Is Hirebase cheaper than Fantastic.jobs?

From 25,000 jobs a month, yes, at every API tier, as of October 2026: 250,000 jobs cost $249 on Hirebase and $500 on Fantastic.jobs, and 2 million cost $999 and $2,800. Below about 20,000 jobs, Fantastic.jobs' $45 and $95 plans are cheaper. Its Apify feed actor falls to $0.80 per 1,000 at its top tier but re-bills every active job on each run.

Does Fantastic.jobs have a free plan?

No. It offers a 14-day trial with 500 jobs. Hirebase has a permanent Free plan: 500 jobs and 50 companies a month, no credit card.

Does Fantastic.jobs have historical job data?

No. Its docs say every job auto-expires after 6 months and the backfill holds active jobs only. Hirebase keeps about 29 million expired jobs since 2023, free to search and priced per dataset.

Does Fantastic.jobs include LinkedIn jobs?

Yes, through a separate job-board feed with LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator jobs; its docs say LinkedIn refreshes hourly in 7 English-speaking countries. Hirebase indexes career pages and ATS first and deliberately skips jobs that exist only on job boards, where reposted, agency and stale listings pile up.

How do I switch from Fantastic.jobs to Hirebase?

Start on the Free plan, with no card, and pull the same companies or searches through Hirebase's job search. If you poll a feed into your own database today, poll Hirebase's search by posting date the same way; closed jobs leave Hirebase's active index every hour. Backfill with Historical Jobs Export, which Fantastic.jobs cannot offer.

Head To Head

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Fantastic.jobs

Hirebase vs Fantastic.jobs: which job data API is better?

Fantastic.jobs and Hirebase both read jobs from company career pages and ATS platforms with a 1–2 hour delay. Buyers outgrow Fantastic.jobs when they need history (it keeps none), faster removal of closed jobs, or a lower price at volume.

Prices and facts checked October 21, 2026 · Hirebase is our product; every competitor fact links to the vendor's own pages

TL;DR

The verdict in one table.

Choose Fantastic.jobs for a LinkedIn feed next to your ATS jobs, or under 20,000 jobs a month from $45. Choose Hirebase for history, hourly expiry and half the price from 250,000 jobs a month.

Hirebase vs Fantastic.jobs (as of October 2026)
Question	Hirebase	Fantastic.jobs	Edge
Where jobs come fromHirebase: Career pages + 80+ ATS Fantastic.jobs: 58 ATS, plus a separate LinkedIn feed	Career pages + 80+ ATS	58 ATS, plus a separate LinkedIn feed	Tie
Closed jobs removedHirebase: Every hour Fantastic.jobs: Re-checked once a day	Every hour	Re-checked once a day	Hirebase
Expired-job historyHirebase: ~29M since 2023 Fantastic.jobs: None; jobs auto-expire at 6 months	~29M since 2023	None; jobs auto-expire at 6 months	Hirebase
250,000 jobs a monthHirebase: $249 Fantastic.jobs: $500	$249	$500	Hirebase
2M jobs a monthHirebase: $999 (≈ $0.50 per 1,000) Fantastic.jobs: $2,800 (≈ $1.40 per 1,000)	$999 (≈ $0.50 per 1,000)	$2,800 (≈ $1.40 per 1,000)	Hirebase
Entry priceHirebase: Free, then $99/mo Fantastic.jobs: $45/mo	Free, then $99/mo	$45/mo	Fantastic.jobs
LinkedIn jobsHirebase: Skipped by design Fantastic.jobs: Separate LinkedIn, Wellfound, YC feed	Skipped by design	Separate LinkedIn, Wellfound, YC feed	Fantastic.jobs
Semantic searchHirebase: Yes, plus resume matching Fantastic.jobs: No	Yes, plus resume matching	No	Hirebase

#1 · Our Pick

Hirebasethe Fantastic.jobs alternative for job data.

Best for: Job boards and products that need fresh ATS jobs with history, hourly expiry and a low price at volume.

