Top 10 Upwork Agencies to Consider for Your Next Project

Upwork connects clients with more than 18 million freelancers across 180 countries, while a significant share of its software development work is handled by agencies rather than individual freelancers. This guide compares ten teams listed in Upwork’s own software development directory and looks at what their profile data can — and cannot — tell you.

We pulled every figure below directly from Upwork on September 16, 2026. Profile statistics change continuously, so treat this as a shortlist to verify, not a verdict to trust. Lumitech appears in it and publishes it.

What Is an Upwork Agency, and When Does It Beat a Freelancer?

An Upwork agency is a company that runs one shared profile, adds individual freelancer accounts as members, and bills client contracts through that profile. Reviews, earnings, and Job Success Score accumulate at the organization level, so the track record you are reading belongs to the company, not to the engineer assigned to your project.

The difference is in the level of coverage. A freelancer brings one person and one skill set. An agency brings a team, so if the backend developer becomes unavailable, someone else can step in. The same contract can also cover project management, QA, design, and DevOps.

You pay for that flexibility through agency overhead and less control over the people assigned to the work. For a short WordPress fix, the premium may be difficult to justify. For a six-month platform build with integrations and compliance requirements, the cost can make more sense when you factor in the internal time needed to manage multiple specialists yourself. See our MVP development cost breakdown for a closer look at the numbers.

Before you shortlist a single Upwork agency, write down the thing that has to work and the date it has to work by. The best Upwork agency for a Shopify theme is almost never the best Upwork agency for a regulated fintech backend.

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How Upwork’s Badges Work

Badges are Upwork’s main built-in quality signal, based on published eligibility criteria. Since eligibility is recalculated every two weeks, a badge reflects recent performance rather than a freelancer’s entire track record.

How the Platform Identifies Top-Rated Agencies on Upwork

Two details matter before you filter. Job Success Score blends public star ratings with private post-contract feedback, so a profile showing straight five-star reviews can still sit below 90%. And the Expert-Vetted badge is invisible on a Basic client account — the tier Upwork markets hardest is the one most buyers never see.

Badges provide little insight into domain expertise. Many top-rated Upwork agencies have built their reputation around WordPress or Shopify projects, which may have limited relevance if you need a data pipeline. Look beyond the badge for three signals from the top Upwork agencies: current eligibility, relevant domain experience, and project minimums that fit their stated rates.

How This List Was Built

There is no official ranking of the best agencies on Upwork, and Upwork does not publish one. What it does publish is a browsable directory per service category. Our shortlist comes from Upwork’s Software Development category: the teams appearing at the front of that listing, recorded against the structured fields Upwork publishes — rating, completed jobs, location, badge, hourly range, minimum project size, team size and member-since date. Every agency here carries a current Upwork badge, so you can verify each entry from the same listing.

The numbering is a reference label, not a ranking. These teams solve genuinely different problems — a Shopify specialist and a fintech platform engineer are not comparable on a single axis. Nothing here is paid placement.

Disclosure: Lumitech is one of the ten and publishes this guide. Every figure in our own entry comes from the same public Upwork fields used for everyone else.

Two limitations are worth naming. Directory order rewards volume and longevity, so a team with 5,000 completed jobs has done a great deal of small, fast work — a different business from one with 200 jobs and a $10,000 minimum. And the top agencies on Upwork inside the software development directory overlap surprisingly little with the artificial intelligence or data analytics listings. Treat the top 10 agencies on Upwork in any category as a sampling frame, not a leaderboard.

The Top 10 Upwork Agencies in the Software Development Directory

Upwork shows a star rating on most agency profiles and a Job Success Score on others, depending on how the profile is configured; the Lumitech row reports the Job Success Score because that is what its profile displays.

