We Work Remotely is a paid-to-post remote job board: every job on it is one a company paid to show to remote workers. Covesight is better for volume and for one question, whether you can take a remote job from where you live. In Covesight's latest live check (11 November 2026), under 1% of 40,000+ remote listings were confirmed open worldwide. Most of the rest only hire in certain countries, most often the US.
Disclosure: Covesight is the site you are reading, and we built it. Every We Work Remotely fact below links to its own pages, read on 7 November 2026.
We Work Remotely vs Covesight at a glance
| Question | We Work Remotely | Covesight | Better here |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many remote jobs | 557 on its list on 7 November 2026; over 1,000 new a month (WWR's figure) | 40,000+ live, read from 3,000+ company hiring systems and a few feeds | Covesight |
| Who posts the jobs | Companies that pay to reach remote workers; a tag marks the ones with the most remote hiring experience | Read from companies' own hiring systems; nobody pays to be listed | We Work Remotely, for intent |
| Small teams that only use job boards | Yes, any company can post | Often missing | We Work Remotely |
| Can I apply from my country? | A location tag the employer picks, such as Anywhere in the World or a list of countries | The full description read every day: open worldwide, no lock found, or limited to a place, hours or a language | Covesight |
| Account to browse | Required | Not required; a free account adds ranking and alerts | Covesight |
| Applying | Boosted jobs are open to every account; for unlimited applications to the rest you need WWR Pro, $14.95 a month on a 12-month commitment | Links to the company's own application page, free | Covesight |
| Closed jobs | Posts run 30 days and renew unless the employer turns renewal off | Removed at the next daily check once they leave the company's hiring system | Covesight |
| Newsletter, events and community | Yes | No | We Work Remotely |
Where We Work Remotely is the better choice
We Work Remotely is one of the longest-running remote boards. Its FAQ says it launched publicly in 2011, has had over 38,000 jobs posted, gets over 1,000 new positions a month and has over 6 million unique visitors. Employers pay $299 for a 30-day listing, and more for upgrades such as a $199 Boost. That price filters the list: a company that pays to post on a remote-only board means to hire remotely. Any company can post, including small teams whose jobs Covesight does not read.
The location tags are useful too. WWR says the "Anywhere in the World" tag marks a job with no location or timezone restrictions, and an employer that can only hire in some countries can pay $99 for GeoLock, which shows the job only to people in those countries. With a free account you get a feed filtered by the regions and time zones you can work in, and daily email alerts.
Where Covesight is the better choice
Volume first. On 7 November 2026 the "All jobs" counter on We Work Remotely's homepage showed 557 jobs. Covesight had 40,000+ live remote listings in its latest check, read straight from 3,000+ company hiring systems and a few feeds, We Work Remotely's public feed among them. You can browse all of them without an account, and every one links to the company's own application page, so there is no limit on how many you apply to.
Then eligibility. A tag is only as good as the employer who picks it. Of the 214 listings on WWR's homepage that day, 112 (52%) were tagged Anywhere in the World, 66 named countries or a region, and 36 showed a salary but no place at all. At least 5 of the "Anywhere" listings named a country or region in the job title itself, such as an engineering job marked "US". WWR's own FAQ says not all of its jobs are fully remote, because many companies can only hire in certain countries or time zones.
Covesight reads the whole description of every remote listing, every day, for where the company can hire, working hours and language, and puts each listing in one of three states: confirmed open worldwide, no lock found, or limited to a place, hours or a language. This is how many listings were open to someone living in each country in the latest check:
| If you live in | Remote listings open to you | Share of all remote listings |
|---|---|---|
| The US | 20,000+ | under 60% |
| The UK | 3,000+ | under 10% |
| Canada | 3,000+ | under 10% |
| Germany | 3,000+ | under 10% |
| Australia | 700+ | under 2% |
A listing counts as open to you when it names your country, names a region that includes it, or is confirmed open worldwide. With a free account Covesight ranks the jobs you can take, on the web and in the app, with an optional daily email. Listings that close are removed at the next daily check.
How to use We Work Remotely and Covesight together
- Start on Covesight with the jobs open to you: your country page on the board, or the jobs open worldwide.
- Make a free We Work Remotely account, set the regions you can work from, and check its newest jobs a few times a week for small companies that are not on Covesight. Boosted jobs can be applied to without paying.
- On any WWR listing, read the title and description as well as the tag before you apply.
- Never pay to get a job. The US Federal Trade Commission warns that scammers impersonate real employers on job platforms. How to check if a remote job posting is real shows each step.
The verdict
If your question is "which remote jobs can I actually take from where I live?", Covesight is the better pick: it has far more remote listings, checks each one for where it can hire every day, and costs nothing to apply through. We Work Remotely is worth a free account next to it for small companies whose jobs Covesight does not read. For the same comparison with a network site, see LinkedIn vs Covesight; for more boards, see Best remote job sites in 2026 and the FlexJobs review. To see how many remote jobs are open to your country right now, try the free Country Check.