What is the difference between employer-sourced and job-board job data?

Employer-sourced providers, such as Hirebase, Fantastic.jobs, PredictLeads and LinkUp, read company career pages and applicant tracking systems, so a job links to the employer's own posting. Job-board providers, such as Bright Data and JSearch, collect what appears on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and similar sites, which includes roles that never reach a career page, and the same job can appear on several boards. TheirStack, Coresignal and Techmap mix both.

Which job data APIs have a free plan?

Hirebase (500 jobs a month), TheirStack (200 API credits a month for accounts that have never paid), PredictLeads (100 credits a month), JSearch (200 requests a month) and Techmap (1,000 API postings a month) have free tiers. Coresignal and Fantastic.jobs offer trials: 7 days with 2,000 credits, and 14 days with 500 jobs. Adzuna's free key covers evaluation, personal and academic use only.

How much does job posting data cost?

As of October 2026, at 2 million jobs a month: Hirebase $999 (about $0.50 per 1,000), TheirStack $2,300 ($1.15), Fantastic.jobs $2,800 ($1.40) and Coresignal $3,000 for its 4M plan. At enterprise volume, Hirebase is priced on request below $0.25 per 1,000, against $0.50 on Coresignal's Elite plan. Bulk country files from Techmap and live-search results from JSearch cost less per record but include duplicates and come without deduplicated history.

Which job data APIs include historical job postings?

LinkUp goes back to 2007, PredictLeads to 2015–2018 (its pages differ), Techmap to 2020, TheirStack's published series to November 2022, and Hirebase to 2023, with about 29 million expired jobs you can search free. Coresignal's deduplicated jobs start in May 2025, with a single-source archive since 2020. Fantastic.jobs keeps no expired history, and JSearch is live search only.

How did you rank the providers?

On six criteria: where the jobs come from, freshness and expiry, coverage, history, price per job at volume, and licence and delivery, with sourcing, freshness and price weighted most. Hirebase is our product. Every competitor fact comes from the vendor's own pricing, product and docs pages, checked in October 2026, and the research behind each one is kept on file. If anything is out of date, email spencer@hirebase.org and we will fix it.

Buyer's Guide

The 10 best job data APIs in 2026, ranked.

Q: What is the best job data API?

Hirebase ranks first: jobs from employers' career pages and 80+ ATS platforms first, live within 1–2 hours, removed every hour, history since 2023, a free plan, and $999 for 2 million jobs a month (about $0.50 per 1,000). TheirStack ranks second and is the pick for tech-stack prospecting. Coresignal adds employee data; LinkUp has history back to 2007.

We ranked 10 job posting data providers on where their jobs come from, how fresh they are, how much history they keep, what is free, and what 1,000 jobs cost at volume. Hirebase is our product; every fact about the other providers comes from their own pricing and docs pages.

Last checked October 21, 2026 · facts from each vendor's own pricing and docs pages

Short Answer

The best job data API depends on what you are building.

Hirebase is the best all-round pick. For a few narrower needs, another provider fits better, and we say which.

Fill a job board with fresh employer jobs

HirebaseTop Pick

Jobs live within 1–2 hours, closed jobs removed every hour, one record per job.

Also good: Fantastic.jobs

High volume at a low price per job

HirebaseTop Pick

$999 for 2 million jobs a month, and below $0.25 per 1,000 on Enterprise at enough volume.

Match resumes to live jobs

HirebaseTop Pick

Resume parsing, embeddings and semantic search over live jobs in one API.

Start free and scale without switching

HirebaseTop Pick

500 jobs a month free, then published plans from $99.

Also good: JSearch for live search

Tech-stack prospecting in a no-code app

TheirStack

A mature app with alerts and lists, webhooks and an MCP server.

Also good: Hirebase Technologies API

Decades of history for investors

LinkUp

Employer-sourced postings back to 2007, mapped to tickers.

