Why employers look for a Remote OK alternative
Remote OK is one of the biggest remote job boards on the internet, and a post there puts a role in front of a large tech and startup audience. For a company that hires once or twice a year, that is often the right buy. The pressure starts when remote hiring becomes a monthly habit.
Three things usually send a hiring team looking for another option:
- The price moves. Remote OK says its prices are dynamic and change with how many jobs are posted each week. The banner says "from $299", while the checkout button showed $447 on October 15, 2026. That makes a yearly hiring budget hard to plan.
- Every post renews at day 30. Senior searches often take two or three months. Each one crosses renewal points, and every renewal is charged at the full post price unless someone on the team remembers to switch it off.
- Extras are sold one by one. Logo, highlight, email blast and pinning are separate add-ons. A post that actually gets seen usually costs more than the base number.
None of this makes Remote OK a bad board. Per-post pricing simply fits occasional hiring, and many remote-first companies now open a role most months.
What a year of remote hiring costs on each model
Take a US startup that opens 12 remote roles over a year, never has more than 10 open at once, and sees half of its searches run past 30 days. We use the $299 starting price, which is the lowest Remote OK quotes, so the real figure is likely higher.
| Remote OK from $299 per post | RemoteBoard Growth, yearly | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 initial posts | 12 x $299 = $3,588 | included |
| 6 renewals for roles open past 30 days | 6 x $299 = $1,794 | included |
| Logo, highlight or pin add-ons | extra on every post | 3 featured slots a month included |
| Total for the year | about $5,382 before add-ons | $1,788 |
At the $447 checkout price we saw in October, the same 18 charges come to about $8,046. Remote OK bundles cut up to 50 percent off multi-post purchases, which brings the low case closer to $2,700, still with renewals on top.
A smaller team hiring four roles a year, with never more than three open at once, would spend about $1,196 on base posts against $588 for a year of RemoteBoard Starter. If you hire one person a year and fill the role in three weeks, one post anywhere is cheaper than any subscription. We would rather say that plainly than sell you a plan you do not need.
Where Remote OK still wins
Remote OK has a large, established audience and strong recognition among remote developers, designers and marketers. If you need the widest possible reach for one hard role this week, paying for a pinned post there is a reasonable bet. It also offers extras some teams like, such as an email blast to its candidate list and a QR short link for sharing.
RemoteBoard is a newer board. What we offer instead is structure and predictable cost: remote-only roles checked every hour, country and timezone filters candidates actually use, applications that go straight to your own careers page, and one price that does not grow with each role you open. Plenty of teams keep a Remote OK post for the one hardest role and run everything else through a flat plan.
Who RemoteBoard fits best
- Remote-first startups opening a new role most months, who want their Ashby or Lever board mirrored without extra work.
- Engineering-heavy teams with long senior searches that keep crossing 30-day renewal dates.
- Talent teams at scale-ups running 15 to 30 remote roles, who need seats, per-job stats with CSV export and invoices with company details.
- US companies hiring across borders that must say clearly which countries they can employ in and which hours people need to overlap.
If you hire four or more remote people a year, the flat plan usually pays for itself within the first few months. Our Remote OK pricing guide has the same math for 4, 12 and 25 roles a year.
How the switch works
Switch off auto-renew on your live Remote OK posts so they finish at the end of their 30 days. Then paste your careers board URL at the top of this page. The preview shows your remote roles as RemoteBoard listings before you pay anything. Create an employer account with your work email, choose the plan that covers the roles you keep open at once, and your roles go live within the hour.
After that the board follows your ATS. A role opened on Monday shows up on Monday and a role closed on Friday leaves on Friday. No ATS? Write roles in the employer editor and the same flat plan applies. If you are also weighing other per-post boards, our We Work Remotely alternative page runs the same comparison, and the guide on how to write a remote job post covers what to put in the listing so the right people apply.