When asked for the best freelance marketplace, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Fiverr was named most often, followed by Upwork and Freelancer.com. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Fiverr, Upwork.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiverr | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Upwork | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Freelancer.com | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Toptal | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Guru | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| PeoplePerHour | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, Guru, PeoplePerHour.
Selecting the best freelance marketplace for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and the type of work you are looking to outsource.
Perplexity
Named 2 brands, in this order: Upwork, Fiverr.
For most small businesses, Upwork is the best all-around freelance marketplace because it offers a large talent pool, broad skill coverage, and enough flexibility for both one-off projects and ongoing work.
Claude
Named 5 brands, in this order: Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, Freelancer.com, Guru.
Here are the top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 2 brands, in this order: Upwork, Fiverr.
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Toptal, PeoplePerHour.
There's no single "best" marketplace — it depends on what you're hiring for, your budget, and how much vetting you want to do yourself.
Cohere
Named 5 brands, in this order: Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal, Freelancer.com, Guru.
The "best" freelance marketplace for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and the type of work you require.
The questions asked
- What is the best freelance marketplace for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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See the GEO suiteHow this was measured
Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/freelance-marketplaces