--- title: "Apify alternative for job data: JobsPipe vs Apify" description: "Apify: From $19/mo plus usage, one Actor per job site. JobsPipe: 1,000 jobs to start, then $49/month for 25,000 jobs, one schema." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/apify date_published: 2026-10-06 date_modified: 2026-10-06 author: Dvir Atias --- > **Facts:** Free: 1,000 free credits, one time. Paid: from $49/month for 25,000 jobs. 12 months of history on every plan. Jobs from 30+ sources. Try it without a key: `curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search` # Apify alternative for job data: JobsPipe vs Apify Apify is a general web scraping platform where each job site is a separate scraper, called an Actor, with its own price and its own output fields. JobsPipe is one jobs API with one schema across its sources, billed per job returned. Choose Apify for sites and data types JobsPipe does not carry, and JobsPipe when job postings are the product. > Apify runs a separate scraper for each job site and bills the platform plus each scraper. JobsPipe returns job postings from many sources in one schema and bills per job returned. **Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/apify **Competitor domain:** https://apify.com ## What Apify is Apify is a web scraping and automation platform. Scrapers are packaged as Actors, which run on Apify's cloud, can be put on a schedule, and write their results to datasets you read through the Apify API. The Apify Store lists Actors built by Apify and by independent developers, for job sites and for many other kinds of site: shops, maps, social networks and search results. For job data there is no single Apify product. You pick an Actor per site, and each one has its own developer, input options, output fields and price. Two examples from the Store: the LinkedIn Jobs Scraper by curious_coder charges $1 per 1,000 results on paid plans and $2 on the free plan, and the Indeed Scraper by misceres charges $5 per 1,000 listings on Starter, falling to $3 on Business. Covering several sites means running several Actors and mapping their outputs onto one schema yourself. ## One Actor per site, or one API across sources On Apify the unit of work is a run of one Actor against one site. The fields that come back are whatever that Actor's developer chose to extract, named the way that developer named them. If you need LinkedIn and Indeed, that is two Actors, two sets of input options, two output shapes and two prices, and the same job advertised on both sites arrives twice. JobsPipe is the other shape. One request searches every source it carries, the same fields come back whichever source a posting came from, and a job that appears on several sources is returned as one record with every origin listed under sources. The trade is control for convenience: you do not choose how a site is read, and you do not maintain the mapping either. ## What a scheduled Actor leaves for you to build A scraper run returns what was on the site at that moment. Three things that a jobs product usually needs sit outside the run. The first is knowing that a posting has closed, which means running again and comparing the two outputs. The second is matching the same job across sites. The third is one schema: salary, location and seniority are written differently on every site, and each Actor passes through what it found. None of that is a flaw in Apify. It is a platform for running scrapers, and it does that job well. It does mean the cost of job data on Apify is the platform plan and the Actor prices, plus the engineering time for the layer above them. JobsPipe sells that layer: first-seen and last-seen dates and an open or closed status on every record, and webhooks for new and closed postings. ## Using Apify and JobsPipe together Many teams keep both, and the split is clean. Apify stays for the sites and data types that are not job postings, and for the occasional job board that JobsPipe does not carry. JobsPipe supplies the job layer: the searches a product runs while a user waits, and the alerts that fire when a matching job appears. If your workflows already live in Apify, you do not have to leave it. JobsPipe publishes its own Actor in the Apify Store, under apify.com/jobspipe, which runs the same job search and writes the results to an Apify dataset like any other Actor. ## Apify pricing Platform plans are Free with $5 of monthly usage, Starter at $19, Scale at $199 and Business at $999 a month, and each plan's fee is spent on usage. Residential proxy bandwidth is resold at $8/GB on Free and Starter, $7.50/GB on Scale and $7/GB on Business. Each Actor then sets its own price on top: the LinkedIn Jobs Scraper by curious_coder charges $1 per 1,000 results on paid plans and $2 on the free plan, and the Indeed Scraper by misceres charges $5 per 1,000 listings on Starter, falling to $3 on Business. Pricing checked 2026-09-29: https://apify.com/pricing ## Apify target buyer Teams that scrape many kinds of site and want one platform to run, schedule and store all of it; developers who need a site that no data API carries; and anyone making a one-off pull from a single job board. ## Where Apify wins - Breadth beyond jobs. The Store has Actors for shops, maps, social networks and search results, so one platform and one bill can cover every kind of site a team scrapes. - Sites that no jobs API carries. If the board you need has an Actor, or you can write one, Apify will run it. - A low entry price. A free plan with $5 a month to spend on Actors, and paid plans from $19/month plus pay-as-you-go usage. - A low price per result on some Actors. LinkedIn Jobs Scraper $1 per 1,000 results is a published rate, and it is slightly below