# Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month, POST /v1/jobs/search: Job postings API

> Find jobs from 200,000+ job boards and career sites

Headcount Labs's job postings API on its "First 100,000 every month" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Location, Remote, Company, Posted.
We haven't run Headcount Labs through [our job postings API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 303 plans we rank by price cost $0.389 per 1,000 jobs or less. This plan and 21 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 jobs of the 303 plans.
[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 up front than JobDataAPI's $345 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 [JobDataAPI](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobdataapi/free/llms.txt) are the best job postings API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-post-v1-jobs-search
- [Job postings API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://headcountlabs.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.headcountlabs.com/v1/jobs/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://headcountlabs.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://headcountlabs.com/docs/jobs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Sold by: Headcount Labs (https://headcountlabs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Description: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Remote: ✓
- Company: ✓
- Posted: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 jobs: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: List jobs · Elasticsearch-style search · Read one job · List the jobs of one company · List companies · Search companies · Read one company · Bulk export to files · Read job changes

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find jobs from 200,000+ job boards and career sites

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, applicable payment obligations and third-party rights, you may use the Service's hosted API and authorized MCP tools to build job search, matching, analytics, recruiting, research and other lawful products, display individual records to your users, and transform the resulting information. [...] A subscription, API key or connector grant gives you access to our hosted service, not ownership of that infrastructure or a right to resell your account, tokens, nonpublic service endpoints, or pass through our hosted metered access as an unauthorized wholesale service. [...] You may not evade rate limits, share credentials outside authorized users, or market an unauthorized mirror as the official Headcount Labs service. [...] All Headcount Labs data, however it is delivered [...] is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, and our own values in it under the Database Contents License (DbCL) 1.0 [...]. [...] those licences permit copying, adapting, commercial use and redistribution, including by competing services. Internal use needs no attribution. Public use needs the attribution shown on the licence page, and a public derivative database must be shared under the ODbL 1.0 (share-alike). You may use data you receive from the Service, through the hosted API, MCP tools or the public dataset, to train, fine-tune and evaluate machine-learning models. The open licence does not automatically cover employers' or job boards' job descriptions, names, logos, trademarks, third-party copyrights, personal data, privacy rights, publicity rights, or content for which we cannot lawfully grant a licence. [...] You must not use data or contact details obtained from the Service to engage in unlawful surveillance or profiling, or unlawfully discriminate in hiring, pay, credit, housing, insurance or other decisions. [...] You may not use data from the Service, alone or combined with other information, as a factor in deciding any individual's eligibility for employment, credit, housing or insurance, or for any other purpose covered by the FCRA or similar state laws. [...] You must not: (a) gain or try to gain unauthorized access to another customer's data or credentials, (b) circumvent access controls, payment limits, privacy choices, rate limits or anti-abuse mechanisms, (c) distribute malware or attempt to disrupt the Service, (d) misrepresent Headcount Labs as endorsing your product, (e) use automated collection methods to overload hosted services contrary to published limits, (f) conduct intrusive tests against production infrastructure without authorization, (g) violate applicable law or third-party rights, or (h) instruct an agent to bypass permissions, identity verification or other platform safety restrictions.

## Plan

- Pay: monthly
- You get: from the 1st result a month
- Enough for: 100,000 results a month
- Expires: at the end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.18 s

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: q, title, description, title_advanced, description_advanced, company, company_id, location, city, state, country, work_arrangement, remote_type, employment_type, source, exclude_source, source_type, source_class, job_id, posting_id, source_posting_id, posting_status, currentness, active, posted_since, published_since, posted_until, first_seen_since, first_seen_until, updated_since, updated_until, curated_since, curated_until, msa, stale, company_linked, has_description, has_location, has_pay, has_posting_url, has_application_url, pay_currency, pay_min, pay_max, last_fetch_since, last_fetch_until, application_check, application_check_since, include, description_format, fields, sort, limit, cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/jobs/search

## About the plan

- Plan: First 100,000 every month
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 47 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, currentness, stale, company ID, employer name, title, description, work arrangement, locations, city, region, country, county FIPS code, CBSA code, CBSA title, street, postal code, ZIP code, first seen at, curated at, updated at, posting ID, job source, source posting ID, posting status, posting URL, application URL, pay min, pay max, pay currency, pay interval, posted at, last fetched at, latest application check, attribution, company name, company country, company status, company region, company address source, company identifiers, company industries, source work location type, source updated at, source employment type, source type, source availability

## Headcount Labs's plans (2)

- [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month, POST /v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-post-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, Every record after that, POST /v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-every-record-after-that-post-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day

## Headcount Labs's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/jobs/search/es_dsl`: [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month, POST /v1/jobs/search/es_dsl](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-post-v1-jobs-search-es-dsl/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/jobs`: [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/jobs/search`: [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month, POST /v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-post-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt)

## Headcount Labs's APIs (4)

- [Headcount Labs: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt)
- [Headcount Labs: company open jobs API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt)
- [Headcount Labs: job posting details API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt)
- [Headcount Labs: job postings API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-post-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt)

## Headcount Labs: job postings API alternatives

- [Himalayas, free, No API key, GET /jobs/api](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/himalayas/free-no-api-key-get-jobs-api/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 24 hours
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /indeed/v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/reefapi/free-free-post-indeed-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free, POST /jobs/glassdoor](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/scrapeunblocker/free-free-post-jobs-glassdoor/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [Fantastic.jobs, free 14-day trial, GET /v1/active-jb](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/fantastic-jobs/free-14-day-trial-get-v1-active-jb/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 2 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://headcountlabs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/data-fields/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/fields/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/filters/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/freshness/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/ingestion-strategy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/jobs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/pagination/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/rate-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/usage-and-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/license/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing