HiringCafe
Free AI job search engine that indexes jobs straight from company career pages, with 5M+ live roles and no sponsored placement.
Free
Bottom line
HiringCafe is a free job search engine that indexes 5M+ jobs straight from company career pages rather than selling sponsored placement, and filters out staffing agencies and ghost jobs. Job seekers pay nothing. For recruiters and employers it is a read on who is really hiring and a free way to get a career page indexed, not a paid posting channel.
Stands out for: Jobs come from employers' own career pages, not paid ads, so the index is far larger than sponsored-only boards and agency reposts are removed. It grew to 2M+ monthly users through Reddit with no marketing spend, raised a $6.8M pre-seed led by Spark Capital in 2026, and launched an AI Talent Agent that matches seekers from a resume.
Watch out for: It is built for job seekers first, and the vendor says so. There is no published employer product, job promotion, applicant tracking or candidate database, so you cannot buy reach or search resumes. Agency recruiters' own postings are filtered out of results by design.
Overview
HiringCafe is a job search engine operated by SPICYHR Inc., founded by Ali Mir (ex-Meta, DoorDash, Rippling) and Hamed Nilforoshan (Stanford CS PhD, ex-Airbnb and Snapchat).
It started in 2022 as a viral spreadsheet of hard-to-find startup jobs and now indexes more than 5M live jobs collected directly from company career pages.
The search filters by location rules, work setting, pay, years of experience, skills, seniority and company details, and removes external recruiting agencies, duplicates and stale listings.
In September 2026 it raised $6.8M in pre-seed funding led by Spark Capital, with angels from ZipRecruiter and Indeed, and launched an AI Talent Agent that reads a resume and sends matched jobs.
Everything is free for job seekers; employers can submit a career page to be indexed.
Who it's for
Best for
- Employers wanting their career page jobs found for free
- Recruiters mapping which companies are hiring now
- Candidates you coach through a job search
Not ideal for
- Buying applicant volume or sponsored reach
- Staffing agencies posting client roles
- Searching a resume database
Key features
Career-page index. Jobs are collected directly from company websites in real time, with 5M+ live roles listed.
Agency and ghost-job filtering. External recruiting agencies, fake consulting firms, stale postings and duplicates are filtered out.
Detailed filters. Search by location rules, work setting, pay, years of experience, skills, seniority and company details.
AI Talent Agent. Reads a resume, asks about goals, then watches the index and sends only matched roles.
Add Career Page. Employers can submit their own careers page to be indexed.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| AI Talent Agent reads a resume, asks about goals and sends matched jobs from the live index | Free |
| AI extraction of pay, years of experience, skills and company summaries on every listing | Free |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Pricing
HiringCafe is free for job seekers, including search, saved searches, boards and the AI Talent Agent. Employers can submit a career page for indexing from the site; the vendor does not publish a paid employer product or price. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 28 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is HiringCafe expensive?
HiringCafe starts at Free. We list 66 job boards tools in total. 9 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $299 a month.
- 27 quote-based
- 9 free tier
- 27 public price
Worked out automatically from every job boards listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Free, with no pay-to-win job placement
- Jobs pulled from company career pages, agencies filtered out
- Large live index with pay and experience filters
Cons
- No published employer or recruiter product
- No applicant tracking or resume search
- Agency postings excluded from results
How HiringCafe compares
See all HiringCafe alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HiringCafe (this tool) | ✓ | Free | – | – | |
| | ✓ | PPC / subscription | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | ✓ | Quote | – | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | 12%/hire | – | – | Compare |
PPC / subscription Free tier MCP API
Indeed sells sponsored job placement and applicant volume, the paid reach HiringCafe does not offer.
Quote Free tier API
Himalayas also lets employers post for free, and adds a searchable talent directory and candidate messaging, but for remote roles only.
12%/hire
TrueUp is a tech-only job marketplace that adds warm intros to hiring teams instead of a general career-page index.
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