Set freelance rates around the work
Build a freelance pricing scenario around the work you can sell, the time you can bill, and the costs required to deliver it. Compare direct, referral, and marketplace work without assuming one platform's terms apply to every client or contract.
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Use the tools in the order your shop needs.
- Compare direct, referral, and marketplace acquisition costs.
- Price around billable time, non-billable work, and target take-home.
- Include payment fees, subcontractors, software, overhead, and reserves.
Start with the question
Turn freelance revenue into a realistic take-home view
Each tool answers a different business question. Begin with the decision in front of you, not with a random number.
Freelancers often combine direct clients, referrals, and marketplace work. Acquisition costs, payment fees, contract terms, and payout timing can vary by channel, so use the Fee calculator with the actual assumptions behind the project rather than one marketplace's rules.
Pricing becomes more useful when it reflects billable and non-billable time. Include proposals, sales, admin, revisions, learning, and availability alongside the hours you can invoice, then test an hourly or project price against the effective hourly rate you need.
Profit should include payment and acquisition costs, delivery tools, subcontractors, software, overhead, and reserves. With those inputs in place, you can compare a busy month with a sustainable one and estimate the revenue or contribution needed to reach break-even.
- 01Choose the decision
- 02Enter true costs
- 03Test another scenario
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The most useful live tools
Begin with these Freelancers calculators when you need a quick answer. Live tools open the shared calculator experience, while planned tools remain clearly marked below.
Freelancer Fee Calculator
Estimate generic freelancer project costs after client-acquisition commission, payment processing, payout or FX, and proposal costs.
Freelancer Pricing Calculator
Solve a freelancer project quote and hourly equivalent for a target take-home or margin after editable acquisition, payment, delivery, overhead, and reserve costs.
Freelancer Profit Calculator
Model monthly freelancer projects after generic acquisition, payment, payout, delivery, subcontractor, overhead, refund, and tax costs.
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What to use next on Freelancers
A practical route through the calculator families, based on the work sellers do before and after a sale.
When a client channel changes your take-home
Use Freelancer Fee to compare the acquisition and payment costs behind direct, referral, and marketplace work. Enter the terms for the specific contract or channel and avoid carrying one platform's assumptions into another project.
Use Freelancer Fees
When you are setting an hourly or project price
Open Freelancer Pricing with target take-home, billable capacity, non-billable work, delivery time, and the risk of scope changes. Test the quote as both a project price and an effective hourly rate before you send it.
Use Freelancer Pricing
When your calendar is full but billable time is low
Use Freelancer Pricing to account for proposals, admin, revisions, learning, and other non-billable hours. The scenario shows how much each billable hour must carry when availability is lower than the hours you work.
Use Freelancer Pricing
When booked work still leaves too little profit
Run Freelancer Profit with payment and acquisition costs, delivery tools, subcontractors, software, overhead, and reserves. Compare the result with the effective hourly rate and the contribution needed to cover fixed costs and reach break-even.
Use Freelancer Profit
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Use the full directory when your question moves beyond Freelancers. Every calculator is organized by platform or business decision.
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