# Lightcast, contact us: Job postings API

> 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).

Lightcast's job postings API on its Get API Access plan. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Location, Company, Posted, Status.
We haven't run Lightcast through [our job postings API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobdataapi/345-monthly/llms.txt) 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 (/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), [JobDataAPI](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobdataapi/free/llms.txt) and [Himalayas](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/himalayas/free-api-key-get-jobs-api-search/llms.txt) are the best job postings API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/lightcast/contact-us
- [Job postings API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://lightcast.io/solutions/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.lightcast.io/jpa/postings`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lightcast.io/solutions/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.lightcast.dev/apis/job-postings?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing#post-postings
- Sold by: Lightcast (https://lightcast.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## In their words

- 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).

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- 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.

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: filter, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: fields, limit, order, page, area_version, soc_version, onet_version
- Method: POST
- Path: /postings

## About the plan

- Plan: Get API Access
- 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

## Lightcast's plans (1)

- [Lightcast, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/lightcast/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 day

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

- `POST /postings`: [Lightcast, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/lightcast/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Lightcast's APIs (5)

- [Lightcast: job posting details API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/lightcast/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Lightcast: job postings API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/lightcast/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Lightcast: people search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/lightcast/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Lightcast: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /bulk-match](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/lightcast/contact-us-worker-profiles-with-contact-information-post-bulk-match/llms.txt)
- [Lightcast: people enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /match](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/lightcast/contact-us-worker-profiles-with-contact-information-post-match/llms.txt)
- [Lightcast: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, GET /versions/{version}/companies/{companyId}](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/lightcast/contact-us-get-api-access-get-versions-version-companies-companyid/llms.txt)
- [Lightcast: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /versions/{version}/normalize](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/lightcast/contact-us-get-api-access-post-versions-version-normalize/llms.txt)

## Lightcast: job postings API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, contact us, Custom, POST /ziprecruiter/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/reefapi/contact-us-custom-post-ziprecruiter-v1-search/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, contact us, Enterprise, POST /jobs/naukri](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/scrapeunblocker/contact-us-enterprise-post-jobs-naukri/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, contact us, Custom, GET /v1/indeed/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/perceptlayer/contact-us-custom-get-v1-indeed-jobs/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [PrismCrawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/prismcrawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [Textkernel, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/textkernel/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, 24 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.lightcast.dev/apis/job-postings?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://legal.lightcast.io/lightcast-legal/general-terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://lightcast.io/our-data/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://lightcast.io/our-data/api/menu?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://lightcast.io/solutions/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing