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JobsPipe vs Adzuna.
Adzuna is the UK-origin free-tier jobs aggregator. JobsPipe is US-strong, per-source explicit, real-time. Where each wins.
What Adzuna is
Adzuna is a UK-founded job-search aggregator (started 2011) with a public API used by researchers, government statistics bureaus, and low-volume aggregator builders. The API has a generous free tier (1,000 calls/month) and supports 16 countries with strongest coverage in the UK and Western Europe. The Office for National Statistics in the UK uses Adzuna data for labor-market reporting, which gives the data product real institutional credibility.
The product shape is aggregator-classic: they crawl public job boards, deduplicate where they can, and expose search + per-job-detail endpoints. They also publish derived data products (salary statistics, job-count trends by category and region) that are particularly useful for macro-research use cases.
Free tier: 1,000 API calls/month. Paid tiers for higher volume are sales-led (not publicly priced for self-serve).
Researchers, academic institutions, government statistics teams, low-volume aggregator builders, UK/EU-focused product makers.
Where Adzuna wins
- Free tier is generous for research. 1,000 calls/month is enough for academic studies, light analytical work, or small-scale aggregator projects.
- Strong UK and EU coverage. Adzuna has been crawling UK/EU job boards since 2011 and the depth shows.
- Macro stats. Their derived aggregates (jobs-by-region, salary-by-category, trend data) are well-shaped for labor-market research.
- Institutional credibility. The UK ONS uses Adzuna data, which signals quality and stability that matter for academic citation.
Where JobsPipe wins
- US coverage. JobsPipe is US-strong with deep coverage of US-dominant ATSs (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS). Adzuna’s US coverage is thinner.
- Per-source ATS schema. We expose the upstream ATS for every posting (?source=workday, ?source=greenhouse). Adzuna’s aggregator-flavored output abstracts source attribution.
- Real-time freshness. JobsPipe ships webhooks; Adzuna’s public API is pull-only on a less-aggressive refresh cadence.
- Per-job detail completeness. Adzuna’s API returns solid aggregates but per-job detail is comparatively thin (e.g., often no structured salary range, limited description body). JobsPipe ships the full normalized record per posting.
Side-by-side
| Axis | Adzuna | JobsPipe |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic strength | UK, Western Europe (16 countries) | US-first, growing international |
| Free tier | 1,000 calls/month | 5,000 requests/month |
| Paid pricing | Sales-led, not public | Public tiers from $49/mo |
| Source attribution | Aggregated, abstracted | Explicit per-source |
| Real-time / webhooks | No (pull-only API) | Yes |
| Per-job detail | Thin (good aggregates) | Full normalized record |
| Macro stats | Yes (salary, region, category) | No - per-job only |
When to pick which
You’re doing UK/EU-focused labor-market research, want a free-tier API for academic work, or need macro-aggregate statistics (salary by region, job counts by category) over US-centric per-job detail.
You’re building a US-focused product, need full per-job detail (structured salary, complete descriptions, ATS source), want webhooks for real-time updates, or need per-source ATS schema for filtering.
FAQ
Is Adzuna’s API better for UK/EU jobs than JobsPipe?+
Yes, currently. Adzuna’s UK and Western European coverage has 14 years of investment behind it. JobsPipe is US-first and expanding internationally; for UK/EU-specific use cases today, Adzuna is the stronger choice.
Can I use JobsPipe for free like Adzuna’s free tier?+
Yes. JobsPipe’s free tier is 5,000 requests/month vs. Adzuna’s 1,000. No credit card required on signup for either.
Does Adzuna or JobsPipe have salary data?+
Adzuna publishes aggregate salary statistics (salary by region, salary by category) which are useful for macro analysis. JobsPipe publishes per-posting structured salary (min, max, currency, period) when the ATS exposes it, which is useful for product-level filtering and comparison.
Can I get both Adzuna’s macro data and JobsPipe’s per-job depth?+
You can combine the two for now - they don’t overlap fully. Adzuna for macro stats and UK/EU coverage; JobsPipe for per-job structured data and US ATS depth.
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