Something doesn't look right.

    platform for building online shops

  9. 09
    SurveyMonkey surveymonkey.com Top 1K English

    SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform

    Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.

  10. 10
    OLX olx.ro Top 10K

    ERROR: The request could not be satisfied

    online marketplace

  11. 11
    OLX olx.pl Top 10K

    ERROR: The request could not be satisfied

    online marketplace

  12. 12
    Dribbble dribbble.com Top 10K English

    promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives

  13. 13
    Redbubble redbubble.com Top 10K English

    online print-on-demand marketplace that was founded in 2006 that allow users to sell art on their platform

  14. 14
    OLX olx.com.br Top 10K English

    online marketplace

  15. 15
    TeePublic teepublic.com Top 10K English

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

  16. 16
    Mercado Libre mercadolibre.com Top 10K

    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.

  17. 17
    LinkedIn linkedin.com Top 100 English

    LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up

    1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.

  18. 18
    Big Cartel bigcartel.com Top 10K English

    Free, Easy Online Stores for Artists & Small Businesses

    Start your free online store & scale as you grow. Easily manage your e-commerce business. Join a community of artists & small businesses.

  19. 19
    Preply preply.com Top 10K English

    Preply: Learn with the best online language tutors on app & web

    Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.

  20. 20
    Teachers Pay Teachers teacherspayteachers.com Top 10K English

    Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT

    World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to freelancer.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Freelancer uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Freelancer is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
CSS & UI
Fonts
CDN
  • Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: aedf91bd-e28b-4be6-9798-a1355945b23a
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 756854B52F963132E377E441F92F1136
  • GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=WkLv9MyE6hoZ2g9h5eP3fBXm0FAfqv5X8L-J8i…
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-1ktftOr3h5KrYkHrCX8CxulK
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_MucGMGVCBb0sY18bpTcobR

Stack changes

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