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The 10 Best Job Data APIs in 2026, ranked.
Job data APIs differ more than their marketing suggests: some count every copy on Indeed and LinkedIn as “active”, some check for closed jobs once a day or never, and 2 million jobs a month cost anywhere from $999 to $3,000 across the main APIs. We ranked 10 providers on where their jobs come from, freshness, history and price.
Prices and facts checked · Hirebase is our product; every competitor fact links to the vendor's own pages
The ranking at a glance.
- #1
HirebaseTop Pick
- Best for
- Fresh employer jobs at volume: job boards, sales teams, AI agents
- Starting price
- Free · then $99/mo
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- $3.96 (Starter) → $0.50 (Scale) → < $0.25 (Enterprise)
- Where jobs come from
- Career pages + ATS
- #2
TheirStack- Best for
- Sales teams prospecting by tech stack
- Starting price
- $49/mo · 1,500 credits
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- $32.67 (entry) → $1.10 (5M)
- Where jobs come from
- Boards first (Indeed, LinkedIn)
- #3
Coresignal- Best for
- Jobs plus employee data from one vendor
- Starting price
- $49/mo · 2,500 credits
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- $19.60 (entry) → $0.50 (10M)
- Where jobs come from
- Boards + aggregators + sites
- #4
Fantastic.jobs- Best for
- Small job boards polling an ATS feed
- Starting price
- $45/mo · 5,000 jobs
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- $9.00 (entry) → $1.40 (2M)
- Where jobs come from
- ATS (+ LinkedIn feed)
- #5
PredictLeads
- Best for
- Enriching known companies with signals
- Starting price
- $40/mo minimum
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- $40.00 (entry) → $2.00 (top tier)
- Where jobs come from
- Career pages + ATS
- #6
LinkUp- Best for
- Investors who need history back to 2007
- Starting price
- Quote only
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- Not published
- Where jobs come from
- Employer sites
- #7
Techmap- Best for
- Cheap bulk files by country
- Starting price
- $29/mo API · feeds from $9/mo
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- ≈ $1.00 (API) · ≈ $0.19–0.27 (US feed)
- Where jobs come from
- Aggregators + boards + ATS
- #8
Bright Data- Best for
- Raw LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor data
- Starting price
- $250 per 100K records (unconfirmed)
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- ≈ $2.50 (dataset) · ≈ $1.50 (scraper), unconfirmed
- Where jobs come from
- Job boards (scraped)
- #9
JSearch (OpenWeb Ninja)- Best for
- Live job search for agents and prototypes
- Starting price
- $25/mo · 10K requests
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- ≈ $0.075–1.00 per 1,000 results
- Where jobs come from
- Google for Jobs
- #10
Adzuna API- Best for
- UK and EU research and salary series
- Starting price
- Commercial licence required
- ≈ Per 1,000 jobs
- Not published
- Where jobs come from
- Adzuna index
Per-1,000 figures are our arithmetic on each vendor's published tiers (entry → top). Some vendors bill per request or per credit, so they are not exactly like for like.
Hirebasethe best job data API overall.
Best for: Job boards, sales teams and AI agent builders who need fresh, deduplicated jobs straight from employers, at volume.
Hirebase reads employers' own career pages and 80+ ATS platforms, puts new jobs live within 1–2 hours and removes closed ones every hour. Two million jobs a month cost $999, against $2,300 on TheirStack, $2,800 on Fantastic.jobs and $3,000 on Coresignal, with a permanent free plan and history since 2023.
