which site is good for you to find work or find a provider ? odesk or elance , lets  review both sites below and compare the features , i am freelancing for almost 6-7 years  , there are few renowned websites known for outsourcing like Odesk , getacoder , getafreelancer ( now freelancer ) and Elance  there are some other too like scriptlance , rent a coder , ilance etc etc but if you compare traffic stats you will definately dropdown to these two   , so which one is better ?

Free

i regularly use both odesk and elance to find projects , Elance isnt completely free for providers which isnt  catchy  for any new provider to signup at all ,while Odesk is 100% free for providers but theres limited quota of 20 Bids per week for average provider there which i think is good idea to keep odesk spam free  ,  there are always fresh job postings on both sites but through buyer’s perspective if he/she will post a job on odesk candidate list will be around 10-30 same posting on elance will only render 5-10 applicants so it will give buyer less choices and talents to select best provider .

Profile Pages

now lets checkout provider profile pages , Odesk profile pages are much smoother , through the point and clean while elance prodile pages look bit boaring . if you dont have  attractive feedback there chances are low you can get job there when your competitor have high feedback , in this context on odesk if you have good portfolio and less or no feedbacks you can still prove your presence to buyers there .

General popularity

Popularity wise i think both websites are at same stage , both websites are featured in  media many times .

SEo rankings

seo wise Elance got edge , elance is ahead of odesk for popular searched keyowrds like “ find web developer” ,  ”find a freelancer”  .

Payment and Withdraws

Payment wise odesk is superb elance doesnt support withdraws via moneybookers , which is very depressing as many Asian countries which are marked as top outsourcing destinations like Pakistan , Philippines etc dont have paypal and service providers of these countries vastly use Moneybookers .

will share more comparisons soon if you want to share some likes / dislikes of any of these sites please comment below .