Also good: Lightcast or Revelio Labs

Jobs plus employee data

Coresignal

Employee and company datasets alongside jobs, from one vendor.

LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor data specifically

Bright Data

Per-board datasets and on-demand scrapers.

Cheap bulk files by country

Techmap

Daily files across 250 countries, from $9 a month per country.

Comparison

The ranking in one table.

Per-1,000 figures are our arithmetic on each vendor's published entry tier, and they are not like for like: some vendors bill per request or per credit, and a credit does not always equal one job.

Job data API comparison, checked October 21, 2026
#	Provider	Where jobs come from	Freshness	Free option	Entry price	≈ Per 1,000 jobs	History from	Delivery
1	HirebaseTop Pick	Career pages + ATS first	1–2 h; hourly expiry	500 jobs/mo	$99 · 25K jobs	$3.96 (Starter) → $0.50 (Scale) → < $0.25 (Enterprise)	2023 (~29M expired)	API, webhooks, MCP, export
2	TheirStack	Boards first (Indeed, LinkedIn)	73% same day	200 credits/mo	$49 · 1,500 credits	$32.67 (entry) → $1.10 (5M)	Nov 2022 (says 2021)	API, webhooks, MCP, app
3	Coresignal	Boards + aggregators + sites	Says ≤ 24 h	7-day trial	$49 · 2,500 credits	$19.60 (entry) → $0.50 (10M)	May 2025 (deduped)	API, MCP, datasets
4	Fantastic.jobs	ATS (+ LinkedIn feed)	1–2 h; daily expiry	14-day trial	$45 · 5K jobs	$9.00 (entry) → $1.40 (2M)	None (6-month cutoff)	API, RapidAPI, Apify
5	PredictLeads	Career pages + ATS	36 hours	100 credits/mo	$40/mo minimum	$40.00 (entry) → $2.00 (top tier)	2015–2018 (pages vary)	API, webhooks, MCP, files
6	LinkUp	Employer sites	Daily (24–48 h)	None	Contact sales	Not published	2007	Daily files
7	Techmap	Aggregators + boards + ATS	Daily files (~48 h)	1,000 postings/mo	$29 · 30K (API)	≈ $1.00 (API) · ≈ $0.19–0.27 (US feed)	2020	API, daily files
8	Bright Data	Job boards (scraped)	Monthly (AWS feed)	1,000-row sample	$250 · 100K (unconfirmed)	≈ $2.50 (dataset) · ≈ $1.50 (scraper), unconfirmed	3 months (AWS)	Datasets, scraper API
9	JSearch (OpenWeb Ninja)	Google for Jobs	Live search	200 requests/mo	$25 · 10K requests	≈ $0.075–1.00 per 1,000 results	None	API, MCP
10	Adzuna API	Adzuna index	Not stated	Evaluation key	Licence required	Not published	Salary series only	API

Quality By Design

Why Hirebase skips job-board-only jobs.

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. Providers that index boards have to decide when a job that appears in many places has really closed. Here is how three of them describe it in their own docs.

Coresignal: active until every copy expires

Its data dictionary marks a job expired only when all of its related records, across every source, have expired.

Source: docs.coresignal.com/jobs-data/multi-source-jobs-data/dictionary-multi-source-jobs-data

Techmap: duplicates kept, never re-checked

Its FAQ says duplicates are kept and flagged, postings are not re-checked for removal after collection, and a job is assumed active until its validThrough date or 30 days after it was created.

Source: jobdatafeeds.com/faq

TheirStack: Indeed and LinkedIn first

Its sources page lists indeed.com (39.87%) and linkedin.com (19.11%) as its largest sources, and its webhook docs say a null closed_at “means the job is still considered open (or we don’t know yet)”.

Source: theirstack.com/docs/webhooks/event-type/webhook_job_closed

The Ranking

Every provider, ranked and explained.

Ranked on sourcing, freshness, coverage, history, price per job at volume and how easy it is to get started. Every competitor fact links back to the vendor's own pages in the sources list below.

HirebaseTop Pick

Direct-from-employer job API

Best for: Products, sales and analytics teams that want deduplicated jobs from employer career pages, refreshed every hour, with published self-serve prices.

Why #1: Jobs live within 1–2 hours and removed every hour, no board-only reposts, history since 2023, a free plan, and $999 for 2 million jobs a month (about $0.50 per 1,000), and below $0.25 per 1,000 on Enterprise at enough volume. Webhooks, MCP and a technologies API ship with it.

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Data sources: Company career pages and 80+ ATS platforms first; LinkedIn only for companies with neither, labeled by source. The LinkedIn fallback reads logged-out public LinkedIn job pages only, with no accounts or logins. 300K+ company career pages scanned.
Coverage: 8–10M active jobs; About 14M companies indexed, 700–800K of them with an active job; 140+ countries. Enterprise ATSs including Workday, iCIMS, Taleo, Paycor, Phenom, isolved, Avature, BrassRing, PageUp, Paradox, UKG and Dayforce. One record per job, with every location in a locations array.
Freshness: New jobs live within 1–2 hours of posting; closed jobs removed from the active index every hour.
History: About 29M expired jobs since 2023, with the same fields as live jobs. Search the archive free, then buy the dataset you need.
Free option: Free plan: 500 jobs and 50 companies a month, no credit card.
Pricing: 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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: $3.96 (Starter) → $0.50 (Scale) → < $0.25 (Enterprise)
Delivery: REST API, Python SDK and bulk export (CSV, JSON Lines); Semantic search and resume matching over live jobs; Webhooks for new and closed jobs, MCP server, plus Claude and ChatGPT connectors, Make.com, Clay, n8n and Apify integrations.

TheirStack

Job and technology signals for sales

Best for: Sales and go-to-market teams that prospect by technology stack and want webhooks, MCP and no-code integrations today.

Why #2: The most complete product for sales teams, but its two largest sources are Indeed and LinkedIn, and every repeat fetch is charged again.

Watch out for: Per its credits docs, repeated requests for the same data consume credits each time, and webhook events cost the same as API records.

theirstack.com

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: $32.67 (entry) → $1.10 (5M)
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.

Coresignal

Jobs, companies and employees

Best for: Teams buying jobs alongside employee and company records from one vendor.

Why #3: The only one here with employee data, but its data dictionary keeps a job active until every copy of it expires.

Watch out for: Per its data dictionary, a job counts as expired only when all of its related records have expired, so one lingering copy keeps it active.

coresignal.com

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: $19.60 (entry) → $0.50 (10M)
Delivery: REST API, MCP server, datasets to S3, GCS or Azure. Webhooks cover company and employee changes, not jobs.

Fantastic.jobs

ATS job feed plus LinkedIn feed

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.

Why #4: The closest like-for-like ATS feed, with a LinkedIn feed and rich AI fields, but no expired history and once-a-day expiry checks.

Watch out for: Every job auto-expires at 6 months, expiry is checked once a day, and the $45 plan has no expired-jobs endpoint.

fantastic.jobs

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: $9.00 (entry) → $1.40 (2M)
Delivery: REST API, RapidAPI, Apify actors; bulk delivery on high-volume plans.

PredictLeads

Company signals, including jobs

Best for: Enriching known companies with news events, financing, technologies and hiring, where you look up companies rather than search jobs.

Why #5: Rich company signals beyond jobs, but a 36-hour refresh, a 5-day closure rule and narrow job-search filters.

Watch out for: Job search filters cover O*NET codes, title words, location, seniority and date only, over the last 12 months.

predictleads.com

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: $40.00 (entry) → $2.00 (top tier)
Delivery: REST API, webhooks for followed companies, MCP server, Clay, Make and n8n, flat files.

