Fee vs similar platforms
At 5%–15%, 99designs is cheaper than 59% of the 29 freelance sites that charge a percentage fee (median 12.5%).
What this shows
Each dot is one platform that takes a percentage of what you earn, placed at the middle of its published fee range. 99designs is the large blue dot; the dashed line is the median. Further left means more of each payment reaches you. Switch between similar platforms and every platform in the directory, or pick another platform to overlay it.
How it is calculated
Fees come from each platform's published pricing, as stored on its listing. We parse every percentage in the fee text with fee_parse(): a range such as "8–15%" or "from 33% down to 18%" becomes its lowest and highest number, and we plot the middle (for "8–15%", 11.5%). Platforms whose text says they charge nothing are "free" and are left out of this plot, as are flat or per-task fees, subscriptions and revenue shares ("you keep 70%"), because a percentage cut is not comparable with them. Tips paid on top by customers and GST/VAT mentions are ignored. "Cheaper than" counts peers whose middle fee is strictly higher.
Data table 30 rows
| Platform | Fee (middle of range) |
|---|---|
| 99designs (this platform) | 10% |
| Freelancehunt | 2.5% |
| Worksome | 4% |
| Braintrust | 5% |
| Comet | 5% |
| Mihuashi | 5% |
| Guru | 7% |
| Upwork | 7.5% |
| GoLance | 8% |
| Codeable | 10% |
| Freelancer | 10% |
| Malt | 10% |
| Terawork | 10% |
| PeoplePerHour | 11.8% |
| Fastwork | 12% |
| CrowdWorks | 12.5% |
| Wishket | 12.5% |
| Kmong | 13% |
| 99Freelas | 15% |
| Projects.co.id | 15% |
| Sribu | 15% |
| Lancers | 16.5% |
| Mostaql | 17.5% |
| Bionluk | 20% |
| Comeup | 20% |
| Fiverr | 20% |
| Khamsat | 20% |
| Kolabtree | 20% |
| Ureed | 20% |
| Coconala | 22% |