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Basic
For occasional hiring and one-off projects
Hire skilled freelancers fast – without long-term commitments or extra overhead.
Basic includes:
- Marketplace access - skilled freelancers across thousands of skills
- Talent profiles - portfolios, ratings, and work history
- Hiring tools - proposals and terms in one place
- Project workspace - messages, files, and status in one view
- Protected payments - escrow-backed pay tied to approved work
Business Plus
For ongoing work, repeat hiring, and teams
Premium tools, vetted talent, and team controls for running freelance work at scale.
Everything in Basic, plus:
- Curated shortlists - we surface top matches so you can hire faster
- Expert-Vetted talent - access to the top 1% of Upwork freelancers
- Team workspace - shared hiring with roles and permissions
- Centralized billing - keep team spend in one place
- Priority support - faster help to keep projects moving
Proven results on Upwork
“We discovered CTO-level expertise on the platform—someone who had already served as a startup CTO—willing to contribute to our open-source project. That kind of talent brings tremendous value to us.”
Saswata Basu
CEO, Züs
“Upwork isn't just a hiring platform for us—it's a strategic partner. It's helped us fill every technical gap, accelerate our delivery from months to weeks, and even bring on leaders who've become foundational to our business.”
David Wrench
Co-Founder and CEO, Datajoi
“I found two awesome candidates and wound up hiring an AI freelancer based in Paris...I love the platform and the amount of talent I have access to. We really couldn't be this far along without help from the talent on Upwork.”
Matt See
Co-Founder and CEO, Lighthouse
“Upwork is paramount to the success that we've had. We can't accomplish what we do without our Upwork staff. And like I said, to us, you know, it's awkward for me to say Upwork or freelancer staff, because we fully consider them part of our team.”
Bryan Goltzman
CEO, Liquid Screen Design
“But in this early stage, we really need to be lean, targeted, and prove out all the things that we're doing...And being able to really find the right people, and be able to interview different people where you know they're really heart driven, but that yet they also have these immense talents, has been really awesome.”
Jen Libby
Founder and CEO, Promly
“The safety features are nice, but what really builds our confidence in Upwork is how we consistently find experts who deliver on highly technical, complex projects...Upwork helped us build a community of incredible talent, which means we now spend even less time recruiting than before.”
Gabriel Richman
Founder and CEO, Omic
“We discovered CTO-level expertise on the platform—someone who had already served as a startup CTO—willing to contribute to our open-source project. That kind of talent brings tremendous value to us.”
Saswata Basu
CEO, Züs
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