Both read the ATS. Hirebase keeps every job it has seen expire, about 29 million since 2023, removes closed jobs every hour instead of once a day, and costs less at every API tier from 25,000 jobs a month.

expired jobs you can search and buy (since 2023): 29M vs 0; expired jobs you can search and buy (since 2023)
closed jobs removed; Fantastic.jobs checks once a day: Hourly; closed jobs removed; Fantastic.jobs checks once a day
for 250,000 jobs a month: $249 vs $500; for 250,000 jobs a month
for 2M jobs a month: $999 vs $2,800; for 2M jobs a month

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

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See the data

Real request · Real responseOctober 23, 2026

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

Feature By Feature

Hirebase vs Fantastic.jobs, side by side.

Hirebase vs Fantastic.jobs, side by side. (as of October 2026)
As of October 2026	Hirebase	Fantastic.jobs
Where jobs come from	Hirebase:Company career pages and 80+ ATS platforms. 300K+ company career pages scanned.	Fantastic.jobs: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.
Job count	Hirebase:Nearly 4M active jobs (currently active).	Fantastic.jobs: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	Hirebase:New jobs live within 1–2 hours of posting; closed jobs removed from the active index every hour.	Fantastic.jobs:Docs: a 1 to 2 hour ingestion delay; expired jobs re-checked once a day; LinkedIn hourly in 7 English-speaking countries.
History	Hirebase:About 29M expired jobs since 2023, with the same fields as live jobs. Search the archive free, then buy the dataset you need.	Fantastic.jobs:No expired history: the 6-month backfill is active jobs only, and every job auto-expires at 6 months.
Free option	Hirebase:Free plan: 500 jobs and 50 companies a month, no credit card.	Fantastic.jobs:14-day trial with 500 jobs.
Pricing	Hirebase:Starter $99/month for 25,000 jobs; Growth $249 for 250,000; Scale $999 for 2 million. Overage $1.50 per 1,000 on Growth and $1.00 on Scale. Annual billing takes 20% off.	Fantastic.jobs:$45/month for 5,000 jobs (expired-jobs endpoint from the $95 plan); $500 for 250K; $2,800 for 2M.
Search	Hirebase:Full-text and filter search. Semantic search and resume matching over live jobs.	Fantastic.jobs:Feed filters; its docs say it does not provide keyword expansion or semantic search.
Hiring manager	Hirebase:A Hiring Manager agent that finds the likely hiring manager and recruiters for a job, including the many postings that name no one.	Fantastic.jobs:An AI field extracted from the job description, so it is present only when the posting names someone.
Enterprise ATSs	Hirebase:Enterprise ATSs including Workday, iCIMS and Taleo.	Fantastic.jobs:Paycor, Phenom, isolved, Avature, BrassRing, Taleo, PageUp, Paradox, talentReef, Dayforce and UKG.
Visa sponsorship	Hirebase:Visa sponsorship detected on each job.	Fantastic.jobs:An AI-extracted field.
Multi-location jobs	Hirebase:One record per job, with every location in a locations array.	Fantastic.jobs:Keeps a record per location, deduplicated by URL and exact match.
Integrations	Hirebase:Make.com, Clay, n8n and Apify integrations.	Fantastic.jobs:RapidAPI and Apify actors.
Delivery	Hirebase:REST API, Python SDK and bulk export (CSV, JSON Lines); Semantic search and resume matching over live jobs; Make.com, Clay, n8n and Apify integrations.	Fantastic.jobs:REST API, RapidAPI, Apify actors; bulk delivery on high-volume plans.

Price Per Job

What the same volume costs on each.

The cheapest published plan that covers each monthly volume, with the cost per 1,000 jobs. Our arithmetic on each vendor's own price list.

