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ai-jobs.net vs Welcome to the Jungle
ai-jobs.net is a narrow, paid-listings-only board for AI and data roles; Welcome to the Jungle is a broader tech board built around employer culture content.
Side by side
| ai-jobs.net | Welcome to the Jungle | |
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| Vendor | Foorilla | Welcome to the Jungle |
| Pricing model | Free tier + paid plans | Quote only |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Open source | No | No |
| Best for | Candidates who want a job feed narrowed specifically to AI, ML and data roles rather than a general tech board. | Job seekers who want to evaluate company culture before applying, and employers wanting branding built into their listings. |
| Pricing | Free for job seekers to browse and apply; employers pay per job listing. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Free for job seekers; employer pricing is quote-based, reported starting around £199 per job post per month depending on hiring volume. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. |
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Verdict
Both are free for job seekers to browse and apply, and both list data-related roles, but they solve different parts of the search. ai-jobs.net is a niche board scoped exclusively to AI, machine learning, data science and big data positions, and it only accepts paid employer listings — a filter that works in your favour, since a company has to keep paying to keep a stale post up. Welcome to the Jungle is a general tech and startup board that spans product, engineering and data roles together, built around rich employer profiles — photo, video and written content on how a company works — so a candidate can judge culture before applying. Since acquiring the job-matching platform Otta in 2024, it also carries over Otta's preference-based matching for migrated users.
Choose ai-jobs.net if
- You want a feed narrowed to AI/ML/data/big data roles without filtering a broader board yourself.
- You value the signal that every listing is a paid one, not a free post anyone can leave up indefinitely.
- You want filtering by seniority, salary range, stack and job type built in, plus email and RSS alerts.
Choose Welcome to the Jungle if
- You want to see what a company is actually like to work at before applying, not just the job description.
- Your search spans product, engineering and data roles rather than data alone.
- You migrated from Otta and already have a profile, saved jobs or application history there.
What they share
Neither charges job seekers. Employers pay on both — per listing on ai-jobs.net, and through Welcome to the Jungle's broader Hiring Suite (applicant tracking, sourcing, employer branding) sold on a quote-based subscription. That means both have a business reason to keep their paying customers' listings visible, which is worth remembering when a search surfaces the same few employers repeatedly.
The honest caveat
Neither is a complete search on its own. A candidate targeting data roles specifically will usually get more relevant volume from ai-jobs.net's filters, but will miss roles at companies that only post to general boards like Welcome to the Jungle, and vice versa. Run both, and treat the employer profiles on Welcome to the Jungle as a pre-interview research step regardless of where you found the listing.
Last reviewed September 22, 2026