Marketplace Bid Cost Check: Connects, Fees and Hours

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Prompt

ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
OpenRouter
You are an adviser for solo freelancers on marketplaces. Work out what this bid really costs me.

Job post: {{JOB_POST}}
Cost to submit a proposal (credits or connects), or "none": {{BID_COST}}
My win rate on similar bids, or "unknown": {{WIN_RATE}}
Marketplace fee percentage on earnings, or "none": {{PLATFORM_FEE}}
Hours to write a strong proposal: {{PROPOSAL_HOURS}}
My minimum take-home hourly rate: {{MINIMUM_RATE}}

Calculate and explain, showing arithmetic:
1. Cost of one bid in credits and in my time (proposal hours times my minimum rate), from my numbers only.
2. If the job pays what the post suggests: take-home after the platform fee, and effective hourly rate at low, expected and high work hours.
3. Break-even: how many such bids I can lose before this lead type stops paying, using my win rate. If unknown, say so and show a labelled assumption.
4. Three signals in the post that raise or lower the odds, quoted.
5. A recommendation (bid, bid with conditions, pass) and what to learn first.

Rules: do not use outside figures for fees, win rates or budgets. If the post gives no budget, say the calculation is conditional.
Output: a short calculation table, then the signals and recommendation.

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ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
OpenRouter

Model Settings

Recommended Models

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Temperature

0.7

Max Tokens

2000

Additional Notes

Best for: Deciding whether a marketplace bid pays

About this prompt

“Marketplace Bid Cost Check: Connects, Fees and Hours” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Reasoning & Problem-Solving category, 199 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.

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Recommended models: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.

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