--- title: "TheirStack pricing: the full rate card, how credits burn, and the cheaper piece" description: "TheirStack is one of the few jobs-data vendors with a public rate card: one-time credit packs from $109 and API subscriptions from $49 a month. The list price tells you less than the meter - every job" canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/theirstack-pricing --- [NewSearch millions of jobs from your AI agent with MCP→](/blog/jobspipe-mcp-server) [All posts](/blog) ![](/listly/card-field.png) ReferenceTheirStack Reference·Aug 2, 2026·7 min read # TheirStack pricing: the full rate card, how credits burn, and the cheaper piece TheirStack is one of the few jobs-data vendors with a public rate card: one-time credit packs from $109 and API subscriptions from $49 a month. The list price tells you less than the meter - every job an API response returns consumes a credit, company reveals expire after 90 days, and exports cap at 200 jobs per company. The full price list, the consumption rules that actually set your bill, and when a per-job postings API is the cheaper piece. ![Dvir Atias](/authors/dvir-atias.jpg) Dvir Atias Founder, JobsPipe TheirStack deserves a rare compliment in the jobs-data market: the prices are on a public page. Where [Lightcast quotes every contract through sales](/blog/lightcast-pricing), TheirStack lists one-time credit packs from $109 and monthly API plans from $49. But credit-metered pricing means the sticker tells you very little until you know how the credits burn - and the consumption rules, not the tier prices, are what set your actual bill. This page collects the full rate card as advertised in September 2026, the metering fine print, worked examples, where TheirStack is genuinely the right buy, and the volumes at which a per-job postings API costs a fraction as much. ## What TheirStack sells Three datasets, largely derived from job postings. The core is the postings corpus itself, which TheirStack advertises at 225 million records with about 305k added daily. On top of it sit two derived products: **technographics** - which companies use which tools, inferred mostly from what their job ads mention - and **buying-intent signals** built from hiring activity. You buy all of it through two surfaces: a company-centric web app (search, reveal a company, export CSV or Excel) and a REST API. Bulk dataset delivery - historical dumps, streaming - is a third, custom-quoted tier, which is the same shape most [job postings datasets](/blog/job-postings-dataset) are sold in. ## The rate card **App plans** are one-time purchases of company credits: $109 for 1,000 credits ($0.109 each), sliding through $199 for 5,000, $299 for 10,000, $399 for 20,000, $549 for 50,000 and $749 for 100,000, down to $999 for 200,000 (about half a cent each). Packs include job search, company search, enrichment, CSV and Excel export, email alerts, 500 results per page and unlimited team members, and unused credits stay valid for 12 months. There is no subscription - this is closer to buying a prepaid card than renting software. **API plans** are monthly subscriptions, metered in API credits: | API credits / month | Price | Effective per credit | | --- | --- | --- | | 1,500 | $49/mo | $0.033 | | 5,000 | $100/mo | $0.020 | | 10,000 | $169/mo | $0.017 | | 20,000 | $240/mo | $0.012 | | 50,000 | $400/mo | $0.008 | | 100,000 | $600/mo | $0.006 | | 200,000 | $900/mo | $0.0045 | | 500,000 | $1,200/mo | $0.0024 | | 1,000,000 | $1,500/mo | $0.0015 | | 2,000,000 | $2,300/mo | $0.00115 | | 5,000,000 | $5,500/mo | $0.0011 | The API is rate-limited to 4 requests per second on every tier, there is a free tier for testing both surfaces, and unused API credits also roll over for 12 months, which is more generous than most metered APIs manage. ## How the credits actually burn This is the part the pricing page states plainly but buyers skim, and it is where the bill is really decided. - **Two separate currencies.** Company credits (app) and API credits (API) are different meters. A team using both surfaces is managing two balances. - **App: reveals expire.** One company credit reveals one company - its postings, detected technologies and firmographics - for 90 days. After that, opening the same company costs a credit again. Exports are also capped at 200 jobs per company, which matters if your targets are large enterprises with thousands of open roles. - **API: you pay per row returned.** Every job a response contains consumes 1 credit, every company returned consumes 3, and every technographics or buying-intent lookup consumes 3. The consequence developers discover in the first invoice: the meter has no memory. A polling loop whose result windows overlap pays for the same posting every time it comes back, so date-filter discipline is not a nicety - it is a cost-control feature you have to build. ## What it costs in practice Three buyer shapes, priced honestly from the card above. **A one-off prospect list.** A sales team wants every company hiring for Snowflake skills - say 3,000 companies. That is 3,000 company credits: the $199 pack covers it, one-time, no subscription, and the credits left over stay valid for a year. This is TheirStack’s sweet spot, and nothing below undercuts it. **A continuous postings feed.