Disclosure: I built one of the tools below, Career Site Jobs. I've tried to be fair to the others, including where they beat mine. Prices are as listed on each site on November 8, 2026.
If you're building a job board, a job-search app, a recruiting tool or a hiring-signals product, you need job postings from somewhere. There are three kinds of sources, and picking the wrong kind costs more than picking the wrong vendor.
First decide: career sites, job boards, or both?
- Company career sites (the ATS feeds): jobs straight from the employer's own Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS (and so on) careers page. They appear there first, they link to the real apply page, and they vanish when the role is filled. No agency reposts.
- Job boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor): much bigger, but full of duplicates, staffing-agency reposts and listings that stay up long after they're filled.
- Both, de-duplicated: the most complete and the most expensive.
For a job board or anything that sends people to "apply", career sites are usually the right base. For labor-market research, you probably want job boards or history too.
The options
1. Fantastic.jobs: the biggest career-site coverage
- Source: 275,000+ career sites across 58 ATS platforms, plus job boards on some plans. Updated hourly.
- Price: monthly plans from $45 (5,000 jobs) up to $2,800 (2M jobs). That's about $9 per 1,000 jobs at the small end and $1.40 at the top. A 14-day free trial is available. Also on Apify and RapidAPI.
- Best for: funded job boards and job-search products that need the widest coverage and will pay monthly.
2. TheirStack: jobs as a sales signal
- Source: jobs from career sites, ATSs and job boards (225M records since 2021), plus technographics.
- Price: credit subscriptions from $49/month (1,500 credits).
- Best for: B2B sales teams who want "companies hiring for X using tool Y."
3. Coresignal: multi-source with history
- Source: LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and Wellfound, de-duplicated, with history.
- Price: from $49/month.
- Best for: HR tech and investment research that needs the job-board view and historical data.
4. Bright Data: raw job-board datasets
- Source: LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor datasets.
- Price: from $250 per 100,000 records.
- Best for: data teams who want big one-off dumps and will do the cleaning.
5. LinkUp and Lightcast: enterprise labor data
- Source: employer career pages since 2007 (LinkUp); multi-source plus government data (Lightcast).
- Price: not published (sales demo).
- Best for: economists, investors and workforce planners with enterprise budgets.
6. Career Site Jobs (mine): pay per job, no subscription
- Source: nearly 30,000 companies' career sites on 10 job systems: Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, BambooHR, Recruitee, Personio and iCIMS. About 1.6 million open jobs, every company checked daily.
- Price: $3 per 1,000 jobs, pay as you go on Apify. No plan, no minimum. Apify's free monthly credit covers about 1,600 jobs.
- What's different: you don't supply a company list (search "data engineer, remote, US" across all of them), and a daily new + closed jobs feed tells you what to add and what to take down.
- Where it loses: fewer companies than Fantastic.jobs, daily rather than hourly, and no LinkedIn/Indeed or historical data.
- Best for: niche job boards, side projects, recruiters and agents that need career-site jobs without a monthly commitment.
Quick comparison
| Source | Starts at | Pay model | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fantastic.jobs | 275k career sites + boards | $45/mo | subscription |
| TheirStack | career sites + boards | $49/mo | credits |
| Coresignal | job boards, history | $49/mo | subscription |
| Bright Data | job boards | $250 / 100k | per dataset |
| LinkUp / Lightcast | career sites / multi | demo | enterprise |
| Career Site Jobs | ~30k career sites | $0 (pay per job) | $3 / 1,000 jobs |
How I'd choose
- Testing an idea or running a niche board: start pay-per-job, so you only pay for what you pull. Move to a subscription once your volume makes it cheaper.
- Need every employer on earth, hourly: Fantastic.jobs.
- Selling to companies that are hiring: TheirStack.
- Research with history: Coresignal, LinkUp or Lightcast.
Whichever you choose, check three things before you commit: how many of your target employers it covers (search a few by name), whether it tells you when jobs close, and what a month at your real volume costs.
If you want to try the pay-per-job route, here's a free sample of 31,752 jobs posted in a single day and some ready-made searches: new US jobs posted today, remote software jobs with salary, daily new + closed feed.
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