RentACoder (vWorker) vs Guru

If you’ve heard about outsourcing through Guru, but aren’t sure if it’s the best choice, take a look at this.

Here, we compare Guru to RentACoder (now vWorker) on some some of the most important points to the online outsourcer, so you can see how both Guru and vWorker stack up against not only each other, but against what you need as an outsourcer as well.

Fees

There are no charges to post a project, select a worker, or make a transaction at Guru or vWorker. vWorker simply appends 15% to each project final bid to cover costs.

Bid Limits

Guru attaches hefty fees onto its workers who want to make more than 10 bids at a time. That could not only limit qualified prospects, it could increase the cost of projects since workers are prone to pass these fees onto you. The majority of sites, like vWorker, do not charge subscription fees.

Ratings

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Guru doesn’t offer a blind rating system, which could allow poor-performing workers to intimidate buyers into giving them better ratings than they deserve. As a result, buyers realize the only way to preserve their own ratings is to rate everyone highly, which compromises the accuracy and usefulness of the ratings system. Further, for a fee, Guru workers can block honest reviews from their profiles if they don’t like them. At vWorker, you’ll find a blind rating system which prevents such fear-based or manipulative ratings. You’ll also find a block-free rating system as well.

Per Hour Monitoring

Guru’s time clock mechanism is limited in that it doesn’t allow you to verify the time worked on a project with an application that records a worker’s desktop and webcam (like vWorker’s time clock mechanism).

Money Back Guarantee

Guru does not offer a money back guarantee for its pay-per-hour projects like vWorker does. In addition, Guru doesn’t refund you if your worker misses a required status report the way that vWorker does.

Source Code Protection

Guru doesn’t offer source-code protection, but vWorker allows you to require all workers who bid on your project to be Chaperon enabled. Chaperon makes it virtually impossible for a worker to copy or pirate your source code by protecting it from creation and transport to storage and retrieval. See the vWorker website for more information regarding Chaperon.

Arbitration

At Guru, a worker can stall the start of arbitration and tie up a project’s funds for 20 days. The 20 day delay is the result of a self-mediation forced onto Guru members, desired or not. Guru will also refuse a refund should one of its workers miss a deadline. At vWorker, workers can’t stall anything – not even a deadline. 45% of vWorker’s arbitrations are completed under a day and 75% of them are completed under a week. You can even read how vWorker’s arbitrators make their decisions on the vWorker website.

Support

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Unlike Guru, vWorker offers a requirements wizard and a project posting wizard to help you build a project that’s easy for workers to understand. And it’s the only service that offers one like it!

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