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For Makers

You did all the work.
You keep all the money.

A freelance marketplace with no platform fees.

Most freelance websites take a chunk of your pay and call it a service fee. Lyriem is a fair freelance marketplace where you keep what you earn and get paid safely through escrow. No platform fees. No middlemen. Just good work, delivered and paid.

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Why Makers Are Choosing Lyriem

Built for the people who do the work

No platform fees. No middlemen. Just good work, delivered and paid.

No Platform Fees

Keep 100% of what you earn. Zero commission, zero hidden platform costs. Unlike competitors who take 20%+, you keep every penny.

Escrow-Secured Payments

Funds are securely held until work is delivered and approved. Then paid instantly. No more chasing invoices or waiting on checks.

Portable Reputation

Build a permanent, verifiable record of your work that stays with you — on-chain, forever. Your reputation is yours, not the platform's.

Client Ownership

Build lasting relationships without a platform standing in the way. You found the client, you did the work — that relationship is yours.

Stop Paying the Freelance Tax

You shouldn't have to pay rent on your own career.

You know that little line item that takes 20%+ off the top? That's the freelance tax, and it's gone on long enough. Lyriem ends it. With no platform fees, what you earn is what you keep. No commissions. No hidden deductions.

Get Paid Safely, Every Time

No more chasing invoices. Every project on Lyriem runs through escrow. Funds are locked before work begins and released automatically when you deliver. It's not about trusting strangers. It's about never needing to.

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Built by Freelancers. Backed by Proof.

We built what we wish had existed.

Lyriem wasn't dreamed up in a boardroom. It was built by freelancers who were tired of paying to work — people who've lost hours chasing invoices and watched platforms skim their earnings.

We built a place to find freelance clients online, get paid fast, and actually own your career. We're proving that a freelance marketplace with no platform fees is the future.

Build a Reputation That Travels With You

Your proof of work shouldn't disappear when you switch platforms. With Lyriem, your record is permanent, portable, and yours — so clients see verified experience, not empty reviews.

The Alternative to Upwork and Fiverr That Actually Feels Fair

Fair pay. Fast payment.
Real control.

You've seen how big platforms work: more rules, higher cuts, slower pay. Lyriem flips that script. A trusted freelance platform built by freelancers, not investors.

If you've been searching for the best freelance websites that actually respect your work, this is the one built for you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Other freelance platforms like Fiverr and Upwork charge you 20%+ in platform fees, so you do the work and they get the reward. Lyriem is the freelance marketplace with no platform fees. You keep what you earn and get paid safely through escrow.
Yes. Lyriem doesn't charge platform fees — you'll never pay us a cut of your earnings.
Lyriem won't charge you to use the platform. From time to time you may incur third-party fees such as credit card processing fees. As part of our commitment to making sure you get as much of your money as possible, we negotiate to keep these fees as low as possible.
To open a job on the Lyriem platform, a job must be pre-funded. Those funds are held in an escrow account and released to you upon completion of the job. That's your built-in freelance payment guarantee.
Absolutely. Lyriem doesn't exert any claim over your client relationships or insert ourselves into the workflow or communications. You built the relationship. You own it. No lock-ins, no walls, no loss of control.
Always. Lyriem never sells personal or client data. Only anonymized, aggregated patterns are collected — things like average pay rates for developers in Austin. No individual names, projects, or financials are ever shared.