Freelancer.com

Freelance marketplace with a lower job fee

Guru runs the same marketplace model with a lower job fee, a free tier, and memberships from $11.95.

Freelance creatives, free to post a brief

Twine focuses the same marketplace on freelance creatives, with a free tier and free brief posting for clients.

The freelance marketplace with the deepest bench

Upwork is the nearest swap, the freelance marketplace with the deepest bench, and it has a free tier like Freelancer.com.

Freelance profiles and payments with no commission

Contra takes the opposite fee posture, freelance profiles and payments with no commission, on a free tier with paid plans from $29.

Where designers show work and get hired

Dribbble gets a designer hired off the strength of a portfolio instead of a bid, with a free tier and paid plans from $150.

Vetted WordPress developers at a published rate

Codeable vets its WordPress developers up front and publishes the rate instead of inviting bids, starting at $420 with no free tier.

Run a design contest, pick the entry you like

99designs is built entirely around the contest model Freelancer.com offers designers, priced per contest from $249.