# Hiring Index, free: Job postings API

> Search live roles by title, keyword, location, salary, work arrangement and posting age

Hiring Index's job postings API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. Hiring Index's docs list 10 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Category, Location, Remote, Salary, Terms, Level, Team, Company, Posted.
We haven't run Hiring Index through [our job postings API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 326 plans for job postings APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.146 per 1,000 jobs or less.
[JobDataAPI's $345 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobdataapi/345-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 jobs. JobDataAPI's $345 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many jobs as JobDataAPI's rate limit allows.
[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/hiring-index/free
- [Job postings API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://rapidapi.com/starnikovoleg/api/hiringindex/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://hiringindex.p.rapidapi.com/jobs/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://rapidapi.com/starnikovoleg/api/hiringindex/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://hiringindex.org/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Sold by: Hiring Index (https://hiringindex.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 77%
- Description: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Remote: ✓
- Salary: ✓
- Terms: ✓
- Level: ✓
- Team: ✓
- Company: ✓
- Posted: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 jobs: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10,000
- Also pays for: Aggregates over a filtered slice · from the same budget: One posting by id

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search live roles by title, keyword, location, salary, work arrangement and posting age

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- History: open only
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Access is licensed per organisation and billed by volume. You may store and process returned data inside your own product. You may not resell the raw index as a competing data feed.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,500 results a month
- Enough for: 2,500 results a month
- Expires: quotas reset monthly, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: job_titles, keywords, cities, country_codes, company_name, handles, remote_flag, employment_type, seniority, source_platforms, salary.min, salary.max, salary.currency, salary.period, salary.match, days_ago, page, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /jobs/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a RapidAPI account

## The 49 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, source, board handle, source job ID, location index, requisition ID, job title, company name, description, detail fetched date, detail description, detail filled fields, posted date, posted date as written, updated date, updated date as written, posting URL, apply URL, location, city, region, country, country code, postal code, street address, latitude, longitude, remote status, hybrid status, employment type, seniority, industry, job function, department, team, education level, language, salary minimum, salary maximum, salary currency, salary period, salary source, salary confidence, salary text, first seen date, fetched date, content hash, total results, company count

## Hiring Index's plans (5)

- [Hiring Index, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hiring-index/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 1 day
- [Hiring Index, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hiring-index/29-monthly/llms.txt): $1.16 per 1,000, 77% complete, 1 day
- [Hiring Index, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hiring-index/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.632 per 1,000, 77% complete, 1 day
- [Hiring Index, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hiring-index/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 77% complete, 1 day
- [Hiring Index, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hiring-index/contact-us/llms.txt): 77% complete, 1 day

## Hiring Index's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /jobs/search`: [Hiring Index, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hiring-index/free/llms.txt)

## Hiring Index's APIs (2)

- [Hiring Index: job posting details API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/hiring-index/free/llms.txt)
- [Hiring Index: job postings API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hiring-index/free/llms.txt)

## Hiring Index: job postings API alternatives

- [SerpApi, $3,750 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/serpapi/3750-monthly/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 54% complete, live
- [Hirebase, $9,590.40 yearly, Scale (annual), POST /v2/jobs/neural-search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/hirebase/9590-40-yearly-scale-annual-post-v2-jobs-neural-search/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 hour
- [OpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/openweb-ninja/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [Thordata, $1,500 pack, 3,000,000 Credits, POST /builder, Indeed - Scrape job listing information by Keyword](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/thordata/1500-pack-3000000-credits-post-builder-indeed-scrape-job-listing-information-by-keyword/llms.txt): $0.50 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 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.rapidapi.com/docs/additional-request-headers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://hiringindex.org/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://hiringindex.org/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://hiringindex.org/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://hiringindex.org/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://hiringindex.org/products/jobs-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing