Lightcast pricing: job posting details API

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54% complete: 7 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

Contact usWe haven't run Lightcast through our job posting details API benchmark yet.Lightcast gives this plan's price on request. We rank 256 plans for job posting details APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.125 per 1,000 jobs or less.freehire's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 jobs: as little as $0.00038. freehire's $99 monthly plan covers up to 259,200,000 jobs a month at no extra cost.Greenhouse, Lever and Recruitee are the best job posting details API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Get API Access Lightcast's only plan

Contact usGet API Access

Call: GET /postings/{postingId} Lightcast's only call for this API

GET /postings/{postingId}Contact us

API: Job posting details API one of Lightcast's 5 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 1 day old. You get jobs from Lightcast's database.
7 of the 13 key fields we check. Description, Location, Terms, Level, Company, Posted, Status.
No public price. You ask Lightcast for one.
One call. You send postingId to GET /postings/{postingId}. You can also send area_version, soc_version and onet_version. The call returns the job.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Lightcast: job posting details API alternatives

Lightcast alternatives: every job posting details API provider ranked

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	This planLightcast, contact us	ReefAPI, contact us, Custom, POST /indeed/v1/job	Ujeebu, contact us	Sumble, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v9/jobs, Job posts	Parse, contact us, Enterprise, GET /scraper/6ec17689-852f-49ed-b969-1b787c8344e7/get_job_details	Dealroom, contact us
Completeness	54%	54%	62%	54%	46%	31%
Billing	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact
Freshness	1 day	live	live	1 day	live	unknown
Who can get it	Lightcast customers under an Order Form, for their own internal business operations	anyone	anyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission	anyone who can form a binding contract with Sumble and is at least 18 (the terms: 'You may only use the Services if you can form a binding contract with Company', 'you are at least 18 years of age'), after talking to sales (the pricing page: 'Talk to Sales', the terms: 'Fees specified on the Order Form(s)')	anyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind	an organisation or person that signs an Order Form with Dealroom.co covering the API (Article 19.1), using its data in its own internal systems (Article 19.5)

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.

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
Remote, not in the answer
Salary, not in the answer
Terms
Level
Team, not in the answer
Recruiter, not in the answer
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	postingId. Optional: area_version, soc_version, onet_version
Method	GET
Path	/postings/{postingId}

About the plan
Plan	Get API Access
Who can get it	Lightcast customers under an Order Form, for their own internal business operations

The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, job title, job description, company name, company ID, city, employment type, posted date, expired date, job URL, active job URL, skills, education level, minimum years of experience, maximum years of experience, O*NET occupation, relevance score