** A product that ingests 50,000 new postings a month consumes at least 50,000 API credits - the $400/mo tier - before any overlap re-billing. At a million postings a month you are on the $1,500/mo tier. **Postings analytics.** Trend lines over occupations, skills or industries mean touching a lot of rows, and per-row billing makes exploratory analytics the most expensive way to use the product. If this is your actual job, you want aggregates computed server-side, not rows billed per return. ## Where TheirStack is the right buy An honest pricing page should say when to pay the vendor it is examining. Buy TheirStack when the deliverable is **company lists with hiring-derived signals**: “companies using X, currently hiring for Y” is its native query, the technographics database is a real product (we compared that market in [BuiltWith alternatives](/builtwith-alternatives)), and the one-time packs mean a list-building project needs no subscription at all. Non-developers get CSV and Excel straight from the app. For sales and recruiting prospecting workflows, the credit model fits how the work actually happens. ## Where a flat per-request API is cheaper The economics invert the moment you consume postings continuously, because JobsPipe meters **the jobs you take**. A search call against `POST /v1/jobs/search` costs one credit per posting returned - page sizes run to 25 on the free tier, 100 on Builder ($49/mo, 25,000 jobs), 500 on Scale ($348/mo, 300,000 jobs), which is $1.16 per 1,000. The free tier is 1,000 jobs to start, no card. Rerun the feed math. Both vendors meter the same unit now - one credit per job returned - so compare matched volumes. Ingesting 50,000 fresh postings a month fits Growth at $149 (100,000 jobs), against $400 for TheirStack’s 50,000-credit plan. At 300,000 a month it is $348 on Scale against $1,200 for TheirStack’s nearest plan, 500,000 credits. TheirStack’s per-1,000 rate beats our Scale rate only on its 2M and 5M plans, at $1.15 and $1.10; our Business plan is $1.05, and from 1,000,000 jobs a month JobsPipe is priced with you. And because every posting is liveness-checked and closed roles leave the corpus, you are not spending credits re-downloading dead rows to find out they died. Every posting is deduplicated to one record per vacancy and collected from 30+ ATS and job-board sources, including LinkedIn, Indeed, Workday, Greenhouse and Ashby. The filters do the row-selection work server-side, so you never pay to discard rows client-side. One request that would cost thousands of per-row credits elsewhere: ``` 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": ["snowflake"], "job_country_code_or": ["US"], "posted_at_max_age_days": 30, "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 the analytics case stops being a row-pulling exercise at all. And if what you are really comparing is data depth per dollar across vendors, our [Coresignal comparison](/blog/coresignal-alternative) walks the same evaluation for the enterprise tier. The summary that fits in one line: buy TheirStack credits when you need company lists and hiring signals in batches; buy a per-job postings API when you need the postings themselves, continuously. Both vendors put their prices on a public page, and that alone puts this comparison ahead of most of the market. For the product-level side-by-side - technographics, source attribution, who each is built for - see [JobsPipe vs TheirStack](/alternatives/theirstack). Postings at $1.16 per 1,000 on Scale - free tier, API key in 30 seconds. ![](/listly/shape-heart.png) FAQs ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How much does the TheirStack API cost? API plans are monthly subscriptions metered in API credits, from $49 a month for 1,500 credits ($0.033 each) through $100 for 5,000, $169 for 10,000, $240 for 20,000, $400 for 50,000 and $600 for 100,000, up to $5,500 a month for 5,000,000 credits (about $0.0011 each). Every tier is rate-limited to 4 requests per second, there is a free tier for testing, and unused API credits roll over for 12 months. ### Does TheirStack charge per API request or per result? Per row returned. Every job in an API response consumes 1 credit, every company returned consumes 3, and every technographics or buying-intent lookup consumes 3. The meter has no memory, so a polling loop with overlapping result windows pays for the same posting each time it reappears; date-filter discipline is a cost-control feature you have to build. App company credits are a separate currency: one credit reveals one company for 90 days, and exports cap at 200 jobs per company. ### Does TheirStack have a free plan? TheirStack's pricing page lists a free tier for testing both the app and the API. The cheapest paid entry points are a one-time $109 pack of 1,000 company credits, valid for 12 months with no subscription, or the $49 a month API plan with 1,500 credits. There is no subscription for the app at all; packs are closer to a prepaid card than renting software. For comparison, the post notes JobsPipe's free tier is 1,000 jobs to start with no card. 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