# FetchLayer, free: Job postings API

> Search public Upwork job postings by keyword or by an Upwork search page address, with the platform's own filters — job type, experience level, budget band, client history, location and posting age.

FetchLayer's job postings API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. It returns 6 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Applying, Category, Terms, Level, Posted.
We rank 179 plans by price. [freehire's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/freehire/99-monthly-data-get-jobs/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 jobs: as little as $0.0000038. freehire's $99 monthly plan covers up to 259,200,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 jobs.
[Hirebase's $50 monthly plan (/v2/jobs/expired-jobs/export)](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hirebase/50-monthly-web-pro-post-v2-jobs-expired-jobs-export/llms.txt) covers any number of jobs. Hirebase's $50 monthly plan costs less to start than freehire's $99 monthly plan.
[freehire](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/freehire/29-monthly-api-get-jobs-search/llms.txt), [Himalayas](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/himalayas/free-api-key-get-jobs-api-search/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-indeed-search/llms.txt) are the best job postings API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/free
- [Best job postings API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fetchlayer.dev/upwork/search-jobs`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/upwork/endpoints/search-jobs
- Sold by: FetchLayer (https://fetchlayer.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Description: ✓
- Applying: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Terms: ✓
- Level: ✓
- Posted: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 jobs: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 223 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search public Upwork job postings by keyword or by an Upwork search page address, with the platform's own filters — job type, experience level, budget band, client history, location and posting age.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Its Acceptable Use Policy: "You Must Not Use FetchLayer To" violate any law, regulation, court order, or third-party right, collect or process personal data in a way that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or disproportionate, stalk, harass, threaten, dox, profile, or otherwise target individuals for harmful purposes, build or support unlawful surveillance, unlawful monitoring, or harmful intelligence gathering about private individuals, make or support decisions about housing, employment, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, public benefits, or similar regulated outcomes without an appropriate legal basis and all required safeguards, scrape or analyze data about minors, health, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, political opinions, or other sensitive categories without a lawful basis and appropriate protections, bypass authentication, paywalls, robots controls, rate limits, or technical access controls that are not intended for public access, republish, syndicate, mirror, or redistribute verbatim copyrighted third-party content (such as full Reddit posts or comments) to end consumers without appropriate rights, use scraped content to create a competing product that substitutes for the original source platform, use the service to distribute malware, spam, credential theft, or phishing content, attempt to reverse engineer, break, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure, train machine learning or AI models on content obtained through FetchLayer without independently verifying that you have appropriate rights or a valid legal basis to do so, resell, sublicense, or operate a competing extraction service on top of FetchLayer unless we have expressly allowed it in writing. Its terms: "It is not permitted to republish, syndicate, or redistribute the original creative expression of third-party content without appropriate rights. You must not use FetchLayer to create a competing publication or mirror of the source platform's content."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 30 credits
- Enough for: 30 pages

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of query or searchUrl. Optional: page, pages, perPage, limit, sort, experienceLevel, jobType, paymentVerified, fixedPriceRange, hourlyRateRange, clientHistory, location, maxJobAge, filters, includeDetails
- Method: POST
- Path: /upwork/search-jobs

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)

## The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, search URL, page numbers, pages fetched, results returned, enriched results, notes, job ID, job UID, job title, description, job URL, job type, budget type, budget amount, budget minimum, budget maximum, budget currency, budget text, experience level, posted relative, posted at, posted at is approximate, skills, proposals, proposals range, duration, workload, freelancers to hire, client location, client payment verified, client rating, client feedback count, client total spent, client hire rate, client average hourly rate, client name, client name confidence, client has hired, allowed applicant countries, screening questions, category, category group, enriched

## FetchLayer's plans (10)

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/50-monthly/llms.txt): $0.029 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.027 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.016 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00033 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $1,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/1400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00026 per 1,000, 46% complete, live

## FetchLayer's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /upwork/search-jobs`: [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer's APIs (15)

- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /bing/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /duckduckgo/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: company discovery API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: company enrichment API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok video API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: job posting details API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: job postings API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: YouTube channel API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/user-profile-details](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-user-profile-details/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer: job postings API alternatives

- [ScrapeUnblocker, €1,000 monthly, Ultimate, POST /jobs/naukri](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/scrapeunblocker/1000-monthly-ultimate-post-jobs-naukri/llms.txt): $0.00062 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /ziprecruiter/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/reefapi/1200-yearly-enterprise-yearly-post-ziprecruiter-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.0017 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $10,789.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/ujeebu/10789-20-yearly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [RankFabrik, €62.50 monthly, Artisan, GET /balayer](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/rankfabrik/62-50-monthly-artisan-get-balayer/llms.txt): $2.813 per 1,000, 38% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

- https://fetchlayer.dev/
- https://fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
- https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/upwork/endpoints/search-jobs
- https://fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
- https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- https://fetchlayer.dev/terms