Dice Pricing and Dice Job Posting Cost for Employers in 2026, From $399 a Slot to $899 a Month

Dice has four ways to buy: $399 for one job slot, $649 a month for the Starter plan, $899 a month for the Standard plan, and a custom quote above that. The single slot is the only option with no subscription attached. Starter can be bought month to month. Standard cannot: its $899 figure is billed monthly on an annual contract, so the smallest commitment on that tier is a year.

Divide by the slot count and the plans get cheaper per role the more you buy, which is the point of them. One slot on its own is $399. A Starter slot works out to $216.33 a month billed monthly or $183 on the annual plan. A Standard slot is $179.80 on monthly billing and $149.80 paid yearly. So the cheapest slot on the page costs a little over a third of the single slot price, but only if you sign for twelve months and keep five roles open.

The annual totals are the figures to take to whoever approves the budget. Starter is $7,788 a year paid monthly or $6,588 on the annual plan. Standard is $10,788 a year on monthly billing or $8,988 paid up front. Dice notes that pricing is subject to change and valid for new customers only, so a renewal can come back at a different number.

About $15,899 a year on average, according to DHI Group's quarterly filing for the three months ended 30 June 2026. That is roughly $1,325 a month, and it is more than the biggest plan on Dice's public page. A Standard plan paid yearly is $8,988, so the average Dice customer spends about 1.8 times what the top published tier costs.

This number exists because DHI is a public company and reports two metrics for Dice every quarter: how many recruitment package customers it has, and the average annual revenue per customer. The filing describes those packages as job posting capability combined with access to the resume database, which is why the average sits above the self-serve plans. Large recruiting firms and staffing agencies buying many seats pull it up, and DHI does not publish a median, so a small team buying one Starter plan will spend far less than $15,899.

The second row is the one a buyer should notice. Dice lost 15% of its paying customers in a year while revenue per customer held roughly flat, and DHI attributes the revenue decline to lower renewal rates. That does not mean the product got worse. It does mean fewer employers are renewing, which is useful context if a sales rep tells you a plan is the standard choice, and it gives you room to negotiate a custom quote.

No. Dice's pricing page has no free job posting tier, and the cheapest way to put a role on Dice is the $399 single job slot. Dice is free for job seekers, which is where the confusion comes from, but every employer option on the page is paid.

That sets Dice apart from the general boards. Indeed lets you post free and charges to promote the listing. LinkedIn allows a free post with limits on how long it runs. Wellfound, which focuses on startups, lets you post free forever and sells ads from $200 each on top. Dice made a different bet: a paid-only posting keeps the job volume lower and the audience entirely technical, and the price is what that filtering costs.

If you are comparing the $399 against a free post, compare it against what the free post actually delivers. On the auction boards, a free listing sits behind every sponsored one for the same title. Our breakdown of what Indeed charges once you want applicants shows how quickly a free post turns into a daily budget.

A job slot holds one open role at a time, and you can swap a new role into it as soon as the old one is filled or closed. A candidate view is one look at a profile in TalentSearch, Dice's resume database. Those two limits define what each plan is really selling.

Slots are the posting side. Three slots on Starter means three roles live at once, not three roles a month, so a team that fills roles quickly gets more out of a slot than a team with one hard-to-fill role that sits open for a quarter. If you hire one senior engineer and the search takes three months, the Starter plan charges you $1,947 for that one role while the other two slots sit empty.

Candidate views are the sourcing side, and they are where the plans differ most. The single slot lists no candidate views at all. Starter gives one user 250 views a month. Standard gives two users 500 shared views. At list price, a Starter view costs about $2.60 if you use all 250 and assign the whole $649 to them, which is in the same range as Monster's $2 per resume view on its Pro plan. The view count only matters if you plan to source. If you only want to advertise a role and let applicants come in, you are paying for a database you will not open.

Every Dice posting is also promoted beyond Dice, on partner sites and through paid search and social, according to Dice. Dice says 97% of companies that post receive an applicant within 24 hours, which is its own figure rather than an independent one.

The prices line up exactly, which makes this a clean comparison. Dice Starter is $649 a month. Our Growth plan is also $649 a month. What differs is what each one buys and who reads it.

Dice wins if you want to source. A searchable database of technologists with 250 views a month is a real tool, and we do not have one. Dice also wins for on-site and hybrid tech roles, and for security-cleared work through its sister board ClearanceJobs, whose customers average $28,255 a year in the same filing.

For a fully remote role the maths leans the other way. You get five listings instead of three, every applicant arrives already wanting remote work, and the salary range filters out people who would turn the offer down. If only one of your roles is remote, the $199 single listing is less than half the price of one Dice slot.

Dice earns its price in three situations. You are hiring engineers, data people or IT staff and want an audience that is technical by default, rather than filtering a general board. You will actively source, so the candidate views get used. Or you run a staffing or recruiting operation with a steady flow of tech roles, which is the customer DHI's $15,899 average describes.

It is harder to justify when the role is not technical, because Dice is built around tech skills and its candidates are not looking for sales or operations jobs. It is also a weak fit for a one-off hire that takes months to fill, because a slot bills while it waits. And it is poor value if the role is fully remote and you only want applicants, since a remote-only board reaches people who have already filtered themselves for the thing you are offering.

If you are weighing Dice against other tech and general boards rather than against us alone, our comparison of Dice alternatives for employers prices seven of them side by side. For the full cross-board view, including Monster, ZipRecruiter and Craigslist, see what it costs to post a job in 2026, and for the Monster rate card specifically, Monster pricing uses the same published-source approach.