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Job board software prices compared, checked October 2026
JobClay wrote this page, and JobClay is one of the platforms in the table. Each other platform’s row comes from its own pricing page, linked in the row with the day we read it; JobClay’s row is read from our plans when the page is shown. No platform suits every board, so the last column says who each one suits.
We re-read each pricing page about once a month; each row shows the day we last read it. When a row’s last check is more than 90 days old, the row shows a link to that platform’s current prices instead of a figure. How we check what we publish.
Prices and terms, side by side
| Platform | Entry price | Entry plan includes | Free plan or trial | Cut of employer payments | How employers pay you | Best for |
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| Cavuno Checked October 30, 2026 on cavuno.com | $39 a month, or $29 a month billed yearly | 500 live jobs, your own domain | 14-day Starter trial, no card needed, and the board can be published during it | None on its standard plans: no transaction fee or revenue share, though Stripe’s own fees apply | Stripe: job posts, bundles, employer subscriptions and talent access plans | Small boards that want AI job aggregation and an AI website builder at a low entry price |
| JBoard Checked October 30, 2026 on jboard.io | $149 a month, or $119 a month billed yearly | 1,000 live jobs, 3 import sources, your own domain | 14-day free trial, card required | None: a flat monthly subscription, no commissions or revenue share | Charge for job postings on every plan; subscriptions and packages from Standard | Boards that want resume tools, candidate messaging and an API |
| Job Boardly Checked October 30, 2026 on jobboardly.com | $60 a month, or $40 a month billed yearly | 10,000 live jobs, your own domain | 14-day free trial on every plan, card needed to start, no charge until it ends | Job posts, packages and a candidate paywall on every plan; employer subscriptions from Pro; Stripe Tax and invoices | Small niche boards that want a low entry price and a ready supply of imported jobs | |
| JobClay Read live from JobClay’s plans | $49 a month, or $490 a year | 1,000 live jobs, 3 import sources, your own domain | A free plan, no card needed | None | Employers pay you directly, by card into your own Stripe account or by bank transfer | Boards that want to start free and grow into paid plans |
| Kardow Checked October 30, 2026 on kardow.com | $79 a month, or $59 a month billed yearly | Your own domain | 14-day free trial | None: no platform fee on your revenue, on any plan | Stripe is built in from Starter; invoices and payment links on Scale | Boards that want uncapped jobs and audience, with only imported jobs metered |
| Niceboard Checked October 30, 2026 on niceboard.co | $399 a month, or $319 a month billed yearly | 5,000 live jobs, your own domain | 7-day free trial | None: a flat monthly subscription; a revenue share option is offered on its Enterprise plan | Stripe only; it says other payment options will follow | Associations and member communities that want a talent pool and several languages |
| Spacewalk Checked October 30, 2026 on gospacewalk.com | $81 a month, or $65 a month billed yearly | 100 live jobs, no own domain | 14-day free trial, no card needed on Starter and Pro | None: a flat monthly fee, no revenue share | Employer posting fees go to the board owner | Communities, training providers and associations running a private or public board |
| WP Job Manager Checked October 30, 2026 on wpjobmanager.com | Free software; paid add-ons from $29 a year | The core plugin is free; the add-ons are paid | Simple Paid Listings takes payment through Stripe or PayPal; WC Paid Listings runs on WooCommerce | People who already run WordPress and will host and maintain it themselves |
Rows are in alphabetical order, not by price. Prices are in US dollars, as each pricing page prints them. An empty cell means the page does not say.
JobBoard.io, Job Board Fire and SmartJobBoard are not in the table: on October 30, 2026 their pricing pages answered with a bot check or did not load, and we print only what a platform’s own page says.
What to compare
Feature lists are long and mostly alike. Five questions sort the platforms faster:
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What it costs to start, and to grow.
A free plan, a trial or a money-back guarantee, then the price of the plan your board will need once it has jobs and employers.
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How the board fills with jobs.
An empty board neither ranks on Google nor convinces an employer to pay. Look at how jobs come in (backfill, hiring systems, XML feeds, careers pages), how many, and on which plan.
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How employers pay you.
Whether the platform takes a cut, whether Stripe is the only way, and whether invoices are issued for you.
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How jobs reach Google.
Job posting data on every job page is the minimum. Fast indexing, which tells search engines about a new or closed job within minutes, is often kept for a higher plan.
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What sits on the higher plans.
Emails from your own domain, removing the platform’s branding, and tools beyond the board itself, such as resume parsing, an API or messaging.
Whichever you pick, try it with your real niche before you pay for a year: add a few real job sources, post a job, and run one job page through Google’s Rich Results Test to see the job data Google reads.
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