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Upsight vs UpHunt: which Upwork auto-apply tool for an agency?
UpHunt is the better buy for one freelancer who wants scored job alerts cheaply and is happy to let a third party's business-developer account join their agency and send proposals: $27 a month for the feeds and alerts, $89 a month for 50 auto-applies with $0.40 per extra, a 7-day free trial with no card and no commitment. Upsight is the better buy for an agency that wants proposals sent as its own member profiles, through Upwork's API under rules it sets per campaign, and that needs to know where each profile ranks in Upwork search, which member converts and what each proposal cost in Connects. Upsight is $99, $249 or $999 a month, billed monthly with no setup fee and no minimum term. UpHunt also publishes a 4-million-job dataset and a free earnings-rank checker, which are good and which Upsight does not have; its rank is an earnings percentile, not your position in search.
What UpHunt says it does best: "Win more Upwork jobs while you sleep": AI scores every posting against your profile from a prompt you write, alerts you on Slack or Telegram, and on the Auto-Apply plan its business developer joins your agency as a member and submits a personalized proposal within minutes of posting, with "nothing to connect, no password to share".
Pricing, side by side
Prices verified on from UpHunt's home page (its pricing section; uphunt.io/pricing returns 404) and Upsight's pricing page. Vendors change prices; if one has moved, write to support@upsight.fyi and we will correct the page.
| Plan | Price | Terms | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free trial | $0 for 7 days | No credit card. 20 apply credits that never expire, kept after the trial. | Every feed, score and alert for 7 days; connect your own Upwork account. |
| Basic | $27 / month | Monthly, no commitment, cancel anytime. | Unlimited AI job feeds with per-feed scoring and proposal prompts, an AI score and reason for every job, Slack, Telegram and webhook alerts, one-tap apply from your own Upwork account, 20 free apply credits then top-ups. |
| Auto-Apply | $89 / month | Monthly, no commitment. 50 auto-applies a month, $0.40 per extra. | Everything in Basic; UpHunt's business developer joins your agency as a member and sends proposals the moment a job posts, day and night. |
| Extra apply credits | $0.40 each | Pay as you go, on the Auto-Apply plan. | One credit per successful application, per UpHunt's API documentation. |
| Agency Plus | Not published | Paid to Upwork, not to UpHunt. | UpHunt's comparison pages describe its model as Upwork Agency Plus business-developer bidding, so the Auto-Apply plan presumes an agency on Upwork's paid Agency Plus membership. |
- uphunt.io/pricing returned 404 on the verification date; the prices above are from the pricing section of UpHunt's home page.
- UpHunt's Auto-Apply plan sends from a business-developer account it controls, added to your agency as a member; its pages say "no ban risk: nothing runs on your accounts". Upsight sends from your own connected logins.
- UpHunt's free Rank Checker ranks last-90-day earnings against other freelancers in a category, country or skill; it is not your position in Upwork search results.
| Plan | Price | Terms | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solopreneurs | $99 / month | Monthly, cancel anytime. Annual billing 20% less. | 100 proposals / month, 1 connected account, 5 tracked keywords |
| Agencies | $249 / month | Monthly, cancel anytime. Annual billing 20% less. | 250 proposals / month, 5 connected accounts, Member-level analytics |
| Enterprise | $999 / month | Monthly, cancel anytime. Annual billing 20% less. | 1,000 proposals / month, 10 connected accounts, Priority everything |
- Overage $1 per proposal beyond the plan. A proposal counts when Upsight submits it; rejected drafts cost nothing.
- No setup fee, no minimum term. Upwork Connects are bought from Upwork as before and are not part of any plan.
Feature by feature
"Not stated" means the vendor's public pages do not describe it, which is not the same as not having it: ask them.
