Free Freelance Contract Generator
Generate a clean freelance services agreement with scope, timeline, payment terms, IP assignment, and termination sections. Free, on-device, no sign-up.
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Step 1: Parties
Freelancer
Client
Informational template, not legal advice
This generator produces a basic freelance services agreement template. Contracts may require jurisdiction-specific clauses.
- Review and edit before use; consult a qualified attorney if you need certainty.
- Your draft is generated in your browser and saved locally on your device.
The clause that moves the rights
Plenty of freelance work runs on an email thread and a start date, and it holds until something needs adjudicating. The thread has no definition of done, so a deliverable is finished when the client stops replying. It has no change control, so the fourth revision round costs the same as the first, which is nothing to the client and a day to you. It has no ownership sentence, so the question of who owns the files surfaces at the worst moment, usually when the client wants to hand them to somebody else.
Say a fixed price of $8,000 covering six deliverables and three revision rounds. Two extra rounds arrive as a favor, six hours each, and at a $130 rate that is $1,560, or 19.5% of the fee handed back. A stated revision count with a rate for anything beyond it does not stop the extra rounds. It prices them, so the fifth round is a $780 line the client can accept or decline, and the decision moves to the person asking for it. Scope creep is a pricing failure before it is a discipline failure, and the rate in the agreement is where the price gets attached.
Ownership is the clause worth reading twice. A work made for hire label alone moves nothing for most freelance output, because the commissioned branch of 17 U.S.C. 101 applies only to nine listed categories, and software, logos and websites are outside them. What transfers the copyright is a present assignment: language that assigns right, title and interest on creation, kept alongside the work for hire wording so whichever applies, the rights land. Governing law and forum are the other two fields no template can guess, and leaving them blank sends a dispute to whichever court the other side reaches first.
How the agreement is assembled
The wizard turns four steps of answers into a services agreement draft. It is informational, and the clauses are a starting point for review rather than advice.
What it assumes
- An independent services relationship between two parties, with the client engaging the freelancer directly.
- Scope, fees, dates and payment days are taken from your answers and inserted as written.
- IP ownership selects one of three stored clauses, and confidentiality is a checkbox that includes a stored clause or leaves it out.
- One governing law, chosen by you, applies to the whole document.
- The draft is generated in your browser and saved on your device.
What it leaves out
- Whether the engagement is properly a contractor relationship at all, which is a classification question with its own tests.
- Jurisdiction-specific mandatory terms, notice periods and consumer or worker protections.
- Tax and withholding treatment, which follows from where each party sits.
- Insurance, data processing terms and sector regulation.
Where the numbers come from
- Clause wording
- Our own assumptionWritten for this generator as a general services agreement. No jurisdiction library or precedent bank stands behind it.
- Default payment and IP options
- Our own assumptionCommon commercial positions offered as starting points, chosen for legibility rather than for any particular market.
Assumptions and sources checked 5 September 2026. Published figures move on their own schedule, so confirm anything you rely on against the authority that issues it.
How it works
- 01
Pick engagement type
Fixed-price, hourly, or retainer.
- 02
Define scope + term
Deliverables, milestones, start and end dates.
- 03
Set payment + IP terms
Invoicing cadence, late fees, IP assignment, portfolio rights.
- 04
Export the PDF
Send for e-signature or in-person signing.
Related guides
Work for Hire vs Assignment of Rights for Freelancers
IP assignment is one setting in the tool and a three-way choice in law, with different consequences for reusing the work.
Read the guideHow to Write a Termination Clause That Protects You
The termination setting decides who can walk away and when. This covers notice, cure periods and work in progress.
Read the guideInternational Freelance Contract Clauses for Payment and Dispute Control
The generated agreement is shaped for one jurisdiction. This is the review to run when the client sits in another.
Read the guideFrequently Asked Questions
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