Best job posting APIs, 2026Every main way to get job posting data.Indeed’s partner APIs, the job search APIs of Adzuna, Careerjet and USAJOBS, and the main job data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Fresh listings with full descriptions for your own job board or aggregatorA data API that reads job boards on request, or a job database that backfills postings it has already collected. They differ most in how they charge.
Which companies are hiring, and for which roles, for sales or investment researchAn option that finds jobs by company. Job databases add company data and years of history.
Salaries by job title and location, for pay benchmarkingAn option that returns the salary on each posting. Monocrawl also returns yearly to hourly salary bands for a job title in a country.
An AI agent that searches jobs and reads postingsAn option with an MCP server that has a job tool, so the agent can call it directly.
Posting and managing your own jobs on Indeed, as an employer or ATSIndeed’s own APIs, for employers and ATS platforms it accepts as partners.
14options compared
6with an MCP server
10free to start
53sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Four routes
Indeed’s APIs serve employers, ATS platforms and approved partners, and its docs list no job search API. Adzuna, Careerjet and USAJOBS run job search APIs for their own listings, each with its own rules. Data APIs and job databases return postings from boards and career sites with an API key.
Indeed partner APIs
Adzuna, Careerjet and USAJOBS
Monocrawl and the vendors below
TheirStack, JobsPikr, PredictLeads and jobdata API
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect. Several boards means listings from more than one job board; some databases collect from company career sites instead.
| Job posting data | Connect | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Job search | Full postings | Several boards | Jobs by company | Salaries | Remote jobs | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||
| Indeed partner APIsOfficial, Indeed | – | – | – | – | – | 12345 | |||
| Adzuna APIOfficial, Adzuna | – | – | – | 678910 | |||||
| Careerjet APIOfficial, Careerjet | – | – | – | – | 111213 | ||||
| USAJOBS APIOfficial, US federal jobs | – | – | 1415161718 | ||||||
| ApifyIndeed Scraper actor | – | – | 19202122 | ||||||
| Bright DataJob scraper APIs | – | 232425 | |||||||
| HasDataJob scraper APIs | – | – | 2627282930 | ||||||
| OxylabsWeb Scraper API | – | – | 31323334 | ||||||
| SearchApiGoogle Jobs API | – | 35363738 | |||||||
| jobdata APIATS job data API | – | – | 394041 | ||||||
| JobsPikrJob data feed API | – | 424344 | |||||||
| PredictLeadsCompany signals API | – | – | 45464748 | ||||||
| TheirStackJob postings database | 4950515253 | ||||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price Indeed considers partnerships case by case.
Its Hiring Lab API serves labour market indices to partners and researchers.
Worth knowingIts partner docs list no job search API: publishers show Indeed jobs through a JavaScript plugin, for Indeed partners only.
No published price
No published price A key comes with sign-up, limited to 250 calls a day and 2,500 a month by default.
Other commercial uses get a 14-day trial, after which a licence may be required.
Worth knowingEach listing you display needs a “Jobs by Adzuna” label, and the API returns a snippet of each description.
No published price
No published price Each publisher website gets its own API key from a Careerjet publisher account.
Up to 100 jobs a page and 10 pages a search.
Worth knowingEach call must carry the IP address and user agent of the site visitor whose action triggered it.
No published price
No published price A key comes by email after an API access request.
Up to 500 results a page and 10,000 a query. The announcement text API needs no key.
Worth knowingIts terms ask you to credit USAJOBS and send users there to apply, and bar reselling the data as a feed.
No published price
$6 per 1,000 job listings on the free plan
From $3 on the Business plan. Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingAn actor maintained by Apify; as well as keyword searches, it collects every job on an Indeed company page.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records, then $1.30 per 1,000.
Worth knowingSeparate Indeed and Glassdoor scrapers find jobs by keyword or by company URL, and only delivered records are billed.
5,000 records a month
$59 a month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly
An Indeed or Glassdoor call costs 5 credits. $49 a month billed yearly. Unused credits do not roll over.
Worth knowingSeparate 5-credit calls for Indeed and Glassdoor searches, and for one job’s full details by URL.
1,000 credits a month
$1.15 per 1,000 results without JavaScript, on its $49 Micro plan
With JavaScript rendering, $1.35 per 1,000. VAT may apply.
Worth knowingReturns Indeed and Google Jobs pages as HTML, which its free Custom Parser can turn into JSON.
