Fiverr vs Upwork

Neither publishes a list price for the work itself. On Fiverr, each seller sets their own gig price, with no platform-wide figure to check beforehand. On Upwork, the freelancer's rate is bid-based too, and the client separately pays a 5% service fee on the free Basic plan (3% with an eligible US bank-debit payment) or 10% on paid Business Plus, plus a one-time contract initiation fee. The real total on either platform is only knowable after you have sourced a specific seller or freelancer.

No. Both platforms sell writing and formatting labour, not a notability judgment. Fiverr's gig covers drafting, not vetting whether the subject can pass Wikipedia's sourcing rules, and a reputation-management firm estimates that roughly 80% of companies requesting a page are not notable enough regardless of how well it is written. Upwork's vetting is general identity and skill verification, not specific to Wikipedia's notability or conflict-of-interest rules, so the same risk of a rejected or later-deleted page applies there too.

Yes. Wikipedia's paid-contribution disclosure policy names both Fiverr and Upwork directly as broker affiliations that a paid editor must disclose, and Upwork's own listing on Wikipedia's page for paid editing companies confirms both sit under the site's 'Online marketplaces' category alongside services such as Guru and Freelancer.com. That disclosure obligation belongs to whoever does the editing, not to Fiverr or Upwork as companies, and it applies the same way whichever of the two you hire through.

Fiverr charges sellers a flat 20% commission and charges buyers a separate service fee plus a small-order surcharge, on top of whatever price the seller set. Upwork charges freelancers a sliding fee of 0% to 15%, and charges clients 5% on the free Basic plan (3% with eligible US bank debit) or 10% on paid Business Plus, plus a one-time initiation fee of $0.99 to $14.99 per new contract. Neither fee sits on top of a published price for the actual deliverable, since that price is set individually either way.

As fetched on 2026-10-04, Fiverr holds 3.2 out of 5 on Trustpilot across 15,678 reviews, while Upwork holds 4.2 out of 5, rated 'Great', across 16,342 reviews, with 72% five-star and 16% one-star. On Capterra, Fiverr shows 4.7 out of 5 from 512 reviews and Upwork shows 4.4 out of 5 from 128 reviews, listed there under its Enterprise Suite product rather than its general consumer listing.

No, not on either platform's entry tier. Fiverr is pay-per-gig with no subscription at all. Upwork's free Basic plan is also pay-per-contract with no term. The exception is Upwork's paid Business Plus membership, which runs on a 30-day billing cycle: a downgrade back to Basic only takes effect at the end of that cycle, not immediately, and Direct Contracts used to pay freelancers sourced off-platform are billed $49 a month for as long as the contract stays open.

Use Fiverr if budget is the deciding factor and you want to compare many sellers' gigs side by side. Use Upwork if you would rather vet and directly manage one freelancer yourself, particularly for ongoing maintenance edits to an article that already exists. Neither platform vets notability or handles the required paid-editing disclosure for you, so if the subject's notability is itself in doubt, that gap is the real problem to solve before hiring through either one.