Account safety & responsible automation
Why we don't use the Freelancer.com API
FreelancerAutoBid is a freelancer auto bidder built around one decision: never call the Freelancer.com API and never store your Freelancer.com password. This page explains why that matters for your account safety — and exactly what we do and don't see.
Freelancer.com's API rules
Freelancer.com publishes a developer API for legitimate platform integrations — but their API terms specifically restrict using it for automated bidding on a freelancer's behalf. (See the public Freelancer.com developer documentation for the current version of those terms.) A tool that bids by calling that API is operating against the platform's stated rules.
How most cloud-hosted auto bidders work
Many auto-bidding tools are hosted web apps. To bid on your behalf, they typically use one of two architectures:
- API-based bidding: they authenticate as you against Freelancer.com's API. This usually requires storing your API token or login credentials on their servers.
- Headless browser bidding: they run a headless browser session on their servers using your stored credentials.
Either way, your Freelancer.com login lives on a third-party server. If that server is breached, your account is exposed. And if the bidding flows through Freelancer.com's API in a way their terms restrict, your account can be flagged or suspended.
How FreelancerAutoBid works
FreelancerAutoBid is a Chromium browser extension paired with a hosted dashboard. The architecture splits cleanly:
- Our cloud: AI proposal generation, scheduling, settings, prompt templates, analytics.
- Your browser: project monitoring, bid form filling, clarification-board posting, and NDA/IP signing — all using the Freelancer.com session you've already logged into yourself.
When the extension submits a bid, it interacts with Freelancer.com the same way you would manually: reading the project page, filling the bid form, clicking submit. No API calls. No headless server session. No stored credentials.
What we don't see, store, or transmit
Your Freelancer.com password
We never request, receive, transmit, or store it. You enter it directly into Freelancer.com in your own browser.
Your Freelancer.com API token
We don't generate, request, or use one. Our system has no Freelancer.com developer credentials at all.
Your Freelancer.com session cookie
Stays in your browser. The extension reuses the session locally; it does not transmit cookies to our servers.
What we do see
Project metadata for AI screening, the AI proposal text we draft for you, and bid history for your dashboard analytics.
Safe defaults you control
A safer architecture is necessary but not sufficient. Responsible automation also requires sensible pacing and quality filters. FreelancerAutoBid ships with conservative defaults you can tighten:
- Daily bid cap and maximum bids per project.
- Bid delay and active-hours window so bidding looks human-paced.
- Maximum project age so you don't bid on stale listings.
- Listing-type filters (featured, sealed, NDA, urgent, recruiter, premium, enterprise, etc.) plus hourly and fixed-price budget ranges.
- Skill, keyword, and country filters.
- Client-quality gates — require identity-verified, payment-verified, deposit-made, or freelancer-verified clients, with minimum overall and per-category ratings.
- Unique AI proposals on every bid, generated from the project brief.
Real customer story
Bright Pixel Studio: $4K → $10K monthly in 2 months
Sarah Miller's Toronto web agency grew Freelancer.com monthly revenue 2.5× using these safe defaults — without sharing credentials or calling the API. Read the full case study.
Your responsibility
FreelancerAutoBid is designed to be lower-risk than tools that call Freelancer.com's API or store your credentials, but it doesn't eliminate risk. Compliance with Freelancer.com's Terms of Service and the rules of the projects you bid on is ultimately your responsibility. Use conservative bid caps, review AI-generated proposals on important projects, avoid bidding on work you can't deliver, and read Freelancer.com's policies periodically — they change.