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Upwork job alerts: how they work and a free alternative

Upwork's instant job alerts come with Freelancer Plus at $19.99 a month, and they're picked from jobs you've already applied to. The free Basic plan has no job alerts. flconsole is a free alternative: set your search and client filters once, and new matching jobs reach your Telegram within a minute of posting — or your AI agent over MCP. Spend Connects on clients who actually hire.

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ElevenLabs voice agent for a GoHighLevel agency (inbound calls + booking)

Client

⭐️ 4.8 of 5, 23 reviews

United States, Dallas

Spent $41.6K · Hire rate 71% · Avg $45/hr

Member since 9 Feb 2021

Job

$45-70/hr · Expert · 1 to 3 months

Skills

ElevenLabs, GoHighLevel, Vapi, Conversational AI, API Integration

Description

We run a GoHighLevel agency for home-service businesses and need an ElevenLabs voice agent that answers inbound calls, qualifies leads and books appointments straight into GHL calendars. You will set up the agent, connect it to our GHL sub-accounts through webhooks and custom fields, and hand over a short Loom on how to clone it for new clients. Experience with Vapi or Retell is a plus. Long-term work if the first rollout goes well.

Feed: voice ai #voice_ai

How Upwork's own job alerts work

On the free Basic plan you get no job alerts. Freelancer Plus adds instant alerts by email or in the Upwork app, based on jobs you've sent proposals to.

Free Basic plan

  • No instant job alerts.
  • Saved searches: your filters, saved to your job feed. You open them yourself.
  • Job digest email — only for Rising Talent and Top Rated freelancers. It may not come every day or even every week.

Freelancer Plus$19.99 a month

  • Instant alerts by email, in the Upwork app, or both.
  • Picked from jobs you've sent proposals to as an individual, not through an agency.
  • You need at least one proposal on an active job to get them.
  • You can limit them to hourly or fixed-price jobs and set the lowest rate.
  • Also includes 100 Connects a month and other features.

From Upwork Help and Upwork's pricing page, checked .

What you can't set in Upwork's alerts

  • Your own search. Alerts follow your past proposals, not keywords you choose.
  • Client filters: money spent, hire rate, payment verified or country.
  • Delivery anywhere but email and the Upwork app.
  • every email just says 'New job alert.' You have to open it to see what the role actually is source
  • If you stop applying to jobs, the job alerts thin out. source

Upwork job alerts not working? What to check

Most often the plan isn't active, there's no recent proposal to match, or your phone or inbox is filtering the alerts. All of it is fixable in a few minutes.

Where to change it: Bell icon → Job alerts → Alert preferences

No alerts at all
Instant alerts need an active Freelancer Plus plan and at least one proposal on an active job, sent as an individual. Proposals sent through an agency don't count.
Alerts stopped
Check your spam and promotions folders, and that Freelancer Plus is still active under Membership plan.
Email works, phone doesn't
Allow notifications for the Upwork app in your phone settings. Some battery savers and task-cleaner apps block them even when they're on.
Alerts arrive late
Upwork recommends its mobile app as the fastest channel. For a site-wide problem, check status.upwork.com.
Alerts don't match your skills
They follow the jobs you've applied to. Proposals outside your field shift what you get.
The job is gone when you open it
Usually the client removed it, or Upwork did for breaking its Terms of Service.

With flconsole you pick your own search, filter by client and get new jobs in Telegram — for free.

How to stop Upwork job alerts

Turn off instant alerts in Alert preferences. The job digest has its own checkbox in Notification settings.

Instant job alerts (Freelancer Plus)

  1. Select the bell icon to open Notifications.
  2. Open Job alerts, then Alert preferences.
  3. Under "Send me instant job alerts by…", uncheck Email and Mobile app notifications.
  4. Select Save.