Free trial, up to 2,000 results
$40 a month for 10,000 searches
From $1 per 1,000 on its largest listed plan. Only successful searches are billed.
Worth knowingReads Google Jobs, which gathers listings from job boards, recruitment sites and other platforms, with apply links for each.
100 free requests
$345 a month on Access lite, for jobs from the past 90 days
The full database is $495 a month. No credits or usage caps.
Worth knowingCollects from companies’ own ATSs and career sites, not third-party job boards, with apply links that go straight to the employer.
Rate-limited testing without a key
$79 a month for 1,000 job credits, billed monthly
$72 a month billed yearly. Credits reset every 30 days and do not carry over.
Worth knowingCollects from job boards and company sites and flags duplicates; a job fetched twice in one 30-day cycle uses one credit.
7-day free trial
$0.04 per API credit, for 101 to 5,000 credits a month
$40 minimum monthly charge. Searches across all openings are billed per result.
Worth knowingCollects openings from company websites and their ATSs; one call returns up to 1,000 of a company’s openings for 1 credit.
100 API credits a month
$49 a month for 1,500 API credits
Each job returned costs 1 credit. Unused credits roll over for 12 months.
Worth knowingMerges the same job seen on several sites into one record, and can push new and closed jobs to you by webhook.
200 API credits a month
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded Bing listing for a full-time Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning role at AeroVect in Frankfurt. No job board account and no Indeed partnership.
GET /v1/jobs/bing/jobcurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/jobs/bing/job?id=MTE5OTc2NjYxOS5SZXRybw%3D%3D" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning
AeroVect · Frankfurt, HE
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Indeed job search3 creditsIndeed job posting1 creditBing job search3 creditsBing job posting1 creditXing job search3 creditsXing posting with salary1 creditLinkedIn job search3 creditsSalary bands for a title1 credit2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Not one you can sign up for. Indeed’s partner docs list APIs for employers and ATS platforms to post and manage jobs, and publishers show Indeed jobs through a JavaScript plugin that only Indeed partners can use, at most 20 jobs at a time. Indeed considers partnerships case by case. For public Indeed postings, Monocrawl searches Indeed in a country by keyword, location and radius, and Apify, Bright Data, HasData and Oxylabs also read Indeed.
Adzuna, Careerjet and USAJOBS issue keys for their own listings and publish no price, each with its own rules: Adzuna’s default key allows 250 calls a day, Careerjet needs each visitor’s IP address and user agent, and USAJOBS covers federal jobs only. For job board data, Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, HasData 1,000 credits a month, TheirStack 200 API credits a month, PredictLeads 100 API credits a month and Apify $5 of usage a month. SearchApi gives 100 free requests, Oxylabs a trial of up to 2,000 results, JobsPikr a 7-day trial and jobdata API rate-limited testing without a key.
A data API returns a job board’s listings per request: Monocrawl searches Indeed, LinkedIn, Bing’s job listings and Xing, and returns full postings. A job postings database collects postings in advance and keeps history: TheirStack back to 2021, JobsPikr from 2019, PredictLeads since 2016 and jobdata API from January 2023. TheirStack also adds the hiring company’s domain, industry and size to each job.
Yes, in two forms. Many options return the salary a posting shows, including Adzuna, Careerjet, TheirStack, JobsPikr, PredictLeads, jobdata API, Apify, HasData and SearchApi, and Monocrawl returns it on Xing postings. Monocrawl also returns yearly, monthly, weekly, daily and hourly salary bands for a job title in a country, and Adzuna returns average salaries over time and the current spread of salaries.
It depends on each source’s terms. Adzuna asks for a “Jobs by Adzuna” label on every listing you show. USAJOBS asks you to credit it and send users to USAJOBS to apply, and bars redistributing its data as a standalone feed. Indeed’s plugin shows jobs that link back to Indeed. jobdata API says it needs no attribution or backlinks, and TheirStack publishes a guide to backfilling a job board.
Monocrawl, TheirStack, PredictLeads, Apify, HasData and SearchApi publish their own MCP servers with job tools, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Bright Data’s MCP server has a job tool for LinkedIn job URLs only, and the Oxylabs MCP server has only a general scraping tool.
Method
What’s includedIndeed’s own partner APIs and the job search APIs of Adzuna, Careerjet and USAJOBS, plus job data APIs and job postings databases that come up across job posting API searches and comparison lists, document their API publicly and publish their pricing or offer a trial.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its job data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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