Is Airtasker or TaskRabbit cheaper in the UK?

For the customer they land in a similar place on a mid-sized job: as published in September 2026, Airtasker adds a connection fee of £4.95 to £39.95 on top of the agreed price, and TaskRabbit adds a reported 20% to 25% mark-up to the hourly rate. On the worker side, Airtasker deducts 12.5% to 20% plus VAT and TaskRabbit deducts nothing. On Taskerama the booking fee is shown on every offer before you accept, so you know the full price before you commit. Fees change often, so check current pages.

Does TaskRabbit operate in the UK?

Yes. TaskRabbit has been owned by IKEA since 2017 and operates in the UK, booking taskers by the hour with a one-hour minimum and charging your card after the task. If you would rather have a fixed price agreed up front and your money held until the job is done, post the task free on Taskerama and compare offers before you pay anything.

Can I use Airtasker and TaskRabbit at the same time?

Yes, on both sides. Neither platform imposes a non-compete on independent taskers. Taskerama does not either, and it costs nothing to join or quote, so a tasker can add it without paying anything until they win work, and pay 0% commission on customers they bring themselves. As a customer, posting on Taskerama is free and you see every fee before you accept an offer.

Which one takes less from the person doing the work?

On published information, TaskRabbit charges taskers a one-off registration fee, US$25 on the US page with no UK figure published, and puts its other fees on the customer. Airtasker deducts 12.5% to 20% plus VAT, set by the tasker's earnings over the previous 30 days, including on tips. Taskerama's service fee falls from 20% to 12.5% plus VAT as you earn more, tips go to you in full, and customers you bring yourself cost 0% commission, with a 2.9% plus 20p processing charge. Competitor figures checked September 2026.

Airtasker vs TaskRabbit UK (2026): fixed price or hourly?

Airtasker and TaskRabbit get compared constantly. Taskerama competes with both, so this page sets out their published fees and policies side by side, then shows how Taskerama does it differently.

They are not really the same product. Airtasker is an open marketplace: you post a job with a budget, people bid a fixed price for the whole job, and you pick one. TaskRabbit is a booking tool: you pick a person and an hourly rate, and you book their time.

That single difference decides most of the rest: who carries the risk when a job runs long, whether you can negotiate, and which side pays the platform.

The short version

	Airtasker	TaskRabbit
How you buy	Post a task with a budget, receive fixed-price offers, assign one	Browse taskers by hourly rate and availability, book directly
Price basis	Fixed price for the whole job	Hourly, with a one-hour minimum
Who pays the platform	Both sides	The customer, plus a one-off registration fee from the tasker
Negotiation	Yes, in public comments before you assign	No, you take the listed rate
Money held until the job is done	Yes, held in escrow and released when you confirm completion	No, your card is charged after the task
Breadth	Very broad, including removals, admin and online work	Narrower, focused on standard household jobs
Assembly	General category	Dedicated IKEA channel with fixed task-based pricing

Where Taskerama fits

Taskerama keeps the parts of the marketplace model that protect you, and fixes the parts people complain about.

	Taskerama
How you buy	Post a task free, receive fixed-price offers, accept one
Talking before you hire	Public questions and private messages with anyone who offers
When you see the fees	On every offer, before you accept
Money held until the job is done	Yes, released only when you confirm the job is done
Refunds	Always to your card, never credits
Cancelling before the task starts	No fee to either side
Disputes	Either side can open a dispute; payment stays on hold while it is reviewed

What Airtasker charges, as published September 2026

Airtasker takes money from both sides.

The tasker pays a service fee, deducted from the job price, tiered by their earnings on the platform over the previous rolling 30 days and their completion rate over their last 20 assigned tasks. UK rates, excluding VAT, which is added on top:

Tier	30-day UK earnings	Service fee (ex VAT)
Bronze	Under £450	20%
Silver	£450+	18.5%
Gold	£1,400+	14.9%
Platinum	£2,800+	12.5%

The poster pays a connection fee at the moment they assign, banded by task price and including VAT: £4.95 under £30, rising in steps to £39.95 at £180 and above. A £49.90 yearly membership waives it. Repeat bookings of the same tasker are charged at a 1.9% service fee.

Our full breakdown, with the complete band table and worked examples, is in Airtasker fees explained.

What TaskRabbit charges, as published September 2026

TaskRabbit inverts it. Almost everything is charged to the customer.

Taskers pay a one-off, non-refundable registration fee, published as US$25 on the US help page. A UK figure is not published. TaskRabbit's help pages state that all other fees are charged to clients, so there is no commission taken from the tasker's hourly rate.
Customers pay a Service Fee, described by TaskRabbit as a percentage of the hourly rate applied to each hour worked. TaskRabbit does not publish the percentage; 2026 third-party reviews report around 15%.
Customers also pay a Trust and Support Fee, again a percentage of the hourly rate per hour. TaskRabbit's own blog describes it as ranging from 5% to 15%; reviews report roughly 7.5% as typical.
Reported all-in customer mark-up is therefore around 20% to 25% on top of the tasker's rate, an £80 job billed at about £97 in one published example.

