Upwork just stole $10k from me

As a client, what are my alternatives to Upwork?

Fiver?

Nitpick, but I think you mean Fiverr rather than Fiver.

There's also:

- PeoplePerHour.co.uk (UK based, not sure of international presence)

- Freelancer.com

- Toptal (but I think they have some sort of approval process that may be a bit arduous)

- Guru.com

- Codeable.io

- Outsourcely.com

- Truelancer.com

- Konker

- Servicescape

- Solidgig (but stronger for design and marketing/SEO roles, I think - considered dropping into the category below)

- Hubstaff Talent

- FlexJobs (but more oriented toward IT and accounting than software development; again, considered dropping into the more specalised category below)

Additional specialist companies I'm aware of that target roles other than developers:

- 99Designs (for, you guessed it, designers and UX) - https://99designs.co.uk/

- Savio (market researchers) - https://savio.pro/

- F-LEX (legal) - https://flex.legal/

Hope you manage to pick up more work soon, but also that you manage to get yours and your clients money back from Upwork.

To mention, none of these are like Upwork. I've tried them all, and they don't really have competition that makes it as easy as Upwork to find and hire someone.

Freelancer.com is the nearest. The rest are doing very diff models. TopTal doesn't even belong on a comparison list.