At a glance

Headcount LabsCoresignal
How it is soldPay as you go, per recordMonthly credit plans; one job posting is one credit source, checked Oct 2026
Free every month100,000 recordsNone (a 7-day free trial) source, checked Oct 2026
Lowest published price per 1,000 jobs$0.01$0.50 source, checked Oct 2026
3 million jobs in one month$29$3,000 source, checked Oct 2026
DeliveryREST API and MCP connector, JSONAPIs and datasets source, checked Oct 2026
Also sellsJob postings onlyCompany, employee and social posts data source, checked Oct 2026

Figures for Coresignal come from its own public pages, checked Oct 2026. Rows its pages do not state are left out.

When Coresignal is the better fit

Coresignal sells company and employee records next to jobs, so one supplier covers all three.

When Headcount Labs is the better fit

  • You need a large volume of open jobs at a low price: $29 for 3 million records in a month.
  • You want to start free: 100,000 records every month, no card.
  • You want every job traced to the employer: 8,390,837 open jobs, each with a link to the original posting, and 3,162,273 with the pay the employer published.
  • You want to check the data before you buy: the dataset pages show field fill rates, freshness and sample rows.

Test both in an afternoon

  1. Pick one search you care about, such as a job title in one country.
  2. Count it on Headcount Labs with one request that returns no jobs:
curl --request GET "https://api.headcountlabs.com/v1/jobs/count?title=data%20engineer&country=US" \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>'
  1. Pull 50 records from each provider and compare titles, locations, pay and posting links.
  2. Price your real monthly volume on both price lists.

Questions

Is Headcount Labs cheaper than Coresignal?

For 3 million jobs in a month, yes: $29 from Headcount Labs against $3,000 from Coresignal, using Coresignal's published prices (checked Oct 2026).

When is Coresignal the better choice?

Coresignal sells company and employee records next to jobs, so one supplier covers all three.

Where does Headcount Labs get its jobs?

From employers' own career pages and the hiring platforms they post on. Each record keeps the link to the employer's posting, so any job can be checked against its source.

Is Headcount Labs affiliated with Coresignal?

No. Headcount Labs is an independent company and Coresignal is a trademark of its owner. The facts about Coresignal on this page come from Coresignal's public pages, checked Oct 2026.

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