Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
8 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
A remote job board with a paid tier
Working Nomads is a remote job board from $18 with a free tier, aimed at filling a position instead of running a marketplace.
Bidding for freelance work at scale
Freelancer.com runs the same bid-for-work marketplace at larger scale, freemium with paid plans from $4.99 a month.
Freelance creatives, free to post a brief
Twine is a freelance marketplace centred on creative work, free to post a brief, and another second source of leads for creatives rather than a general board.
Startup job posts, free to publish
Wellfound publishes startup job posts free, paid from $135, hiring for a role rather than bidding out a piece of work.
Freelance profiles and payments with no commission
Contra gives freelancers profiles and payments with no commission at all, against Guru's model of a job fee that shrinks as your membership tier rises.
The freelance marketplace with the deepest bench
Upwork is the marketplace with the deepest bench and far more job volume than Guru, free to join, which makes it the first source of leads where Guru works as the second.
Vetted WordPress developers at a published rate
Codeable vets WordPress developers at a published rate from $420, pricier than Guru's job fee model but narrowed to WordPress with the vetting already done.
Run a design contest, pick the entry you like
99designs runs a paid design contest instead of hiring one freelancer, a one-time $249 fee rather than Guru's membership model, and it only fits design work.