LinkUp

Employer-sourced labor-demand data

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.

Why #6: The longest employer-sourced history, with investor identifiers, but about 86,000 employers, quote-only pricing and a 24–48 hour refresh.

Watch out for: Records are per location, so a job listed in five cities counts five times in its totals.

linkup.com

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: Not published
Delivery: Daily files to Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, BigQuery or Databricks.

Techmap

Country job feeds and archives

Best for: Buyers who want cheap daily bulk files by country, including public employment offices and job-board-only roles, across 250 countries.

Why #7: The cheapest bulk files per posting, across 250 countries, but “active” is assumed from dates rather than checked, and duplicates are included.

Watch out for: Per its docs, a job counts as active until its valid-through date or 30 days after creation; it is not re-checked.

jobdatafeeds.com

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: ≈ $1.00 (API) · ≈ $0.19–0.27 (US feed)
Delivery: JSON API (10 postings per request), daily S3 files, AWS Data Exchange.

Bright Data

Job-board datasets and scrapers

Best for: Teams that need raw LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor job data with board-specific fields, bought as a dataset or scraped on demand.

Why #8: Raw job-board data at low cost, but no cross-board deduplication and no documented expiry.

Watch out for: Datasets come per board, so merging boards, removing duplicates and dropping closed jobs is on you.

brightdata.com

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: ≈ $2.50 (dataset) · ≈ $1.50 (scraper), unconfirmed
Delivery: Datasets to cloud storage and AWS Data Exchange; scraper APIs.

JSearch (OpenWeb Ninja)

Live job search over Google for Jobs

Best for: Agents and prototypes that need a cheap live query across every major job board, including job-board-only roles, in any country.

Why #9: The cheapest per search result, but results are not a dataset: no history, no bulk sync and about 500 results per query.

Watch out for: About 500 results per query, no incremental sync, and results include aggregator and agency reposts.

openwebninja.com/api/jsearch

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: ≈ $0.075–1.00 per 1,000 results
Delivery: REST API, RapidAPI, MCP server.

#10

Adzuna API

Job search engine API

Best for: Researchers and publishers who want UK and European listings and salary series, with attribution back to Adzuna.

Why #10: Strong UK and EU coverage and salary series, but commercial use is licence-only and descriptions are snippets.

Watch out for: Descriptions are snippets, apply links redirect through Adzuna, attribution is required, and its terms bar contacting content providers.

developer.adzuna.com

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.
≈ Per 1,000 jobs: Not published
Delivery: REST API.

Also worth a look

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

People 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 Ranked

Six criteria behind the ranking.

[ 01 ]

Where the jobs come from

Employer-sourced data links each job to the employer's own posting. Job-board data adds listings that never reach a career page, along with reposts, agency listings and jobs left up after they are filled. Know which one you are buying.

[ 02 ]

Freshness and expiry

Ask how fast a new posting appears and how fast a closed one disappears. Stale jobs are the most common complaint about job feeds.

[ 03 ]

Coverage

Count employers and countries, not just records. Totals across many years of history are not the same as live jobs today.

[ 04 ]

History

Trend analysis and model training need expired postings. Check the start year and whether you get records or only aggregates.

[ 05 ]

Pricing model

Per job, per request, per credit or annual contract. Work out the cost of your real monthly volume, not the entry tier.

[ 06 ]

Licence and delivery

Check whether commercial use and resale are allowed, and whether you need an API, webhooks, files in your warehouse, or all three.

Method

We weighted sourcing, freshness and price per job at volume most, because they decide data quality and cost for most buyers.

We read each vendor's own pricing, product and documentation pages on October 21, 2026. We did not use other comparison articles as a source. Where a vendor's pages disagree with each other, we used the figure on its pricing or product page and noted the conflict.

Prices are list prices for self-serve plans in the vendor's currency, before annual discounts. Coverage numbers are the vendor's own claims; we have not audited them.

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

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