TalengineerPricing
Transparent pricing. Published up front.
No login wall to see our fees, no agency markup buried in the rate. One escrow fee on paid milestones — engineers keep the majority of every dollar, employers pay nothing until they approve.
You keep 85% of every milestone
platform fee, charged only on released milestones
Engineers keep 85% — the fee comes out of the release, never an upfront charge.
Why the 15% earns its keep
Matched projects from OEMs and integrators worldwide — no bidding wars, no cold outreach, no lead-gen spend of your own.
The employer funds each milestone into escrow before you start. Your money is already held before you write a line of logic.
If a milestone is contested, an admin reviews both sides’ evidence over a 5-day window before any funds move — you are never simply left unpaid.
Your platform certification is the badge clients hire on. Only certified engineers can be dispatched, so the screen you passed is what wins you the work.
GPS check-in, QC photo delivery, and a multilingual AI project manager across 9 languages — the field tools come with the platform, not as add-ons.
5% for founding clients
escrow fee for founding clients — first 5 orders
standard escrow fee
$0 to post & match — you fund a milestone only once you have chosen an engineer.
The 5% founding rate is a limited PMF-launch offer for the first 5 employers to sign. It is applied per demand, so it holds for each of your first 5 orders.
How milestone escrow works
You fund a milestone into escrow through Stripe Checkout. It is marked funded only after the payment clears.
The engineer delivers the milestone — on-site check-ins and completion photos are logged against it.
You review the deliverable. Funds move only on your approval — nothing releases automatically.
On approval, escrow releases to the engineer minus the platform fee. That fee is the only charge.
First milestone not right? Full refund.
The escrow model exists so your first order carries zero upfront risk. The refund path is built into the product — not a promise in a footer.
Money you fund is held securely and is never paid to the engineer until you approve the deliverable.
Opening a dispute freezes the milestone. No funds can move while it is under review.
If the milestone is resolved in your favor, the full escrowed amount is refunded to your original payment method — no store credit, no clawback.
Pricing FAQ
It is a flat percentage of each released milestone: 15% standard, or 5% for founding clients on their first 5 orders. The rate is read from a single backend configuration, so the fee you see is exactly the fee charged — there is no separate markup.
The employer funds the full milestone amount into escrow. When you approve a release, the platform fee is deducted from that amount and the engineer receives the remainder. On a standard order the engineer keeps 85%; the employer pays no fee beyond funding the milestone.
The 5% rate is reserved for the first 5 employers to sign on during our PMF launch, and it applies to each of your first 5 orders. It is set per project, so once you are a founding client the reduced fee travels with your orders.
Open a dispute on the milestone. Both sides have a 5-day window to submit evidence, then an admin reviews it. If the dispute is resolved in the employer’s favor, the full escrowed amount is refunded to the original payment method; a split decision refunds the balance not awarded to the engineer.
Payments run through Stripe and Stripe Connect. Employers pay by card at checkout; engineers are paid out to their connected Stripe account. Where Stripe payouts are not yet available in an engineer’s country, the platform processes an offline manual payout instead.
Yes. Each funding payment runs through Stripe Checkout, which emails a card receipt, and every funded and released milestone is recorded in your Finance dashboard ledger so you have a running record of what was funded, released, and charged.
Start with one milestone
Post a project for free and fund only when you have chosen your engineer. Founding-client 5% applies to your first 5 orders.
Post a Project — Free