Kardow and SmartJobBoard answer the same question with different models. Kardow is a self-serve, subscription-priced builder, an AI website builder assembles the board, scraper credits fill it and pricing is published from £29 per month with no revenue share. SmartJobBoard centres on employers searching a candidate database, with resume parsing, resume alerts and AI matching, priced through a sales-arranged choice of revenue-share partnership or flat annual subscription. Pick by whether you want self-serve builder control or a resume-database model arranged through sales.
Kardow publishes its plans in multiple currencies, with GBP as the primary display. Starter is £29 per month with 1 team seat, 300 scraper credits per month, the AI website builder, a custom domain, paid job posts and blog/SEO pages. Pro is £69 per month with 3 seats, 1,000 credits, white-label removal, subscriptions, bundles and paywalls, Google OAuth, custom fields, AI screening and API access. Scale is £139 per month with unlimited seats, 3,000 credits, invoices and custom payment links, up to 3 separate boards and priority support. Enterprise is custom, with pricing not published. USD pricing is $39 / $89 / $179 per month. There is a 14-day free trial, annual billing saves 20%+ and Kardow charges the platform subscription rather than a revenue share. Setup fees are not published.
SmartJobBoard does not publish prices. It offers two commercial models arranged through its sales process, a revenue-share partnership in which SmartJobBoard processes employer transactions and a flat annual subscription. A free trial is not published. Setup fees and contract terms are also not published, so budget conversations start with a quote. The practical difference is that Kardow can be costed from its pricing page today, while SmartJobBoard is costed in conversation with its sales team.
Kardow is built for operators who want to build and run a branded, monetisable job board themselves at a low monthly subscription. An AI website builder assembles the board, scraper credits keep it filled (300, 1,000 or 3,000 imports per month by tier) and monetisation runs through Stripe with paid postings from Starter, then subscriptions, bundles and paywalls from Pro. Kardow charges the platform subscription rather than a revenue share, so operators keep what they earn. Scale adds invoices, custom payment links, unlimited team seats and up to 3 separate boards. If self-serve control at a flat platform fee is the goal, Kardow is built for that.
SmartJobBoard has served associations, non-profits, educational institutions and economic development organisations since 2008. Its model centres on employers searching a candidate database, with searchable resumes, resume parsing, resume alerts and AI matching that scores candidates against roles. Backfill integrates jobs from aggregators such as Indeed, ZipRecruiter and Talroo. Commercially it offers a choice between a revenue-share partnership where SmartJobBoard processes employer transactions and a flat annual subscription arranged through sales. If your board's value lives in the resume database as much as the job list, SmartJobBoard is built for that.
There is a third model for boards that exist to serve a defined community rather than to be monetised. Spacewalk sources an employer-direct verified job stream, matches it to members with smart talent matching on every plan and reports through to placements, with no revenue share on any employer fees. Plans start at £61 per month with a 14-day free trial. See Spacewalk vs Kardow and Spacewalk vs SmartJobBoard or view pricing.
Kardow is a self-serve, subscription-priced platform where an AI website builder assembles the board and scraper credits fill it, with published pricing from £29 per month and no revenue share. SmartJobBoard is built around employers searching a candidate database, with searchable resumes, resume parsing, resume alerts and AI matching, priced through sales as a revenue-share partnership or a flat annual subscription.
Kardow imports jobs with scraper credits, 300 per month on Starter, 1,000 on Pro and 3,000 on Scale. SmartJobBoard backfills by integrating jobs from aggregators such as Indeed, ZipRecruiter and Talroo. Neither publishes a refresh cadence.
Only Kardow publishes prices, Starter at £29, Pro at £69 and Scale at £139 per month with a 14-day free trial. SmartJobBoard's two commercial models, a revenue-share partnership and a flat annual subscription, are both quote-based and arranged through sales, so a like-for-like comparison needs a quote from SmartJobBoard.
In opposite ways, which makes it a useful deciding question. Kardow charges the platform subscription rather than a revenue share, so operators keep what they earn through Stripe. SmartJobBoard offers revenue share as one of its two commercial models, a partnership in which SmartJobBoard processes employer transactions, alongside a flat annual subscription arranged through sales.
Yes. If your board exists to serve a defined community rather than to be operated or monetised, Spacewalk offers a community-first placement model, an employer-direct verified job stream matched to your community with placement reporting and no revenue share. See the Spacewalk comparisons or the pricing page.