Fiverr's Terms of Service is the legal contract that governs your use of the Fiverr freelance marketplace, covering how you buy and sell services, how payments are handled, and what rights Fiverr has over your account and content. The most important thing to know is that Fiverr takes a 20% commission from every payment a seller receives, and buyers also pay a service fee on top of the gig price — meaning both sides of every transaction pay fees to Fiverr. If you are a seller, you should know that any content you post on Fiverr — including your work samples and gig descriptions — is licensed to Fiverr on a permanent, royalty-free basis.
Technical Summary
Fiverr's Terms of Service governs the contractual relationship between Fiverr International Ltd. (an Israeli company) and all users of the Fiverr freelance marketplace platform, including both buyers and sellers, establishing legally binding obligations upon account registration or platform use. The document imposes significant obligations on sellers including an 80% revenue share structure (Fiverr retains 20% of all transactions), mandatory content licensing to Fiverr, and a requirement that all transactions occur exclusively through the platform under penalty of account suspension. Notable deviations from industry standard include a broad intellectual property license whereby users grant Fiverr a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use all content posted on the platform, combined with an unusually expansive unilateral right to modify terms with minimal notice. The document engages GDPR (given Fiverr's Israeli incorporation and EU user base), CCPA (California residents), Israeli Privacy Protection Law, FTC Act Section 5 regarding unfair or deceptive trade practices, and potentially EU Platform-to-Business Regulation (P2B Regulation EU 2019/1150) governing marketplace fairness obligations. Material compliance considerations include Fiverr's VAT/tax collection obligations in multiple jurisdictions, the platform's intermediary liability posture under Section 230 CDA, and potential exposure under EU Digital Services Act given its marketplace operator status.
When you post anything on Fiverr — including your portfolio samples, gig descriptions, and profile content — you give Fiverr permanent, free permission to use, copy, and share that content anywhere in the world, even after you delete it or close your account.
You are not allowed to arrange payment for services outside of Fiverr, even if you connect with someone through the platform — doing so can get your account permanently banned.
Fiverr can change the rules at any time just by updating its website — if you keep using Fiverr after a change is posted, you are legally considered to have agreed to the new rules even if you never read them.
Fiverr can suspend or permanently delete your account at any time, for any reason it decides — including reasons not specifically listed in the terms — which could mean losing access to your earnings, ratings, and transaction history instantly.
If Fiverr causes you financial harm — for example by wrongly suspending your account or losing your data — their maximum financial responsibility to you is capped at $100 or what you paid them in the past year, whichever is more.
Any legal dispute with Fiverr must be resolved under Israeli law in Israeli courts — regardless of where in the world you live or where the services were performed.
Buyers pay an extra fee on top of the seller's listed price when placing an order — this service fee is added at checkout and increases the total cost beyond the advertised gig price.
After a buyer marks an order complete, sellers must wait 14 days before they can withdraw their earnings — and Fiverr can freeze funds for longer if there is a dispute or suspected fraud, even if you did nothing wrong.
Fiverr sets broad rules about what content is allowed and can remove your content or suspend your account if it decides your content violates its standards — with 'sole discretion' meaning there is no fixed checklist you can rely on.
Added March 20, 2026
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