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Upsight vs Vollna: job alerts and auto-bidding, or an agency engine?
Vollna is the better choice for a solo freelancer who wants fast job alerts, good filters and an optional auto-bidder at the lowest price on the market: $24 or $62 a month, a 14-day free trial, no login credentials required, and auto-bidding tiers from $59 to $640 a month by proposal volume. Upsight is the better choice for an agency with several member profiles that needs to know where each profile ranks, which member converts and what each proposal really cost in Connects. Upsight is $99, $249 or $999 a month, billed monthly with no setup fee and no minimum term. If you bid for yourself and do not need the ledger, Vollna is cheaper and we would say so.
What Vollna says it does best: "Pricing built around your Upwork workflow": smart job search, instant alerts and analytics for solo freelancers and growing agencies, with 24/7 auto-bidding as the top tier and no Upwork login required.
Pricing, side by side
Prices verified on from Vollna's pricing page 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | $24 / month | Monthly; $16 / month billed yearly. 14-day free trial, no card. | Individual profile, 5 job filters, 250 AI cover letters, alerts by email, Telegram, push and RSS. Slack/Discord, CRM and API are $10 / month add-ons each. |
| Professional | $62 / month | Monthly; $41 / month billed yearly. 14-day free trial, no card. | 30 job filters, 800 AI cover letters, 10 team members, Slack and Discord alerts, CRM integrations and API included. |
| Auto 50 | $59 / month | Monthly; $45 / month billed yearly. No trial on Auto tiers. | Up to 50 auto-submitted proposals a month with AI cover letters. |
| Auto 150 · 250 · 400 | $149 · $230 · $344 / month | Monthly; $120 · $185 · $276 billed yearly. | 150, 250 or 400 auto-submitted proposals a month. |
| Auto 800+ | $640 / month | Monthly; $512 / month billed yearly. | 800 or more auto-submitted proposals a month. |
- Vollna's page states no setup fee and cancel anytime for the Auto tiers, and automatic renewal per billing period for every plan.
- The page's own comparison table says auto-bidding starts at $149; its tier picker also lists Auto 50 at $59. Both are shown above.
| 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 | Vollna |
|---|---|---|
| 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: Auto-bidding on the Auto tiers only, 24/7 with AI-personalised cover letters; Essential and Professional alert you and you apply yourself. |
| Approval mode | Yes: Default. Nothing is sent until a person clicks send; a campaign you trust can be switched to auto, and the switch is labelled. | Yes: Pre-screening before submit on the Auto tiers: review and approve each proposal, or run hands-off. |
| 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. | No: Not offered. |
| Per-member analytics | Yes: Sent, viewed, replied and hired per connected member profile, with the denominator shown. | Partly: Up to 10 team members; reply rate, conversion and cost per reply per profile and account-wide. No per-member funnel with hires. |
| 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. | Partly: Connects and boost spend automated within your limits, automatic Connect top-up, and boost performance analysis; no ledger reconciled to Upwork's transactions. |
| Inbox & alerts | Yes: Replies, invitations and new leads in one inbox; alerts per campaign to Slack, Discord, Telegram or email. | Yes: Email, Telegram, push and RSS on Essential; Slack, Discord and webhooks on Professional and Auto ($10 / month add-on on Essential). |
| HubSpot | Yes: Leads sync to HubSpot as a lead or a deal, deduplicated against Upsight's own ledger. Included in every plan. | Partly: HubSpot, Pipedrive and Zapier sync from Professional; a $10 / month add-on on Essential. |
| MCP / API | Yes: MCP server and REST API with workspace API keys, so Claude or a script can read and operate the bidder. | Partly: Vollna API from Professional ($10 / month add-on on Essential). No MCP server listed. |
| Trial | Partly: No self-serve free trial. A free 30-minute pipeline audit on your own numbers before you pay anything. | Yes: 14 days on Essential and Professional, no credit card. Not on the Auto tiers. |
| Minimum term | Yes: None. Monthly, cancel anytime. | Yes: None. Cancel anytime. |
| Setup fee | Yes: None. | Yes: None on Auto; not mentioned for the other plans. |
Where Vollna is better
- Price for one person. Essential at $24 and Professional at $62 a month undercut Upsight's $99 Solopreneurs plan by a wide margin if you do not need the ledger.
- A real free trial: 14 days on Essential and Professional, no card.
- No Upwork login required. Vollna is a workflow layer around Upwork; Upsight's bidder and inbox connect to your account because that is where proposals and messages live.
- Breadth of alert channels and integrations on the cheap tiers: RSS, push, Zapier, Google Sheets, Airtable, ClickUp.
- Scale of community: Vollna states 4,500+ users and tens of thousands of proposals a week.
Where Upsight is better
- Built for the agency, not the profile: a campaign chooses the best member for each job, and the analytics show which member converts.
- Rank tracking for every profile and keyword, including who is above you. Vollna has none.
- A Connects ledger reconciled to the Upwork transaction, so refunded boosts and outbid auctions are accounted for, not estimated.
- HubSpot and the API in every plan, plus an MCP server.
- Proposals written from a knowledge base of your case studies, matched per job, rather than per-proposal cover-letter credits.
Frequently asked
- Is Vollna cheaper than Upsight?
- Yes, for one freelancer. Vollna's alerts-and-filters plans are $24 and $62 a month; Upsight starts at $99. The gap narrows with auto-bidding: Vollna's Auto 250 is $230 a month for 250 proposals, Upsight's Agencies plan is $249 for 250 proposals across five connected accounts with the ledger included.
- Does Vollna have a free trial?
- Yes: 14 days on Essential and Professional with no credit card. Its Auto tiers have no trial. Upsight has no self-serve trial; it offers a free 30-minute pipeline audit on your own numbers.
- Does Vollna track my Upwork search rank?
- No. Vollna's analytics cover reply rate, conversion rate and cost per reply. Upsight records the daily position of each profile for each tracked keyword, including the agencies ranked above you.
- Can Vollna run an agency with several profiles?
- Professional allows 10 team members and shows analytics per profile and account-wide. What it does not do is choose which member bids on a job, show a per-member funnel through to hires, or reconcile Connects per member. That is what Upsight's Agencies plan is for.
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