# The Jobs API, free trial, GET /v1/jobs: Job postings API

> Returns active jobs, newest first, filtered by the parameters you pass.

The Jobs API's job postings API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. The Jobs API's docs list 9 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Location, Remote, Salary, Terms, Level, Company, Posted, Status.
We haven't run The Jobs API 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/the-jobs-api/free-trial-get-v1-jobs
- [Job postings API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-postings-api.txt)
- Get it: https://thejobsapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.thejobsapi.com/v1/jobs`
- API key: with the plan, on https://thejobsapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://thejobsapi.com/docs/jobs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- Sold by: The Jobs API (https://thejobsapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Description: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Remote: ✓
- Salary: ✓
- Terms: ✓
- Level: ✓
- Company: ✓
- Posted: ✓
- Status: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100,000
- Also pays for: Expired jobs · Organization list · Find organizations · from the same budget: New jobs · Modified jobs · Changes feed · Get a job

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns active jobs, newest first, filtered by the parameters you pass.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- History: open only
- Keep data: "You may keep a copy of the jobs you need to run your product, and you must remove jobs that we report as expired."
- Use data: "While your plan is active, you may use the job data inside your own products and services, for example to show jobs on your job board, in your app or in your research. When you show a job to people, keep the link to the original job post so they can apply with the employer." "You may not: sell, rent or give away our job data as a dataset, file or feed of its own, use it to build or supply another jobs API or job data service, share your API key or account with people outside your organization, copy, scrape or download the service in ways the API does not offer, reverse engineer the service or test its security without our written permission, overload or harm the service, or use the data for anything illegal, unfair or discriminatory, including spam."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100,000 results
- Enough for: 100,000 results, once
- Expires: 14 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 100
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: country, q, title, province, state, city, source, employment_type, remote, has_salary, skill, derived, window, description, source_fields, include_organization, include_ai, lightcast_skill, lightcast_min_confidence, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/jobs

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: any new organization, one trial each

## The 46 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, title, company, job URL, apply URL, job source, source type, posted at, valid through, location, city, state or province, country, postal code, latitude, longitude, remote, work arrangement, employment type, salary min, salary max, salary currency, salary period, description, description HTML, source fields, job board, status, first seen at, updated at, expired at, coordinate precision, salary source, skills, office days per week, experience years min, experience band, education levels, weekly hours, visa sponsorship, benefits, ad language, bilingual, derived salary, derived employment type, next page cursor

## The Jobs API's plans (4)

- [The Jobs API, free trial, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-jobs-api/free-trial-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, 1 hour
- [The Jobs API, $200 monthly, Canada, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-jobs-api/200-monthly-canada-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt): no limit, 69% complete, 1 hour
- [The Jobs API, $900 monthly, United States, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-jobs-api/900-monthly-united-states-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt): no limit, 69% complete, 1 hour
- [The Jobs API, $1,100 monthly, United States + Canada, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-jobs-api/1100-monthly-united-states-canada-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt): no limit, 69% complete, 1 hour

## The Jobs API's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/active-ats`: [The Jobs API, free trial, GET /v1/active-ats](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-jobs-api/free-trial-get-v1-active-ats/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/jobs`: [The Jobs API, free trial, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-jobs-api/free-trial-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt)

## The Jobs API's APIs (4)

- [The Jobs API: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/the-jobs-api/free/llms.txt)
- [The Jobs API: job posting details API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/the-jobs-api/free/llms.txt)
- [The Jobs API: job postings API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/the-jobs-api/free-trial-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt)
- [The Jobs API: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/the-jobs-api/200-monthly/llms.txt)

## The Jobs API: job postings API alternatives

- [ReefAPI, free, POST /indeed/v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/reefapi/free-free-post-indeed-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free, POST /jobs/glassdoor](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/scrapeunblocker/free-free-post-jobs-glassdoor/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [JobDataLake, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/jobdatalake/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 hour
- [RankFabrik, free, Trial, GET /balayer](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/rankfabrik/free-trial-get-balayer/llms.txt): $0.00 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://thejobsapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://thejobsapi.com/docs/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://thejobsapi.com/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://thejobsapi.com/docs/jobs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://thejobsapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://thejobsapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://thejobsapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing
- https://thejobsapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-postings-api-pricing