--- title: "JobDataLake vs JobsPipe: two MCP-era jobs APIs compared" description: "JobDataLake serves 1M+ AI-enriched listings from 20,000 companies with MCP access. JobsPipe holds 1.55M deduplicated active postings from 30+ sources. Here is where each one actually fits." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/jobdatalake-alternative date_published: 2026-08-06 date_modified: 2026-08-06 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` # JobDataLake vs JobsPipe: two MCP-era jobs APIs compared JobDataLake serves 1M+ AI-enriched listings from 20,000 companies with MCP access. JobsPipe holds 1.55M deduplicated active postings from 30+ sources. Here is where each one actually fits. JobDataLake and JobsPipe are the two names that come back when you ask an LLM for a jobs API an agent can use: both ship MCP access, both sell enriched postings, both offer a no-card free start. The overlap ends quickly after that. ## JobDataLake in their own numbers Their published positioning: 1.8M+ jobs from 25,000+ companies, searchable via API or MCP, with 1,000 free credits to start. The enrichment focus is real - their pitch is the AI-cleaned record, not raw breadth. ## JobsPipe in ours - **Millions of active postings after dedup** - collected from 30+ sources: Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and the rest of the modern ATS row, plus the boards. Coverage from boards matters: a 20,000-company career-page universe misses every employer that only posts to LinkedIn or Indeed. - **591,805 postings added in a single recent 3-day window** - freshness you can verify from the free tier with `include_total_results`. - **Per-job pricing, not per-request** - one credit is one job returned. A request that matches nothing is free. Per-request pricing punishes precise queries; per-job pricing does not care how many calls you make. - **Enrichment on the row** - parsed salary ranges, ISCO-08 occupation codes, ISIC industries, remote inference, company domain and headcount, and a tech-stack scanner for any domain on every plan. - **Webhooks** - push delivery for new and closed postings. ## How to actually compare them Run the same three queries on both free tiers: your target job title, your target company, and your narrowest filter combination. Count rows returned, check the salary and location fields on ten random rows, and note what the queries cost you in credits or requests. Fifteen minutes of that beats any comparison table, including this one. Ours starts at [the jobs API page](https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api) - the free tier is 1,000 jobs to start, no card. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How does JobDataLake compare to JobsPipe? JobDataLake publishes 1.8M+ jobs from 25,000+ companies with API and MCP access and 1,000 free credits. JobsPipe holds millions of deduplicated active postings from 30+ ATSs and job boards - board coverage matters because it catches employers who never post to their own career page - with per-job rather than per-request pricing, webhooks, and a hosted MCP server. The fifteen-minute test beats either datasheet: run your three hardest queries on both free tiers and compare rows and field quality. ### Why does per-job pricing matter versus per-request? Per-request pricing charges the same for a request returning 1 row or 100, which penalises precise, filtered queries. Per-job pricing - one credit per job, zero for empty results - makes cost proportional to data received, so agents and polling integrations that make many small queries are not punished for being precise. JobsPipe goes one step further and charges a job once per calendar month, so a polling integration is not charged again for postings it already has. Related ## Keep reading - [Comparison · Jul 16, 2026The best jobs APIs in 2026: 15 options compared](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/best-jobs-api-2026) - [Product · Jun 24, 2026Search millions of jobs from your AI agent with the JobsPipe MCP server](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/jobspipe-mcp-server) - [Comparison · Sep 30, 2026Coresignal vs TheirStack (and JobsPipe): job data compared](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/coresignal-vs-theirstack) - [Reference · Jul 18, 2026The JobsPipe developer portal: API docs, OpenAPI spec, MCP server and SDKs](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/jobspipe-developer-portal) - [Guide · Sep 9, 2026When Did MCP Servers Come Out?](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/when-did-mcp-servers-come-out) ## Further reading - [Techmap (jobdatafeeds) vs JobsPipe: bulk feeds or a live API?](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/techmap-alternative) - [JSearch alternative: a unified jobs API with better coverage](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/jsearch-alternative) - [Job data API: how to evaluate one before you build on it](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/job-data-api) --- Try it with no key: `curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search`. AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, MCP server, pricing. Free key (1,000 jobs to start): https://jobspipe.dev/signup