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Reference·Aug 13, 2026·7 min read

# Coresignal pricing: the full rate card, how credits burn, and what a job record costs

Coresignal is one of the few B2B data vendors with public prices: eight self-serve plans from $49 to $5,000 a month, all metered in one credit currency. The sticker tells you little until you know the burn - a job posting costs 1 credit, an employee or company profile 10 to 20, search previews bill per query, and monthly credits reset to zero. The full August 2026 rate card, the consumption rules, the 6.7x cliff between the Growth and Premium tiers, and where a flat jobs API buys ten times the postings for the same $49.

![Dvir Atias](/authors/dvir-atias.jpg)

Dvir Atias

Founder, JobsPipe

Coresignal deserves the same rare compliment we paid TheirStack: the prices are on a public page. Where [Lightcast quotes every contract through sales](/blog/lightcast-pricing), Coresignal lists eight self-serve API plans from $49 to $5,000 a month, all metered in credits. But as with every credit-metered vendor, the sticker tells you very little until you know how the credits burn - and the burn rate here varies by a factor of twenty depending on which record type you pull. This page collects the full rate card as advertised in August 2026, the consumption rules, the pricing cliff hidden in the middle of the tier ladder, and where a flat per-request postings API buys ten times as much for the same money.

## What Coresignal sells

Coresignal is a multi-source B2B data vendor. The catalog has three record families - employee profiles, company profiles and job postings - each available through a Base API (single-source records) and a Multi-source API (records merged across sources), plus a Historical Headcount API, a Contact Enrichment API and an LLM-driven Agentic Search API. Everything self-serve is billed from one credit balance, which is simpler than the two separate credit currencies [TheirStack makes you manage](/blog/theirstack-pricing). Bulk datasets - flat-file dumps of the whole corpus - are a separate, custom-quoted product that starts around $1,000 and is priced by contract length, dataset locations and source tier.

## The rate card

Eight plans, billed monthly, differing in credits, rate limit and support:

| Plan | Price | Credits / month | Effective per credit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free trial | $0 for 7 days | 2,000 | - |
| Mini | $49/mo | 2,500 | $0.0196 |
| Starter | $199/mo | 12,000 | $0.0166 |
| Pro | $499/mo | 35,000 | $0.0143 |
| Growth | $1,000/mo | 150,000 | $0.0067 |
| Premium | $1,500/mo | 1,000,000 | $0.0015 |
| Scale | $3,000/mo | 4,000,000 | $0.00075 |
| Elite | $5,000/mo | 10,000,000 | $0.0005 |

Rate limits climb with the tier, from 5 requests per second on the trial and Mini to 100+ on Elite, a dedicated account manager appears at Growth, and annual billing takes 10% off with all credits issued upfront and valid for 12 months.

## How the credits actually burn

This is where the bill is really decided, and the rules are more interesting than the card.

-   **Searching is free.** `/search/es_dsl` and `/search/filter` requests cost nothing; credits deduct only on a successful `/collect` or `/enrich` call that returns a 200. You can size a result set before paying for it, which is genuinely buyer-friendly.
-   **Record type sets the burn rate.** A job posting costs 1 credit whether base or multi-source. A base employee or company record costs 10. A multi-source employee or company record costs 20, as does a contact enrichment; historical headcount is 10. The same $49 Mini plan is 2,500 job postings or 125 multi-source employee profiles - a 20x spread from one line of the fine print.
-   **Previews bill per query.** Search Preview - the endpoint that returns up to 20 result snippets - costs 10 credits per query on base data and 20 on multi-source. Agentic Search costs 20 credits per batch in `/fast` mode and 100 for the first batch in `/reasoning` mode.
-   **Credits do not roll over.** On monthly plans the balance resets every billing cycle. Premium, Scale and Elite get a 3-month rollover; annual plans get the full year. Everyone else loses unused credits at each reset, so an oversized tier leaks money every month.

## The cliff between Growth and Premium

Price the tiers per 1,000 job records and the ladder is not a slope, it is a step function: Mini works out at $19.60, Starter $16.58, Pro $14.26, Growth $6.67 - and then Premium drops to $1.50, Scale to $0.75 and Elite to $0.50. The extra $500 a month between Growth and Premium multiplies your credits by 6.7x. The practical advice writes itself: if your volume puts you anywhere near the top of Growth, price the tier above it before you commit, because the marginal credit there costs less than a quarter as much.

## What it costs in practice

**Enriching a candidate database.** 25,000 multi-source employee profiles cost 500,000 credits. That is a Premium plan at $1,500/mo - and this is the workload Coresignal is actually built around.

**A continuous jobs feed.** Ingesting 50,000 fresh postings a month burns 50,000 credits - past Pro’s 35,000 allowance, so you are on Growth at $1,000/mo. The same unit of work is metered very differently across vendors, which is the point of comparing rate cards at all.

**Sizing the trial.** 2,000 credits in 7 days is 2,000 job records, 200 base profiles, or 100 multi-source profiles. Enough to validate the schema; nowhere near enough to validate coverage on your target segment. Plan the trial queries before starting the clock.

## Where Coresignal is the right buy

An honest pricing page says when to pay the vendor it examines. Buy Coresignal when the deliverable is **people data**: multi-source employee profiles, headcount history, contact enrichment. That is the center of gravity of the catalog, and jobs-only vendors do not sell it at all. And at Premium and above, raw job records get genuinely cheap per row - $1.50 down to $0.50 per 1,000 - if you can commit $1,500+ a month and absorb the deduplication and liveness-checking work that raw multi-source rows leave to you. Our [Coresignal comparison](/blog/coresignal-alternative) walks the product side of that evaluation.

## Where a flat jobs API is cheaper

If the slice you need is job postings, the economics change at the entry and mid tiers. JobsPipe meters one thing: jobs returned. The free tier is 1,000 jobs a month, forever, not a 7-day trial. Builder is $49/mo for 25,000 jobs - ten times what Coresignal’s $49 Mini plan collects. Scale is $349/mo for 300,000 jobs, which is $1.16 per 1,000 - between Coresignal’s Growth and Premium rates, without the $1,000+ commitment. Searches that match nothing cost nothing, and preview mode returns masked results free.

The corpus you are metering against is liveness-checked and deduplicated to one record per vacancy: 2,463,486 active postings on the day this post published. Row selection happens server-side, so you never pay to discard rows client-side:

```
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer jp_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "skills_or": ["python", "airflow"],
    "job_country_code_or": ["US", "GB"],
    "posted_at_max_age_days": 14,
    "limit": 100
  }'
```

Every returned posting carries an ISCO-08 occupation code, an ISIC industry code and extracted skills ([how the classification layer works](/blog/classified-job-postings-api)), so aggregate questions stop being row-pulling exercises entirely.

The one-line summary: buy Coresignal for people data, or for raw job rows at seven-figure monthly volume; buy a flat jobs API when the deliverable is live postings and your volume fits inside 300,000 a month.

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Title: Coresignal pricing: the full rate card, how credits burn, and what a job record costs
Description: Coresignal is one of the few B2B data vendors with public prices: eight self-serve plans from $49 to $5,000 a month, all metered in one credit currency. The sticker tells you little until you know the burn - a job posting costs 1 credit, an employee or company profile 10 to 20, search previews bill per query, and monthly credits reset to zero. The full August 2026 rate card, the consumption rules, the 6.7x cliff between the Growth and Premium tiers, and where a flat jobs API buys ten times the postings for the same $49.

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