Buyer's Guide

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

TL;DR

The ranking at a glance.

  1. #1Hirebase logoHirebaseTop 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. #2TheirStack logoTheirStack
    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. #3Coresignal logoCoresignal
    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. #4Fantastic.jobs logoFantastic.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. #5PredictLeads logoPredictLeads
    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. #6LinkUp logoLinkUp
    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. #7Techmap logoTechmap
    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. #8Bright Data logoBright 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. #9JSearch (OpenWeb Ninja) logoJSearch (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. #10Adzuna API logoAdzuna 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.

#1 · Our Pick

Hirebase logoHirebasethe 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

Real request · Real response
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"
    }
  ]
}
From api.hirebase.org on October 23, 2026, trimmed to three fields per job. Topaz Labs' Lever board listed the same 5 open jobs.

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.”
Daniel SecareanuFounder, RevOpsCareers, RevOpsCareersDailyAutomatic job sync
“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”
Joe JamesIT Infrastructure Recruitment, Franklin Fitch$400k+in placement revenue after 1 month of using the Hirebase API
The Alternatives

The other 9 job data APIs, ranked and reviewed.

Ranked on sourcing, freshness, history and price per job. Each one says who it suits and when it beats Hirebase.
  1. #2TheirStack logo

    TheirStack

    Job and technology signals for salestheirstack.com
    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.
  2. #3Coresignal logo

    Coresignal

    Jobs, companies and employeescoresignal.com
    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.
  3. #4Fantastic.jobs logo

    Fantastic.jobs

    ATS job feed plus LinkedIn feedfantastic.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.
  4. #5PredictLeads logo

    PredictLeads

    Company signals, including jobspredictleads.com
    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.
  5. #6LinkUp logo

    LinkUp

    Employer-sourced labor-demand datalinkup.com
    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.
  6. #7Techmap logo

    Techmap

    Country job feeds and archivesjobdatafeeds.com
    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.
  7. #8Bright Data logo

    Bright Data

    Job-board datasets and scrapersbrightdata.com
    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.
  8. #9JSearch (OpenWeb Ninja) logo

    JSearch (OpenWeb Ninja)

    Live job search over Google for Jobsopenwebninja.com/api/jsearch
    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.
  9. #10Adzuna API logo

    Adzuna API

    Job search engine APIdeveloper.adzuna.com
    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.
Also Worth A Look

Outside the ranking: a person-data provider with job postings in beta, and two enterprise labor-market vendors.

  • People Data Labs logoPeople Data Labs

    Person 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.

How We Evaluated

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

FAQ

Job data APIs: common questions

Our Recommendation

Which one should you choose?

Recommendation by buyer type
If you are…Choose
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)
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
Match resumes to live jobsResume parsing, embeddings and semantic search over live jobs in one API.Hirebase
Start free and scale without switching500 jobs a month free, then published plans from $99.Hirebase (or JSearch for live search)
Tech-stack prospecting in a no-code appA mature app with alerts and lists, webhooks and an MCP server.TheirStack (or PredictLeads)
Decades of history for investorsEmployer-sourced postings back to 2007, mapped to tickers.LinkUp (or Lightcast or Revelio Labs)
Jobs plus employee dataEmployee and company datasets alongside jobs, from one vendor.Coresignal
LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor data specificallyPer-board datasets and on-demand scrapers.Bright Data
Cheap bulk files by countryDaily files across 250 countries, from $9 a month per country.Techmap

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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