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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 | Monthly free credits |
| 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
How do I get an Adzuna API key?+
Register at developer.adzuna.com and you get an app_id and app_key pair immediately - Adzuna's API is self-serve and the free tier covers 1,000 calls per month. Every request passes both values as query parameters. No sales call is required unless you need higher volume.
What endpoints does the Adzuna API have?+
The core endpoint is /v1/api/jobs/{country}/search for keyword and location search over live ads. Around it sit the derived-data endpoints Adzuna is known for: histogram (salary distribution for a query), top_companies (biggest hirers for a keyword), categories, geodata (job counts by location), and history (average salary over time). The derived endpoints are the researcher-friendly part; the per-job records in search results are comparatively thin.
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, both have free tiers - they are just shaped differently. Adzuna caps you at 1,000 calls/month; JobsPipe meters a monthly job allowance, where one credit is one job returned. JobsPipe's free tier is built for evaluation: normalized, deduplicated postings across 30+ sources with self-serve signup, so you can judge the per-job depth before paying.
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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