One caveat: TaskRabbit does not publish these percentages, so treat every figure above as indicative and read the total on your own checkout screen before you confirm.

What Taskerama charges

Two fees, both published on our fees page and both shown in the product before anyone commits.

Posters pay nothing to post or compare offers. A booking fee applies only when you hire, from £4.95 to £39.95 by task price, and it is on every offer before you accept. A £49.90 yearly membership removes it.
Taskers pay a service fee of 20% plus VAT, falling to 12.5% plus VAT as their 30-day earnings rise. The ladder is published in full and their current tier is on their dashboard.
Customers a tasker brings themselves cost 0% commission. A processing and protection charge of 2.9% plus 20p still applies.

A worked £120 job

Take a job where the work itself is worth £120, say three hours at £40 an hour, or a fixed £120 offer.

	Airtasker (Bronze tasker)	Airtasker (Platinum tasker)	TaskRabbit (typical reported mark-up)	Taskerama (starting tier)	Taskerama (tasker's own client)
Customer pays	£144.95	£144.95	About £144 to £150	£144.95	£120.00
Worker receives	£91.20	£102.00	£120	£91.20 to £102.00 by tier	£116.32
Platform take	£53.75 including VAT	£42.95 including VAT	About £24 to £30	£42.95 to £53.75 including VAT	£3.68

On a marketplace job of this size the customer pays a similar total on all three. The difference on Taskerama is when you find out. The £144.95 is on the offer before you accept, so the total you see is the total you pay. And when a tasker's own customer books them through Taskerama, the tasker keeps £116.32 of the £120.

Fixed price or hourly

Hourly puts the overrun risk on you. If the job takes four hours instead of two, you pay for four, and there is a one-hour minimum on small jobs. Fixed price puts it on the person quoting, who prices for it.

Fixed price with held payment is the safer default for most household jobs. You know the total, you can compare offers, and your money is held until you say the job is done. The usual weakness of fixed price is padding on vague tasks. Taskerama deals with that directly: you can answer public questions and message anyone who offers privately before you hire, so the scope is agreed before the price is.

For the person doing the work

Taskerama charges nothing to join and nothing to quote, and never sells leads. The service fee starts at 20% plus VAT and falls to 12.5% as you earn more. Customers you bring yourself cost 0% commission, and those jobs still earn reviews on your public profile. Tips go to you in full. Cancelling before the task starts costs you nothing. Every account restriction comes with a reason and an appeal route.
Airtasker deducts 12.5% to 20% plus VAT, set by how much you earned in the last 30 days, and the fee applies to tips and bonuses as well as the job price.
TaskRabbit takes no commission, charges a one-off registration fee, and has you compete on a published hourly rate rather than a bid.

Verification and protection

	Airtasker	TaskRabbit	Taskerama
ID	Government photo ID plus a live biometric check; required before payouts	ID and background check at onboarding	Government ID with a live selfie, required before a tasker's first payout; trade licence, waste carrier and insurance badges checked by a person against the public register
Criminal record check	Optional UK badge: Basic DBS plus Right to Work, £46.12 in England and Wales, £43.72 in Scotland, paid by the tasker. Existing certificates are not accepted	Included in the onboarding check	DBS badge: a Basic DBS certificate issued in the last 12 months, reviewed by our team. Required for family help, tutoring and tasks in a home with children present
Money held	Yes, in escrow, released when the poster confirms	No, card charged after the task	Yes, released when the poster confirms the job is done; refunds always to the card
Cover	Third-party liability policy underwritten by Chubb, excess payable by the tasker and not published, excludes faulty workmanship, vehicles and the tasker's own injury, 30-day claim window, off-platform work not covered	Task Protection Program, published up to US$10,000; a UK figure is not published	Third-party liability protection on eligible in-person tasks; excludes faulty workmanship, vehicles, cash jobs and tasks paid off-platform
Disputes	Three-stage internal process, decision within 14 business days, Airtasker decides	Support-led	Payment stays on hold while a dispute is reviewed

Why Taskerama

Every fee is on the offer before you accept. Nothing is added at checkout.
Fixed-price offers, so an overrun is priced in by the person quoting, not added to your bill.
Ask public questions and send private messages before you hire.
Your money is held and released only when you confirm the job is done.
Refunds go back to your card, never to credits.
No fee to either side for cancelling before the task starts.
Taskers are ID-verified, with DBS, trade licence, waste carrier and insurance badges checked by a person.
Payment stays on hold while a dispute is reviewed.

Post your task free and compare fixed-price offers with every fee shown up front. You pay nothing until you accept one.

Airtasker figures verified from its published UK help centre and pricing pages on 5 September 2026. TaskRabbit does not publish its percentages; figures are from its own help pages and 2026 third-party reviews, gathered on the same date. Taskerama figures are from our fees page. Fees change frequently, and Airtasker has changed its poster-side fee at least four times since 2019, so check each company's current pages before relying on any number here.