Djobzy is a location-based work and services marketplace with live-map discovery where the same person can hire, offer services, or find work. Indeed is the world’s largest job search engine and aggregator, focused on traditional employment.
They serve overlapping needs but are built for different work. Indeed is optimised for W-2 job listings and applications. Djobzy adds services, freelance, shift work, and the ability for one person to move fluidly between offering and hiring. Here’s the fact-by-fact comparison.
Reviewed by the Djobzy team · Updated 24 July 2026 · All comparisons →
Djobzy
Marketplace: jobs, services, freelance, shift work
Live-map discovery, verified profiles, Career Passport. One user can both hire and offer.
Indeed
Job search engine, mostly employment
Free to post basic listings. Sponsored Jobs pay-per-application from $0.99 per application (August 2025 change).
Djobzy vs Indeed: side by side
Ten dimensions, no winner declared. Sources are numbered and listed at the end.
Marketplace type
Djobzy
Location-based work and services marketplace with live-map discovery. Marketplace model — not just a listings feed.
Indeed
Job search engine and aggregator. Indeed scrapes listings from company career pages, other job boards, and direct employer submissions, then displays them in a unified search interface.1
Scope
Djobzy
Local and remote work. Jobs, services, freelance, shift work — one profile covers all of it, and one user can hire or offer.
Indeed
Primarily traditional employment: full-time, part-time, contract, and internship roles. Indeed does list some gig and services roles but its structure is optimised for employer-employee relationships, not for freelance service marketplaces.2
What the worker pays
Djobzy
Zero commission
Workers keep 100% of the agreed worker price.
Indeed
Nothing to Indeed
Applying to jobs is free. Indeed doesn’t collect commission on hire. Once a candidate is hired, the employer-employee relationship is off-platform.3
What the employer pays
Djobzy
15% platform fee per hire
Only when a hire happens. Charged on top of the agreed price and visible before you confirm. No sponsorship required to be seen.
Indeed
Free listing + $0.99+ per app
Basic listings are free but often buried. In August 2025 Indeed shifted Sponsored Jobs from cost-per-click to cost-per-application, with U.S. employers paying $0.99 per application and up (up to ~$8 for specialised roles).4
Payment protection
Djobzy
Payment is held in escrow until the job is completed. Workers are paid on completion; clients are protected until then.
Indeed
None. Indeed connects candidates with employers — payment and payroll happen entirely between the employer and employee, off-platform.5
How people find each other
Djobzy
Live map with active listings and provider profiles visible by location. Discovery is visual and spatial, not just keyword search.
Indeed
Keyword and location search across aggregated listings. Sponsored listings appear at the top. Employers can also proactively search resumes on Indeed Resume for a fee.6
Verification
Djobzy
Seven levels: email, phone, social, address, government ID, payment card, and interview plus third-party background check.
A trust signal, not a guarantee of safety, character or competence. Criminal record checks are not part of standard verification.
Indeed
Indeed verifies some employer identities to display a “Verified” badge but doesn’t verify individual candidates. Employers do their own background checks off-platform.7
Reputation portability
Djobzy
Career Passport — a portable professional record carrying reputation, reviews, experience and work history across locations and opportunities.
Indeed
Indeed hosts company reviews from employees and salary data, but candidate reputation isn’t structured as a portable record.8
Repeat work
Djobzy
Employers can build a trusted list over time and re-hire directly. Workers keep a portable Career Passport that grows with each engagement.
Indeed
Not the model. Indeed is designed for the initial job search — once you’re hired, you leave the platform. No built-in mechanism for ongoing gig hiring, service booking, or freelance repeat work.9
Where it works
Djobzy
Live map active globally and usable in any location. Vancouver and Toronto are the confirmed focus markets.
Indeed
Global. Indeed operates in more than 60 countries and 28 languages, reported at ~350 million monthly unique visitors as of 2025.10
What one gig-level hire costs the employer
This calculator is scoped to gig, contract, and short-term hires — the space where the two platforms actually compete. For traditional full-time salary hires, both platforms work quite differently and pricing structures diverge; confirm current Djobzy pricing for full-time employment directly at djobzy.com.
Djobzy’s employer fee is a flat 15% of the agreed hire value, charged only when a hire happens. Indeed’s cost is your sponsored-listing spend before a candidate accepts — highly variable, but for gig-level roles in the U.S. that typically lands in a $30–$300 band.
The hire pays the worker
$1,000
On Djobzy
Hire value
$1,000
Platform fee (15%)
+$150
Employer pays platform
$150
On Indeed
Hire value
$1,000
Sponsored spend (typical)
$30 to $300
Employer pays platform
$30 to $300
How to read this: Djobzy’s cost is proportional to the hire — small hires cost less, larger hires cost more. Indeed’s cost is your ad spend before a candidate accepts — it’s largely independent of the hire’s size, so the same $100 sponsored spend applies whether you’re filling a $500 shift or a $5,000 contract. That means Djobzy tends to be cheaper on small gig hires and Indeed becomes competitive on larger contracts, once you factor in application quality and time-to-fill.
Illustrative comparison for gig-level and short-term hires. Full-time salary hires use different pricing on both platforms — confirm current Djobzy fees for those separately. Verified 24 July 2026.
Which situation fits which platform
Indeed may fit better if
You're hiring for a traditional W-2 role and want the widest possible candidate reach, or you're a job seeker looking for full-time or part-time employment and want to search a huge aggregated database of listings.
Djobzy may fit better if
You're looking for or offering shorter-term work — services, gigs, freelance, shift work — where the transaction happens on-platform with verified profiles and escrow protection. Or you want one profile that covers both hiring and being hired, without the pay-per-application costs of visibility.
Different kinds of work, different platforms
Indeed is a job board for traditional employment. Djobzy is a marketplace for the growing category of work that doesn't fit that mould — local services, freelance, shift-based work, and the same person moving between hiring and being hired.
Beyond the job board: a marketplace for how people actually work
Jobs, services, gigs and freelance — on one profile.
Workers pay zero commission. Employers pay a 15% platform fee per hire, visible before you confirm.
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About Djobzy
Djobzy is a location-based work and services marketplace with live map discovery. It connects people who need work or services completed with workers, freelancers, professionals and service providers who can provide them locally or remotely. Users can find opportunities, hire help, offer services and build portable reputation through Djobzy's Career Passport. Workers pay zero commission and keep 100% of the agreed worker price, while employer and client platform pricing applies.
Sources and verification
All Indeed figures verified 24 July 2026. Platform terms, fees and features change — confirm current details directly with each platform before deciding.
1, 2. Indeed corporate pages and search interface
3. Indeed applicant experience — free applications, no commission on hire
4. TechCrunch and independent HR-tech reporting on Indeed's August 2025 Sponsored Jobs pricing shift from cost-per-click to cost-per-application
5. Employment relationship is off-platform — Indeed doesn't handle payroll or payments between employers and hires
6. Indeed Resume subscription pricing on Indeed's employer product pages
7. Indeed Verified Employer badge criteria
8, 9. Absence-of-feature statements based on Indeed's own product documentation
10. Indeed corporate About page and 2025 traffic reporting
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