- per 1,000 jobs at 2M a month; TheirStack $1.15, Fantastic.jobs $1.40
- $0.50
- per 1,000 jobs at 2M a month; TheirStack $1.15, Fantastic.jobs $1.40
- from posting to live; closed jobs removed hourly
- 1–2 h
- from posting to live; closed jobs removed hourly
- expired jobs since 2023, free to search
- 29M
- expired jobs since 2023, free to search
- Topaz Labs jobs in the API vs its own Lever board, Oct 2026
- 5 = 5
- Topaz Labs jobs in the API vs its own Lever board, Oct 2026
Features
- Company career pages and 80+ ATS platforms
- New jobs live within 1–2 hours of posting; closed jobs removed from the active index every hour
- About 29M expired jobs since 2023, with the same fields as live jobs
- Semantic search and resume matching over live jobs
- Visa sponsorship detected on each job
- A Hiring Manager agent that finds the likely hiring manager and recruiters for a job, including the many postings that name no one
- REST API, Python SDK and bulk export (CSV, JSON Lines)
- Make.com, Clay, n8n and Apify integrations
Pricing (as of October 2026)
- Free: 500 jobs and 50 companies a month, no card
- Starter: $99/mo for 25,000 jobs
- Growth: $249/mo for 250,000 jobs
- Scale: $999/mo for 2 million jobs (≈ $0.50 per 1,000)
- Enterprise: contact us; below $0.25 per 1,000 at enough volume
See the data
curl -X POST https://api.hirebase.org/v2/jobs/search \
-H "x-api-key: $HIREBASE_API_KEY" \
-d '{"company_name": "Topaz Labs"}'{
"total_count": 5,
"jobs": [
{
"job_title": "Social Media Manager / video content creator",
"date_posted": "2026-03-06",
"application_link": "https://jobs.lever.co/topazlabs/725891db-7c34-424f-a528-fd2412b3afc3"
},
{
"job_title": "Software Engineer, DevOps / Infrastructure",
"date_posted": "2026-03-05",
"application_link": "https://jobs.lever.co/topazlabs/f1fb0504-e875-4b92-9d54-d5299ea6d245"
},
{
"job_title": "Product Software Engineer (Full-stack)",
"date_posted": "2026-03-05",
"application_link": "https://jobs.lever.co/topazlabs/1dc468e7-193e-47fc-8158-3f3df1417d16"
},
{
"job_title": "Software Engineer, AI Inference / HPC",
"date_posted": "2026-03-05",
"application_link": "https://jobs.lever.co/topazlabs/64c09f71-41a7-493c-966d-cbac83113533"
},
{
"job_title": "Technical Product Manager",
"date_posted": "2025-09-23",
"application_link": "https://jobs.lever.co/topazlabs/ddb5b758-e134-4e32-bcd9-bd855a2b6eee"
}
]
}Quality by design. We deliberately don't index jobs that exist only on job boards. Listings reposted across Indeed, Glassdoor, Adzuna, Monster and the rest are where stale, agency and duplicate jobs pile up.
“We've used the Hirebase API as the core data source for RevOpsCareers for a while now, syncing jobs automatically every day. What stands out is the reliability — the API just works, run after run — and the quality of the data, which is structured well enough that we can ingest, dedupe, and categorize thousands of listings without constant babysitting.”
“Invaluable tool for our recruiting consultants to find relevant and direct job leads, helping us get to new and existing client jobs first. Amazing tool”
The other 9 job data APIs, ranked and reviewed.
- Best for
- Sales and go-to-market teams that prospect by technology stack and want webhooks, MCP and no-code integrations today.
- Starting price
- $49/mo · 1,500 credits
- ≈ Per 1,000
- $32.67 (entry) → $1.10 (5M)
Strengths
- Company tech stacks: 51.6M company–technology pairs, 12.5M companies
- Webhooks, an MCP server and a Claude plugin today
- Zapier, Make, n8n and Databar integrations
- $49 entry plan
Weaknesses
- Indeed (39.87%) and LinkedIn (19.11%) are its largest sources
- No active-job count published; 256M is cumulative
- Repeat fetches and webhook events are charged again
- $1.15 per 1,000 at 2M jobs
Better than Hirebase when: You prospect by technology stack, or need webhooks and an MCP server today.
Full details
- Data sources
- Job boards and ATS. Its own sources page lists indeed.com with 150M jobs (39.87%) and linkedin.com with 72M (19.11%).
