Airtasker
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Fine if you're a homeowner posting occasional odd jobs and vetting workers carefully.
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Airtasker and Fiverr both land on Depends.
Fine if you're a homeowner posting occasional odd jobs and vetting workers carefully.
Buy for small, low-stakes one-off tasks where seller quality variance is tolerable.
| Compare | ||
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | One-off household tasks | Cheap one-off tasks (design, quick fixes) |
| Who it's not for | Tradespeople running a full-time business | Anyone sharing sensitive files or logins |
| Privacy | 2018 third-party Typeform breach exposed some Airtasker user data; no dedicated security page found.⁶ | April 2026: misconfigured cloud storage exposed tax forms and private user files; Fiverr denies a breach. |
| Support quality | Complaint process skewed; 1.6/5 elsewhere | Trustpilot service complaints dominate |
| Public sentiment | Reviews are polarized: 4.3/5 on Trustpilot versus 1.6/5 on PissedConsumer, with workers recurring complaints about fees and one-sided disputes.¹ | Buyers like cheap, fast gigs, but Trustpilot service reviews are poor and new sellers struggle to land orders.11 |
| Biggest gotcha | Tiered service fees plus connection fees stack up for workers; budget your margin before bidding⁷ | Company denied the 2026 leak while private files appeared in Google search |