Comparison: Unjumble vs Agencies
How we stack up with Agencies
A traditional agency bundles a team, a process and a monthly retainer. Unjumble lets you pick a local freelancer per gig, pay by stage, and skip the lock-in.
Free to postStripe-secured payments500+local Aussie freelancersABN required
What matters
Agencies
What is it?
Full-service marketing agency
Local freelancer marketplace for marketing gigs
Built for
Bigger budgets and ongoing programs
Australian SMBs, one gig at a time
Free to post a gig
No
Yes
Pay by stage, not all upfront
No
Yes
Bids back in hours
No
Yes
Pick the exact freelancer you want
No
Yes
Funds held till the work's signed off
No
Yes
Knows the Aussie market
Yes
Yes
AI supports freelancers, doesn't replace them
Partial
Yes
Locks you into a retainer
Yes
No
Discovery calls before any work starts
Yes
No
Agency markup on top
Yes
No
Need a local freelancer that knows the market? Unjumble it.
Post a gigUnjumble vs Agencies, questions
Usually for a defined piece of work, yes, because you are paying for the person doing it rather than the agency layer around them. An agency retainer bundles account management, overhead and a team you may not need all of. On Unjumble you see the freelancer's quote for your gig and pay that, split into stages.
When you need several disciplines running together, week after week, and you want someone else co-ordinating them. Large always-on campaigns, big media budgets and multi-channel programs are genuinely easier under one roof. Unjumble is strongest on defined gigs, and plenty of businesses run both.
No. There is no lock-in and no minimum term. You post a gig, agree a payment schedule of stages, and that is the commitment. If you want ongoing work, a Retainer gig is paid monthly with stages tied to dates, and you are not signing away six months to get it.
You do, and the app is built so that is not a burden. Every gig has one thread with the chat, the files, the brief and the stage approvals attached to it, so there is nothing to chase across email. You are talking to the person doing the work rather than through someone relaying it.
Often the same people. A lot of experienced marketers who have worked agency-side now freelance, and they are on Unjumble with portfolios, reviews from past gigs and an ABN. You are picking the individual directly instead of being assigned whoever the agency has free.