- Coverage
- 256M jobs cumulative; it publishes no count of currently active jobs. 51.6M company–technology pairs across 12.5M companies.
- Freshness
- Says 73% of new postings are found the same day and 91% by the end of the next day, measured from the date the job board shows.
- History
- Says 2021; its published monthly series starts in November 2022.
- Free option
- 200 API credits and 50 company credits a month, for accounts that have never paid.
- Pricing
- $49/month for 1,500 credits; $600 for 100K; $1,500 for 1M; $2,300 for 2M; $5,500 for 5M. 1 credit per job and 3 per company; repeat fetches and webhook events are charged again.
- Delivery
- REST API; webhooks for new jobs, closed jobs and newly matching companies; MCP server and Claude plugin; Zapier, Make, n8n and Databar; Clay via webhook or HTTP; datasets to S3, GCS, Azure or Snowflake.
- Best for
- Teams buying jobs alongside employee and company records from one vendor.
- Starting price
- $49/mo · 2,500 credits
- ≈ Per 1,000
- $19.60 (entry) → $0.50 (10M)
Strengths
- Employee and company datasets alongside jobs
- Elite: $5,000 for 10M jobs ($0.50 per 1,000)
- Bulk delivery to S3, GCS or Azure
- Single-source archive back to 2020
Weaknesses
- Says 28M active US jobs; BLS counted 7.08M US openings (Aug 2026)
- A job stays active until every copy of it expires
- Deduplicated jobs only since May 2025
- No webhooks for jobs
Better than Hirebase when: You need employee records with your jobs, or 10M jobs a month on a published plan ($5,000 on Elite).
Full details
- Data sources
- Job boards, aggregators and company websites; its sample sources include a professional network, Indeed and Glassdoor.
- Coverage
- Says 52M+ active jobs, 28M of them in the US, and 486M+ in total. For scale, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 7.08M US job openings in August 2026.
- Freshness
- Says every active job is revisited within 24 hours; the same page also says data is updated every month.
- History
- Deduplicated multi-source jobs since May 2025; single-source jobs archived since 2020.
- Free option
- 7-day trial with 2,000 credits.
- Pricing
- Mini $49/month for 2,500 credits, up to Elite $5,000 for 10M; 1 credit per job collected, searches free. Datasets from $1,000/month on a yearly contract.
- Delivery
- REST API, MCP server, datasets to S3, GCS or Azure. Webhooks cover company and employee changes, not jobs.
- Best for
- Job boards that poll a feed into their own database and want LinkedIn listings and AI-extracted occupation codes, from $45 a month.
- Starting price
- $45/mo · 5,000 jobs
- ≈ Per 1,000
- $9.00 (entry) → $1.40 (2M)
Strengths
- Separate LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator feed
- Enterprise ATSs such as Paycor, Phenom, Dayforce and UKG
- AI-extracted fields and beta occupation codes
- $45 entry plan
Weaknesses
- No expired history; every job auto-expires at 6 months
- Closed jobs re-checked once a day
- No expired-jobs endpoint on the $45 plan
- $1.40 per 1,000 at 2M jobs
Better than Hirebase when: You want LinkedIn listings in the same feed as ATS jobs, or need under 20,000 jobs a month.
Full details
- Data sources
- ATS career sites (its docs: over 200,000 companies on 58 ATS; its marketing says 275k+), plus a separate job-board feed with LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator jobs.
- Coverage
- 3M+ new career-site jobs and 11M+ new job-board jobs a month; its Apify feed describes over 2 million active career-site jobs.
- Freshness
- Docs: a 1 to 2 hour ingestion delay; expired jobs re-checked once a day; LinkedIn hourly in 7 English-speaking countries.
- History
- No expired history: the 6-month backfill is active jobs only, and every job auto-expires at 6 months.
- Free option
- 14-day trial with 500 jobs.
- Pricing
- $45/month for 5,000 jobs (expired-jobs endpoint from the $95 plan); $500 for 250K; $2,800 for 2M.
