How does We Are Distributed compare with Himalayas?

We Are Distributed has around 2,000 active job listings, 99% are remote, but we've recently began listing hybrid and on-site opportunities as well. Rather than list every job that exists on the internet, we're selective in listing only the best opportunities; especially those from true, work from anywhere employers.

New roles appear daily and only stay up for 14 days. Once they expire, they're gone for good. This helps keep our job board fresh so you don't apply for ghost jobs or roles that have closed.

Himalayas carries 99,806 live roles, which the homepage rounds to 100,000+. Free employer posting plus aggregation from elsewhere is what produces that. Some of it is duplication — on any aggregating board that number is never zero — but the surface area is not comparable.

Neither figure tells you how many of those roles are open to your country, your timezone or your level.

We Are Distributed states that a person confirms every role is genuinely open to remote, anywhere applicants before it publishes — no scraped postings, no dead roles left up to earn ad impressions. The board is checked daily rather than re-imported weekly, so a filled role comes down in hours rather than at the next crawl.

No vetting policy is published anywhere on Himalayas that we could find. A company completes a profile and lists; beyond that the board is aggregation. That is how a platform reaches a hundred thousand roles.

A stated policy is a promise rather than an audit — neither platform publishes a rejection rate.

On We Are Distributed an employer publishes a real band, or the platform surfaces a recommended band for that role in its place. There is no listing on the board where the money is simply absent. That is a policy with a cost attached — some employers will not post under it — and it is the position of a platform that has spent years campaigning for pay transparency in adverts.

On Himalayas compensation does not appear on listing previews. Where a source posting carries a figure it survives into the detail page; where it does not, nothing replaces it. You cannot rule out everything under your number before reading it, because the number is not in the list.

This is not a finding that Himalayas roles pay less. It is a finding that you learn what they pay later, and often only by asking.

We Are Distributed names the countries on the role. That is one of the six commitments in its Global Employer Pledge, and the wording there is blunt about why: “Remote” is not a location. A role that cannot say where it will employ you has not finished being written.

Himalayas carries region tags instead — “Remote”, or a continent, or a broad zone. There is no eligibility list on the listing, so the first place the restriction usually appears is inside the employer’s own application form, several steps and one cover letter later.

A platform that charges for placement can require a field before the role publishes. A platform that takes nothing has nothing to require it with.

We Are Distributed's free tier is permanent: the whole Career Manager, the board, the support groups and the weekly check-in, at $0 with no card, for as long as you want it. What it does not include is stored resumes, job analyses, the AI career agent, or a network beyond five connections.

Paid starts at $15 with Lite, and the ladder runs $15 / $30 / $60 / $99. Lite adds the career agent, stored resumes and job analyses. Every tier is monthly with no commitment, which matters against boards that lock a year in — but does not make $15 cheaper than $9.

Himalayas gives one of everything free — one resume, one cover letter, one mock interview, one coaching session — on top of a tracker, AI matching and job alerts. It is deliberately enough to run a real search with, and then a wall.

Plus is $9 a month: daily alerts, unlimited resumes and cover letters, unlimited interview practice and coaching, a hundred AI headshots a month and thirty minutes of conversational AI interviews. Max at $29 raises those to five hundred headshots and four hours.

Counted as features held, the free tiers are seven of eight against four of eight. The ladders diverge higher up: a human cohort appears one tier up on We Are Distributed, more model time one tier up on Himalayas.

The We Are Distributed cohort tier is $20 a month, with the full Job Search Accelerator at $60. Both include Lite and a resume review the platform values at $70. It is explicitly not sold to people whose livelihood is already at risk, and it asks for steady weekly effort — a coach who says that at the point of sale is a coach worth having.

Himalayas coaching is a model, and a good one: infinitely patient, available at three in the morning, free to start. For rehearsing an answer twenty times it is straightforwardly better than a human on a schedule.

What it cannot do is notice the pattern across your last four rejections that you are too close to see, and say it to you plainly.

The We Are Distributed Global Employer Pledge asks for six things: a real salary band, the countries named, the actual hiring manager named before anyone applies, paid test projects, a reply to every applicant within two weeks, and the same benefits logic for contractors as for employees. None of the six costs an employer a budget line.

Zero of the pledge’s hundred founding seats are taken. A published standard with no signatories is a position, not yet a practice.

Himalayas requires a completed company profile and that is the whole obligation. No commitment on bands, on geography, on reply times or on paid test work — consistent with a free, open-posting model, and exactly what makes that model work.