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How Open Lance compares
Fees, the cost of applying, ways to work and when money can be withdrawn, set beside the platforms you may already use. Competitor figures are their published terms at the time of writing.
What we compare
Four things that decide the cost of a platform
Headline fees are the least of it. These are the differences that change what you actually keep, or actually pay, over a year of work.
What the platform takes
The percentage removed from a freelancer's payout, and whether it changes with how much you have billed a client.
What it costs to apply
Whether proposals are free, capped, or priced so that spending more buys more visibility.
When the money moves
Whether funds are held before work starts, and how long after approval they can be withdrawn.
Ways to work
Whether the platform supports fixed-price, hourly, monthly and packaged services, or only some of them.
Side by side
Pick a platform
Each page sets Open Lance against one platform on the same four axes, with competitor rates noted as at the time of writing.
Open Lance vs Upwork
Commission, the cost of applying, and what you can bring with you when you move.
Open Lance vs Fiverr
Packaged services on both, plus the option to bid on posted jobs and work hourly or monthly.
Open Lance vs Freelancer.com
Simple per-proposal bidding with no monthly bid allowance to upgrade past.
Open Lance vs Toptal
Choose your own freelancer with itemised fees, instead of being matched by a screened network.
Try it against your own numbers.
Posting a job is free, and a proposal costs the same number of bids whatever the budget. Try one job before deciding anything.