- Delivery
- REST API, RapidAPI, Apify actors; bulk delivery on high-volume plans.
- Best for
- Enriching known companies with news events, financing, technologies and hiring, where you look up companies rather than search jobs.
- Starting price
- $40/mo minimum
- ≈ Per 1,000
- $40.00 (entry) → $2.00 (top tier)
Strengths
- News, financing and technology signals beyond jobs
- Webhooks for followed companies, MCP, Clay, Make and n8n
- Flat files with history from 2015–2018
- 100 free credits a month
Weaknesses
- Refreshed every 36 hours
- A job closes after 5 days unseen
- Job search filters: O*NET, title, location, seniority and date only
- About $40 per 1,000 at entry; credits don't roll over
Better than Hirebase when: You enrich a known list of companies with news, financing and technology signals.
Full details
- Data sources
- Company career subpages and ATS integrations.
- Coverage
- About 9.8M active jobs across 3M+ companies; its API counts a job active if not closed, seen in the last 5 days and found within the last year.
- Freshness
- Refreshed once every 36 hours; a job closes when its page says it is no longer available, or after 5 days unseen.
- History
- Its pages give 2015, 2016 and 2018 as start dates.
- Free option
- 100 credits a month.
- Pricing
- From $40/month; job discovery costs 1 credit per record, $0.04 per credit up to 5K and down to $0.002 at the top tier; credits don't roll over. Flat files from about $6K a year per dataset.
- Delivery
- REST API, webhooks for followed companies, MCP server, Clay, Make and n8n, flat files.
- Best for
- Hedge funds and economists who need job data back to 2007, mapped to stock tickers and other investor identifiers, with point-in-time archives.
- Starting price
- Quote only
- ≈ Per 1,000
- Not published
Strengths
- History since 2007
- Mapped to tickers and other investor identifiers
- Point-in-time archives
- Daily files to Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, BigQuery or Databricks
Weaknesses
- About 86,000 employers
- Quote-only pricing, no free option
- Sites scraped every 24–48 hours
- One record per location inflates totals
Better than Hirebase when: You need history before 2023, or ticker-mapped data for investing.
Full details
- Data sources
- Employer websites; its RAW product page notes jobs are “(usually)” found through third-party job sites.
- Coverage
- 350M+ records since 2007, one record per job location; about 86,000 employers today.
- Freshness
- Daily files by 6 AM CT; sites scraped every 24–48 hours (every 24 hours for its top tier).
- History
- Since 2007; the last ~10 days of counts are restated.
- Free option
- None; demo on request.
- Pricing
- Not published; quote only.
- Delivery
- Daily files to Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, BigQuery or Databricks.
- Best for
- Buyers who want cheap daily bulk files by country, including public employment offices and job-board-only roles, across 250 countries.
- Starting price
- $29/mo API · feeds from $9/mo
- ≈ Per 1,000
- ≈ $1.00 (API) · ≈ $0.19–0.27 (US feed)
Strengths
- 250 countries, including public employment offices
- US feed works out to about $0.19–0.27 per 1,000 postings
- History since 2020, sold per country
- 1,000 free API postings a month
Weaknesses
- “Active” is assumed from dates, not re-checked
- Duplicates included (flagged)
- Daily files finalized about 48 hours later
- API covers the last 3 months, 10 postings per request
Better than Hirebase when: You want cheap bulk files by country, including job-board-only roles.
Full details
- Data sources
- Per its portals page (September 2026): aggregators, job boards, public employment offices and ATS (about 17%); LinkedIn is its largest single source.
- Coverage
- Says 12M active jobs a month, where active means before a valid-through date or within 30 days of creation, duplicates included and flagged; 451M+ since 2020.
- Freshness
- Daily files finalized about 48 hours after each day; the API covers the last 3 months.
- History
- Since 2020, sold per country as a one-time purchase.
- Free option
- 1,000 API postings a month; a free Luxembourg dataset.
- Pricing
- API about $1 per 1,000 (Pro $29 for 30K); country feeds $9–$649/month (US $400); history $49–$5,999 per country.