Job digest email

  1. Open Notification settings, then Email updates.
  2. Uncheck Project recommendations for our Top Talent.

Upwork notes that some account emails can't be turned off. In flconsole, send /stop to pause all alerts — your feeds stay.

Free Upwork job alerts in Telegram, set up in 5 minutes

You choose the search, the job and client filters and what to skip. flconsole sends each new matching job to Telegram within a minute of posting. It doesn't depend on what you've applied to.

Tap Get job alerts in Telegram — no sign-up, no Upwork login. Then three messages:

  1. Step 1: Search

    Type it as you would on Upwork, or paste the link of an Upwork search page.

  2. Step 2: Filters

    Describe the jobs and clients you want in plain words: rate or budget, money spent, hire rate, payment verified, country.

  3. Step 3: AI filter

    Optional: say what to skip. It reads each job that passed your filters and drops the ones that clearly break your rules.

flconsolebot

Step 1: Search

elevenlabs OR vapi OR retell

Step 2 of 3 · Filters — tell me which jobs and clients you want.

Step 2: Filters

ok so hourly, at least 40 bucks an hour, or fixed if it's 500 plus. clients in the US or Europe, payment verified, and they should've spent like 10k already

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Got it! Here's your feed so far:

Search
elevenlabs OR vapi OR retell
Job
Hourly from $40/hr, or fixed $500+
Location
United States, Europe
Client
Payment verified, spent $10K+

Step 3 of 3 · AI filter — what should I skip? (optional)

Step 3: AI filter

Only AI voice, TTS/STT, AI audio or AI video. Voice agents, voice cloning, dubbing are in. Skip generic automation, plain telephony, manual editing and human voice-over.

✅ Your feed "voice ai" is live. Matching jobs will arrive here within a minute of posting.

Add client filters — hire rate, money spent, payment verified — and spend Connects on clients who actually hire.

All filters

Try it on live Upwork jobs

Three quick answers, the same as in the Telegram bot: a search, filters in plain words, what to skip. Then see the latest matching jobs and watch new ones arrive here. No sign-up, no Upwork login.

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Upwork alerts, Freelancer Plus and flconsole

flconsole is free and lets you set the search and client filters yourself. On Upwork, the free Basic plan has no instant alerts, and Freelancer Plus costs $19.99 a month.

flconsole, Freelancer Plus, Upwork Basic and paid job alert tools compared
flconsoleFreelancer PlusUpwork BasicPaid tools
Price$0, forever$19.99 a monthFree$15–49 a month
Job alertsTelegram, within a minute of postingInstant, by email or in the Upwork appNone. Job digest email for Rising Talent and Top Rated onlyDepends on the tool and plan
Which jobs you getYour search and filtersBased on jobs you've applied toDigest: based on your searches and proposals in the last 3 monthsEach tool's own
Job filtersHourly or fixed, rate, budget, level, length and moreHourly or fixed, lowest rate—Each tool's own
Client filtersMoney spent, hire rate, payment verified, rating, country and moreNone—Each tool's own
AI filteringIncluded, no API keysNone—Included or by credits
Needs recent proposalsNoYes, at least one on an active jobDigest: recent searches or proposalsEach tool's own

flconsole

Price
$0, forever
Job alerts
Telegram, within a minute of posting
Which jobs you get
Your search and filters
Job filters
Hourly or fixed, rate, budget, level, length and more
Client filters
Money spent, hire rate, payment verified, rating, country and more
AI filtering
Included, no API keys
Needs recent proposals
No

Freelancer Plus

Price
$19.99 a month
Job alerts
Instant, by email or in the Upwork app
Which jobs you get
Based on jobs you've applied to
Job filters
Hourly or fixed, lowest rate
Client filters
None
AI filtering
None
Needs recent proposals
Yes, at least one on an active job

Paid tools

Price
$15–49 a month
Job alerts
Depends on the tool and plan
Which jobs you get
Each tool's own
Job filters
Each tool's own
Client filters
Each tool's own
AI filtering
Included or by credits
Needs recent proposals
Each tool's own

Upwork Basic

Price
Free
Job alerts
None. Job digest email for Rising Talent and Top Rated only
Which jobs you get
Digest: based on your searches and proposals in the last 3 months
Job filters
—
Client filters
—
AI filtering
—
Needs recent proposals
Digest: recent searches or proposals

Whichever you use, applying on Upwork costs Connects.

