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RemoteHire.ph vs Upwork

Upwork: general freelance marketplace. RemoteHire.ph: a directory of ID-verified Filipino freelancers you hire and pay directly, for a flat $39/month or $228/year. They are different kinds of thing, and the table says where.

RemoteHire.ph and Upwork, side by side.
Row	RemoteHire.phRemoteHire.ph	Upwork
What you pay	$19 or $39/mo	5% + fees
No cut of what you pay	Yes.	No.
Your freelancer keeps	100%	85–100%
Pay your hire directly	Yes.	No.
Unlimited hires	Yes.	No.
Unlimited messages	Yes.	Yes.
Unlimited job posts	Yes.	Not stated on their site.
Up to 5 people included	Yes.	Partly.
Contracts included	Yes.	Yes.
Invoices included	Yes.	Yes.
Time tracking included	Yes.	Yes.
Browse full profiles free	Yes.	Yes.
Freelancer ID checked	Yes.	Partly.
Tool certifications	Yes.	Partly.
Video introductions	Yes.	Yes.
Public profile scores	Yes.	Yes. Reported, not on their own site.
Background information	Yes.	Yes.
No screenshots or monitoring	Yes.	No.
No off-platform ban	Yes.	No.
No bidding	Yes.	No.
Built for the Philippines	Yes.	No.

means partly, or not stated on their own pages · Checked 30 Aug 2026 · every mark sourced

Worldwide freelance marketplaces. They take a percentage of every payment on both sides, and the platform owns the relationship.

Row by row

What you pay: RemoteHire.ph
Flat subscription: $39/month or $228/year. Freelancers pay nothing.; Upwork
No subscription; a 5% marketplace fee on every payment (3% US bank), plus $0.99–$14.99 per contract.
No cut of what you pay: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. None. You pay your hire directly and we never touch it.; Upwork
No. 5% of everything you pay (3% US bank; 10% on Business Plus).
What the freelancer gives up: RemoteHire.ph
None, ever. No commission, no membership, no bidding fees.; Upwork
0–15%, set per contract; the freelancer sees it when the offer arrives.
Pay your hire directly: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. You pay your hire directly and we never touch the money. The records around it (hours, invoices, contracts) are built in.; Upwork
No. Every payment runs through the platform, with its fees on both sides.
What a second hire costs: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. One flat fee whether you hire nobody or twenty people. There is no fee per hire, per seat or per placement.; Upwork
No. A contract initiation fee of $0.99 to $14.99 applies per contract, so a second hire costs again.
Messaging, and what it is capped at: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. No cap of any kind: message as many people as you like, as often as you like, on any Premium plan.; Upwork
Yes. No messaging cap is stated on a client account.
Job posts, and what they cost: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Included with Premium and uncapped. The free plan publishes one post, which closes at 25 applications.; Upwork
Not stated on their site.
Team members on one account: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. A Premium subscription covers up to five people on one account, flat.; Upwork
Team tools exist: “any client account includes basic team tools for free”. No page states how many people one subscription covers. (Their support pages block automated fetching; read via search snippets of them.)
Contracts included: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Contracts are built in and free: draft one, both sides sign it in the app, and the signed version is frozen and publicly verifiable.; Upwork
Yes. Yes
Invoices included: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Freelancers invoice from the app in any of six currencies, from approved hours or by hand. We never touch the money.; Upwork
Yes. Yes
Time tracking included: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Hours with weekly approval. No screenshots, no activity monitoring.; Upwork
Yes. Yes
Free to browse profiles: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. A free account gets full search, every filter and saved lists.; Upwork
Yes. Free to join, “no upfront costs”; the fees arrive when you hire.
Government-ID verification: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. A person reviews every freelancer's government ID before the badge appears.; Upwork
Real, and not everybody: freelancers “may be asked to verify their identity for security, compliance, or access to certain jobs”, and otherwise “may be able to initiate verification to become eligible for the identity verification badge”. An opt-in badge is the shape of something not every listed freelancer has. Most who are asked are “verified within minutes”, which is software. Their support centre blocks automated fetching, so this was read through search snippets of their own pages.
Tool certifications: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. A practical task in the tool, reviewed by a person; every credential is publicly verifiable.; Upwork
Invitation-only Skill Certifications in a few development and support categories; the open skill tests were removed in 2019.
Video introductions: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Sixty-second intros, recorded in the app and reviewed before display.; Upwork
Yes. A profile introduction video, linked from YouTube rather than recorded in the product.
Profile scores: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Every profile carries a 0-100 score for how complete and how checked it is, with the breakdown behind it. It is not a rating of how good somebody is at their job, and no client can move it.; Upwork
Yes. The Job Success Score is published on freelancer profiles. It rates outcomes on Upwork rather than how complete a profile is. · reported, not on their own site
Background information: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Deep Check: what this platform has confirmed about a person, who confirmed it and when. Records of things that happened here, never a judgement about how somebody works.; Upwork
Yes. Earnings and contract history stay on the profile: “clients will still see your earnings and contract rates once you send a proposal”. Their site blocks automated fetching, so this was read through search snippets of that page.
No screenshots or monitoring: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. No screenshots, no activity tracking, no monitoring: a commitment, not an omission. Hours are checked by weekly client approval.; Upwork
No. The Work Diary “takes screenshots of your screen every ten minutes” on hourly contracts.
You own the relationship: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. The relationship is yours from the first message; nothing bans taking it anywhere.; Upwork
No. Off-platform pay is banned for two years; buying the relationship out costs 13.5% of the freelancer's annualised rate.
No bidding or gig auctions: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Post a job and freelancers apply, or message anyone directly. There is no bid to win.; Upwork
No. Connects “are used to submit proposals to specific job posts”, and Boosted Proposals let freelancers “use Connects to bid”.
Built for the Philippines: RemoteHire.ph
Yes. Filipino freelancers only; the whole trust story is the PH government-ID check.; Upwork
No. “Upwork's global freelance marketplace”: worldwide, not Philippines-focused.
What posting a job costs: RemoteHire.ph
Included with Premium: unlimited posts with screening questions.; Upwork
Free to post a standard job: “you won't pay anything unless you hire”. Featured posts are the paid upsell.
How hours are checked: RemoteHire.ph
Weekly approval by the client. No screenshots and no activity monitoring: a commitment, not an omission.; Upwork
The Work Diary “takes screenshots of your screen every ten minutes”, and an activity meter counts clicks, scrolls and keystrokes.
Trial and notice terms: RemoteHire.ph
A 30-day money-back guarantee on both plans: tell us within 30 days of a payment and we refund it in full. One refund per account, most recent payment only. Cancel anytime; free accounts keep full search and saved lists.; Upwork
Refunds are not guaranteed: a request can be made for up to 180 days and is at the freelancer's discretion Read through search snippets of that page; their site blocks automated fetching.

