upAPI pricing: job postings API, POST / upwork-jobs-search.get
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$0.00per 1,000 jobsWe haven't run upAPI through our job postings API benchmark 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 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) covers any number of jobs. Hirebase's $50 monthly plan costs less up front than JobDataAPI's $345 monthly plan.freehire, Himalayas and JobDataAPI are the best job postings API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of upAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $29 monthly, StarterStarter$0.058 per 1,000
- $99 monthly, ProPro$0.04 per 1,000
- $499 monthly, ScaleScale$0.02 per 1,000
Call:
POST / upwork-jobs-search.get one of upAPI's 2 calls for this APIAPI: Job postings API one of upAPI's 20 APIs
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About this item
- Live. upAPI searches for jobs when you call the API.
- 3 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Terms, Posted.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. The quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You can also sendupwork-jobs-search.get page,sort,jobType,pageSize,proxyUrlandexperienceLevel. The call returns the matching jobs. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
upAPI: job postings API alternatives
upAPI alternatives: other job postings API providers by price
The table starts with upAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 jobs closest to upAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| upAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /upwork-jobs-search.get | ScrapeUnblocker, pay as you go, POST /jobs/wellfound | Scraper Api, $199 pack, 100,000 API requests, GET /v1/arbeitsagentur/search | ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /reed/v1/search | FetchLayer, $250 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 jobs | $0.02 | $0.019 | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 |
| Completeness | 23% | 62% | 31% | 62% | 46% |
| Billing | monthly | pay as you go | pay first | quarterly | monthly |
| Pay | $499 | monthly | $199 | $450 | $250 |
| Enough for | 500,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for | 100,000 pages | 300,000 pages a month | 250,000 pages a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | 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.") | anyone | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher) |
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.
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, not in the answer
- Remote, not in the answer
- Salary, not in the answer
- Terms
- Level, not in the answer
- Team, not in the answer
- Recruiter, not in the answer
- Company, not in the answer
- Posted
- Status, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 jobs | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 50 |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Repeat free | 3 minutes |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: 112 other calls |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Search Upwork job postings by keyword. Returns title, description, contract type, budget, publish time and the job reference you pass to upwork-jobs-detail. Reads Upwork's public visitor surface — no Upwork account or cookie is required. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 100 pages a month |
| Expires | the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month |
| Per second | 0.17 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: page, sort, jobType, pageSize, proxyUrl, experienceLevel |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /upwork-jobs-search.get |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold
job ID, job title, job URL, job type, description, posted at, budget minimum, budget maximum, budget amount, query, results returned, total results