# fantastic.jobs alternative: facts compared | Jobs-database.de

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# fantastic.jobs alternative: jobs-database.de compared

fantastic.jobs is a job posting API with jobs from ATS career sites and from job boards. Here is how its public pages and ours differ, cell by cell, with the source beside each.

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.

## Facts table

|  | fantastic.jobs | jobs-database.de |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with included jobs and an API request cap, overage per job on the larger plans ($0.0025 to $0.0014 per job), custom pricing for 2M to 15M jobs a month. source | Free API at no charge; Starter is $40 a month for 20,000 jobs; Pro is metered on jobs delivered and the price per job falls with volume; Custom is a contract. source |
| Cheapest paid tier | $45 a month: 5,000 jobs and 2,500 API requests ($9.00 per 1,000 jobs, our arithmetic). source | 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). source |
| Listed price for about 100,000 jobs a month | $250 a month: 100,000 included jobs, 50,000 API requests. source | $190 a month (pricing page calculator). Pro keys are issued on request today. source |
| Free tier or trial | Free for 14 days, no credit card required: 500 jobs and 100 API requests. source | Free API: 10,000 jobs a week per key. Keys are issued on request today. source |
| Data sources | ATS career sites, plus job boards: LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator. source | 164 ATS platforms (95K+ career sites tracked on the 47 largest), plus company career sites without an ATS, smaller platforms and partner feeds. No job boards. source |
| Coverage, in the vendor's own words | “275k+ career sites across 58 ATS platforms, plus 10M+ Linkedin, Wellfound, and Y Combinator jobs every month.” Also: “We discover 95% of new jobs within 3 hours of posting.” source | Measured in our own index, not a market claim: 4.4M+ live jobs as of 2026-10-19, of which 79K+ come from sources outside the 47 listed ATS platforms. source |
| Delivery | REST API with a developer portal; Expired Jobs and Modified Jobs endpoints; a backfill API with six months of history; Apify actors (the API page says they can output XML feeds). source | REST API (JSON, key in the X-API-Key header, cursor paging). A full-feed file in the format you need, on request. No marketplace listing that we link to from this site. source |
| Self-serve or sales call | Self-serve: “Start Free Trial” and “Get API Key” buttons lead to an account sign-up. Above 2M jobs a month: “Book a call”. source | Not self-serve today. Ask for a key through the contact form; we answer by email or in a short call. source |
| Documentation | Public developer portal at developer.fantastic.jobs. source | Public documentation with a quick start and a field reference. source |

Vendor pages read on 2026-10-20: [fantastic.jobs](https://fantastic.jobs). “Not published” means the pages we read do not state it.

## Where jobs-database.de differs from fantastic.jobs

-   Our index counts company career sites that use no ATS and sources outside the listed ATS platforms, and shows that number on /ats. The pages we read do not break out a comparable figure.
-   At about 100,000 jobs a month our calculator shows a lower list price. The plans count different things (jobs delivered against jobs plus request caps), so check the plan terms on both sides.

## When fantastic.jobs is the better choice

-   You need job board listings (LinkedIn, Wellfound, Y Combinator) as well as career sites. Our index has no job boards.
-   You want to create a key and start calling the API today without talking to anyone. Its sign-up is self-serve; ours is on request.
-   You want to buy through a marketplace. It lists Apify actors; we have no listing that we link to.
-   You need expired-job and modified-job endpoints or a six-month backfill, which its page lists as products.

## Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between fantastic.jobs and jobs-database.de?

On its own pages fantastic.jobs says it covers ATS career sites and job boards (LinkedIn, Wellfound, Y Combinator). Our index covers 164 ATS platforms and company career sites without an ATS, and has no job boards. Its sign-up is self-serve; ours is on request.

How do the list prices compare?

Its cheapest paid plan is $45 a month for 5,000 jobs. For about 100,000 jobs a month it lists $250; our pricing page calculator shows $190. The plans count different things, so compare the terms, not only the totals. Prices as read on 2026-10-20.

Can I try jobs-database.de without a sales call?

Not self-serve today. Send a request through the contact form and say which countries and sources matter; the Free API key is issued on request.

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