A worked example

Paying a freelancer $12,000 over a year: on RemoteHire.ph you part with $12,228 in total and they keep all $12,000. On Upwork you part with about $12,608, and they keep $10,200 to $12,000. Worked from the sourced figures below; the calculator on the hiring cost calculator runs the same arithmetic at your own spend.

When Upwork is the better choice

You need talent outside the Philippines, or escrow-protected fixed-price milestones for a one-off project.
You want payment protection the platform itself administers, and the percentage is worth that.

Worth knowing

The freelancer's fee is a range set per contract, so it is drawn as a band. Anyone showing you one Upwork number for this is showing you a number they chose.
Taking the relationship off-platform inside two years requires a conversion fee of 13.5% of the freelancer's annualised rate: their own worked example is $8,424 for a $30/hr freelancer.

Our own column is stated on /pricing and /features.

See who is on RemoteHire.ph first

The directory is free to search, and every face on it has shown a government ID to a person.

Browse talent

RemoteHire.ph

Upwork

What you pay

$19 or $39/mo

5% + fees

No cut of what you pay

Your freelancer keeps

100%

85–100%

Pay your hire directly

Unlimited hires

Unlimited messages

Unlimited job posts

Up to 5 people included

Contracts included

Invoices included

Time tracking included

Browse full profiles free

Freelancer ID checked

Tool certifications

Video introductions

Public profile scores

Background information

No screenshots or monitoring

No off-platform ban

No bidding

Built for the Philippines

Row by row

RemoteHire.phUpwork

What you pay

RemoteHire.ph

Flat subscription: $39/month or $228/year. Freelancers pay nothing.

Upwork

No subscription; a 5% marketplace fee on every payment (3% US bank), plus $0.99–$14.99 per contract.

No cut of what you pay

RemoteHire.ph

None. You pay your hire directly and we never touch it.

Upwork

5% of everything you pay (3% US bank; 10% on Business Plus).

What the freelancer gives up

RemoteHire.ph

None, ever. No commission, no membership, no bidding fees.

Upwork

0–15%, set per contract; the freelancer sees it when the offer arrives.

Pay your hire directly

RemoteHire.ph

You pay your hire directly and we never touch the money. The records around it (hours, invoices, contracts) are built in.

Upwork

Every payment runs through the platform, with its fees on both sides.

What a second hire costs

RemoteHire.ph

One flat fee whether you hire nobody or twenty people. There is no fee per hire, per seat or per placement.

Upwork

A contract initiation fee of $0.99 to $14.99 applies per contract, so a second hire costs again.

Messaging, and what it is capped at

RemoteHire.ph

No cap of any kind: message as many people as you like, as often as you like, on any Premium plan.