- Delivery
- JSON API (10 postings per request), daily S3 files, AWS Data Exchange.
- Best for
- Teams that need raw LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor job data with board-specific fields, bought as a dataset or scraped on demand.
- Starting price
- $250 per 100K records (unconfirmed)
- ≈ Per 1,000
- ≈ $2.50 (dataset) · ≈ $1.50 (scraper), unconfirmed
Strengths
- Board-specific fields for LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor
- On-demand scrapers at $1.50 per 1,000
- Delivery to cloud storage and AWS Data Exchange
- Free 1,000-row sample
Weaknesses
- No cross-board deduplication
- No documented expiry
- AWS feed is monthly, with 3 months of history
- Prices from its site are unconfirmed
Better than Hirebase when: You need raw LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor data with board-specific fields.
Full details
- Data sources
- Scraped job boards; its AWS Marketplace listing names Indeed, ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, Monster and Dice.
- Coverage
- Its AWS Marketplace listing: about 10M job postings worldwide, 1–1.5M of them US, in a monthly feed.
- Freshness
- Monthly for the AWS Marketplace feed; scrapers run on demand.
- History
- 3 months, per its AWS Marketplace listing.
- Free option
- A 1,000-row sample on AWS Marketplace.
- Pricing
- Per Bright Data's site (unconfirmed): datasets $250 per 100,000 records; Scraper API $1.50 per 1,000 pay as you go.
- Delivery
- Datasets to cloud storage and AWS Data Exchange; scraper APIs.
- Best for
- Agents and prototypes that need a cheap live query across every major job board, including job-board-only roles, in any country.
- Starting price
- $25/mo · 10K requests
- ≈ Per 1,000
- ≈ $0.075–1.00 per 1,000 results
Strengths
- Cheapest per search result (≈ $0.075–1.00 per 1,000)
- Covers job-board-only roles in any country
- MCP server
- 200 free requests a month
Weaknesses
- About 500 results per query
- No history and no incremental sync
- Results include aggregator and agency reposts
- Posting dates at day level only
Better than Hirebase when: You need a cheap live search across every job board, including board-only roles.
Full details
- Data sources
- Google for Jobs, which surfaces LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter and others; the provider says LinkedIn is “probably 10's of %” of results.
- Coverage
- A live query, capped at about 500 results per search (50 pages), per the provider.
- Freshness
- Live search; posting dates at day level.
- History
- None.
- Free option
- 200 requests a month.
- Pricing
- Pro $25 for 10,000 requests; Mega $150 for 200,000; pay as you go $0.005 per request; up to 10 results per request.
- Delivery
- REST API, RapidAPI, MCP server.
- Best for
- Researchers and publishers who want UK and European listings and salary series, with attribution back to Adzuna.
- Starting price
- Commercial licence required
- ≈ Per 1,000
- Not published
Strengths
- UK and European coverage across 19 country endpoints
- Historical average salary series
- Free key for personal, academic and publishing use
Weaknesses
- Commercial use is licence-only; prices not published
- Descriptions are snippets; apply links redirect through Adzuna
- Attribution required; terms bar contacting content providers
- Coverage and freshness not stated
Better than Hirebase when: You research UK or EU jobs and salaries under a free academic or publishing key.
Full details
- Data sources
- Adzuna's job search index, including job boards; 19 country endpoints (Adzuna says 20 countries).
- Coverage
- Not stated on its developer site.
- Freshness
- Not stated.
- History
- Historical average salaries; vacancy counts are current only.
- Free option
- Free key for personal, academic and publishing use; a 14-day trial for commercial evaluation.
- Pricing
- Not published; commercial use requires a licence.
- Delivery
- REST API.
Outside the ranking: a person-data provider with job postings in beta, and two enterprise labor-market vendors.
People Data LabsPerson and company data with job postings in beta (7.62M active per its v36.0 stats); job pricing on request.
