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Platforms

Upwork accounts

One profile per account, each with its own device, its own exit address and its own daily ceiling. The honest part comes first on this page: the platform asks for one account per person, and nothing here is sold as a way around that.

What the platform sees

An account here is tied to a verified person, and the checks go well past a password: documents, a face, a tax identity and the country the work is done from.

Against that, the browser is the small part. What it can still do is keep your session steady, so the account does not appear to change countries between two logins.

One account per person

The terms ask for a single account per person, and a duplicate found later costs the reputation attached to the first one.

So a profile here is for the cases the rules do allow: an agency where several people each hold their own account and share an office machine, or a client account kept apart from a freelancer one where the platform permits both.

It is also for the ordinary thing: keeping a work session out of the browser where you read mail and shop.

Ceilings on proposals and messages

Proposals cost money and reputation here, and a burst of near identical ones is what a moderator sees long before a client does.

The app counts the day and warns as you come near each ceiling, naming the limit you are walking toward. It does not stop you.

ActionA dayWarning at
Proposals1060%
Messages2575%
New services367%
Profile edits560%
Payout detail edits199%
Account switches199%

First week of a new account

A new account gets a fifth of the ceiling on its first day and the whole of it from the seventh.

Eight actions is not much, and that is deliberate: a brand new freelancer who sends a full day of proposals is the pattern the platform looks for.

DayActions allowed
Day 18
Day 214
Day 320
Day 426
Day 532
Day 636
Day 7 and after40

One payout edit a day

Changing where the money lands is the single most reviewed action on a freelance account, and a hold on withdrawals is the usual answer to doing it twice in an evening.

That is why the ceiling is one edit a day with the warning at 99 percent.

Account switches sit at one a day for the same reason: a machine that signs into two freelancer accounts in a day is exactly what the one account rule is written about.

What the rules actually say

The platform allows agencies with members, and it does not allow a second personal account. Those two sentences decide most of what is possible here.

Read the terms before you build a plan on them. We link them rather than paraphrase them, because they change and our paraphrase would go stale.

What this does not do

  • It does not give you a second freelancer account. The platform's terms ask for one per person, and we are not going to sell a way around a rule that is written down.
  • It does not survive identity verification on your behalf. Documents, a face and a tax identity are checked by the platform, not by a browser.
  • It does not restore reputation. Earnings history, the job success score and reviews belong to the account that earned them.
  • It does not lift the platform's own limits on proposals. The ceilings here are ours and they sit lower on purpose.

Check it

Every number on this page comes from the product, not from a marketing draft.

Ceilings and warning thresholds for this scenario
packages/shared/src/index.js · SCENARIOS.freelance.rateLimits
The seven day ramp for a new account
packages/shared/src/index.js · WARMUP_RAMP · warmupLimit
The daily ceiling shown beside a profile
packages/shared/src/index.js · SCENARIO_DAILY_LIMIT · apps/desktop/src/main/main.js
Tracker list loaded for this scenario
packages/shared/src/index.js · SCENARIOS.freelance.trackerLists · apps/desktop/test/блокировка-живьём.js
Signing in as another account keeps the first one's sessions
apps/desktop/test/смена-аккаунта-не-стирает-сессии.js

Questions

Can I run a client account and a freelancer one?
Where the platform's own rules allow both, each gets its own profile here. Where they do not, the answer is no and we will not dress it up.
How does an agency use this?
Each member keeps their own account in their own profile, which matters when several of them work from one office and one address.
Why only ten proposals a day?
Because proposals are metered by the platform too, and a day spent at the limit produces worse work than a day spent at half of it.
Does a profile hide where I live?
No, and trying would work against you here. The exit country is there to stay steady, not to contradict the country on your account.
What happens at a ceiling?
Nothing is blocked. The counter turns amber at that action’s own threshold and red at the ceiling, and the decision stays yours: the app sets the pace, it does not lock the door.

Keep the work session apart

The free plan gives two profiles, with no time limit and no card.