1. Flexsin Inc.

Location: Noida, India · on Upwork since 2007;

Services: Enterprise applications, custom web and mobile development, ERP and CRM implementation, BI and analytics, generative AI and ML, UI/UX;

Rates: $15–$50 per hour · $5,000 minimum project · 500+ specialists;

Tech and platforms: .NET Core and ASP.NET, PHP, Python/Django, MEAN and MERN, Flutter and React Native, Salesforce, SAP, Odoo, Dynamics 365, Magento and Shopify, microservices and serverless architectures;

Upwork record: 4.7 rating across 5,446 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: Enterprise application portfolios and ERP or CRM rollouts requiring a single vendor across multiple technology stacks;

Worth knowing: Lists technology alliances with Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, AWS, and Google. The contract volume is exceptional, but the $15–$50 spread means your quote depends entirely on staffing — ask which seniority band your team sits in.

2. Raysoft Infotech

Location: Chennai, India · on Upwork since 2002;

Services: Administrative support, BPO and call center, customer service, robotic process automation, digital marketing, development;

Rates: $5–$20 per hour · no minimum project · 51–200 workers;

Tech and platforms: RPA, Google Ads, standard web and CMS stacks, back-office and contact-center systems;

Upwork record: 4.8 rating across 4,271 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus

Best for: Operational and back-office workloads where minimizing hourly costs matters most;

Worth knowing: The lowest-cost entry point and the platform’s longest-standing account, focusing on ongoing operations and process support.

3. Lumitech

Location: Dubai, UAE · on Upwork since December 2021;

Services: AI and machine learning, AI apps and integration, web and mobile development, product design, e-commerce, QA testing;

Rates: $20–$65 per hour · no minimum project · 51–200 workers;

Tech and platforms: React, React Native, Node.js, Python, GenAI/LLM, RAG, MCP, DevOps, cloud, and native iOS;

Upwork record: 100% Job Success Score across 181 jobs · $2M+ earned · 69,674 tracked hours · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: AI-enabled product builds and prototype-to-production work in data-heavy or regulated domains like fintech. You can read how Lumitech validated a complex fintech platform as an example of our work and expertise;

Worth knowing: Lumitech publishes this guide, so read this entry more skeptically than the rest — every figure is checkable on the Lumitech agency profile. This is the smallest account in the set by contract count because the business is built around fewer, longer engagements in fintech, health, and decision intelligence. For a fast one-off task, several teams below are a better fit.

4. Maxobiz

Location: Lahore, Pakistan · on Upwork since 2010;

Services: Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce and BigCommerce e-commerce; headless and multi-vendor platforms; AI and business automation; custom SaaS and MVPs;

Rates: $15–$25 per hour · no minimum project · 11–50 workers;

Tech and platforms: Shopify, Magento and Adobe Commerce, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Webflow, Wix and Squarespace, along with custom checkout, subscription and payment integrations;

Upwork record: 4.9 rating across 4,265 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: Store builds, replatforming and e-commerce operations automation;

Worth knowing: The highest rating in the high-volume group. With 4,265 completed contracts and an 11–50 person team, ask upfront who will handle your project and how they’ll allocate the work.

5. Deligence Technologies

Location: Toronto, Canada · on Upwork since 2014;

Services: AI agent and chatbot development, business process and CRM automation, API and data integration, document processing and web scraping, custom web applications and internal portals;

Rates: $24–$42 per hour · $5,000 minimum project · 11–50 workers;

Tech and platforms: OpenAI and Claude APIs, LangChain and RAG pipelines, OCR and structured data extraction, n8n, Make.com, Zapier, HubSpot and Airtable alongside custom builds;

Upwork record: 5.0 rating across 276 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: Companies whose data already sits across a CRM, an inbox and a pile of spreadsheets, and who need it connected rather than rebuilt;

Worth knowing: The narrowest rate band here and a $5,000 floor point to scoped automation projects rather than open-ended staffing. The profile is also unusually willing to recommend off-the-shelf tools where they fit instead of defaulting to custom code, which is a fair proxy for how a first scoping call will go.

