Last Updated on March 2, 2025 by Mathew Diekhake
Fiverr (fiverr.com) is one of the leading global marketplaces for digital freelance services. Its platform serves as the connection between sellers (freelancers offering services) and buyers (clients looking to hire). Fiverr.com competes with other freelance services such as upwork, freelancer, peopleperhour, and toptal, among others. Its name stems from the original asking price of jobs “gigs” at the time of its creation. However, sellers can charge more for diverse jobs at this time.
ALTERNATIVES
Similar sites to fiverr.com include upwork.com, canva.com, appsumo.com, figma.com, linkedin.com, stripe.com, seoclerks.com, neilpatel.com, websiteseochecker.com, and builtwith.com.
DESCRIPTION
Fiverr.com is a large marketplace and I was surprised by how little content was on the homepage. There were 17 thumbnail images; some of them were real architectural images of homes and other pictures were animations of superheroes etc. The images didn’t have any information about them until I hovered the mouse to find the image title and the user who created/uploaded it. By this point, I was confused as to what I was doing on the homepage. I know this as a marketplace, so what are these images representing exactly? Are the images for sale? I clicked some of them to investigate further. On the single post page for the images, there was a button to contact the seller, so they were indeed images for sale. Could I imagine buying the images? I wouldn’t have thought they would be popular sales, but I’m not a picture expert. I do know that websites such as gettyimages.com make a lot of money. Is this the direction fiverr.com wants to head in, or is it only a small part of the site? If it’s the latter, I recommend adding more things to the homepage so people know the marketplace is for more than just images because the impression I got was it was a user-generated content version of gettyimages.com.
HISTORY
As of March 2024, fiverrr.com has 52.37 million monthly views (61.1M, Feb 2023), according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that fiverr.com was founded on December 13, 2009. The Internet Archive has saved fiverr.com 65,460 times between December 13, 2009 and April 13, 2024.
However, according to fiverr.com, this bilateral platform was launched in February 2010, by Micha Kaufman and Shai Wininger. Fiverr was born as a way of providing an alternative way to work from anywhere.
Is fiverr.com Safe?
I analyzed fiverr.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:
I checked fiverr.com on Sucuri, and it returned with a 403 Forbidden site issue.
Sucuri says fiverr.com is a critical security risk because it has been blacklisted by PhishTank.
I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on fiverr.com, and it is clean.
I also checked fiverr.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean; however, it does have an unfavorable community score.
In conclusion, Sucuri says fiverr.com is graded as a critical security risk because a security vendor (PhishTank) has blacklisted a domain due to a Phishing scam. Unmask Parasites says fiverr.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal says fiverr.com is clean; however, it does have an unfavorable community score. OVERALL GRADE: Suspicious.
Links and Profiles
Website: fiverr.com
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