JobsPipe's lowest per-job rate. - Control over extraction. An Actor is code: an open one can be forked, changed to extract a different field, and run on your own schedule. ## Where JobsPipe wins - One schema across sources. The same fields come back whichever source a posting came from, so there is no per-site mapping to write or maintain. - One record per job. A job that appears on several sources comes back as one record with every origin listed under sources, and it costs one credit. - Open or closed status. Every record carries first-seen and last-seen dates and a status, and webhooks fire for new and closed postings, so you do not run a scraper again and compare outputs. - Filters at request time: title, skills, seniority, salary, country, city, remote and company, with cursor pagination, so you pay for the rows you asked for. - Empty searches cost nothing. One credit is one job returned. - An MCP server, so an agent in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can run the same searches. ## Side-by-side comparison | Axis | Apify | JobsPipe | |---|---|---| | Product | General scraping platform with a store of Actors | Jobs API, webhooks and an MCP server | | Job sources | One Actor per site, each from its own developer | 30+ sources behind one search | | Billing unit | Platform plan plus each Actor's own price | Jobs returned, one credit each | | Output fields | Set by each Actor's developer | One documented schema | | Same job on several sites | You match records across Actor outputs | One record, every origin under sources | | Closed postings | Inferred by comparing one run with the next | status, closed_at and a webhook | | Other site types | Shops, maps, social networks, search results | Job postings only | ## Where Apify is the better choice Apify is the better choice when jobs are one of several things you scrape. A team that already collects prices, reviews and search results on Apify can add a job-site Actor without adopting a second vendor, and its schedules, storage and monitoring are already in place. It is also the better choice for a site JobsPipe does not carry, and for a one-off pull from a single board, where one Actor's output is all you need and there is nothing to merge. And it is the better choice when you want to own the extraction. An open Actor can be forked and changed, which no data API allows. ## When to pick which **Pick Apify:** Jobs are one of several things you scrape, you need a site JobsPipe does not carry, you want a one-off pull from a single board, or you want to own and change the extraction code. **Pick JobsPipe:** Job postings are the product: you need several sources in one schema, one record per job, open or closed status and webhooks, without building the layer that sits above a set of scrapers. Roundup: [Compare the job scraping tools side by side](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/best-job-scrapers) ## FAQ ### Is Apify cheaper than JobsPipe for job data? For one site, sometimes. The LinkedIn Jobs Scraper by curious_coder charges $1 per 1,000 results on paid plans and $2 on the free plan, while the Indeed Scraper by misceres charges $5 per 1,000 listings on Starter, falling to $3 on Business. JobsPipe's per-1,000 rates are $1.16 on Scale and $1.05 on Business. Three things change the sum. Apify's platform plan is charged as well as the Actor price. Each site is a separate Actor, so the same job on two sites is paid for twice, while JobsPipe returns it once. And the engineering time to merge outputs and track closed postings is yours on Apify. ### Does Apify have a jobs API? Not a single one. Apify has an API for running Actors and reading the datasets they produce. Job data comes from individual Actors in the Apify Store, one per job site, each with its own input options and output fields. A request for jobs from several sites is several Actor runs. ### Does Apify have a free plan? Yes. A free plan with $5 a month to spend on Actors. JobsPipe's free tier is 1,000 free credits, one time. ### Which Apify Actors scrape LinkedIn and Indeed jobs? The Store lists several for each site. The two priced on this page are the LinkedIn Jobs Scraper by curious_coder and the Indeed Scraper by misceres: the LinkedIn Jobs Scraper by curious_coder charges $1 per 1,000 results on paid plans and $2 on the free plan, and the Indeed Scraper by misceres charges $5 per 1,000 listings on Starter, falling to $3 on Business. Check an Actor's own Store page for its current price, its last update and its issue list before you depend on it. ### Can I use Apify and JobsPipe together? Yes. A common split is Apify for the sites and data types that are not job postings, and JobsPipe for the job layer. JobsPipe also publishes its own Actor in the Apify Store, under apify.com/jobspipe, so a workflow that already runs in Apify can call the same job search from there. ### When should I stay with Apify? Stay when jobs are one of several things you scrape, when the board you need is not one JobsPipe carries, when a single Actor's output is all you need, or when you want to fork and change the extraction code yourself. ## Related - **Product:** https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api - **All alternatives:** https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives - **Intent data providers (comparison hub):** https://jobspipe.dev/intent-data-providers - **Sign up (free tier):** https://jobspipe.dev/signup --- Generated from structured data. View the rendered page at https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/apify. --- Try it with no key: `curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search`. 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