6. MobiDev

Location: Lodz, Poland · on Upwork since 2009;

Services: Technology consulting, software and UX audits, AI and AR consulting, dedicated development teams, web and mobile engineering, and QA;

Rates: $39–$60 per hour · $10,000 minimum project · 201–500 workers; 

Tech and platforms: iOS and Android, cross-platform apps, ML and data science, IoT, AR, and web development;

Upwork record: 5.0 rating across 1,770 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: long-term engineering partnerships that start with an initial audit;

Worth knowing: US- and UK-incorporated, with R&D centers in Poland and Ukraine. With a $10,000 minimum and the narrowest rate band in the set, the team appears geared toward longer engagements rather than short-term task work.

7. Digital4design

Location: Mohali, India · on Upwork since 2015;

Services: Web, native/hybrid mobile, e-commerce, UI/UX, QA, AI chatbots, and digital marketing;

Rates: $8–$40 per hour · no minimum project · 11–50 workers, with 80+ specialists cited on the profile;

Tech and platforms: React, Angular, Vue and Next.js, Laravel, Node.js, Django, MySQL, MongoDB and Firebase, WordPress, Shopify and Magento, AWS, Azure and Docker;

Upwork record: 4.9 rating across 1,527 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: Mid-size web and mobile builds requiring QA and marketing support from the same provider;

Worth knowing: The $8–$40 range is the widest here, a five-fold spread. The low end and the high end are unlikely to describe the same people, and a proposal will not tell you which you are getting unless you ask.

8. Web Design Sun

Location: Barcelona, Spain · on Upwork since 2013;

Services: Full-stack web applications and SaaS, AI and automation workflows, UI/UX design, Flutter mobile, CMS and e-commerce;

Rates: $25–$45 per hour · $5,000 minimum project · 51–200 workers;

Tech and platforms: React, Next.js and Vue, Python and Node.js, Flutter, WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify, AWS-based scalable architectures;

Upwork record: 4.9 rating across 1,363 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: MVPs and SaaS platforms where you want to pick the commercial model rather than accept a default one;

Worth knowing: One of the few profiles that names its commercial models explicitly — project outsourcing, dedicated team, or outstaffing. That clarity is rarer than it should be and makes scoping conversations noticeably faster.

9. Codemotion

Location: Newark, United States · on Upwork since 2016;

Services: AI-assisted software delivery, web and mobile builds in React, React Native, Node.js, Python and Flutter, serverless and Kubernetes infrastructure;

Rates: $25–$60 per hour · $1,000 minimum project · 51–200 workers;

Tech and platforms: React, React Native, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, Vue.js, Flutter, serverless, and Kubernetes, backed by CI and security checks;

Upwork record: 4.8 rating across 1,319 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: Teams that have started using AI-assisted development on an ad hoc basis and now need the controls and documentation to make the process auditable;

Worth knowing: The only US-registered agency in the group, and the one that provides the most detail on its delivery process: written specifications, automated CI and security checks, and senior review before release. A clearly documented process makes an agency easier to evaluate.

10. Suffescom Solutions

Location: Mohali, India · on Upwork since 2013;

Services: Web/mobile development, AI integration, blockchain and NFT, AR/VR, game design, digital marketing;

Rates: $8–$50 per hour · $1,000 minimum project · 51–200 workers;

Tech and platforms: MEAN, MERN and LAMP stacks, Node.js and React, native iOS and Android, Shopify, WordPress and BigCommerce, Ethereum and smart contracts, AR/VR;

Upwork record: 4.8 rating across 1,085 completed jobs · Top Rated Plus;

Best for: Multi-channel launches that span a web app, a mobile app and an emerging-tech component at once;

Worth knowing: Breadth this wide helps a multi-channel launch and hurts deep specialist work. Ask for portfolio evidence in your exact category before assuming the blockchain practice is as mature as the web one.

What Agency Profile Numbers Don’t Tell You?

A rating averages the contracts an agency finished. It says nothing about the ones it walked away from, the disputes settled before feedback, or the small jobs inflating the denominator. At 5,000 completed jobs, a handful of bad outcomes is statistically invisible — which is why many top-rated Upwork agencies show near-perfect scores that are accurate and uninformative.

