# Metaintro, free: Job postings API

> Search live postings by keyword, place, and remote status. Each result carries the employer, locations, workplace type, salary where disclosed, an SOC occupation code, and when the role was posted and last seen.

Metaintro's Free API key plan for the job postings API costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Metaintro's docs list 5: Location, Remote, Salary, Company, Posted.
Metaintro limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We haven't run Metaintro through [our job postings API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt) yet.
We rank 490 plans for job postings APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.398 or less per 1,000 jobs. This plan and 55 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 jobs of the 490 plans. [240 job postings API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt) [JobsByLevel's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobsbylevel/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 90.7 out of 100.
[Vibeworker's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/vibeworker/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of jobs, and 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/metaintro/free
- [Job postings API in 2026: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.metaintro.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://www.metaintro.com/api/v1/jobs/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.metaintro.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.metaintro.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Sold by: Metaintro (https://www.metaintro.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 jobs: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search live postings by keyword, place, and remote status. Each result carries the employer, locations, workplace type, salary where disclosed, an SOC occupation code, and when the role was posted and last seen.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- History: open only
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Terms of Service, "You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities": "Copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Services in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated 'scraping'", [...] "Using the Services for any commercial solicitation purposes", [...] "Accessing any content on the Services through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Services", [...] "Framing or linking to any information or content on the Services". Developers FAQ, "Can we redistribute the data?": "Redistribution and display rights are set in each data agreement."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: location, remote, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/jobs/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free API key
- Who can get it: anyone with a free Metaintro account: the key comes from Settings, then API Keys

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

job title, company name, locations, workplace type, salary currency, salary minimum, salary maximum, salary payment frequency, SOC code, skills, posted date, last seen date, job URL, total results, total count exact, search degraded, request ID

## Metaintro's plans (2)

- [Metaintro, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/metaintro/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Metaintro, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/metaintro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 day

## Metaintro's calls (2)

- `POST /api/v1/jobs/search`: [Metaintro, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/metaintro/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/jobs/search`: [Metaintro, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/metaintro/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Metaintro's APIs (1)

- [Metaintro Job postings API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/metaintro/free/llms.txt)

## Metaintro: job postings API alternatives

[Metaintro alternatives: other job postings API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/metaintro-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 jobs. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [JobsByLevel, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobsbylevel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 hour
- [OfferMagnet, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/offermagnet/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day
- [Vibeworker, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/vibeworker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 24 hours
- [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): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Mantiks, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/mantiks/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://www.metaintro.com/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://www.metaintro.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://www.metaintro.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing