Top 10 Most Active Freelancing Websites

The list of top10 best and most active freelancing websites . If you want to start as a freelancer, you can’t miss them.

When I started freelancing from college in 2007, there were numerous freelancing websites. Over time many small freelancing websites were acquired and merged to form more prominent websites. In 2021 we have few market leaders. Here is a list of top10 freelancing websites of 2021 for those who want to be a freelancer and work from home.

1. Upwork

Upwork (previously oDesk and Elance) is possibly one of the largest freelancing marketplaces for projects. It has been the best freelancing website and marketplace for freelancers for almost 5 years now. You name any expertise, and you will perhaps see projects and freelancers related to it. Apart from a wide variety of technology, it also has shorter-term projects, longer-term projects, entry-level projects, moreover, for seasoned freelancers, expert-level high paying projects.

2. Freelancer.com

It is quite a big marketplace — possibly second best to Upwork. Upwork quotes as having 4+ Million clients on their home page and Freelancer quotes as Millions of small businesses use them.

3. Guru

Guru is yet another marketplace for finding jobs and projects. They have a straightforward hiring process, and so it makes it easy for the clients to hire freelancers. It is comparatively a smaller marketplace.
So we don’t see many freelancers as compared to upwork / freelancer. It makes it less price competitive. Apart from that, Guru has a Workroom feature, which makes it easy to manage all the jobs.

4. PeoplePerHour

The site offers all-around freelancers and outsourcing marketplace with a wide range of categories like Web Design, Video, Audio, Web Development, Sales & Marketing, Support, Writing, Translation, Social media, Software Development, Mobile Development.
PPH has also adopted the Fiverr concept. Freelancers can list what they offer for an hour. Clients can order the same. As a freelancer,  one can also add perks similar to gigs on Fiverr.

5. Fiverr

Fiverr is a different kind of freelancing website and a marketplace for freelancers. Freelancers post what they can offer for $5 (five-rr), and clients can search for them and order.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to offer everything for $5, and you can always have additional perks for a higher price.
Fiverr fees are a lot higher than Upwork / Freelancer. They charge $1 per $5 gig or 20%.

7. iWriter

Freelancing website for writers and is possibly one of the biggest marketplaces for writers. You can use for thousands of writing offers available and is one of the best places for writers.

8. 99Designs

Probably the largest marketplace for logo, web, and Graphic design. It is more like a contest based marketplace. Clients provide a brief of the design, and designers submit their entries. As a client, you will receive tons of design entries to choose from.

9. Toptal

Toptal has come up with an entirely new process of individually screening each freelancer. It is only after the screening; they open up their projects to the freelancer. It helps in cut off those low-quality low-price proposals.

I did get an invite to join them or schedule a meeting for the screening process. It is because I am overly occupied with my existing clients recently.

10. DesignHill

Designhill is one of the upcoming marketplace for logo, web design & graphic design contests. The best part is, the option to sign up as a designer is not very intuitive. So there is a lot less competition among designers. It means a less competitive marketplace so people can get paid higher.