Job postings API alternatives
How fantastic.jobs, TheirStack, Coresignal and jobs-database.de differ on price, free tier, data sources and how you get access. Each vendor has its own page with a dated facts table.
Checked 2026-10-20. jobs-database.de is not affiliated with the vendors named here. Their figures come from their own public pages, linked beside each cell; our own counts are from our index as of 2026-10-19. Prices are list prices and may have changed since.
At a glance
| Vendor | Cheapest paid tier | Free tier or trial | Sign-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| fantastic.jobs | $45 a month: 5,000 jobs and 2,500 API requests ($9.00 per 1,000 jobs, our arithmetic). | Free for 14 days, no credit card required: 500 jobs and 100 API requests. | Self-serve: “Start Free Trial” and “Get API Key” buttons lead to an account sign-up. Above 2M jobs a month: “Book a call”. |
| TheirStack | $49 a month for 1,500 API credits, which is 1,500 jobs (the page shows $32.67 per 1,000 credits). | “Sign up and get 50 free company credits and 200 free API credits.” No trial length is stated on the pricing page. | Self-serve: “Subscribe” and “Buy credits”. Datasets: “Talk to sales”. |
| Coresignal | Mini: $49 a month for 2,500 credits, which is 2,500 job postings ($19.60 per 1,000, our arithmetic). | A free tier with 2,000 credits, labelled “7 day free trial”. | Self-serve for the Database APIs (“Start free”). Datasets: “Contact sales”. |
| jobs-database.de | Pro, which starts at 100,000 jobs a month: $190 a month on the calculator on our pricing page ($1.90 per 1,000 jobs). Below that, the Free API costs nothing and Starter is $40 a month for 20,000 jobs (then $2.00 per 1,000). | Free API: 10,000 jobs a week per key. Keys are issued on request today. | Not self-serve today. Ask for a key through the contact form; we answer by email or in a short call. |
Units differ: one vendor counts jobs, another credits, another jobs plus API requests. Records differ too: ours carry 25 fields and no job description text. Compare the plan terms and a sample of the data, not only the totals.
Where the others are ahead
- All three have a self-serve sign-up and a free trial or tier on their own pricing pages; our API keys are issued on request today.
- Their pages say they cover job boards as well as career sites; our index has no job boards.
- TheirStack and Coresignal also sell company data (technology, firmographics, employees); we sell job postings only.
- fantastic.jobs lists an Apify presence; we have no marketplace listing that we link to.
Compare in detail
- jobs-database.de and fantastic.jobs: a job posting API with jobs from ATS career sites and from job boards.
- jobs-database.de and TheirStack: a job postings and company data API, with technology and hiring-signal data on top.
- jobs-database.de and Coresignal: a company, employee and job postings data provider with APIs and datasets.
Frequently asked questions
- What are the alternatives to fantastic.jobs?
- Three vendors of job postings data are compared on this page: fantastic.jobs, TheirStack and Coresignal, plus jobs-database.de. Each has its own page with a dated facts table and the vendor's own wording.
- How do the plans compare for a job postings API?
- At about 100,000 jobs a month the list prices we read on 2026-10-20 are $250 (fantastic.jobs), $600 (TheirStack), $1,000 for 150,000 credits (Coresignal) and $190 on our calculator. The units differ between vendors, so read the plan terms.
- Which of them has an API key I can create myself?
- fantastic.jobs, TheirStack and Coresignal each have a self-serve sign-up, according to their own pricing pages. Ours is not self-serve today: ask for a key through the contact form.
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