What the same volume costs on each. (as of October 2026)
As of October 2026	Hirebase	Fantastic.jobs
5,000 jobs	Hirebase:$99 Starter ($19.80 per 1,000), or 500 free.	Fantastic.jobs:$45 ($9.00 per 1,000).
25,000 jobs	Hirebase:$99 Starter ($3.96 per 1,000).	Fantastic.jobs:$175 for 50,000 ($7.00 per 1,000 used).
100,000 jobs	Hirebase:$249 Growth ($2.49 per 1,000).	Fantastic.jobs:$250 ($2.50 per 1,000).
250,000 jobs	Hirebase:$249 Growth ($1.00 per 1,000).	Fantastic.jobs:$500 ($2.00 per 1,000).
1M jobs	Hirebase:$999 Scale ($1.00 per 1,000).	Fantastic.jobs:$1,600 ($1.60 per 1,000).
2M jobs	Hirebase:$999 Scale ($0.50 per 1,000).	Fantastic.jobs:$2,800 ($1.40 per 1,000).
Enterprise volume	Hirebase:< $0.25 per 1,000 (Enterprise, contact us).	Fantastic.jobs:Custom from 2M to 15M jobs a month.
Via Apify	Hirebase:Apify actors are also available.	Fantastic.jobs:Feed actor from $0.80 per 1,000 at its top tier, re-billing every active job on each run.

Trade-offs

Switching from Fantastic.jobs: what you gain and give up.

You gain

About 29 million expired jobs since 2023; Fantastic.jobs keeps none
Closed jobs removed every hour instead of once a day
No 6-month cutoff: a job stays as long as the employer keeps it open
$999 for 2M jobs a month instead of $2,800
Semantic search, resume matching, visa sponsorship and a Hiring Manager agent

You give up

LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator listings in the same feed
Enterprise ATSs such as Paycor, Phenom, isolved, Dayforce and UKG, today
AI-extracted office-days fields and beta ISCO, O*NET and SOC codes
A $45 plan for under 20,000 jobs a month

Read The Fine Print

What Fantastic.jobs' own pages say about its numbers.

Each point links to its source, checked October 21, 2026.

3M+ is new jobs a month, not active jobs
Its 3M+ career-site figure counts jobs indexed per month. Its Apify feed describes the active career-site database as over 2 million jobs.
Source: apify.com/fantastic-jobs/career-site-job-listing-api
Every job expires at 6 months
Its docs say the 6-month backfill holds active jobs only and every job is auto-expired after 6 months, so there is no expired history to buy.
Source: docs.fantastic.jobs
Closed jobs are re-checked once a day
Its docs say expiry is checked once per day, so a filled job can stay live in your database for up to a day.
Source: docs.fantastic.jobs
No expired-jobs endpoint on the $45 plan
Its pricing puts the expired-jobs endpoint on the $95 plan and above, so the $45 plan cannot tell you which jobs closed.
Source: fantastic.jobs/api

Ask Fantastic.jobs before you buy

How many jobs are active right now, rather than new this month?
What happens to a job that is still open after 6 months?
How do you count a job posted in several cities?

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

Fantastic.jobs: fantastic.jobs/api · docs.fantastic.jobs · apify.com/fantastic-jobs/career-site-job-listing-api
Hirebase: hirebase.org/pricing · hirebase.org/products/job-data-api

FAQ

Hirebase vs Fantastic.jobs: common questions

Our Recommendation

Which one should you choose?

Recommendation by buyer type
If you are…	Choose	Why
A job board that wants history and hourly expiry29M expired jobs since 2023; closed jobs gone within the hour.	Hirebase	29M expired jobs since 2023; closed jobs gone within the hour.
A job board that wants LinkedIn listings tooIts LinkedIn, Wellfound and YC feed sits next to the ATS feed.	Fantastic.jobs	Its LinkedIn, Wellfound and YC feed sits next to the ATS feed.
Over 100,000 jobs a month$249 for 250,000 and $999 for 2M, against $500 and $2,800.	Hirebase	$249 for 250,000 and $999 for 2M, against $500 and $2,800.
Under 20,000 jobs a month$45 and $95 plans cost less than Hirebase Starter.	Fantastic.jobs	$45 and $95 plans cost less than Hirebase Starter.
An AI or resume-matching productSemantic search and resume matching over live jobs.	Hirebase	Semantic search and resume matching over live jobs.

Choose Hirebase if

You need expired-job history for analytics or model training
Stale jobs hurt you: closed jobs must disappear within the hour
You pull 25,000 jobs a month or more and care about price per job

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Hirebase vs Fantastic.jobs: which job data API is better?

The verdict in one table.