6 Best Glassdoor Alternatives for Reviews and Salary Data (2026)

The best Glassdoor alternatives depend on what you need to find out. For salary data, use Levels.fyi for tech pay by level and the pay range printed in the job posting itself. For candid talk from people who work there now, use Blind. Comparably and InHerSight turn workplace culture into scores you can compare, RepVue covers sales teams, and Payscale covers pay outside tech. None of them needs an Indeed account, which Glassdoor now requires for full access. If you came for faster job alerts than Glassdoor sends, the alerts section below covers that, and if you already know where you want to work, Scoutify watches those companies' career pages and can apply for you.

What changed at Glassdoor in 2026

Glassdoor is now part of Indeed. Recruit Holdings, which owns both, said in July 2025 that it would fold Glassdoor's operations into Indeed, and Glassdoor LLC legally merged into Indeed, Inc. on July 1, 2026 (Reworked has the timeline). The brand, the site and the anonymous reviews carry on, but Glassdoor now runs under Indeed's terms of use and privacy policy.

The way you sign in changed as well. New users sign in with an Indeed account, and existing users had until April 20, 2026 to connect their Glassdoor account to Indeed to keep full access. Connecting syncs profile details such as your name, email and resume, and once the accounts are linked you can't unlink them without deleting one (Job Board Doctor has the details).

Full access still runs on Glassdoor's give-to-get policy: post a review, a salary, a benefits review or an interview report, and you get 12 months of unlimited access. Plenty of people are happy with that trade. If you are not, or you need a sharper answer on pay or on one specific team, each of the six sites below does one job better than Glassdoor does.

The 6 best Glassdoor alternatives at a glance

These are the six sites like Glassdoor we'd use, compared with Glassdoor itself.

1. Blind: best for candid talk from current employees

Blind is an anonymous forum for working professionals. Verifying a work email gets you full access, including a private channel for your own company once at least 30 coworkers have joined. Sign up with a personal email and you can read the public channels but not post. Blind hashes and encrypts the email it uses for verification and says your activity can't be traced back to that address.

Use it for the questions a structured review can't answer. Is the team you're interviewing with about to be reorganized? What did someone at your level get offered last month? Search the company name together with the team or level, and read the offer-evaluation threads, where people post base, stock and bonus side by side. Treat any single post as a lead rather than proof. Verification confirms where someone works; it doesn't fact-check what they write.

Blind's weak spots are its heavy skew toward tech and large employers and a tone that runs negative, as anonymous forums tend to. It is also not structured for systematic research the way Glassdoor is.

2. Levels.fyi: best Glassdoor alternative for salary data in tech

Levels.fyi has the most detailed compensation data for tech roles. Where Glassdoor mostly reports base salary, Levels.fyi splits pay into base salary, stock and bonus and maps it to each company's own levels, so you can compare a Google L4 with a Meta E4 instead of guessing from job titles. Its salary pages open without an account. In late September 2026, for example, it listed NVIDIA software engineers at $173K a year at IC1, $148K of it base, and $399K at IC4, where stock made up $148K. A base-only number would miss most of the difference.

Most entries are self-reported. The ones marked Verified are different: Levels.fyi requires a proof document, such as an offer letter or pay statement, before it publishes a verified salary, and it shifts the numbers slightly to protect the person who sent them. When a level has only a handful of data points, lean on the verified ones and check the dates.

Its weak spots are coverage that thins out quickly outside tech and company reviews that are minimal.

3. Comparably: best for culture scores you can compare

Comparably, a ZoomInfo company, asks employees to rate specific things, such as leadership, compensation, work-life balance, perks and their team, instead of writing a free-form review. That turns culture into scores you can line up across employers. In a September 2026 awards release, Comparably said it holds more than 20 million ratings across 70,000 companies, on nearly 20 culture metrics.

Check how many people rated a company before you trust its grade. A B+ built on a dozen responses tells you much less than it appears to. The award lists, which use the previous 12 months of anonymous ratings, make a decent shortlist if one thing matters most to you, such as work-life balance or career growth.

Its weak spots are a smaller review volume than Glassdoor, too few ratings at many small employers to mean much, and scores that cannot explain themselves the way a written review can.

4. InHerSight: best for how women rate an employer

InHerSight collects anonymous ratings from women on the things that decide whether a job works long term: paid time off, flexible hours, maternity and adoptive leave, women in leadership, sponsorship or mentorship, and salary satisfaction. Each company gets a score per category, so you can see that an employer does well on flexibility and badly on advancement, which a single overall star rating hides.

Its weak spots are that smaller employers may have few ratings and that category scores come without the context of a written review.

5. RepVue: best for sales jobs

RepVue is built for salespeople. It rates sales organizations on culture and leadership, base pay, incentive compensation structure, product-market fit, professional development, inbound lead flow, and diversity and inclusion, and it tracks how many reps hit quota. Its salary figures come from verified reports filed in the past 12 months.

These are data points you will never find on Glassdoor, and they answer the question Glassdoor can't: will I make my number here? A generous on-target earnings figure means little if most of the team misses quota. RepVue is free and anonymous, and rating your own company, which takes a few minutes, unlocks more of its salary data.

