Who it is for
Founders and managers scoping a project who need freelance candidates or a job post drafted.
Upwork
Describe a project and get matched with freelancers
Overview
What Upwork does
Upwork is a marketplace for freelance work, and this app puts the first step of it inside ChatGPT. A description of the work needed returns matching talent from the platform, or a drafted job post if the requirement is still taking shape.
The examples in the listing are ordinary hiring situations: finding a freelance web developer, writing a post for an AI engineering project, or getting a website built.
Hiring itself happens on Upwork. The conversation covers matching and job post drafting, then the handoff moves to the platform to complete the hire.
What stands out
The conversation stops at matching and drafting, with the hire completed on Upwork.
Availability
Where Upwork is listed
Upwork ships this on both marketplaces: Upwork is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- Upwork
- Filed under
- Business & Operations
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- upwork.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- I'm looking for a freelance web developer
- Help me create a job post to build a landing page?
- I need someone skilled in AI engineering
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Upwork publishes 3 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 11.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one sits 9 tools below its bucket's median, 379th of 462.
It falls in the 1-3 tools band, which holds 16.4% of the Claude directory.
Measured against the live endpoint
A direct call to the endpoint returned 4 tools, 1 more than the 3 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07.
Tools the server actually returns
upwork_search_freelancersupwork_display_freelancer_profileupwork_prepare_job_postupwork_update_job_post_draft
Upwork publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Upwork
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Productivity
- Endpoint
-
https://edge.upwork.com/api/v4/upw-mcp-app/v3/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 3 · 1-3 tools band
- Depth rank in Productivity
- 379 of 462
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Upwork carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Upwork describes it
Upwork makes it easy to turn a simple conversation into real work, right from Claude. Describe what you need and instantly get matched with expert talent from Upwork or generate a job post in seconds. Then, move seamlessly to Upwork to hire quickly and get started.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Upwork's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Upwork, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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