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The Freelancer API

Developer Tools — Access a workforce of skilled freelancers from your apps
Developer ToolsPartly defensible · data moat (moderate)est. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
21
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
21 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 21 probesavg response 2451 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
xing.com
edge
direct origin
server
CloudFront
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Freelancer API's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.xing.com/) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Ribbon BIN APIdev-toolssimilar100%41.80.0● live
FaTPay On-Ramp Servicefinancetag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Forex APIdev-toolssimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
Dwolla.jsdev-toolssimilar100%47.20.0● live
Traitydev-toolssimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
The Groundworkdev-toolssimilar100%30.4-9.6● live
hipstapas.devdev-toolssimilar100%40.00.0● live
Fuzzy.aidev-toolssimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:24Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2472redirected_offsite
2026-08-14 12:22Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront3623redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:04Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2974redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:08Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2227redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 20:21Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront1699redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:01Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2629redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 13:46Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2423redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:34Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2481redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 15:40Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2873redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:19Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront3416redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 10:33Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront1255redirected_offsite
2026-06-22 13:02Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront1962redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 00:38Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront1946redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 00:28Z200hallofreelancer.com → xing.comCloudFront2336redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Freelancer API · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-freelancer-api · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.