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Temu vs Upwork

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

Evenly matched — Temu and Upwork take 2 of 4 compared terms each. Which one earns more still depends on your audience — the table below shows where each one wins.

Term by term

Temu vs Upwork compared across 15 criteria
Criterion Temu Top pick Upwork
The money
Commission 30% ✔ 70%
Pays for — —
Payout type One-time One-time
Tier ladder Order commission Up to 30%, App download reward Up to EUR 12 per referral, Second-tier partner bonus Up to EUR 40 per invited partner No tiers
Terms
Cookie window 30 days —
Ease of starting ✔ 3.8 / 5 3.5 / 5
Approval Reviewed Reviewed
Our rating — —
Getting paid
Paid out ✔ On demand (There is no payout run. You request a withdrawal yourself once the balance clears, with one request in progress at a time and daily caps on how many you can make.) Monthly (Withdraw on a set day each month, or whenever the Impact balance reaches the threshold you configured.)
Minimum payout $23 (Temu's German-market affiliate policy sets the withdrawal floor at EUR 20, roughly $23. Thresholds are set per market, so check the payout page for the market your account is registered in.) Upwork publishes no figure; Impact pays out when your balance reaches a threshold you set in that account.
Clearing hold — —
Payment methods PayPal, Temu store credit ✔ Direct transfer, BACS, PayPal
Rules
Self-referral — —
Paid search — Restricted
Affiliate assets Referral links, Referral codes, Banners and graphics from the Asset Center, Shareable product and deal content 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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