Standard jobs are "real" map-reduce jobs that are run in a distributed context, most commonly a Beowulf cluster. These jobs have no limits on input size, can save and reuse output, and support monitoring.

Once a job of this type is successfully submitted, users are redirected to the monitoring page, which they can refresh periodically to get status updates. Additionally, users can cancel their own jobs from this interface. If the job completes without error, its output will be displayed on the next refresh (across multiple pages if necessary) and an option will be provided to re-use the output as the input of another job. Currently, WebMapReduce does not allow users to download their job output through the web interface, but it can be accessed through the DFS if necessary.