Upwork

No messaging cap is stated on a client account.

Job posts, and what they cost

RemoteHire.ph

Included with Premium and uncapped. The free plan publishes one post, which closes at 25 applications.

Upwork

Not stated on their site.

Team members on one account

RemoteHire.ph

A Premium subscription covers up to five people on one account, flat.

Upwork

Team tools exist: “any client account includes basic team tools for free”. No page states how many people one subscription covers. (Their support pages block automated fetching; read via search snippets of them.)

Contracts included

RemoteHire.ph

Contracts are built in and free: draft one, both sides sign it in the app, and the signed version is frozen and publicly verifiable.

Upwork

Yes

Invoices included

RemoteHire.ph

Freelancers invoice from the app in any of six currencies, from approved hours or by hand. We never touch the money.

Upwork

Yes

Time tracking included

RemoteHire.ph

Hours with weekly approval. No screenshots, no activity monitoring.

Upwork

Yes

Free to browse profiles

RemoteHire.ph

A free account gets full search, every filter and saved lists.

Upwork

Free to join, “no upfront costs”; the fees arrive when you hire.

Government-ID verification

RemoteHire.ph

A person reviews every freelancer's government ID before the badge appears.

Upwork

Real, and not everybody: freelancers “may be asked to verify their identity for security, compliance, or access to certain jobs”, and otherwise “may be able to initiate verification to become eligible for the identity verification badge”. An opt-in badge is the shape of something not every listed freelancer has. Most who are asked are “verified within minutes”, which is software. Their support centre blocks automated fetching, so this was read through search snippets of their own pages.

Tool certifications

RemoteHire.ph

A practical task in the tool, reviewed by a person; every credential is publicly verifiable.

Upwork

Invitation-only Skill Certifications in a few development and support categories; the open skill tests were removed in 2019.

Video introductions

RemoteHire.ph

Sixty-second intros, recorded in the app and reviewed before display.

Upwork

A profile introduction video, linked from YouTube rather than recorded in the product.

Profile scores

RemoteHire.ph

Every profile carries a 0-100 score for how complete and how checked it is, with the breakdown behind it. It is not a rating of how good somebody is at their job, and no client can move it.

Upwork

The Job Success Score is published on freelancer profiles. It rates outcomes on Upwork rather than how complete a profile is. · reported, not on their own site

Background information

RemoteHire.ph

Deep Check: what this platform has confirmed about a person, who confirmed it and when. Records of things that happened here, never a judgement about how somebody works.

Upwork

Earnings and contract history stay on the profile: “clients will still see your earnings and contract rates once you send a proposal”. Their site blocks automated fetching, so this was read through search snippets of that page.

No screenshots or monitoring

RemoteHire.ph

No screenshots, no activity tracking, no monitoring: a commitment, not an omission. Hours are checked by weekly client approval.

Upwork

The Work Diary “takes screenshots of your screen every ten minutes” on hourly contracts.

You own the relationship

RemoteHire.ph

The relationship is yours from the first message; nothing bans taking it anywhere.

Upwork

Off-platform pay is banned for two years; buying the relationship out costs 13.5% of the freelancer's annualised rate.

No bidding or gig auctions

RemoteHire.ph

Post a job and freelancers apply, or message anyone directly. There is no bid to win.

Upwork

Connects “are used to submit proposals to specific job posts”, and Boosted Proposals let freelancers “use Connects to bid”.

Built for the Philippines

RemoteHire.ph

Filipino freelancers only; the whole trust story is the PH government-ID check.

Upwork

“Upwork's global freelance marketplace”: worldwide, not Philippines-focused.

What posting a job costs

RemoteHire.ph

Included with Premium: unlimited posts with screening questions.

Upwork

Free to post a standard job: “you won't pay anything unless you hire”. Featured posts are the paid upsell.

How hours are checked

RemoteHire.ph

Weekly approval by the client. No screenshots and no activity monitoring: a commitment, not an omission.

Upwork

The Work Diary “takes screenshots of your screen every ten minutes”, and an activity meter counts clicks, scrolls and keystrokes.

Trial and notice terms

RemoteHire.ph

A 30-day money-back guarantee on both plans: tell us within 30 days of a payment and we refund it in full. One refund per account, most recent payment only. Cancel anytime; free accounts keep full search and saved lists.

Upwork

Refunds are not guaranteed: a request can be made for up to 180 days and is at the freelancer's discretion Read through search snippets of that page; their site blocks automated fetching.

A worked example

Worth knowing

The freelancer's fee is a range set per contract, so it is drawn as a band. Anyone showing you one Upwork number for this is showing you a number they chose.

Taking the relationship off-platform inside two years requires a conversion fee of 13.5% of the freelancer's annualised rate: their own worked example is $8,424 for a $30/hr freelancer.