Upwork Competitors To Hire Freelance

Uwe Schmitz
2 min readMar 1, 2021

OnBench is one of the most recent Upwork competitors. OnBench is a freelance developer team search company founded in 2020. It’s a B2B marketplace where clients post job listings searching for programmers and companies that can provide developers apply for those jobs.

Similarities:

Both Upwork and OnBench will help you to hire freelance developers. And that’s about it. The hiring process on OnBench is drastically different from Upwork.

Differences:

While Upwork freelancers take care of their profiles themselves, OnBench lets companies handle presenting their candidates. As OnBench runs on the B2B model, so you’re dealing with software development companies management who can pick a suitable candidate or a team from their staff for you.

Also, Upwork charges the client 3% of the order price and 20% from freelancers. If you hire professionals on OnBench, you only pay for the services as the platform is completely free to use and doesn’t have any hidden fees.

OnBench also offers individual customer support. They usually reply within 24 hours and deal with your problem directly.

Who’s better?

If you are looking to quickly hire a developer for a short-term project and you have limited time, we recommend using Upwork. You can find all kinds of freelancers on Upwork and work with them directly.

Although, if you want to have a long-term partnership with your developer or you are looking for a software development team, OnBench is a way to go.

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