Grammarly
From $12/monthPro, $144 billed yearly; $30 monthly; free plan available
- Strength: Checks English grammar and tone; the free plan is already useful.
- Trade-off: Pro is $30 monthly, or $12/month billed yearly.
Job guide
Copywriting & SEO content
What buyers wantWebsites, stores and brands want articles, product copy, sales pages and emails in volume, usually written to rank in search or bring in leads.
Four numbersLast 7 days · updated hourly · last update 10-04 11:04 (Beijing time)
- Job posts, last 7 days
- 274posts
- Overseas 223 · China 51
- Median budget
- $750
- USD fixed-price · 70 posts, last 4 weeks
- Median bids
- 41bids
- Per post · 227 posts with bid counts
- How much AI can do
- AI can do it, demand is shrinking
- First take, rechecked Oct 15
Where AI fits: AI writes drafts fast and many buyers now write with AI themselves. Copy with real detail, sources and the client's own voice is worth more.
Market
Market for this job
9 sub-categories combined; a post that fits several counts once
Trend
Job posts per week (weeks start Monday, Beijing time), both markets
| Week | Total | Overseas | China | Days with data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| week of 2026-09-21 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| week of 2026-09-28 | 274 | 223 | 51 | 7 |
- Last full week
- 274posts · 09-28 to 10-04
Job posts per week, Monday to Sunday (Beijing time), both markets. Lighter bars are partial weeks (this week so far, or weeks with days missing). Hover a bar for the split by market.
Sub-categories
By job posts in the last 7 days. Category pages are in Chinese for now.
Budgets
median $750
median ¥1,000
- Hourly (USD)
- $25/hourmedian · 35 posts
- Other currencies (not converted)
- 125 postsINR 93 · EUR 10 · GBP 10 · AUD 7
- Listing prices (Etsy / eBay services)
- $68median · 65 listings, last 30 days
Budgets are what the posts state: USD uses the upper end of fixed-price budgets (Freelancer uses brackets, so percentiles often land on $30, $250 or $750); CNY uses the stated budget. Neither is the final deal price. Last 4 weeks of posts; fewer than 3 posts means no percentiles; other currencies are counted, not converted.
China vs overseas
| Metric | Overseas81% of last 7 days | China19% of last 7 days |
|---|---|---|
| Job posts, last 7 days | 223 posts | 51 posts |
| Job posts, since 09-27 | 233 posts | 51 posts |
| Median budget | $750USD · 70 posts | ¥1,000CNY · 27 posts |
| Median bids per post | 41227 posts with bid counts | n/aonly Freelancer shows bid counts |
| New listings, last 7 days | 21 postsSince 09-27: 22 | 0 postsSince 09-27: 0 |
| Median listing price | $6865 Etsy / eBay service listings | n/anone in 30 days |
| Posts that mention AI | positive 8% · negative 0%252 posts, last 4 weeks | positive 2% · negative 0%51 posts, last 4 weeks |
Positive = the buyer wants AI output, names an AI tool or accepts AI; negative = says no AI (posts that say both count as negative). Job posts only. Listings = service listings first seen that day (Etsy / eBay service listings only); freelancers who sell privately don't show up here.
Tools
Tools you need
Three levels: get the essentials first, add the next level as work grows, use the optional ones when a client asks
Essentials
Enough to start taking work
Surfer
From $49/monthDiscovery, billed yearly; monthly price not verified; trial only
- Strength: Compares your article with the top search results and shows what it's missing.
- Trade-off: Trial only; Discovery is $49/month billed yearly.
Level up
Add when you have more work
Semrush
From $117.33/monthSEO plan, billed yearly; $139 monthly; free accounts get 10 reports a day
- Strength: Find keywords and see which terms competitors rank for.
- Trade-off: The SEO plan starts at $117.33/month billed yearly — not cheap.
Frase
From $39/monthStarter, billed yearly; $49 monthly; 7-day trial only
- Strength: Generates SEO article outlines and optimizes them against search results.
- Trade-off: Only a 7-day trial.
beehiiv
Freeup to 2,500 subscribers; Scale $43/month billed yearly
- Strength: Run a weekly email newsletter, free up to 2,500 subscribers.
- Trade-off: The next plan up is $43/month billed yearly.
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Freeup to 10,000 subscribers; Creator $33/month billed yearly
- Strength: Email newsletters and automated emails, widely used by creators.
- Trade-off: The free plan has no automations or email sequences.
Optional
Use when a client asks
Writesonic
From $79/monthStarter, billed yearly; $99 monthly; no free-forever plan
- Strength: A writing tool aimed at AI search and SEO.
- Trade-off: No free-forever plan; from $79/month.
Rytr
From $7.50/monthUnlimited; probably the yearly price shown per month; free plan available
- Strength: Cheap, and enough for short copy.
- Trade-off: The $7.50/month shown is probably the yearly price per month.
Prices and partner terms come from each vendor's official pricing pages (check dates on each card) and change over time. Prices may vary by region, and tax may be added at checkout; the official page is always the final word. “Price not verified” means we haven't checked the pricing page yet. Links go through our redirect page: “Affiliate” means we may earn a commission; “Has an affiliate program” means we don't have a link yet.
Where to find work
Where to find this work
Posts for this job we collected in the last 28 days: Freelancer 227, Zhubajie (猪八戒网) 49, Reddit 11, Himalayas 10, Zhihu (知乎) 4, X 3. We only count platforms we collect from; a missing platform doesn't mean there is no demand there.
| Name | What it is | Fees | Best for | Go |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upwork | One of the largest general freelance marketplaces — send proposals for fixed-price or hourly work | 0%–15%varies by contract, shown when you send a proposal | Good English · longer projects | Go → |
| Fiverr | Package your service as fixed-price gigs; buyers order directly | 20%sellers keep 80%; withdraw 14 days after completion | Can package a service | Go → |
| Freelancer | Bid on projects with public budget ranges; many of the job posts we track come from here; 227 of these posts here in the last 28 days | 10% or $5, whichever is higherhourly projects 10% per payment | Good for first jobs | Go → |
Platform fees, payouts and getting your first order: see Platforms (in Chinese)
Get started
Get started
Four general steps: pick tools → make samples → list a service or bid → let AI draft, check by hand
Pick your tools
One writing checker plus one keyword or content optimization tool. If you take newsletter work, add an email platform.
Write 2–3 samples
Write a few samples in an industry you know. Include the target keywords, the sources you cite and how each piece looks once published.
List a service or bid
Price by number of pieces and word count. State who picks the topics, how many revisions you allow and whether images are included. Don't promise search rankings.
Let AI draft, check by hand
AI writes the first draft. You add details and sources only you know, check every number and read it through to cut the filler. If a client asks for no AI, respect that.
Updated 2026-10-04 11:04 (Beijing time) · data up to 10:48 · demand numbers aggregate public job posts, not completed deals; tool prices and partner terms follow the official pages.