TheirStack alternative: jobs-database.de compared
TheirStack is a job postings and company data API, with technology and hiring-signal data on top. 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
| TheirStack | jobs-database.de | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly API credit subscriptions from 1,500 credits ($49) to 5,000,000 credits ($5,500). One credit per job returned, three per company. Separate one-time company-credit packs for its web app. Datasets through sales. 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 | $49 a month for 1,500 API credits, which is 1,500 jobs (the page shows $32.67 per 1,000 credits). 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 | $600 a month for 100,000 API credits, which is 100,000 jobs. source | $190 a month (pricing page calculator). Pro keys are issued on request today. source |
| Free tier or trial | “Sign up and get 50 free company credits and 200 free API credits.” No trial length is stated on the pricing page. source | Free API: 10,000 jobs a week per key. Keys are issued on request today. source |
| Data sources | Career sites, ATSs and job boards (pricing page). Its docs page lists “major job boards like Indeed, LinkedIn, Workable, Greenhouse, Lever, InfoJobs, Otta, StartupJobs”. 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 | “Every posting from career sites, ATSs and job boards, deduplicated.” Also: “History back to 2021 across 195 countries and 352k sources”. 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 | Web app, API, webhooks and an MCP server. Jobs dataset delivered to S3, GCS, Azure Blob, Snowflake or an HTTPS endpoint. API rate limit: 4 requests per second. Marketplace listing: not published. 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: “Subscribe” and “Buy credits”. Datasets: “Talk to sales”. 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 documentation and API reference at theirstack.com/en/docs. source | Public documentation with a quick start and a field reference. source |
Vendor pages read on 2026-10-20: TheirStack. “Not published” means the pages we read do not state it.
Where jobs-database.de differs from TheirStack
- Our index counts company career sites that use no ATS and sources outside the listed ATS platforms, and shows that number on /ats. The page we read gives no comparable figure.
- For jobs alone, the monthly list price at about 100,000 jobs is lower on our calculator. TheirStack sells credits that also cover company and technology lookups, so its price buys more than jobs.
When TheirStack is the better choice
- You need job board postings next to career sites; its pages say it covers job boards. Our index has none.
- You need history: its page says history back to 2021 and closed jobs with the day each role went offline. Ours is a live index.
- You also want company technology and hiring-signal data, or webhooks and an MCP server. Those are products on its pricing page; we do not sell them.
- You want to subscribe and get an API key yourself today. Its sign-up is self-serve; ours is on request.
Frequently asked questions
- Is jobs-database.de an alternative to TheirStack?
- For job postings data, partly. TheirStack sells jobs plus company, technology and buying-intent data, and covers job boards. We sell job postings from ATS platforms and career sites only.
- How do the list prices compare for jobs?
- TheirStack lists $600 a month for 100,000 API credits, at one credit per job. Our pricing page calculator shows $190 for 100,000 jobs. Its credits also cover company and technology lookups. Prices as read on 2026-10-20.
- Does TheirStack have a free plan?
- Its documentation says a sign-up gets 50 free company credits and 200 free API credits. We have a Free API at 10,000 jobs a week per key, issued on request.
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