Toptal in charts
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Money
What you pay, what you keep and how you get paid
Of every $100 you earn on Toptal, you keep $100: it takes no cut.
Open full chart Withdrawal methods vs peersToptal pays out 3 ways. Its rarest is Payoneer, offered by 15% of freelance sites.
Open full chart Earnings figures2 sourced figures for Toptal.
Open full chartJoining
Who can sign up, and where
Toptal accepts people in 196 of 200 countries and territories, all except Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.
Open full chart Country reach vs peersOpen in 196 countries and territories, Toptal reaches more places than 84% of the 25 freelance sites with known country rules (median 1).
Open full chartQuality
Ratings, badges, reviews and how much we know
Rated 3.9/5. Ahead of the freelance sites average on fees, getting paid, access and track record.
Open full chart Rating percentilesToptal scores above 91% of freelance sites on getting paid, its strongest part.
Open full chart Achievements vs the typeToptal has 65 of 100 achievement points from 8 badges; the average for freelance sites is 31.1.
Open full chart Web traffic rank vs peerstoptal.com ranks #7,153 on the web, more visited than 94% of the 49 freelance sites we have a rank for.
Open full chart Profile completeness vs the typeWe have 67% of what we track for Toptal, against an average of 55% for freelance sites.
Open full chartHistory
How old it is and what has happened since
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