Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
Both cover hiring & freelancers. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Jobicy | Twine | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $190 | From $139.99 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | One-time purchase | Monthly or annual |
| 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 |
| Covers | Hiring & Freelancers |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Post a remote role for a flat fee
Jobicy is a remote job board where a listing is bought once rather than subscribed to, which suits a creator hiring an editor twice a year rather than a company hiring continuously. The posting form asks for what a candidate needs and sends applications to an email address or an external page. A dearer tier buys distribution and priority placement rather than a different listing. Anybody hiring monthly will find a subscription board cheaper.
Our note
Post the basic listing first and buy the boost only if a week produces nothing, since $100 for reach is worth paying against a stalled search and wasted on a role that fills on its own. Write the description properly before either, because distribution cannot rescue a posting nobody wants to answer.
Freelance creatives, free to post a brief
Twine is a marketplace of freelance video editors, animators, designers, illustrators, copywriters and music producers, and posting a job costs nothing. What you pay is a service fee on the hire, and it drops once you have paid a freelancer enough. The published project ranges give you a straight answer about what work costs before you write the brief.
Our note
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.
| Hiring & Freelancers |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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The falling fee is the reason to keep hiring the same editor here rather than moving off-platform once you like them. Upwork has far more people; Twine has fewer and they are all creative, which is worth something when you are the one reading the applications.