JobPostings API vs Apify Actors · DIY Playwright Scrapers
< 300ms vs 30–180s
response latency (unified schema across 434 sources).
Running separate Apify actors for Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, Ashby, and Personio means paying for container cold starts, residential proxy bandwidth, and normalizing 20 incompatible JSON schemas. JobPostings API pre-indexes 434 sources into a single schema with < 300ms hot query latency.
Cost per 1,000 structured ATS job records
1 Credit = 1 Returned Job Record. Empty search results (0 matches) cost 0 Credits. Crypto top-ups automatically include +5% Bonus Credits.
Side-by-side comparison.
| Capability | JobPostings API | apify.com | DIY Playwright / Proxies | ScraperAPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Query response latency | < 300ms (indexed) · 2–8s (cold pass-through) | 30s – 5 min (container startup + crawl) | 10s – 3 min | 5s – 30s per page |
| JSON schema across 434 ATS platforms | 100% unified JobRecord schema | Different schema per actor author | Custom parser per ATS | Raw HTML only |
| Salary & skills normalization | Annualized USD min/max + canonical skills[] | Raw unparsed strings | DIY regex / LLM cost | None |
| Compute & residential proxy fees | $0 (included in 1 Credit / job) | Compute units + $8–$12/GB proxy add-on | $300+/mo proxy + servers | Per-page HTML cost |
Competitor pricing verified from public pricing pages as of November 2026. Actual costs may vary based on plan tier, concurrency add-ons, and overage rates. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. JobPostings API rates: $0.199 / 1K jobs (Scale), $0.33 / 1K jobs (Pro), $0.76 / 1K jobs (Starter).
Why engineering teams switch from Apify Job Scrapers.
One Schema Instead of 20 Fragile Actors
Community Apify actors break silently whenever Workday or iCIMS updates its DOM. JobPostings API continuously normalizes 434 sources into a single contract with strict TypeScript/OpenAPI types.
Synchronous Sub-Second Responses for User-Facing Apps
You cannot make an end user wait 90 seconds for an Apify actor run to finish. JobPostings API responds synchronously over HTTPS so you can power live search bars and AI agents.
Replace Asynchronous Actor Polling with Synchronous GET
Drop actor run polling and dataset downloads for a single HTTP GET:
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("apify_api_...")
# Starts container, waits 45-120 seconds, charges compute + proxy
run = client.actor("community/workday-jobs-scraper").call(run_input={"query": "Software Engineer"})
items = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.jobpostingsapi.com/v1/jobs/search",
headers={"x-api-key": "jp_live_your_api_key"},
params={"q": "Software Engineer", "source": "workday,greenhouse,ashby", "limit": 50},
)
items = res.json()["data"]Interactive Engineering Workbench · Benchmark vs Apify Job Scrapers
Verify real-time latency, pagination math & JSON schema
Frequently asked questions
- Can I query multiple ATS sources in a single API call?
- Yes. Pass comma-separated slugs such as source=greenhouse,lever,ashby,workday or omit source to search all redistributable ATS sources simultaneously.
Test it against Apify Job Scrapers for free.
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