GrowthPair is a global marketing hiring partner that helps companies build high-performing teams through senior-marketer-led vetting, ongoing AI training, and an exclusive focus on placing marketing roles.
GrowthPair and Toptal both vet talent hard before you meet anyone. Toptal covers many functions with freelance contractors. GrowthPair covers marketing and design only, and your hire joins your team full-time while we handle payroll.
Below, we compare the two on price, contract terms, guarantees, and vetting.
Toptal is a freelance marketplace for engineering, finance, design, and marketing. GrowthPair pairs you with a full-time marketer, vetted by marketers who’ve done the job.
| GrowthPair | Toptal | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Managed staffing. We recruit, vet, and employ your hire | Freelance marketplace |
| Full-time or part-time | Full-time only | Hourly, part-time, or full-time contracts |
| Roles | 13 marketing and design roles | Many functions; marketing is one vertical |
| Talent location | Latin America and the Philippines | Global |
| Price | About $4,000/month on average, all-in | Not published; billed weekly, $0 recruiting fee |
| Contract | Month to month | Weekly billing, stop anytime |
| Time to hire | About 3 weeks from signed agreement to start | About 48 hours |
| Replacement guarantee | For as long as you’re a client | Trial of up to 2 weeks; no bill if you’re not satisfied |
| Payroll and benefits | GrowthPair runs payroll, benefits, and HR | Talent works as independent contractors |
| Buyout | 6 months of your GrowthPair rate | Not published |
| Reviews | Trustpilot 4.6 (28 reviews) | Trustpilot 4.8 (2,538 reviews) |
GrowthPair made finding our marketing superstar so quick and easy. They found someone who checked all our boxes and fit our budget perfectly.
We faced an endless stream of expensive, underqualified candidates, and hiring was a huge drain. Then we brought in GrowthPair and everything changed.
GrowthPair helped me find a high quality overseas marketer, FAST!
We told them what we were looking for, and we had a video editor hired inside of a couple of days. 10/10 would recommend.
Their ability to place talented designers quickly, especially those comfortable in fast-paced environments, has been invaluable.
We worked with GrowthPair for CRM execution support and had a great experience. Recommend for hands-on CRM support.
GrowthPair helped me find a great social media manager by providing a large list of qualified applicants for me to review.
GrowthPair made finding our marketing superstar so quick and easy. They found someone who checked all our boxes and fit our budget perfectly.
We faced an endless stream of expensive, underqualified candidates, and hiring was a huge drain. Then we brought in GrowthPair and everything changed.
GrowthPair helped me find a high quality overseas marketer, FAST!
We told them what we were looking for, and we had a video editor hired inside of a couple of days. 10/10 would recommend.
Their ability to place talented designers quickly, especially those comfortable in fast-paced environments, has been invaluable.
We worked with GrowthPair for CRM execution support and had a great experience. Recommend for hands-on CRM support.
GrowthPair helped me find a great social media manager by providing a large list of qualified applicants for me to review.
Toptal is the better choice for some teams. Here’s when.
Our team is made up entirely of marketers who have done the work themselves, so we know what strong marketing talent looks like. We can help you find your next:
When growth is a priority, hiring right isn’t optional. But finding reliable marketing talent that doesn’t cost $133K is often time-consuming, expensive, and risky. We believe every marketing team deserves dedicated talent they can trust and a hiring process that embeds new team members quickly and fully. That’s what we’re building at GrowthPair.
If you’re ready to scale with top global marketing talent and a hiring partner built for growth, we’d love to talk.
We’ve made hiring the best marketers easy
Yes. Toptal has a marketing vertical with roles like SEO, paid ads, email, and fractional CMOs. Marketing is one of several functions there, next to engineering, design, and finance.
Sometimes, but not as employees. Toptal offers hourly, part-time, and full-time engagements, and its talent works as independent contractors. GrowthPair hires are full-time, and we run their payroll, benefits, and HR.
It’s hard to compare, because Toptal doesn’t publish its rates. You get pricing after you’re matched. A full-time GrowthPair marketer costs about $4,000 a month on average, all-in.
Toptal says fewer than 3% of applicants make its network, across every function. About 1.5% of GrowthPair applicants pass, and every candidate takes a proctored test for their marketing role and interviews with a marketer.
Toptal. It says you can typically hire in about 48 hours, with a trial of up to two weeks. GrowthPair takes about 3 weeks from signed agreement to start date.
In 1 year, your savings could be $170,000
This is assuming that each U.S. marketing hire is $133,000, and each global marketing hire is $48,000 in payroll costs per year.
