The official Telegram bot of FL.ru, one of the largest Russian freelance marketplaces: browse new orders and manage your freelance activity from Telegram. Free, Russian interface.
77 / 100
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Best Telegram bots for Freelance & gigs
Freelance bots bring a marketplace into Telegram: new orders in your category arrive as messages, so you respond before the competition and keep the site closed. Some cover physical tasks and errands as well as digital work.
The best Telegram bot for freelance and gigs is FL.ru (@flru_bot): the official bot of one of the largest Russian freelance marketplaces shows new orders and lets you manage your account without opening the site, for free. Kwork (@kwork_bot) is the choice for fixed-price services, and Upwork (@upwork_bot) delivers project notifications from the biggest international marketplace in English.
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The Telegram bot of Kwork, a large Russian gig marketplace built around fixed-price services ('kworks') rather than open bidding. Free, Russian interface.
74 / 100
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The Telegram bot of YouDo, a large Russian task marketplace spanning both physical services (moving, repairs, courier work) and digital freelance tasks. Free, Russian interface.
68 / 100
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The Telegram bot of Workzilla, a Russian freelance marketplace known for a personal-manager onboarding style aimed at making freelance easy for new clients. Free, Russian interface.
66 / 100
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The Telegram bot of Freelancehunt, a leading Ukrainian freelance marketplace, delivering new project notifications straight to chat. Free, useful for freelancers targeting the Ukrainian and CIS market.
66 / 100
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The Telegram bot associated with Upwork, the largest international freelance marketplace, useful for freelancers who want fixed-price and hourly project notifications from a global client base delivered to chat. English interface.
64 / 100
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An independent aggregator bot that scans multiple freelance marketplaces and channels by keyword and forwards matching orders in one feed, rather than tying you to a single platform. Free, Russian interface, has a support bot and news channel.
63 / 100
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Telegram companion to Remote OK, a major international remote-jobs board covering development, design, marketing, sales and support roles. Free, English interface, useful for a fully remote or international job search.
63 / 100
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The Telegram bot of freelance.ru, another established Russian freelance order marketplace, delivering new project notifications to executors. Free, Russian interface.
60 / 100
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Telegram bot of Workew, an international remote-jobs aggregator covering development, marketing, design, writing and customer support roles. Free, English interface.
55 / 100
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Comparison
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FL.ru @flru_bot | Free | RU | no | no | 77 |
| 2 | Kwork @kwork_bot | Free | RU | no | no | 74 |
| 3 | YouDo @youdo_bot | Free | RU | no | no | 68 |
| 4 | Воркзилла @workzilla_bot | Free | RU | no | no | 66 |
| 5 | Freelancehunt @freelancehunt_bot | Free | RU · UK | no | no | 66 |
| 6 | Upwork @upwork_bot | Free | EN | no | no | 64 |
| 7 | Freelance Assistant @Freelance_find_bot | Free | RU | no | no | 63 |
| 8 | Remote OK @remoteok_bot | Free | EN | no | no | 63 |
| 9 | freelance.ru @freelance_ru_bot | Free | RU | no | no | 60 |
| 10 | Workew @workew_bot | Free | EN | no | no | 55 |
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How we chose
We subscribed each bot to the same two categories, copywriting and web development, for a week and counted how many orders arrived, how quickly after publication and how many were duplicates. We checked what can be done from the chat, replying, bidding, opening the order, and whether the bot is official, since third-party parsers of marketplaces tend to die without warning.
Freelance & gigs
Marketplace model matters more than the bot
FL.ru and Freelancehunt run open bidding, where you respond to a client's brief; Kwork sells fixed-price packages that clients buy like products; YouDo mixes digital tasks with moving, repairs and courier jobs; Upwork works with hourly contracts and a global client base. The bot only forwards what the marketplace has, so choose the marketplace first and then take its official bot.
Speed of notifications
On open-bidding marketplaces the first few responses get most of the attention, which is the whole point of a Telegram bot. Official bots deliver within a minute; unofficial parsers poll the site every 10 to 30 minutes and miss short-lived orders. Narrow your categories: a subscription to everything turns the chat into noise within a day.
Fees and getting paid
All marketplaces in this rating take a commission from the freelancer, the client or both, and the bot does not change it. Upwork pays in dollars to international freelancers; FL.ru, Kwork, YouDo and Workzilla pay in rubles, Freelancehunt in hryvnia with international options. Check the withdrawal methods available in your country before investing time in a profile.
Frequently asked questions
Can I respond to an order from the bot?
FL.ru and Kwork open the order in a mini app or the site with one tap; Upwork's bot only notifies, the bid is placed on upwork.com.
Which bot is best for beginners?
Kwork, because fixed-price services need no bidding, and Workzilla, whose personal-manager onboarding is aimed at new users.
Are there bots for offline gigs, not only digital work?
YouDo covers moving, repairs, cleaning and courier tasks alongside digital ones.
Do these bots charge anything?
The bots are free; the marketplaces charge their usual commissions on completed orders.