Why employers look for a NoDesk alternative
NoDesk keeps its offer simple. One price, $199, gets a job listed for 45 days with top placement, highlighting, your logo, a newsletter feature and social promotion. There are no tiers, no account is needed to buy, and its page promises volume discounts of up to 15% when you post several jobs. For one role, that is a clear deal.
The cost problem shows up once you hire all year. Every role needs its own purchase, and the listing keeps running on a calendar, not on whether the seat is open. Nothing on the page mentions an ATS integration, so each job is typed or pasted into a form.
If you hire two or three times a year, none of that matters much. If you open a remote role every month, it is a recurring chore and a bill that grows with every role.
What a year of remote hiring costs on each model
Take a team that opens 12 remote roles in a year, fills each within 45 days, and has no more than 10 open at once.
| Model | Calculation | Yearly cost |
|---|---|---|
| NoDesk, single posts | 12 x $199 | $2,388 |
| NoDesk, best case with the full 15% discount | $2,388 x 0.85 | about $2,030 |
| RemoteBoard Growth, billed yearly | $149 x 12 months | $1,788 |
| RemoteBoard Starter, billed yearly | $49 x 12 months | $588 |
NoDesk does not publish how the discount scales, so the 15% line is a ceiling, not a quote. Even then Growth is cheaper and adds ATS sync, location filters and 3 featured slots a month. Starter covers up to 3 active roles at a time and fits a team that rarely has more than three open. For the same math against other per-post boards, see RemoteJobs.org pricing and Real Work From Anywhere pricing.
Where NoDesk is the better choice
Be honest about the cases where it wins.
- One to three roles a year. Three posts cost $597 before any discount, close to the $588 a year of Starter but without a commitment.
- You want newsletter reach. NoDesk states a 90K+ subscriber newsletter and includes a feature in the price. RemoteBoard sends saved-search alert emails to matching candidates instead of a broadcast newsletter.
- No ATS to sync. If your jobs live in a spreadsheet or a small tool, filling in a form once is not much work.
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 their salary ranges. Edits follow, and closed roles come down at the next sync. Nobody copies text, and nobody tracks expiry dates across ten roles.
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. Views and apply clicks per job show which roles are pulling candidates. The integration pages for Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby list exactly which fields sync.
Using both is fine
Nothing stops you from buying one NoDesk post for a role that is not in your ATS 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 picking Starter, Growth or Scale. Monthly billing is $99, $299 and $699 if you prefer not to commit for a year; full details are on the pricing page. NoDesk's own numbers are broken down in NoDesk pricing for employers. Other per-post boards are compared on the Jobspresso alternative and Working Nomads alternative pages.
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.