--- 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 brochu" canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/theirstack-alternatives --- [NewSearch millions of jobs from your AI agent with MCP→](/blog/jobspipe-mcp-server) [All posts](/blog) ![](/listly/card-field.png) ComparisonTheirStack Comparison·Aug 6, 2026·8 min read # 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. ![Dvir Atias](/authors/dvir-atias.jpg) Dvir Atias Founder, JobsPipe 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](/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 September 13, 2026), 300,000 jobs a month is $348 on JobsPipe Scale ($1.16 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 jobs to start, one time; TheirStack’s trial included 200 API credits when we signed up. Rate limits differ in shape: TheirStack layers 4/second, 10/minute, 50/hour, and 400/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, with a 405M-posting historical archive and hourly S3 exports. No cross-source dedup and no live API ergonomics - it is a feed vendor. Full comparison in [Techmap vs JobsPipe](/blog/techmap-alternative). - **Coresignal** - enterprise bulk history, sales-led, roughly $1,000/mo to start. Right when you need years of back-data; wrong when you need a live feed this afternoon. See [our Coresignal comparison](/blog/coresignal-alternative). - **Fantastic.jobs** - per-source ATS feeds from $1 per 1,000, strong on Greenhouse and Ashby specifically. You assemble the sources yourself. See [Fantastic.jobs vs JobsPipe](/blog/fantastic-jobs-alternative). - **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](/builtwith-alternatives) on every plan. ## Where JobsPipe is the better pick - **Price at the same metering model** - $348 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](/blog/theirstack-pricing) covers the billing side in more depth, and [JobsPipe vs TheirStack](/alternatives/theirstack) has the side-by-side on technographics and data shape. Same metering, lower rate - migrate by swapping the base URL. ![](/listly/shape-heart.png) FAQs ## 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) and a compatible search filter shape, at $348 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 with history to 2020, Coresignal the enterprise bulk pick, and Fantastic.jobs the single-source ATS 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? The search endpoint accepts the same filter shape - job\_title\_or, posted\_at\_max\_age\_days, limit and the rest - so most integrations migrate by swapping the base URL and the API key. blur\_company\_data is still accepted so a ported integration does not error, but JobsPipe retired preview mode in September 2026: 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. [ ← Previous Jobs API in Python: pip install to live postings in 5 minutes ](/blog/python-jobs-api)[ Next → Techmap (jobdatafeeds) vs JobsPipe: bulk feeds or a live API? ](/blog/techmap-alternative) --- Canonical URL: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/theirstack-alternatives 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 brochure claims. --- AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, no-key sandbox (POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search), MCP server, pricing. Free key: https://jobspipe.dev/signup