Why employers look for a Dice alternative
Dice is a long-standing tech job board with a candidate database. Its pricing page sells a Single Job Slot at $399 for 30 days, and monthly plans that give you a fixed number of slots a month. You pay for the board and the tech talent behind it, whatever the work arrangement of the role.
That makes sense for a one-off search where you want to browse candidates. It is a worse fit if your roles are all remote and you open a new one every month. Each slot is a separate $399, a role that takes six weeks needs a second slot, and nothing on the page describes a sync that keeps a listing in step with your ATS.
What a year of remote hiring costs on each model
Take a team that opens 12 remote roles in a year and has no more than 10 open at once. Dice's single slot holds one job at a time, so overlapping roles need more slots.
| Model | Calculation | Yearly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Dice Single Job Slots | 12 x $399 | $4,788 |
| Dice Starter, billed yearly | $549 x 12 months | $6,588 |
| Dice Standard, billed yearly | $749 x 12 months | $8,988 |
| RemoteBoard Growth, billed yearly | $149 x 12 months | $1,788 |
| RemoteBoard Starter, billed yearly | $49 x 12 months | $588 |
The Dice plans buy a steady supply of slots, 3 or 5 a month, so they only make sense if you really fill that many roles. For a team with 12 roles a year, single slots are the cheaper Dice route and Growth is still well under half of that. Break-even against Growth is about five roles a year, and against Starter about two. The same per-post math on other boards is in Remote Rocketship pricing and NoDesk pricing.
Where Dice is the better choice
- One or two tech roles. One slot at $399 is less than a year of Growth, with no commitment.
- You want candidate views. The Standard plan lists 500 shared candidate views a month, which a job board plan does not replace.
- The role is not only remote. Dice covers tech hiring in every location, so a hybrid role fits there and not on a remote-only board.
When a flat plan wins
A flat plan wins when remote hiring is steady. With a Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby board, the sync reads your public jobs page, keeps only fully remote roles and lists them with salary ranges. Edits follow, and closed roles come down at the next sync.
You also get location detail that remote candidates filter on: eligible countries and required UTC overlap on every listing. Growth adds 3 featured slots a month for urgent roles. The integration pages for Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby list exactly which fields sync.
Using both is fine
Nothing stops you from buying one Dice slot for a senior search where you want to read candidate profiles, and running the rest on a flat plan. Plan capacity is counted by active roles, so check how many remote roles you usually have open before choosing. Monthly billing is $99, $299 and $699 if you prefer not to commit for a year; full details are on the pricing page. Dice's own numbers are broken down in Dice job posting cost for employers.
How the switch works
- Open your ATS jobs page and copy its address.
- Paste it into the preview on post a remote job and see your remote roles as listings before you pay.
- Create an employer account with your work email and pick a plan.
- Your roles go live within the hour. Use the featured slots on Growth or Scale for the roles that are hardest to fill.