# Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month: Job posting details API

> Then we read, merge and check every posting, so one real job appears once, with its pay, place and work arrangement filled in where the employer published them.

Headcount Labs's job posting details API on its "First 100,000 every month" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 jobs. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Location, Remote, Company, Posted.
We haven't run Headcount Labs through [our job posting details API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-posting-details-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 270 plans we rank by price cost $1.075 per 1,000 jobs or less. This plan and 21 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 jobs of the 270 plans.
[Greenhouse](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/greenhouse/free/llms.txt), [Lever](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/lever/free/llms.txt) and [Recruitee](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/recruitee/free/llms.txt) are the best job posting details API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month
- [Job posting details API: 18 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-job-posting-details-api.txt)
- Get it: https://headcountlabs.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.headcountlabs.com/v1/jobs/{jobId}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://headcountlabs.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://headcountlabs.com/docs/jobs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- Sold by: Headcount Labs (https://headcountlabs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 jobs: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Then we read, merge and check every posting, so one real job appears once, with its pay, place and work arrangement filled in where the employer published them.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, applicable payment obligations and third-party rights, you may use the Service's hosted API and authorized MCP tools to build job search, matching, analytics, recruiting, research and other lawful products, display individual records to your users, and transform the resulting information. [...] A subscription, API key or connector grant gives you access to our hosted service, not ownership of that infrastructure or a right to resell your account, tokens, nonpublic service endpoints, or pass through our hosted metered access as an unauthorized wholesale service. [...] You may not evade rate limits, share credentials outside authorized users, or market an unauthorized mirror as the official Headcount Labs service. [...] All Headcount Labs data, however it is delivered [...] is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, and our own values in it under the Database Contents License (DbCL) 1.0 [...]. [...] those licences permit copying, adapting, commercial use and redistribution, including by competing services. Internal use needs no attribution. Public use needs the attribution shown on the licence page, and a public derivative database must be shared under the ODbL 1.0 (share-alike). You may use data you receive from the Service, through the hosted API, MCP tools or the public dataset, to train, fine-tune and evaluate machine-learning models. The open licence does not automatically cover employers' or job boards' job descriptions, names, logos, trademarks, third-party copyrights, personal data, privacy rights, publicity rights, or content for which we cannot lawfully grant a licence. [...] You must not use data or contact details obtained from the Service to engage in unlawful surveillance or profiling, or unlawfully discriminate in hiring, pay, credit, housing, insurance or other decisions. [...] You may not use data from the Service, alone or combined with other information, as a factor in deciding any individual's eligibility for employment, credit, housing or insurance, or for any other purpose covered by the FCRA or similar state laws. [...] You must not: (a) gain or try to gain unauthorized access to another customer's data or credentials, (b) circumvent access controls, payment limits, privacy choices, rate limits or anti-abuse mechanisms, (c) distribute malware or attempt to disrupt the Service, (d) misrepresent Headcount Labs as endorsing your product, (e) use automated collection methods to overload hosted services contrary to published limits, (f) conduct intrusive tests against production infrastructure without authorization, (g) violate applicable law or third-party rights, or (h) instruct an agent to bypass permissions, identity verification or other platform safety restrictions.

## Plan

- Pay: monthly
- You get: from the 1st result a month
- Enough for: 100,000 results a month
- Expires: at the end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.18 s

## The call

- You send: jobId. Optional: include, description_format, fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/jobs/{jobId}

## About the plan

- Plan: First 100,000 every month
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 47 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, currentness, stale, company ID, employer name, title, description, work arrangement, locations, city, region, country, county FIPS code, CBSA code, CBSA title, street, postal code, ZIP code, first seen at, curated at, updated at, posting ID, job source, source posting ID, posting status, posting URL, application URL, pay min, pay max, pay currency, pay interval, posted at, last fetched at, latest application check, attribution, company name, company country, company status, company region, company address source, company identifiers, company industries, source work location type, source updated at, source employment type, source type, source availability

## Headcount Labs's plans (2)

- [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, Every record after that](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-every-record-after-that/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day

## Headcount Labs's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/jobs/{jobId}`: [Headcount Labs, pay as you go, First 100,000 every month](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt)

## Headcount Labs's APIs (4)

- [Headcount Labs: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt)
- [Headcount Labs: company open jobs API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt)
- [Headcount Labs: job posting details API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month/llms.txt)
- [Headcount Labs: job postings API pricing, 2 plans, 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)
- [Headcount Labs: job postings API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-get-v1-jobs/llms.txt)
- [Headcount Labs: job postings API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/jobs/search](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/headcount-labs/pay-as-you-go-first-100000-every-month-post-v1-jobs-search/llms.txt)

## Headcount Labs: job posting details API alternatives

- [Greenhouse, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/greenhouse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% complete, live
- [Lever, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/lever/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, live
- [Recruitee, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/recruitee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [Polymer, free](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-details-apis/polymer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 77% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://headcountlabs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/data-fields/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/fields/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/filters/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/freshness/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/ingestion-strategy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/jobs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/pagination/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/rate-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/docs/usage-and-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/license/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing
- https://headcountlabs.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=job-posting-details-api-pricing