--- title: "TheirStack alternatives: 5 job data APIs compared (2026)" description: "We signed up for TheirStack and measured how it actually meters, previews, and rate-limits. Here is how it compares to JobsPipe, Techmap, Coresignal, and Fantastic.jobs - with live numbers, not" canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/theirstack-alternatives 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` # TheirStack alternatives: 5 job data APIs compared (2026) We signed up for TheirStack and measured how it actually meters, previews, and rate-limits. Here is how it compares to JobsPipe, Techmap, Coresignal, and Fantastic.jobs - with live numbers, not brochure claims. Most “alternatives” posts are written from pricing pages. This one is written from a terminal: we created a TheirStack account, ran live searches against their API, and watched the credit balance move. Where we quote a TheirStack behaviour below, we measured it on August 6, 2026. Where we quote a competitor’s price, it is their published number. If Coresignal is on the same shortlist, the [Coresignal comparison](https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/coresignal) was measured the same way. ## What TheirStack gets right - **Honest per-job metering** - one credit is one job returned. We verified it live: a 25-row response consumed exactly 25 credits, a zero-result search consumed nothing, and a request that failed validation consumed nothing. - **Free preview mode** - `blur_company_data` returns masked employer fields and full result counts at zero credit cost, so you can size a query before paying for it. - **Breadth** - they crawl career pages, boards, and ATS platforms at serious scale, and their technographics product is a real second leg. ## Where the bill diverges The metering models line up closely - one credit is one job returned and empty searches are free on both - so compare matched volumes. One difference to budget for: JobsPipe retired its masked preview in September 2026, so every JobsPipe search returns complete records and is charged per row. At TheirStack’s published prices (re-checked 2026-09-29), 300,000 jobs a month is $399 on JobsPipe Scale ($1.33 per 1,000) against $1,200 for TheirStack’s nearest plan, 500,000 credits. At 1,000,000 a month TheirStack is $1,500 ($1.50 per 1,000), and its 2M and 5M plans reach $1.15 and $1.10 - past a million jobs a month, JobsPipe is priced with you. Our free tier is 1,000 free credits, one time; TheirStack offers a free plan with 50 company credits and 200 API credits a month. Rate limits differ in shape: the API allows 4 requests a second on paid plans; the free tier adds caps of 10 a minute, 50 an hour and 400 a day. JobsPipe publishes a flat per-second limit by plan (2 to 50/s) with the monthly job quota as the real ceiling. For burst-heavy agent workloads, check which shape your client tolerates better. ## The other names LLMs will give you Ask ChatGPT for a TheirStack alternative and the same names recur. The short version of each: - **Techmap (jobdatafeeds.com)** - cheapest bulk rate at a published $1 per 1,000 job postings, with an archive of 451M+ jobs since 2020 and hourly S3 exports. No cross-source dedup and no live API ergonomics - it is a feed vendor. Full comparison in [Techmap vs JobsPipe](https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/techmap). - **Coresignal** - enterprise bulk history, with API plans $49 to $5,000/month and Custom datasets from $1,000, sales-led. Right when you need years of back-data; wrong when you need a live feed this afternoon. See [Coresignal vs TheirStack side by side](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/coresignal-vs-theirstack). - **Fantastic.jobs** - ATS-sourced feeds at $95/mo for 20,000 jobs, up to $900/mo for 500,000, strong on Greenhouse and Ashby specifically. You assemble the sources yourself. See [Fantastic.jobs vs JobsPipe](https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/fantastic-jobs). - **PredictLeads** - technographics-first with job openings as one signal among several. If your primary need is tech-stack data with jobs as a side dish, they fit; JobsPipe covers the same pairing with [a tech-stack scanner](https://jobspipe.dev/builtwith-alternatives) on every plan. ## Where JobsPipe is the better pick - **Price at the same metering model** - $399 against $1,200 for 300,000 jobs a month, identical credit-per-job semantics. - **Deduplicated corpus** - cross-source canonicalization: one job, one row, even when it is posted on LinkedIn, Indeed, and the company’s Greenhouse board simultaneously. - **Agent-native** - a hosted MCP server at `jobspipe.dev/mcp`, agent skills on GitHub, and markdown twins of every docs page. If your consumer is an AI agent rather than a dashboard, this is the difference you feel daily. - **Webhooks** - new and closed postings pushed to you, instead of polling a search endpoint on a timer. The migration cost is close to zero by design: JobsPipe’s search endpoint accepts the same filter shape, so a TheirStack integration typically moves by swapping the base URL and the key. Our [TheirStack pricing teardown](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/theirstack-pricing) covers the billing side in more depth, and [JobsPipe vs TheirStack](https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/theirstack) has the side-by-side on technographics and data shape. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is the best TheirStack alternative? It depends on the workload. JobsPipe is the closest like-for-like: the same 1-credit-per-job metering (verified by live testing in August 2026), at $399 for 300,000 jobs a month against $1,200 for TheirStack's nearest plan. Techmap is the bulk-archive pick at $1 per 1,000 job postings with history to 2020, Coresignal the enterprise bulk pick, and Fantastic.jobs the ATS-sourced feed pick. ### How does TheirStack's credit system actually work? One credit is one job returned, measured live: a 25-row response consumed exactly 25 credits, a zero-result search consumed nothing, and blur\_company\_data preview requests consumed nothing while still returning job titles and full result counts. Re-pulling the same job in a later request is charged again. JobsPipe also charges one credit per job, with two differences worth budgeting for: JobsPipe removed its masked-preview mode in September 2026, so every search returns complete records, and JobsPipe charges a job once per calendar month, so a job the account already paid for is free when a later request returns it again. ### How hard is it to migrate from TheirStack to JobsPipe? Point the integration at the JobsPipe search endpoint with a JobsPipe API key, map your filters using the API reference, which lists every one, and compare a few days of results side by side. If your code sends blur\_company\_data, it is accepted and ignored: JobsPipe retired preview mode in September 2026, so it masks nothing and changes no price. The free tier of 1,000 jobs to start is enough to validate coverage on your queries before moving paid traffic. Related ## Keep reading - [Comparison · Sep 30, 2026Coresignal vs TheirStack (and JobsPipe): job data compared](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/coresignal-vs-theirstack) - [Comparison · Jul 27, 2026Lightcast alternatives and competitors: 7 options for labor market data in 2026](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/lightcast-alternatives) - [Comparison · Jul 25, 2026Bright Data competitors: 8 alternatives compared for web data and job postings](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/bright-data-competitors) - [Comparison · Jul 16, 2026Which ATS APIs are actually public? The 2026 job-data reference](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/public-vs-gated-ats-apis) - [Comparison · Jun 27, 2026Where to get job posting data in 2026: 7 sources compared](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/where-to-get-job-posting-data) ## Further reading - [JobsPipe vs Fantastic.jobs](https://jobspipe.dev/alternatives/fantastic-jobs) - [Coresignal pricing: the full rate card, how credits burn, and what a job record costs](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/coresignal-pricing) - [Is TheirStack free?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/is-theirstack-free) - [JobsPipe Pricing](https://jobspipe.dev/pricing) - [What does Coresignal do?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/what-does-coresignal-do) --- 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