Lightcast pricing: job postings API
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38% complete: 5 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
Contact usWe haven't run Lightcast through our job postings API benchmark yet.Lightcast gives this plan's price on request. We rank 283 plans for job postings APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.389 per 1,000 jobs or less.JobDataAPI's $345 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 jobs: as little as $0.0000033. JobDataAPI's $345 monthly plan covers up to 25,920,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 4,000 jobs.Hirebase's $50 monthly plan (/
Plan: Get API Access Lightcast's only plan
Call:
POST / Lightcast's only call for this APIAPI: Job postings API one of Lightcast's 5 APIs
- Job posting details API
- Job postings API
- People search API
- People enrichment API
POST /bulk-match - People enrichment API
POST /match - Company enrichment API
GET /versions/ {version}/ companies/ {companyId} - Company enrichment API
POST /versions/ {version}/ normalize
About this item
- A copy at most 1 day old. You get jobs from Lightcast's database.
- 5 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Location, Company, Posted, Status.
- No public price. You ask Lightcast for one.
- One call. You send
filtertoPOST /. You set thepostings Content-Typeheader to "application/json". You can also sendfields,limit,order,page,area_,version soc_andversion onet_. The call returns the matching jobs.version - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Lightcast: job postings API alternatives
Lightcast alternatives: every job postings API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans with no public price. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| This planLightcast, contact us | ReefAPI, contact us, Custom, POST /ziprecruiter/v1/search | ScrapeUnblocker, contact us, Enterprise, POST /jobs/naukri | PerceptLayer, contact us, Custom, GET /v1/indeed/jobs | PrismCrawl, contact us | Textkernel, contact us | |
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| Completeness | 38% | 38% | 38% | 38% | 38% | 38% |
| Billing | contact | contact | contact | contact | contact | contact |
| Freshness | 1 day | live | live | live | live | 24 hours |
| Who can get it | Lightcast customers under an Order Form, for their own internal business operations | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.") | developers and businesses, at least 18 years old | anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement | Companies, by signed Order Form: the terms limit use to the company's own internal, lawful business purposes |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Description
- Applying, not in the answer
- Category, not in the answer
- Location
- Remote, not in the answer
- Salary, not in the answer
- Terms, not in the answer
- Level, not in the answer
- Team, not in the answer
- Recruiter, not in the answer
- Company
- Posted
- Status
| Billing | contact |
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| Aggregators | none |
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| Their pitch | The Lightcast Job Postings API provides data about the demand for US workers by showing the job postings that employers are creating. This includes both historic trends and also the most up-to-date insight possible (data updates daily). |
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| Freshness | 1 day |
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| Keep data | Customer shall delete all Content within 30 business days following the end of the Agreement |
| Use data | The Software Services are solely and exclusively for your use in the ordinary course of conducting your primary business and shall not be provided to any third party, except as expressly authorized in an Order Form. [...] Unless expressly permitted by Lightcast in an Order Form, Customer will not (and will not permit anyone else to) do any of the following: (a) provide access to, distribute, sell or sublicense the Software Services to any third party, including affiliates of Customer, (b) use the Software Services on behalf of, or to provide any product or service to, third parties, (c) use the Software Services to develop a similar or competing product or service, (d) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or seek to access the source code or non-public APIs to the Software Services, (e) modify or create derivative works of the Software Services or copy any element of the Software Services, (f) remove or obscure any proprietary notices in the Software Services, (g) use any automated means or process to access the Software Services, (h) interfere with the Software Service's operation, circumvent its access restrictions or conduct any security or vulnerability test of the Software Services, or (i) transmit any viruses or other harmful materials to or via the Software Services. [...] Unless otherwise expressly authorized by Lightcast, you agree not to use the Services either alone or in concert with any other information, to re-identify anonymized data, share profile data with any third party, create a profile database, attempt to contact or advertise to any individual and except as permitted under the Business Contact Terms (when applicable), or make any hiring, lending, or other material decisions about an individual. |
| Per second | 10 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | filter, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: fields, limit, order, page, area_version, soc_version, onet_version |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /postings |
| Plan | Get API Access |
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| Who can get it | Lightcast customers under an Order Form, for their own internal business operations |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
job ID, job title, job description, company name, company ID, city, posted date, expired date, job URL, relevance score, total results