Fantastic.jobs is fast and cheap to start. Here is where Job Opportunities API differs.
Fantastic.jobs wins on entry price and hourly freshness; Job Opportunities API wins on strictly employer-direct rows and per-field provenance.
Fantastic.jobs sells a jobs API and database aimed at job boards and AI agents, with a self-serve price list and a no-card trial. It is one of the closest products to Job Opportunities API (JOA) in how it is sold, so a fair comparison matters. The short version: it is cheaper to start with and refreshes ATS sources hourly; JOA is narrower by design.
You run a job board or AI agent and want the cheapest hourly-fresh ATS and board jobs with expiry sync, a no-card trial and a published price from $95 a month.
You want every row to be employer-direct (job boards and aggregators are read for discovery only and never served), per-field provenance, closure dates and reasons kept on the row, a free key with an ongoing monthly allowance rather than a 7-day trial, or one country with no row limit.
| Claim | Checked |
|---|---|
| Career-site jobs are polled hourly across ATS platforms1 | 2026-10-03 |
| Also carries job-board jobs, with LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator named2 | 2026-10-03 |
| 7-day free trial with no card; plans from $95 a month for 20,000 jobs3 | 2026-10-03 |
| Expired and modified job endpoints exist, gated by tier, plus a six-month ATS backfill4 | 2026-10-03 |
- The page claims 200,000+ career sites across 58 ATS platforms and “95% of new jobs within 3 hours of posting”. These are the vendor's own claims, with no claim date shown. Fantastic.jobs API page.
- So it is a mix of ATS-direct and board-sourced jobs rather than employer-direct only. Fantastic.jobs API page.
- The trial allows 500 jobs a week. Higher tiers listed on the page run from $175 to $900 a month; overage is priced per job. Fantastic.jobs API page.
- The expired jobs API appears from the $175 tier up in the vendor's own table; modified jobs from the 50,000-job tier. Fantastic.jobs API page.
Every figure about Fantastic.jobs above is a direct request we made to their own documented page, on the date shown — never a reading of their marketing copy. Things change; tell us at /contact if one of these is now wrong and it gets corrected.
These numbers are pulled from the live ledger every time this page is rebuilt, not typed in — the same numbers you get from the keyless request below.
- 2,114,891 live rows across 243 countries (as of 2026-10-03), of which 414,414 are EU, EFTA and UK.
- Full advert text overall: 88% of the ledger. Structured salary: 6.8%.
curl 'https://api.jobopportunitiesapi.org/public/coverage/countries'That request answers with no key and no account — statistics only. Job and company rows themselves need a free key: see /api.
Check your own market at /coverage/countries before deciding anything above, then start free.
See also the guide to choosing a job posting API, the full comparison page (jobdataAPI, LinkUp and more) and every other indeed-api, adzuna, jsearch, coresignal, theirstack, techmap page.