What 317 Fiverr reviews say about hiring an automation freelancer

The short answer

317reviews read, duplicates removed

254different buyers behind them

94%were 5 stars. None below 4

1 in 6buyers came back for another order

I read the most recent reviews on the gigs of all eleven sellers on the workflow automation shortlist: 317 different reviews from 254 different buyers. Stars told me almost nothing. 94% were 5 stars, and not one was below 4. What the reviews do show is what buyers paid, how long they waited, and whether the same buyer came back. Those three numbers are more useful for choosing than the rating.

How the reviews were read

• Sellers: the seven Fiverr Pro and four up-and-coming sellers on the workflow automation page, one gig each.
• Reviews: the reviews Fiverr shows first on each gig, up to 35 per seller after removing duplicates. This is Fiverr’s own ordering, not a random sample, and it leans towards recent, detailed reviews.
• Read for: the order price band and duration Fiverr prints under each review, the buyer each review came from, and the words buyers use. Every review showed a price band; 21 did not show a readable duration and are left out of that count.
• Not used: buyer names and quotes. Everything below is counted or paraphrased.

Stars do not separate these sellers

Of the 317 reviews, 19 were below 5 stars. All of them were between 4.0 and 4.7, and nearly all of them praised the seller in the text. In practice a 4.7 here means “fine, but not quite a 5”, not “something went wrong”.

That is not a sign the reviews are fake. Unhappy buyers usually get a revision or a cancellation instead of leaving a review, and sellers with weak early reviews do not reach a shortlist like this one. So once you filter to sellers with a strong record, the rating stops being a signal. Look at the three things below instead.

What buyers actually paid

What 317 automation orders cost, and how long they took

Share of reviewed orders, by the price band and duration Fiverr prints under each review.

Order price

Under $10029% $100–$40039% $400–$1,00021% Over $1,00012%

Time to deliver

1–3 days35% 4–7 days25% 8–14 days22% 15+ days17%

See the price and duration numbers as tables

Order price (Fiverr band)	Share of reviewed orders
Under $100	29%
$100–$400	39%
$400–$1,000	21%
Over $1,000	12%

The middle band is the normal first order: one workflow, two or three connected apps, some error handling. Orders under $100 were mostly fixes and small additions. The large orders came from a few sellers who build whole systems, such as a CRM rebuild or a set of connected workflows.

Use this to sanity-check a quote. If your brief describes one workflow and the quote is over $1,000, ask what is in it. If it describes a whole process across several tools and the quote is $50, the seller has probably not read it.

How long it took

See the duration numbers as a table

Duration printed on the review	Share of orders with a duration shown (296)
1–3 days	35%
4–7 days	25%
8–14 days	22%
15 days or more	17%

Three in five orders were done within a week. Long durations were not a warning sign in these reviews: they belonged to large orders, and those buyers were as positive as the rest. What matters is that the duration fits the size. A multi-tool build promised in 24 hours is the one to question.

Duration on Fiverr runs from order to completion, including the time the seller waits for your replies. Having your accounts, examples and edge cases ready before you order (the checklist on the job page covers this) is the part of “fast delivery” that is up to you.

Count buyers, not reviews

A buyer can leave one review per order, so a seller’s review count is not a client count. Across these eleven gigs, 42 of 254 buyers (about one in six) left reviews for more than one order, and those 42 buyers wrote a third of all the reviews. Chatbot sellers go further still: a third of their buyers came back, as 252 chatbot reviews show. Automation is rarely one order: the first workflow works, then you want the next one, or an app changes and the old one needs fixing. The question is which sellers buyers came back to.

Different buyers per seller, and how many came back

Ordered againOrdered once

IrenicTech9 of 20 Yasaf Burshan7 of 27 Ramon C6 of 27 Asaf Cadmon5 of 27 Sam4 of 21 TECHMA AI4 of 30 David O1 of 24 Get Efficient0 of 35 Ali Raza0 of 32

Seller	Reviews read	Different buyers	Buyers who ordered again	Most common order
IrenicTech	35	20	9	$1,000–$2,500 or $200–$400
Yasaf Burshan	35	27	7	$200–$400
Ramon C	35	27	6	$50–$400
Asaf Cadmon	35	27	5	$100–$400, often done in 1–2 days
Sam	25	21	4	$100–$400, often done in a day
TECHMA AI	35	30	4	$100–$400
David O	25	24	1	Around $50
Get Efficient	35	35	0	$400–$2,500, 2–3 weeks
Ali Raza	32	32	0	Around $50, 3–4 days

Parth Choksi (13 reviews, 7 buyers) and Ayoub Etoullali (12 reviews, 4 buyers) had too few buyers to compare, though in both cases most reviews came from buyers who ordered more than once.

Buyers coming back means a working relationship: useful if you expect to add workflows over the year. IrenicTech stands out, with nearly half its recent buyers returning. One-off specialists are a different strength: a single large project (Get Efficient) or quick, low-cost jobs (Ali Raza, David O). Pick the pattern that matches your plan, and if you expect a second order, say so in the first brief.

What buyers praised

What buyers praised, across 317 reviews

Share of reviews using words in each group. One review can count in several.

Knew the tools3 in 10 Fast delivery1 in 4 Communication1 in 5 Would hire again1 in 6 Understood what I needed1 in 6 Went beyond the brief1 in 16

The only item on that list a buyer can change is “understood what I needed”. A seller can only understand what you need if it is written down. The brief on the workflow automation page asks for the trigger, steps, failure handling and accounts in writing, so that understanding starts on day one instead of after the first revision.

What the reviews cannot tell you

None of the 317 reviews described what happened a month later. Reviews are written the day the order closes, usually right after a demo. They cannot tell you whether the automation still runs unattended, whether anyone is alerted when a login expires, or whether you own the accounts it runs on.

That gap is why acceptance matters more than the rating. Before final payment, run the checks in the acceptance checklist: the real schedule, several runs on its own, a failure alert that actually arrives, and every key on your account.

How to use this when choosing

Five steps from shortlist to accepted work

1. Shortlist on recordFiverr Pro or a strong level, and a delivery in the last month. Not stars.
2. Match the order sizeCompare the seller's usual order with yours, using the table above or the gig's reviews.
3. Count buyersHow many different buyers, and whether any came back.
4. Brief firstWrite it so the seller understands the job before the first message.
5. Accept on unattended runsNot on the demo. See the acceptance checklist.