5 Best Freelance Websites to Make Money Online in India

Freelancing is working from your own comfort zone in flexible hours, being your own boss. Freelancers are self-employed and referred to as independent. Freelancers make money every day online from the ease of their place. It does not pay as full-time. Many people have made freelancing a career option now after gaining a good income from it. Due to these perks of ease of working, many freelancing platforms have been developed in India as well as across the globe for better opportunities. Many companies ranging from small to big join hands with Freelance websites and get registered to provide work opportunities in different skills.

In these freelancing platforms or freelancing websites, you will need to find your preferred jobs that match your skill and profession. Then you need to give some exams (it may be objective or subjective) depending on available jobs and skills. Due to high digitalization and increasing awareness of gig culture, finding freelance job opportunities has become a tough challenge for many freshers.

Here is a list of the 5 best freelance websites that might help you to make money online in India:

1)Fiverr

2)Freelancer.com

3)Upwork

4)People per hour

5)99 Designs

1) Fiverr

Fiverr is the most popular platform that connects business owners and freelancers on the internet looking for services in various projects in digital marketing, programming and technology, graphics and design, business, lifestyle, and many more.

Here, Freelancers are referred to as sellers, business owners are known as buyers and the services are being listed or provided are called gigs. It is very easy for a seller to register in Fiverr for free, list their gigs or services with the pricing. Buyers can simply visit and browse through the categories of the website to place a purchase order with pricing low as $5.

FIVERR was founded on 1st February 2010 with a $5 gig. But as Fiverr got funding, it introduced service packages of more than $5 and started letting their sellers price their own service package. It’s very easy to set up in minutes, finish a given job in minutes and anyone could start making money online.

2) Freelancer.com

With over 55,779,564 registered users and 20,663,391 total jobs posted, Freelancer.com is one of the vastly popular freelancing websites like Fiverr which connects freelancers worldwide who are outsourcing their services on the internet. Freelancer.com is a very trusted community. Here employers hire freelancers from any part of the world to accomplish their business goals by creating job tasks for talented freelancers.

Some of the Freelancer.com features also include trusted payments, 24/7 support, chat availability, time tracker, easy registration of profile, etc. In the beginning, you may face some challenges getting your gig. Freelancer.com is one of the websites to go for.

3) Upwork

Upwork is another freelancing website formerly known as ODESK  that connects clients with freelancers across the globe. Here freelancers will be getting more than 100 types of categories likes IT and development, sales and marketing, design, writing, and translation, etc serving as services to earn money from. Freelancers can connect with new clients through various means. Client post requirement, hire freelancers to choose from available services from the project catalog. While freelancers also have amazing ways to get work. Freelancers can access the job board and offer their services to the respective client to sell.

Freelancers need to register in Upwork by creating their profile which includes details of yourself, your work experience, your expertise. Unlike Fiverr, there are no limitations on the money you get after job completion. Upwork charges 20% from the first $500 and 10% from the remaining  $500.

4) People Per Hour

People per hour is a UK-based freelancing website on the internet that helps businesses to find freelancers to hire them on a per hour basis or on a project basis.

Freelancers can start creating their profiles for free in People Per Hour and sort their preferences.  Here Moderators are in charge of the approval of each application by reviewing them. People Per Hour takes a small commission from your job. It charges 3.5% of the sales that you have got from their website.

People per hour has some amazing work categories like website development, logo designing, content writing, etc. You can also post some jobs mentioning your requirements as a business and the respective freelancers will get notified about it. Soon, talented freelancers will contact you for your job requirement who are interested in your job.

Basically, People per hour is for professional freelancers. Being a beginner, you may face a bit longer time to get a job. But once you start working, it is the most profitable website to work as a freelancer.

5) 99 Designs

Another interesting company on freelancing sites is 99designs. If you want to participate in a contest while working at the same time, then 99designs are for you. Here you will find each and every category related to designing. All industries’ work is showcased here. Here you will first enter the contest of showcasing your designing work with all requirements required and when if it gets selected, you will be getting paid for it.

I find this website very cool for a freelancer.

Conclusion

So here is a list of the Top 5 Freelancing Platforms in India to work as a freelancer and make money online in India for free. Among the above platforms, Fiverr is immensely popular because of its superb user interface. If you ask me, my favorite freelance platform is Fiverr. You may be an individual or a company, anybody can register here easily to earn money with guaranteed payments, hassle-free usage, reasonable prices, and much more features.

Well, the final decision is at your end according to your choices and requirements.  I have mentioned the Best 5 freelance websites to make money online in India above as an alternative to Fiverr. I wish you all the best in finding the best freelance websites for work.

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