Upwork: Upwork Help and pricing page, checked .

Paid tools: Vollna, UpHunt, Vibeworker, SnipeWork and GigRadar. Prices checked 2 October 2026.

Is Freelancer Plus worth it for job alerts?

Only if you'd use the rest of the plan. Alerts are one part of it; the 100 Connects a month are the bigger one.

What $19.99 a month buys
Freelancer Plus100 Connects, worth $15 75%Alerts and the rest, $4.99 25%
Freelancer Plus100 Connects, worth $1575%Alerts and the rest, $4.9925%

Connects bought separately cost $0.15 each. Prices from Upwork, checked 7 October 2026.

  • Plus pays off if you apply a lot.

    It includes 100 Connects a month. Bought separately at $0.15 each, that's $15 of the $19.99.

  • For alerts alone, you don't need it.

    flconsole sends new jobs from your own search and filters, free. You can keep Plus or the Basic plan — flconsole works with either.

Does applying first actually help?

Sometimes. Early helps most on small and fixed-price jobs, where clients often hire from the first proposals. On larger projects, a clear proposal matters more than the minute you sent it.

Freelancers disagree on this. Some skip jobs older than ten minutes source; others point out that serious clients don't hire in the first minutes source. flconsole helps either way: you see new jobs within a minute, and client filters and the AI filter cut the ones you'd never take — so you spend Connects on clients who actually hire, with time to write a good proposal.

  1. Small and fixed-price jobs: being early helps most — clients often hire from the first proposals.

  2. Larger projects: a clear proposal matters more than the minute you sent it.

  3. Either way: see new jobs within a minute and let client filters and the AI filter cut the ones you'd never take.

Your Upwork account stays yours

  • No Upwork login.

    flconsole never asks for your Upwork account and can't act in it.

  • Not from your account.

    flconsole collects new Upwork job posts itself, never through your account.

  • Nothing sent in your name.

    flconsole never sends proposals or messages. Applying is up to you.

  • Pause any time.

    Send /stop. Your feeds stay.
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Questions

Upwork sends instant job alerts only on Freelancer Plus, and only after you've sent at least one proposal to an active job. For free alerts from your own search and filters, use a service like flconsole: new jobs reach your Telegram within a minute of posting. Every way to get Upwork job alerts

No. The free Basic plan has no job alerts; Rising Talent and Top Rated freelancers get an occasional job digest email. Instant alerts need Freelancer Plus at $19.99 a month. flconsole is free, forever.

Check that Freelancer Plus is active, that you have a proposal on an active job sent as an individual, your spam folder and your phone's notification settings for the Upwork app. Alerts follow your past proposals, so they can thin out when you stop applying.

Select the bell icon, open Job alerts, then Alert preferences, uncheck Email and Mobile app notifications and select Save. The job digest is turned off in Notification settings, under Email updates.

Yes. flconsole's Telegram bot, @flconsole_upwork_job_alerts_bot, sends new Upwork jobs that match your search, job and client filters within a minute of posting, free, forever. Paid alert tools like Vollna, UpHunt and GigRadar cost $15–49 a month (prices checked 2 October 2026).

flconsole is a free service that watches new Upwork jobs and delivers matching ones to your Telegram or to your AI agent over MCP.

No. flconsole doesn't need access to your Upwork profile: it never asks for your Upwork login, never connects to your Upwork account and never sends anything in your name.

Yes. flconsole finds and filters jobs; applying happens on Upwork and costs Connects as usual.

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