| Feature | Upsight | UpHunt |
|---|---|---|
| Bidding | Yes: AI bidder: campaigns sweep the feed every 15 minutes, score each job against your win history, draft from your knowledge base, submit with a boost bid sized to the live auction. | Yes: AI feeds with a 1–10 score from your own prompt; on Auto-Apply, a proposal written from your generation prompt and submitted within minutes by UpHunt's business developer. 50 a month, then $0.40 each. |
| Approval mode | Yes: Per campaign: send automatically after a short review window, or require a person to approve every proposal. The setting is shown on each campaign. | Partly: "Full control, review every application" is listed under Auto-Apply; the plan is sold as proposals that go out the moment a job posts, so review is the exception, not the default. |
| Search-rank tracking | Yes: Daily position of each profile for each keyword in Upwork search, including the agencies ranked above you. Public data, no account access needed. | Partly: A free earnings-rank checker: your last-90-day earnings as a percentile of your category, country and skills. Not your profile's position in Upwork search for a keyword. |
| Per-member analytics | Yes: Sent, viewed, replied and hired per connected member profile, with the denominator shown. | No: Not described. Proposals go out under UpHunt's business developer, so there is no per-member funnel to report. |
| Connects & boost ledger | Yes: Every Connect and boost bid reconciled to the Upwork transaction, including refunds, so the real cost of a proposal is known after the fact. | No: Not described. Apply credits are counted; Connects and boost spend are not reconciled on the public pages. |
| Inbox & alerts | Yes: Replies, invitations and new leads in one inbox; alerts per campaign to Slack, Discord, Telegram or email. | Partly: Slack, Telegram and webhook alerts for matching jobs. No unified inbox for replies is described. |
| HubSpot | Yes: Leads sync to HubSpot as a lead or a deal, deduplicated against Upsight's own ledger. Included in every plan. | No: Not described; webhooks are the integration surface. |
| MCP / API | Yes: MCP server and REST API with workspace API keys, so Claude or a script can read and operate the bidder. | Yes: Public REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and Node and Python SDKs (apply by URL, AI cover letters, webhooks), plus a read-only MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Cline. |
| Trial | Partly: No self-serve free trial. A free 30-minute pipeline audit on your own numbers before you pay anything. | Yes: 7 days, no credit card; 20 apply credits kept afterwards. |
| Minimum term | Yes: None. Monthly, cancel anytime. | Yes: None. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. |
| Setup fee | Yes: None. | Yes: None stated. |
Where UpHunt is better
- Price. $27 a month for scored feeds and alerts, $89 for 50 auto-applies; Upsight's entry plan is $99. For one freelancer sending under 50 proposals a month, UpHunt is cheaper.
- A real free trial: 7 days, no card, and the 20 apply credits stay after it ends.
- Nothing to connect. On Auto-Apply its business developer joins your agency and sends from there, so you never bind an Upwork login to a tool; whether you want a third party as an agency member is the trade.
- Public data. A 4-million-job, 1.5-million-profile dataset behind measured blog posts, a free profile optimizer and an earnings-rank checker; Upsight publishes nothing comparable yet.
- Developer surface. A documented REST API with typed SDKs and an OpenAPI spec, where Upsight's REST API is documented for customers rather than published.
Where Upsight is better
- Your own profiles send. Upsight submits from the member profile the campaign chooses, under your approval, so the proposal carries that member's history, rate and badges rather than a business developer's.
- Your choice per campaign: send automatically through Upwork's API with your own key, or hold every proposal for a person. UpHunt's auto-apply is built to send before you look.
- Search-rank tracking: the daily position of each profile for each keyword in Upwork search, including the agencies above you. UpHunt's rank is an earnings percentile.
- Per-member funnels, a Connects and boost ledger reconciled to the Upwork transaction, a unified inbox for replies and invitations, and HubSpot sync in every plan.
- Per-proposal cost at agency volume. 100 proposals on Upsight's Solopreneurs plan cost $99; the same 100 on UpHunt's Auto-Apply cost $89 plus 50 extras at $0.40, about $109 by our arithmetic.
Frequently asked
- How does UpHunt send proposals without my Upwork login?
- On its Auto-Apply plan, UpHunt's own business-developer account joins your agency as a member and submits proposals on the agency's behalf, the way an agency's business manager would. Its pages present this as the safety argument: nothing runs on your accounts. Upsight does the opposite on purpose: it files proposals as your own member profiles, through Upwork's API with your workspace's key, under rules you set per campaign.
- Is UpHunt cheaper than Upsight?
- For one person, yes. $27 a month for feeds and alerts and $89 for 50 auto-applies both sit under Upsight's $99 entry plan. Above 50 proposals a month UpHunt adds $0.40 each, so 100 proposals cost about $109 against Upsight's $99, and Upsight's plans include rank tracking, member analytics and the Connects ledger that UpHunt does not offer.
- Does UpHunt track my Upwork search rank?
- No. UpHunt's free Rank Checker places your last-90-day earnings on percentile curves for your category, country and skills, computed from its dataset. Upsight records where each profile appears in Upwork search for each tracked keyword, every day, including the agencies ranked above you.
- Does UpHunt have an MCP server?
- Yes, a read-only one: it exposes your scored job feed, job details, client research and applied jobs to Claude, Cursor or Cline, and sending stays with the API. Upsight's MCP server can read and operate the bidder, including approving drafts, with workspace API keys.
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