Headcount Labs gives 100,000 job records free every month, with no card. Other providers' monthly free allowances run from a few hundred jobs or credits to about a thousand; several offer only a trial.
Free every month
| Provider | Free every month | After that |
|---|---|---|
| Headcount Labs | 100,000 records | Then $0.01 per 1,000 records |
| Hirebase | 500 jobs a month source, checked Oct 2026 | Monthly plans by jobs a month, with overage on larger plans |
| TheirStack | 200 API credits a month source, checked Oct 2026 | Monthly API credit plans; one job is one API credit |
| Bright Data | A free sample download source, checked Oct 2026 | Datasets sold by record, one-time or on a refresh schedule |
| Apify | $5 of usage a month source, checked Oct 2026 | Platform plans plus each scraper's own price |
| Techmap | 1,000 jobs a month source, checked Oct 2026 | Jobs API by the job; country feeds by the month |
| PredictLeads | 100 API calls a month source, checked Oct 2026 | Per API credit: $0.04 for 101 to 5,000 calls ($40 minimum a month), down to $0.002 above 500,000 |
| SerpApi | 250 searches a month source, checked Oct 2026 | Monthly plans by searches, from $25 for 1,000 searches |
| Sumble | 500 credits a month source, checked Oct 2026 | Monthly credit plans; Pro is USD 99 a month for 9,900 credits |
A one-time credit or a time-limited trial is not counted as free every month. Providers offering a trial or one-time credit instead: Coresignal, JobsPipe, Fantastic.jobs, JobsPikr.
Getting job postings data instead
Headcount Labs reads open jobs from employers' own career pages and serves them through one REST API: 100,000 records free every month, then a flat $0.01 per 1,000. Search by title, company, location, pay and date:
curl --request GET "https://api.headcountlabs.com/v1/jobs?title=registered%20nurse&country=US&has_pay=true¤tness=current&limit=50" \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>'See getting started, the filters, and job postings data by country and occupation.
Questions
Is there a free job postings API?
Yes. Headcount Labs gives 100,000 records free every month, enough to test a search across every country, and charges $0.01 per 1,000 records after that.
What counts as a record?
One job returned by a search. Counting matches with GET /v1/jobs/count returns no jobs and costs one request.
Sources
- https://apify.com/pricing (checked Oct 2026)
- https://brightdata.com/pricing/datasets (checked Oct 2026)
- https://coresignal.com/pricing/ (checked Oct 2026)
- https://fantastic.jobs/api (checked Oct 2026)
- https://www.hirebase.org/pricing (checked Oct 2026)
- https://www.jobspikr.com/jobspikr-data-pricing/ (checked Oct 2026)
- https://jobspipe.dev/pricing (checked Oct 2026)
- https://predictleads.com/pricing (checked Oct 2026)
- https://serpapi.com/pricing (checked Oct 2026)
- https://sumble.com/pricing (checked Oct 2026)
- https://jobdatafeeds.com/pricing (checked Oct 2026)
- https://theirstack.com/en/docs/pricing/plans (checked Oct 2026)
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