At a glance

Headcount LabsTechmap
How it is soldPay as you go, per recordJobs API by the job; country feeds by the month source, checked Oct 2026
Free every month100,000 records1,000 jobs a month source, checked Oct 2026
Lowest published price per 1,000 jobs$0.01$1.00 at the list rate source, checked Oct 2026
3 million jobs in one month$29$2,999 at the list rate (subscription discounts not published) source, checked Oct 2026
Size the provider states8,390,837 open jobs451M+ jobs since 2020; 8M new jobs a month source, checked Oct 2026
RefreshJob boards re-read on a rolling schedule; measured freshness is on each dataset pageContinuous source, checked Oct 2026
DeliveryREST API and MCP connector, JSONJSON, CSV, RSS, ATOM, XML or Parquet source, checked Oct 2026
Also sellsJob postings onlyCountry feeds at $9 to $649 per country a month, and history from 2020 source, checked Oct 2026

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

When Techmap is the better fit

Techmap sells whole-country feeds and job history back to 2020, which suits research on past hiring.

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 Techmap?

For 3 million jobs in a month, yes: $29 from Headcount Labs against $2,999 at the list rate (subscription discounts not published) from Techmap, using Techmap's published prices (checked Oct 2026).

When is Techmap the better choice?

Techmap sells whole-country feeds and job history back to 2020, which suits research on past hiring.

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 Techmap?

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

Sources

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