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Both cover hiring & freelancers. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Dynamite Jobs | Upwork | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $399 | Not listed |
| Pricing model | One-time purchase | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Billing | One-time purchase | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web, iOS, Android |
| Covers | Hiring & Freelancers | Hiring & Freelancers, Creator Finance |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
A remote job board with one flat fee
Dynamite Jobs lists remote roles and charges the employer a single price for a post, with no subscription and no per-applicant fee. It came out of the Tropical MBA community, so the companies posting skew towards small remote-first businesses rather than enterprises with a recruiting team. For somebody hiring their first contractor, the flat fee is easier to reason about than a marketplace cut.
Our note
Four hundred dollars is a lot for one post next to a free listing on We Work Remotely, and the case for it is the audience rather than the features. Worth it for a role you need filled properly, hard to justify for speculative hiring.
The freelance marketplace with the deepest bench
Upwork is where a creator goes to hire an editor, a thumbnail designer or a virtual assistant without knowing one already, and where a lot of those people find their first clients. Volume is the argument for it. The service fee comes off the freelancer's side and varies per contract, which makes rate comparison harder than it looks.
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