Its main weak spot is that it covers sales roles only.

6. Payscale: best for pay outside tech

Payscale covers far more occupations than Levels.fyi, including healthcare, finance, education and manufacturing. Answer a short survey about your job and work history and it returns a free salary report with a personalized range. It also offers cost-of-living calculators and negotiation guides, and its pages by job title and city work well as a quick benchmark before a negotiation. If you work outside tech, Payscale is likely a better source for compensation benchmarks than Levels.fyi.

Its weak spots are that the data is self-reported, some of it sits behind a paywall, and it is less precise than Levels.fyi for tech roles, with no level-by-level breakdown of stock.

Free salary data that doesn't rely on reviews

Every site above depends on people choosing to share. These three free sources do not depend on anyone sharing:

• The job posting often lists the pay range. A growing list of states, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington, plus Washington, DC, now require most employers to put a pay range in the job ad. Posted ranges are usually base pay and often wide. In Scoutify's June 2026 tech salary report, the median posted range for software engineer roles ran from about $128K to $199K across 6,194 postings. Use a posted range for the floor and ceiling, then Levels.fyi for bonus and stock.
• H-1B wage filings show what employers offer. An employer hiring someone on an H-1B visa files a Labor Condition Application that states the wage, and the U.S. Department of Labor publishes those filings as LCA disclosure data. The latest release covers filings through June 30, 2026, with the offered wage by employer, job title and worksite. It only covers H-1B roles and leaves out bonus and stock, but the numbers come from the employer, not from a survey.
• Government wage statistics give you a baseline. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program publishes pay for about 830 occupations in every state and metro area, and its latest figures are for May 2025. It won't tell you what one company pays, but it's a good check on whether an offer is normal for the job where you live.

More sites similar to Glassdoor

• Indeed company pages carry reviews, salaries and Q&A. They used to be the obvious second opinion, but since the merger Indeed and Glassdoor are one company, so don't count them as an independent check.
• kununu is the main Glassdoor equivalent in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
• Reddit communities for your field, such as r/cscareerquestions, r/sales or r/nursing, are good for questions about interview loops and specific teams. Search the company name with "interview" or "offer".
• Handshake used to show students' internship reviews, but its help center says the feature has been taken out for now. It's still a job board for students, just not a review site: it partners with universities to verify student accounts and curates roles for early-career candidates.
• Scoutify company pages, such as NVIDIA and Amazon, show the hiring side that review sites miss: open roles pulled from the company's own career site, how many jobs it posted in the last 7 and 30 days, and the base-pay range from its posted listings. For some large employers they also put Glassdoor ratings, Comparably scores, Levels.fyi pay and recent Blind threads on one page, and each company has an interview prep page too. They're free and need no account.

How to check a company in 20 minutes

1. Read the last 12 months of Glassdoor or Indeed reviews for your job function and location, and write down the complaints that repeat. (5 minutes)
2. Search Blind for the company plus the team or level you're interviewing for. You're looking for anything newer than the reviews: a reorg, layoffs, a new manager. (5 minutes)
3. Compare the posted pay range with Levels.fyi, or Payscale outside tech, for the same level and city. In sales, check RepVue's quota attainment before you believe the OTE. (5 minutes)
4. Check whether the company is still hiring in your area. Scoutify's company pages show how many jobs it posted in the last 30 days and how that compares with the 30 days before. Steady hiring in your function is a better sign than a posting count that just dropped by half. (5 minutes)

When two sources tell the same story, believe it. When they disagree, give more weight to the newer and more specific one: several recent reports from the team you'd join count for more than a five-year-old review from another office.

Is Glassdoor still worth using?

Glassdoor is still worth using as one source among several. It still has the most reviews for most employers, and its interview reports are often the best record of what a company actually asks. If you're researching a mid-size company outside tech, it may be the only site with enough reviews to go on.

Keep two things in mind when you read it. First, employers can post public responses and flag reviews for moderation, but a flag doesn't remove a review automatically. Glassdoor also says its moderators can't see whether a company is a paying customer, and that customer status doesn't affect whether a review stays up. Second, ratings move slowly, so sort by date and read the last year first. Our full Glassdoor review covers the rest of the product, including its job search and the give-to-get rules.

Glassdoor alternatives for job alerts

Glassdoor job alerts work, but job search is a side feature next to its reviews, salaries and interview questions. Its alerts come by email only, with no push notifications for new matches, and they typically arrive 24 to 72 hours after the employer posted the job on its career page. Its listing database is also smaller than Indeed's or LinkedIn's, and because both sites belong to Recruit Holdings and share backend infrastructure, you often see the same listings on both. Some features also require an account and periodic contributions. If you came to Glassdoor to hear about new jobs sooner, these tools do that job better:

• Scoutify's instant job alerts from company career pages arrive as push notifications on iOS, Android, macOS and Windows, typically 5 to 15 minutes after a job appears on the employer's site, for $5 a week, and browsing the Scoutify job board is free with no account.
• Sniper, Scoutify's AI auto-apply, goes one step further and applies to new matching jobs for you on Workday, Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters career sites, usually within minutes of posting; the first 25 applications are free, and after that it costs $25 a week for up to 500.
• LinkedIn alerts are free and cover every industry, and although they arrive about as slowly as Glassdoor's (24 to 72 hours), they come with recruiter visibility, the people you know at each company and Easy Apply. Premium Career costs $29.99 a month.
• Indeed has the widest pool of listings and free email and app alerts, which typically arrive 12 to 48 hours after posting, so it is the better backup for non-tech, hourly and small-employer jobs, although you will see some agency and duplicate postings.
• HiringCafe pulls jobs from employer sites and filters by salary, experience and company stage, and its search and saved searches are free, but it does not apply for you. It got me an interview at Trillium Trading during my first internship search, at a company I would not have found on LinkedIn.
• Wellfound lists startup jobs with salary ranges and equity taken from the employer's own posting, which fills the gap for early-stage startups that have few Glassdoor reviews. Its alerts come as periodic email digests, and it is free for candidates.
• Welcome to the Jungle, which absorbed Otta, sends a daily batch of curated matches from companies that pay to be listed, which cuts out ghost jobs. It is strongest for venture-backed tech companies in the UK and US, and it is free for candidates.

The approach that works best is to split Glassdoor's role in your search rather than replace it. Keep using it for what no other platform does as well, which is company reviews, salary benchmarking and interview preparation, and move discovery to tools built for it. Glassdoor then becomes your research step between discovering a job and deciding to apply.

When Scoutify fits better than Glassdoor

Scoutify is not a review site, so it will not replace Glassdoor's written reviews. It fits the steps around them. Every company on Scoutify has an interview page at /companies/<company>/interview/, such as the one for Palantir, with interview questions and salary data for that company, and the main company page shows its open roles from its own career site and how many jobs it posted recently. You can browse them all in the Scoutify company directory, free and without an account.

Research tells you where you want to work, but it does not tell you when those companies will post the job, and good research means little if you discover the job a week after it was posted. Glassdoor never addressed that problem, and timing matters: many recruiters start screening as soon as applications arrive, so a role you find on day three may already have a shortlist. Once you have a shortlist of companies, add them to your Scoutify alerts. Scoutify watches 70,000+ company career pages directly and checks the companies its users pick more often than the rest, so an alert often reaches your phone within minutes of a matching job going live.

If you would rather not be the one who has to act on every alert, Sniper applies on the employer's career site for you. It fills in the real application on Workday, Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters career sites with your resume and profile, often within minutes of a matching job posting, and Ashby and Lever are rolling out. It never logs in to your LinkedIn account, and it sends one application per posting, so it never applies to the same job twice. Most applications get the employer's own confirmation email, and those confirmations and any replies land in Scoutify Mail. Auto Apply is $15 a week for up to 200 applications. Sniper is $25 a week for up to 500, picks the best-fit resume for each job and sorts recruiter replies. Your first 25 applications are free, and you do not need a card to start.

Scoutify is the better choice when you already know which companies you want and the hard part is getting your application in early. Glassdoor and the six sites above are the better choice when you still need to decide whether a company is worth applying to, and the two work well together.

The bottom line

There's no single Glassdoor replacement, and you don't need one. Use Levels.fyi and posted pay ranges for salary, Blind for what's happening right now, Comparably or InHerSight for culture scores, RepVue if you sell, and Payscale if you work outside tech. Keep Glassdoor for review volume and interview reports, as long as you're comfortable with the Indeed account that now comes with it.

Common questions

Can you read Glassdoor reviews without logging in?

You cannot read them fully without logging in. Full access to reviews, salaries and interview reports needs an account (for new users, an Indeed account) and a contribution under the give-to-get policy. Students, and people who haven't worked in more than five years, can get access by setting up job alerts instead. If you'd rather skip an account entirely, Levels.fyi's salary pages and Scoutify's company pages do not require one.

What is the best Glassdoor alternative for salary data?

Levels.fyi is the best choice for tech roles, because it breaks pay into base, stock and bonus by level and marks entries backed by an offer letter or pay statement. Outside tech, use Payscale. For any job, check the pay range in the posting and, for H-1B roles, the Department of Labor's wage filings.

What is the best alternative to Glassdoor for anonymous company reviews?

Blind is the best choice for current, candid discussion from people whose employer it has verified. For structured scores you can compare across companies, use Comparably, or InHerSight for ratings from women.

Is Glassdoor owned by Indeed?

Both have belonged to Recruit Holdings since it bought Glassdoor in 2018, and on July 1, 2026 Glassdoor legally merged into Indeed, Inc. Glassdoor still runs as its own brand and website.

What is the best alternative to Glassdoor for job alerts?

Scoutify is the fastest alternative, because it watches company career pages directly and sends push alerts within minutes for $5 a week, while Glassdoor's email alerts typically arrive 24 to 72 hours after a job posts. LinkedIn and Indeed are the best free alternatives. If you want the applications sent for you, Scoutify's Sniper applies to new matching jobs within minutes, and your first 25 applications are free.

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