Head To Head
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. They differ on history, how fast closed jobs disappear, LinkedIn coverage and price at volume.
Last checked · facts from each vendor's own pricing and docs pages
Short Answer
Which is better, Hirebase or Fantastic.jobs?
Pick Fantastic.jobs if you want LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator listings in the same feed as ATS jobs, or need under 20,000 jobs a month from $45. Pick Hirebase for history (about 29M expired jobs since 2023; Fantastic.jobs keeps none), hourly rather than daily expiry, visa sponsorship on every job, a Hiring Manager agent, and a lower price at every API tier from 25,000 jobs: 250,000 jobs cost $249 against $500.
Where Hirebase wins
- About 29 million expired jobs since 2023; Fantastic.jobs keeps no expired history.
- Closed jobs removed every hour; Fantastic.jobs re-checks expiry once a day.
- No 6-month cutoff: a job stays in the index for as long as the employer keeps it open.
- Cheaper at every API tier from 25,000 jobs: $999 for 2 million against $2,800.
- A permanent free plan, semantic search and resume matching.
- Visa sponsorship detected on each job, and a Hiring Manager agent that finds the likely hiring manager and recruiters for a job, including the many postings that name no one.
- Enterprise ATSs including Workday, iCIMS, Taleo, Paycor, Phenom, isolved, Avature, BrassRing, PageUp, Paradox, UKG and Dayforce.
- 8–10M active jobs against the 2 million-plus active career-site jobs its Apify feed describes.
- Webhooks, an MCP server and Claude and ChatGPT connectors; Fantastic.jobs offers none of these.
Where Fantastic.jobs wins
- A LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator feed alongside its ATS feed.
- AI-extracted fields such as office days and beta ISCO, O*NET and SOC occupation codes.
- A $45 entry plan and a modified-jobs feed.
Comparison
Hirebase vs Fantastic.jobs, side by side.
| As of October 2026 | Hirebase | Fantastic.jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Where jobs come from | 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. | 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 | 8–10M active jobs (currently active). | 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 | New jobs live within 1–2 hours of posting; closed jobs removed from the active index every hour. | Docs: a 1 to 2 hour ingestion delay; expired jobs re-checked once a day; LinkedIn hourly in 7 English-speaking countries. |
| History | About 29M expired jobs since 2023, with the same fields as live jobs. Search the archive free, then buy the dataset you need. | No expired history: the 6-month backfill is active jobs only, and every job auto-expires at 6 months. |
| Free option | Free plan: 500 jobs and 50 companies a month, no credit card. | 14-day trial with 500 jobs. |
| 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. | $45/month for 5,000 jobs (expired-jobs endpoint from the $95 plan); $500 for 250K; $2,800 for 2M. |
| Search | Full-text and filter search. Semantic search and resume matching over live jobs. | Feed filters; its docs say it does not provide keyword expansion or semantic search. |
| Hiring manager | A Hiring Manager agent that finds the likely hiring manager and recruiters for a job, including the many postings that name no one. | An AI field extracted from the job description, so it is present only when the posting names someone. |
| Enterprise ATSs | Enterprise ATSs including Workday, iCIMS, Taleo, Paycor, Phenom, isolved, Avature, BrassRing, PageUp, Paradox, UKG and Dayforce. | Paycor, Phenom, isolved, Avature, BrassRing, Taleo, PageUp, Paradox, talentReef, Dayforce and UKG. |
| Visa sponsorship | Visa sponsorship detected on each job. | An AI-extracted field. |
| Multi-location jobs | One record per job, with every location in a locations array. | Keeps a record per location, deduplicated by URL and exact match. |
| 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. | 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, and the cost per 1,000 jobs. Our arithmetic on each vendor's own price list.
| As of October 2026 | Hirebase | Fantastic.jobs |
|---|---|---|
| 5,000 jobs | $99 Starter ($19.80 per 1,000), or 500 free. | $45 ($9.00 per 1,000). |
| 25,000 jobs | $99 Starter ($3.96 per 1,000). | $175 for 50,000 ($7.00 per 1,000 used). |
| 100,000 jobs | $249 Growth ($2.49 per 1,000). | $250 ($2.50 per 1,000). |
| 250,000 jobs | $249 Growth ($1.00 per 1,000). | $500 ($2.00 per 1,000). |
| 1M jobs | $999 Scale ($1.00 per 1,000). | $1,600 ($1.60 per 1,000). |
| 2M jobs | $999 Scale ($0.50 per 1,000). | $2,800 ($1.40 per 1,000). |
| Enterprise volume | < $0.25 per 1,000 (Enterprise, contact sales). | Custom from 2M to 15M jobs a month. |
| Via Apify | Apify actors are also available. | Feed actor from $0.80 per 1,000 at its top tier, re-billing every active job on each run. |
Read The Fine Print
What Fantastic.jobs's own pages say about its numbers.
Each point links to the page it comes from, 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-apiEvery 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.jobsClosed 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.jobsNo 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/apiQuestions to 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 fast does a filled job disappear from the feed?
- How do you count a job posted in several cities?
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-dataTechmap: 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/faqTheirStack: 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_closedTheir Strengths
When Fantastic.jobs is the better pick.
- You want LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator listings from the same vendor as your ATS jobs.
- You want AI-extracted office-days fields and beta ISCO, O*NET and SOC occupation codes.
- You poll a feed into your own database and want a modified-jobs feed and free count endpoints.
- You need under 20,000 jobs a month: its $45 and $95 plans cost less than Hirebase Starter.
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