The most useful field on any of these profiles is the minimum project size, not the headline score. A $10,000 floor signals a team built for longer engagements; no minimum signals a team built for volume and turnover. Neither is better — but one of them matches your project and one does not. Two further gaps are worth closing manually.

Who is actually assigned? The agency earned its score with its whole roster. Your project gets two or three people from it. Ask for named CVs and the percentage of their week your contract will own.

What are the reviews for? Filter public feedback for projects resembling yours in size, duration, and domain. Forty reviews for logo work and three for backend development is a very different profile from what the headline number suggests.

Is the work subcontracted? An 11-person agency clearing 4,000 contracts is coordinating a network, not staffing from a bench. Several of the top agencies on Upwork operate exactly this way, and the model can work well — but you should know about it before you sign, not after the second missed handover.

Verify before you sign. Talk to the engineers who built our reference projects — before any contract, not after.

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What Upwork Agencies Cost Beyond the Hourly Rate

Upwork’s published hourly ranges don’t cover the full invoice. Clients on the Basic plan pay a 5% marketplace fee on every payment to a freelancer or agency, dropping to 3% for eligible US clients paying from a checking account. Business Plus clients pay 10%, or 8% with the same discount. On top of that is a one-time contract initiation fee of $0.99 to $14.99 per new contract, charged on the first invoice for hourly work and on the first milestone funding for fixed-price work. Business Plus waives it except on fixed-price contracts of $100 or less.

Agencies also absorb a variable service fee of 0% to 15% per contract, disclosed when they submit a proposal and locked for the life of that contract. They price it in. A quoted $45 an hour from a team carrying a 12% platform fee is not the same commercial position as $45 from a team carrying 5%, and it’s fair to ask about it directly.

One practical downside is that multiple smaller contracts can end up costing more than a single larger agreement because initiation fees are charged repeatedly. If you have several workstreams running in parallel, bringing them together under one contract can help reduce the overall cost.

A Five-Step Check Before You Sign

Choosing between top-rated Upwork agencies on price alone can result in projects having to be restarted. Evaluate them using these five checks instead.

1. Write the acceptance criteria first. Put the required deliverables, measurable requirements, and definition of done on one page and send it unchanged to every agency. A 5x price gap for the same brief is often a sign that different vendors interpreted the scope differently.

2. Buy a paid discovery before a build. Most top Upwork agencies will scope a short discovery engagement for a fixed fee. It costs a fraction of a build and tells you how the team thinks under real constraints. Our discovery phase services page explains what the output should include — architecture, prioritized backlog, risk register, defensible estimate. The best Upwork agencies hand over those artifacts whether or not you continue with them.

3. Interview the assigned engineer, not the account manager. Ask them to walk you through a technical trade-off from a previous project and explain what they would change today. The person selling the project isn't necessarily the person delivering it.

4. Request two references in your domain. Not testimonials — a live conversation with someone who shipped a comparable system. Published software development case studies help with pattern-matching, but a fifteen-minute call surfaces more.

5. Structure milestones so you can leave. Tie each milestone to clear deliverables, keep the code in your repository, and retain control of all accounts and credentials. The project should remain stable even if you switch providers between milestones.

Keep your Upwork agency list short — four or five names is enough to run a real comparison, and more than that turns evaluation into administration. Build that Upwork agencies list from at least two directory categories, because the software development listing and the artificial intelligence listing surface almost entirely different teams.

When Upwork is the Wrong Channel

Upwork is a good fit for well-defined work such as an MVP, module, migration, or team extension. It is less suitable for regulated procurement with formal entity and DPA requirements, highly proprietary IP requiring custom contracts, or multi-year programs that don’t fit milestone-based escrow billing.

None of that makes the marketplace unsuitable. It makes it a sourcing channel with a shape — and asking which is the best agency on Upwork matters less than asking whether Upwork is the right place for your engagement at all. The best agencies on Upwork will tell you when a project isn’t a fit, and that willingness is worth more than a five-star average. The best agency on Upwork for your project is the one that has shipped your specific problem before.