Freelancing and remote work is a dream for most people. Some of us has been freelancing on different sites and platforms for a long long time. And now we share our ultimate list of freelance sites, telecommuting, remote work and micro tasks sites:
Upwork
By far the best place to start as a freelancer. Free membership, many categories, good number of projects to bid on. Fixed price projects or hourly (paid for hours of work, managed through their own time tracking desktop app). May upload mock ups. Free membership give you enough points to bid and get your first project. Their fees are fairly acceptable after a recent update.
If you are new, Upwork may be the best place to start freelancing.
Freelancer
The largest freelance marketplace. Free membership. Can bid on fixed projects, hourly projects (has its own time tracker) or contests. Can provide mock ups only on contests. Less amount of bids as a free member. Several upgrade plans.
Very crowded and hard to win a project now days. Will need to upgrade for more chance to get a project.
Fiverr
A place to sell tour services (gigs) by posting gig for every service/work you offer. Promote your gigs to acquire work and get commissions.
The gig economy actually works if find a non saturated niche and offer a unique service. Don’t forget to promote your gigs.
Clickworker
The biggest place for micro jobs. Various tasks are posted including web search, image categorization, tagging, adding descriptions to products and similar tasks. While tasks don’t need much time, payment per task is quite low but much higher then other similar sites.
Guru
One of the best classic freelance sites. Free membership gives you a decent number of bids per year, and paid upgrades are also available for more options.
As a freelancer their artificial intelligence system matches you to the most suitable projects based on your profile and abilities. You can search for projects manually also. 15 proposals per month for free.
While the most similar lists ends about here, this time its not the case. Here are some more:
Toptal
Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world. Only top experts are accepted after a thorough screening process. This means you can apply but not invited to sign up. On the other hand, if you are really good, you’ll get work regularly for a higher rates with less competition.
DesignCrowd
The right place to find work as a graphic designer and similar roles. Join the Contests and win some of the prizes.
Seoclerks
Gigbucks
A gig site similar to Fiverr, with clean interface. Categories and gigs are in list view and easy to search.
Picoworkers
Was a micro job site similar to microworkers. Tasks include visiting sites, videos, posting comments and similar stuff need 5-15 minutes to do. Tasks vary from 0.03 – 1$. Seems its offline in 2024.
Flexjobs
A job listing site for legitimate work. Regular, full time, part time and remote positions available mostly in US but internationally too. Paid membership required.
Dribbble
If have a good portfolio show it here. Dribble is more then a freelance site. It is a marketplace where freelancers post their work, sell their work and get hired. For designers and UX/UI professionals. Paid membership starts from 5$
Behance
Similar to Dribble. Owned by Adobe. A place to show your creations and look for projects. It is also a marketplace where you can sell your digital products
BloggingPro
Blogging and writing jobs. Site offers tips and tutorials on related subjects.
Truelancer
Another freelance site similar to Freelancer and Upwork
This list is an Ultimate list of freelance sites remote work and micro jobs, so here are even more
fivesquid.com
workmarket.com
onespace.com
outsourcely.com
twago.com
workingnomads.co
toogit.com
gun.io
witmart.com
topcoder.com
iwriter.com
As the name suggests it is oriented to content writing, blogs, articles and writing in general.
constant-content.com
wordclerks.com
soundbetter.com
lionbridge.com
One of the most reliable places for translators.
appen.com
Job openings.
microworkers.com
The largest remote work community. Job postings by categories, companies hiring for remote work, resources, all at one place. This is basically a job board and you apply directly to the company that hires.
Gigster
NoDesk
A curated collection of resources for digital nomads, remote workers and traveling professionals.
Indeed
A job listing site (including remote jobs). Must have CV to be able apply by email.
Smashing magazine
While this is another kind of a site its job listing offer remote jobs also
Belaysolutions
Professional Virtual Assistant and Bookkeeping Jobs that let you work from your home office.
This is where Ultimate list of freelance sites remote work and micro jobs ends eventually. NonCon team will put an effort to grow this list and keep it up to date.
