# Job Opportunities API, free, Explore, POST /v1/jobs/similar: Job postings API

> The nearest live jobs to a search text, to a job you name (more like this) or to a query vector you embed, with every /v1/jobs filter, a similarity score per row, one record per row returned, on every plan.

Job Opportunities API's Explore plan for the job postings API costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Job Opportunities API's docs list 10: Description, Category, Location, Remote, Salary, Terms, Level, Company, Posted, Status.
In [our job postings API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt), the best plan from Job Opportunities API scores 65.7 out of 100. Job Opportunities API ranks 15th of 67 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 473 plans for job postings APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.49 or less per 1,000 jobs. [See the best free job postings API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
[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. [ScrapeUnblocker's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/scrapeunblocker/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-jobs-naukri/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 jobs a month: about $0.01.
[Vibeworker's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/vibeworker/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of jobs. Vibeworker's $19 monthly plan costs less up front than JobDataAPI's $345 monthly plan.
[JobsByLevel](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobsbylevel/free/llms.txt), [freehire](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/freehire/29-monthly-api-get-jobs-search/llms.txt) and [OfferMagnet](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/offermagnet/free/llms.txt) are the best job postings API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/free-explore-post-v1-jobs-similar
- [Job postings API in 2026: the best of 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.jobopportunitiesapi.org/v1/jobs/similar`
- API key: with the plan, on https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/docs/endpoints/jobs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing#job-similar
- Sold by: Job Opportunities API (https://jobopportunitiesapi.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 15 minutes
- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: GET /v1/me · GET /v1/meta/facets · GET /v1/meta/freshness · GET /v1/meta/providers · GET /v1/jobs/expired · GET /v1/jobs/withdrawn · from the same budget: GET /v1/jobs · GET /v1/jobs/{id} · GET /v1/jobs/closed · GET /v1/jobs/similar · GET /v1/companies · GET /v1/companies/{slug}

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The nearest live jobs to a search text, to a job you name (more like this) or to a query vector you embed, with every /v1/jobs filter, a similarity score per row, one record per row returned, on every plan.

## Data

- Freshness: 18 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Every commercial use is allowed, on any plan, including the free Explore plan. You may store, cache and display the records (including to your own users and customers), summarise or abstract the descriptions, extract data from them, use them in your own products and analyses, and re-package and resell them, including after a listing closes and after you cancel. All of this is within your key's plan limits, those limits cover all downstream use, including what you resell. Please don't create several keys to get around a plan's limits. When you display listings publicly, show a visible credit, "Data: Job Opportunities API", linking to https://jobopportunitiesapi.org. [...] Employers have the right to ask for their data to be removed. If an employer asks us, we remove it and we will email you, and you must then remove that employer's data from your product too.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 1,000 results a month
- Enough for: 1,000 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 5,000
- Per second: 0.5 (30 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of job_id, text or vector. Optional: limit, min_score, category, family, country, city, state, region, remote, employment_type, engagement, contract_category, agency, working_schedule, seniority, provider, exclude_provider, source_type, exclude_source_type, company, exclude_category, exclude_country, language, language_exclude, country_confidence, country_match, compensation_type, exclude_compensation_type, remote_confirmed, has_salary, has_description, require_fields, include_description, posted_after, verified_after, listed_after, posted_before, listed_before, verified_before, q, title, title_exclude, description_contains, company_domain, exclude_company_domain, min_salary, max_salary, include
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/jobs/similar

## About the plan

- Plan: Explore
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 66 fields the plan's answer can hold

agency type, apply URL, attribution, canonical URL, category, category confidence, city, closed date, closed reason, company name, company logo URL, company slug, compensation type, contract category, contract category confidence, country, country confidence, description, description length, description truncated, employer website, employment type, engagement, engagement confidence, expiry date, field sources, first seen date, has description, job ID, language, language basis, language confidence, last verified date, last verified via, location, posted date, posted date precision, provider type, region, remote status, remote inferred, salary currency, salary maximum, salary minimum, salary minimum annual EUR, salary period, salary source, seniority, job slug, source, source requisition ID, source type, status, job title, upstream expired date, verification stale, working schedule, working schedule confidence, completeness, content changed date, content version, ESCO occupation label, ESCO occupation URI, ISCO code, embedding, similarity score

## Job Opportunities API's plans (9)

- [Job Opportunities API, free, Explore, POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/free-explore-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €29 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/29-monthly-starter-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $3.263 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €80 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/80-monthly-growth-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €299 monthly, Signal, POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/299-monthly-signal-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $0.841 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €899 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/899-monthly-scale-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $0.506 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €261 yearly, Starter (annual), POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/261-yearly-starter-annual-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $2.447 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €720 yearly, Growth (annual), POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/720-yearly-growth-annual-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $1.125 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €2,691 yearly, Signal (annual), POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/2691-yearly-signal-annual-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $0.631 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours
- [Job Opportunities API, €8,091 yearly, Scale (annual), POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/8091-yearly-scale-annual-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt): $0.379 per 1,000, 77% complete, 18 hours

## Job Opportunities API's calls for this API (3)

- `GET /v1/jobs/closed`: [Job Opportunities API, free, Explore, GET /v1/jobs/closed](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/free-explore-get-v1-jobs-closed/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/jobs`: [Job Opportunities API, free, Explore, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/free-explore-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/jobs/similar`: [Job Opportunities API, free, Explore, POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/free-explore-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt)

## Job Opportunities API's APIs (4)

- [Job Opportunities API: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/job-opportunities-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Job Opportunities API: company open jobs API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/job-opportunities-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Job Opportunities API: job posting details API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/job-opportunities-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Job Opportunities API: job postings API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/jobs/similar](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/job-opportunities-api/free-explore-post-v1-jobs-similar/llms.txt)

## Job Opportunities API: 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
- [Jobo, $199 monthly, Growth, GET /api/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobo/199-monthly-growth-get-api-jobs/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 69% 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
- [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

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://api.jobopportunitiesapi.org/public/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/docs/ai/account-plans.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/docs/ai/account-record-meter.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/docs/ai/api-pagination.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/docs/ai/api-rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/docs/ai/endpoints-jobs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://jobopportunitiesapi.org/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing