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Flippa vs Upwork

Flippa or Upwork? Commission, cookie window, payout schedule and approval, compared side by side.

Upwork takes 4 of 4 compared terms. Which one earns more still depends on your audience — the table below shows where each one wins.

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Flippa vs Upwork compared across 15 criteria
Criterion Flippa Upwork Top pick
The money
Commission 20% ✔ 70%
Pays for 1 year —
Payout type One-time One-time
Tier ladder Referral acquires a business 20% of the success fee Flippa receives, Referral lists a business 20% of the listing fee Flippa receives, Referral sells their listed business 20% of the success fee Flippa receives No tiers
Terms
Cookie window — —
Ease of starting 3.3 / 5 ✔ 3.5 / 5
Approval Reviewed Reviewed
Our rating — —
Getting paid
Paid out Monthly (Referrals are reconciled at the end of each month and rewards are typically paid on the 13th.) Monthly (Withdraw on a set day each month, or whenever the Impact balance reaches the threshold you configured.)
Minimum payout $5 (Rewards below this sit on the account as pending approval until enough has built up.) Upwork publishes no figure; Impact pays out when your balance reaches a threshold you set in that account.
Clearing hold — —
Payment methods PayPal, Stripe ✔ Direct transfer, BACS, PayPal
Rules
Self-referral Prohibited —
Paid search Restricted Restricted
Affiliate assets Custom referral links, Real-time tracking dashboard ✔ Logos, Ads, Banners, Text links

A ✔ marks the better term on that row. Rows where the programs match, where the terms aren't comparable, or where a program hasn't published a figure are left unmarked — a dash means unknown, not zero.

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