Why employers look for a Remotive alternative
Remotive has been a fixture of remote hiring for years. A listing there goes onto its job feed, into its newsletter and Slack community and out on its social channels, and for a company that hires once or twice a year that reach is often worth the price. The friction shows up when remote hiring turns into something the team does every month.
Three things usually send a hiring team looking for another option:
- The real price sits above the base price. The listing itself is $299 for 30 days. The packages that add a highlight, a logo and extra promotion cost $358, $398 and $448, and the $398 package is the one Remotive marks as most popular. Its checkout adds a $99 highlight and logo line to the $299 listing by default.
- Every listing renews at day 30. Remotive's checkout says listings renew automatically every 30 days and the full amount is charged each time while the job is active. A role that takes two or three months to fill is paid for two or three times.
- Location filtering is extra. If you can only employ people in the US, or in a short list of countries, blocking applicants from elsewhere is an add-on rather than part of the listing.
None of this makes Remotive a bad board. Per-listing pricing fits occasional hiring well. Many remote-first companies simply open a role most months now, and that is where a flat plan starts to pay for itself.
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 price it at Remotive's $398 package (the most popular one) and at the bare $299 listing.
| Remotive $299 listing | Remotive $398 package | RemoteBoard Growth, yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 initial listings | $3,588 | $4,776 | included |
| 6 renewals for roles open past 30 days | $1,794 | $2,388 | included |
| Highlight, logo or pin | not included | included, pin only on $448 | 3 featured slots a month included |
| Total for the year | about $5,382 | about $7,164 | $1,788 |
Remotive's job bundles cut up to 40 percent off multi-role purchases. Applied to every one of those 18 charges at the $299 price, the low case comes to roughly $3,230, still about $1,440 more than the flat plan, and the bundle has to be arranged by email in advance.
A smaller team hiring four roles a year, with never more than three open at once, would spend about $1,196 on base listings against $588 for a year of RemoteBoard Starter. If you hire one person a year and fill the role in three weeks, one listing anywhere is cheaper than any subscription. We would rather say that plainly than sell you a plan you do not need.
Where Remotive still wins
Remotive has an established audience and a community that has been built over many years, with a newsletter, a Slack group and active social accounts that each listing is pushed to. It also offers a guarantee we think is fair: if a listing gets fewer than 200 apply clicks, Remotive reposts it for another month at no charge. For one hard-to-fill role where community reach matters most, that is a reasonable buy.
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 Remotive listing for the single hardest search 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 anyone copying job text.
- US companies with location limits that can only hire in certain states or countries and do not want to pay extra to say so.
- 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.
If you hire four or more remote people a year, the flat plan usually pays for itself within the first few months. The Remotive pricing guide has the same math for 4, 12 and 25 roles a year.
How the switch works
Turn off renewal on your live Remotive listings from the dashboard linked in your sales order email, 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. Weighing other per-post boards too? Our Remote OK alternative and We Work Remotely alternative pages run the same comparison with each board's own prices.