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Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce, powered by a global network of more than 20,000 highly vetted professionals in technology, design, finance, marketing, and strategic consulting. Only the top 3% of applicants are accepted into our network. Founded in 2010, Toptal has been trusted by more than 30,000 clients, from the Fortune 500 to cutting-edge startups. We provide a variety of services to drive businesses forward, from on-demand talent and teams to complete end-to-end solutions. For more information, please visit www.toptal.com.


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Founded in 2010
San Francisco, CA
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Toptal Reviews Summary

Toptal has a rating of 3.9 stars from 224 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Toptal most frequently mention great experience, high quality and screening process. Toptal ranks 6th among Freelancing sites.

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Brazil
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Very good overall
May 17, 2023

Toptal makes it safer for us to accept freelances without all the burden of looking for clients and making sure they pay for the services we provide.

Having a toptal peer as the single point of contact to discuss any issues with the client is very useful.

There are a lot of available jobs to choose, for many different knowledge, but I feel the majority is for React.js.

Date of experience: May 17, 2023
South Africa
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The Toptal team is incredibly competent and friendly! I have dealt with many account managers and all have always ensured my experience as a software developer on the platform went smoothly. I would highly recommend the platform to all skilled freelancers looking to work in a professional setting with fantastic people.

Date of experience: May 17, 2023
Texas
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I've been on the Toptal platform for about 4 years and receive roughly 10 invitations/week to projects. Some are the mundane "pay the rent" projects, which I'll happily (and easily) do, but most are interesting, challenging, 3-6 month CFO projects. This keeps me coming back to the platform. I highly recommend it for quality of projects/clients and ease of applying to them. Payments are done 100% on time and in accordance with my timesheets.

Date of experience: May 17, 2023
India
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Great Experience
May 16, 2023

Toptal has proven to be a game-changer in my career. Their knack for finding quality clients and aligning them with my skills has been exceptional. I found it incredibly easy to land a job through their platform, thanks to their effective and streamlined process.

Date of experience: May 16, 2023
Colorado
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I was able to assess architecture for security risks and prepare a prioritized risk reduction plan that was cost-effective, and satisfied the risk tolerance profile of the customer.

Date of experience: May 15, 2023
Germany
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Simple, Kind and Professional
May 10, 2023

Toptal is a great platform: well designed, easy to use and the staff is very helpful and quick to respond.

Date of experience: May 10, 2023
South Africa
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Well worth the time and effort
May 9, 2023

I have enjoyed working on multiple projects through TopTal. The clients have always had their plans in order and when there has been any need for intervention, the team at TopTal has taken care of it. I have always been paid on time and there are very clear expectations from all sides. I would highly recommend TopTal as a freelancing platform for anyone looking to join :)

Date of experience: May 9, 2023
Mexico
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Best freelance platform by far
May 9, 2023

Best freelance platform by far! Great rates, veted clients and a Toptal staff that offers 24/7 support of any kind needed! 10/10

Date of experience: May 9, 2023
France
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Project with Eino
May 8, 2023

I recently finished a project with Eino, a client based in New York City.
Highly competent team, I was talking to the CEO and the CTO every week.
Well defined objectives and reasonable deadlines. Pleasant to work with, and the work itself interesting.

Date of experience: May 8, 2023
GB
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High value jobs and clients
May 5, 2023

I was initial cautious about joining TopTal as I had been on other sites and seen how the rates paid were very low but TopTal has very good rates and pays on time every fortnight.

My one critism is that they don't pay you directly like most clients but instead into their own payments system and you have to pay $0.50 to transfer the money out. In the grand scheme of things it is fine but grating every time!

The matchers/account execs at TopTal are always generally available within a short time of frame and are always super helpful.

I would 100% recommend TopTal.

Date of experience: May 5, 2023
India
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Built a Recommendation Engine for an Addiction Recovery app which incorporates user demographics, mental state and other metadata from app interaction to suggest quotes & prayers relevant to the user's state of mind. He has got excellent feedback from client at MVP level testing.

Date of experience: May 4, 2023
Canada
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I love my work; I hate vetting clients, billing and collection. Toptal gets out of the way and lets me do what I love, and it does what I hate doing, and does it well.

Date of experience: May 3, 2023
Hungary
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Freelancer experience
May 1, 2023

Both short and long term projects using various technologies. If you have some niche skills, it can be a heaven.

Date of experience: May 1, 2023
Canada
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The equalizer in the internet age
April 28, 2023

Have you ever felt that your pay check struggles to keep up with your living expenses especially at a time when the government devalued your currency by around 8%? Do you ever find taxes eating away at your paycheck as you rise through the ladder with less and less left for you and your family? Then you're not alone. In an age where bills and cost of living rises and income struggle to catch up, it is incumbent on today's professional to harness every opportunity possible to create their own living through the internet. Enter Toptal. Toptal enables highly talented professionals to work at their own time, their own place, their own rate, their own terms while enabling their clients to succeed. I have nothing but great words for Toptal. My engagements with clients ranging from web 3.0 to automotive to biotech to data analytics showed me the world in front my laptop screen every day. I learn new things all the time, met interesting people across the world and have been part of game-changing projects / products in the industry all because of toptal. I highly recommend this company.

Date of experience: April 28, 2023
Mexico
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Best Freelancer's Platform
April 28, 2023

So far in my experience been a freelancer in Toptal I've connected with client all over the world looking for the best talent to join their team. This opportunity has helped to enhance my skills, feel more confident, and gain more income than working by myself.

I recommend Toptal to any good developers that want to gain more income, meet a lot of companies and continue learning more.

Date of experience: April 28, 2023
Argentina
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Working with Alex Kall was great. He explained to me everything I needed to know about the project and the expected deliverables.
I would definitely work with him again in the future if there is a new engagement.

Date of experience: April 28, 2023
India
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Great experience
April 28, 2023

It was a great experience and a very good project, hoping to get more and more work related to my field and learn new things and make myself even better

Date of experience: April 28, 2023
Canada
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I have had a great experience freelancing with TopTal over the last few months. The projects and the clients are pretty great and everything from invoicing to communication about the breaks is taken care of by the team, so you, as a freelancer, can focus solely on the work. I love the flexibility and reliability of using Toptal and highly recommend it to anyone in ML as there are really good projects available that you can help the clients with.

Date of experience: April 26, 2023
Hungary
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A very positive experience
April 26, 2023

I've had a very smooth first long-term project with Toptal. The matching process was a breeze, Toptal was very supporting during the entire time. The site automatically recommended me projects that were a terrible match for my skill set but at the end I still got matched with a project by some human intervention in less than a month. I'm grateful that Toptal was taking care of the legal and accounting aspect of the job, so I could focus only on getting actual work done. During this one year project of course we've had some hiccups: billing issues from the client's part, some health and family issues on my part. With good communication these were always solved and Toptal representatives were very helpful in handling these issues.

All in all I had a very positive experience.

Date of experience: April 26, 2023
Egypt
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An amazing work experience
April 26, 2023

Simply amazing. I've been dependant on toptal to provide me with high quality clients and they have proved to be reliable since I first joined in 2018

Date of experience: April 26, 2023