- Lightcast
Labor-market analytics with skills and occupation taxonomies, sold through sales; API, data shares and an MCP server.
- Revelio Labs
Job postings from company websites and major boards for investors and enterprises, on annual, quote-based plans.
Method and sources.
Hirebase is our product, so we kept to facts a buyer can check. We read each vendor's own pricing, product and documentation pages on October 21, 2026, and did not use other comparison articles. Coverage figures are each vendor's own claims. Per-1,000 prices are our arithmetic on published list prices, before annual discounts.
We compared:
- Where the jobs come from: employer career pages and ATS, or job boards
- Freshness: how fast new jobs appear and closed jobs disappear
- History: how far back expired jobs go, and whether they are deduplicated
- Price per 1,000 jobs at real monthly volumes, not just the entry tier
- Delivery and integrations: API, webhooks, files, no-code tools
Spotted something out of date? Email [email protected] and we will correct it.
Sources
- Hirebase: hirebase.org/pricing · hirebase.org/products/job-data-api
- TheirStack: theirstack.com/en/pricing · theirstack.com/en/docs/data/job/sources · theirstack.com/en/docs/pricing/plans · theirstack.com/en/docs/pricing/credits
- Coresignal: coresignal.com/pricing · docs.coresignal.com/jobs-data/multi-source-jobs-data/dictionary-multi-source-jobs-data · bls.gov/jlt
- Fantastic.jobs: fantastic.jobs/api · docs.fantastic.jobs · apify.com/fantastic-jobs/career-site-job-listing-api
- PredictLeads: predictleads.com/pricing · docs.predictleads.com/v3/data_models/job_openings_dataset
- LinkUp: linkup.com/data · linkup.com/products/raw
- Techmap: jobdatafeeds.com/pricing · jobdatafeeds.com
- Bright Data: aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-3wgkqjxe5ieg4 · brightdata.com/products/datasets/jobs
- JSearch (OpenWeb Ninja): openwebninja.com/api/jsearch
- Adzuna API: developer.adzuna.com/overview · developer.adzuna.com/docs/terms_of_service
Job data APIs: common questions
Which one should you choose?
| If you are… | Choose | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Fill a job board with fresh employer jobsJobs live within 1–2 hours, closed jobs removed every hour, one record per job. | Hirebase (or Fantastic.jobs) | Jobs live within 1–2 hours, closed jobs removed every hour, one record per job. |
| High volume at a low price per job$999 for 2 million jobs a month, and below $0.25 per 1,000 on Enterprise at enough volume. | Hirebase | $999 for 2 million jobs a month, and below $0.25 per 1,000 on Enterprise at enough volume. |
| Match resumes to live jobsResume parsing, embeddings and semantic search over live jobs in one API. | Hirebase | Resume parsing, embeddings and semantic search over live jobs in one API. |
| Start free and scale without switching500 jobs a month free, then published plans from $99. | Hirebase (or JSearch for live search) | 500 jobs a month free, then published plans from $99. |
| Tech-stack prospecting in a no-code appA mature app with alerts and lists, webhooks and an MCP server. | TheirStack (or PredictLeads) | A mature app with alerts and lists, webhooks and an MCP server. |
| Decades of history for investorsEmployer-sourced postings back to 2007, mapped to tickers. | LinkUp (or Lightcast or Revelio Labs) | Employer-sourced postings back to 2007, mapped to tickers. |
| Jobs plus employee dataEmployee and company datasets alongside jobs, from one vendor. | Coresignal | Employee and company datasets alongside jobs, from one vendor. |
| LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor data specificallyPer-board datasets and on-demand scrapers. | Bright Data | Per-board datasets and on-demand scrapers. |
| Cheap bulk files by countryDaily files across 250 countries, from $9 a month per country. | Techmap | Daily files across 250 countries, from $9 a month per country. |
Choose Hirebase if
- You need fresh jobs straight from employers, not job-board copies
- Stale or duplicate jobs cost you users, money or trust
- You want published prices that fall as you scale, starting free

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