Jobo vs JSearch
Jobo and JSearch answer different questions. JSearch answers a query—live postings from the major boards via Google for Jobs, billed per request. Jobo delivers a dataset: hourly-refreshed listings from ATS platforms and career sites, pushed to your database and billed per job.
JSearch figures checked August 18, 2026 from its public pages.
What separates Jobo from JSearch?
A real-time job search API surfacing live postings from the major boards via Google for Jobs.
JSearch's shape is its appeal: no infrastructure, a genuinely free 200-request month, and $25/month covers a prototype that searches jobs live. Its limits are the same shape—no bulk export, no archive, no expiry tracking, and results bounded by what Google serves for each query. You cannot build a searchable index of your own from it, and re-running queries to simulate a feed spends requests fast.
Jobo starts where that model stops. 4M+ listings a month arrive from 150+ ATS platforms and career pages with provenance intact, land in PostgreSQL, Supabase, Bolt, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Algolia, and Meilisearch on a 15-minute cycle, and carry AI-enriched fields plus free expiry tracking. Requests are never billed, so search, pagination, and retries against your own copy of the data cost nothing extra.
How do Jobo and JSearch compare?
Both columns quote each provider's own published numbers—no scoring, no stars. The fine print below the table says when they were last checked.
| Jobo | JSearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | ||
| Sources | Career pages and ATS boards only—no third-party aggregators | Google for Jobs, surfacing LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, and ZipRecruiter |
| Jobs indexed | 4M+ jobs indexed per month | Live search results; no published total |
| ATS platforms | 150+ platforms | Not applicable—board results via Google |
| Historical data | Not offered | Not offered—search only, no archive |
| Freshness | ||
| Refresh cadence | Hourly; 95% of new postings within 3 hours | Real-time at query time |
| Expired and modified jobs | Expired and modified jobs tracked separately; the Expired Jobs endpoint is free | Not published—results reflect what Google serves per query |
| Delivery | ||
| Bulk feed and export | CSV, JSON, and Parquet export with column mapping | Not offered—per-query search responses only |
| Push to your database | Continuous 15-minute sync to 7 destinations | Not offered |
| AI enrichment | AI-enriched fields on every listing: skills, salary, seniority, remote status | Salary data endpoints alongside search |
| Marketplaces | RapidAPI and Apify | Direct and RapidAPI |
| Pricing model | ||
| Entry price | $29/month (Lite) | Free plan—200 requests/month; Pro $25/month |
| Billing unit | Billed per delivered job—API requests are not billed | API requests—jobs per response are not the billed unit |
| Without a subscription | $3.00 per 1,000 jobs pay as you go, no subscription required | $0.005 per request, pay as you go |
| Getting started | $5 free starting balance, no credit card required | Free plan, 200 requests/month |
| High volume | $499/month Unlimited (Feed, Export, and Outbound) | Mega $150/month—200,000 requests plus $0.001 per additional |
JSearch details checked August 18, 2026 from OpenWeb Ninja JSearch page and OpenWeb Ninja website. Jobo figures come from the same data that renders our pricing page.
What does each provider cost?
Jobo bills per delivered job with API requests free; JSearch sells flat plans. Both price lists below are the public ones.
Jobo
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | $29/month | 30,000 included jobs |
| Starter | $99/month | 200,000 included jobs |
| Growth | $199/month | 500,000 included jobs |
| Scale | $299/month | 1,000,000 included jobs |
| Unlimited | $499/month | Unlimited Feed, Export, and Outbound |
No plan needed: $3.00 per 1,000 jobs from a wallet with a $5 free starting balance. Full detail on the pricing page.
JSearch
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 200 requests/month |
| Pro | $25/month | 10,000 requests, then $0.003 each |
| Ultra | $75/month | 50,000 requests, then $0.002 each |
| Mega | $150/month | 200,000 requests, then $0.001 each |
As published on OpenWeb Ninja JSearch page, checked August 18, 2026.
Which one should you choose?
Neither product wins every use case. These are the honest splits, based on what each is built for.
Choose Jobo if
- You are building your own searchable job index—bulk feed, export, and push sync produce a dataset you own, which a per-query search API cannot.
- You care about the billed unit: Jobo meters delivered jobs at $3.00 per 1,000 jobs with requests free, instead of metering every search, retry, and page.
- You need lifecycle hygiene—95% of new postings within 3 hours, and expired listings tracked at no cost—rather than whatever a fresh query returns.
- You want career-page provenance and matched company data on every listing, not board results relayed through Google.
Choose JSearch if
- You want live board coverage—LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter—through one call, without building or storing anything.
- You are validating an idea this weekend: the free 200-request month and $25/month Pro plan are the cheapest working start in this field.
- Your product genuinely is a search box, and per-request billing maps cleanly to what users do.
How do you switch from JSearch?
Two steps, both reversible—run the feeds in parallel and cut over when the numbers hold.
Swap queries for a synced index
Most teams outgrow per-query search when they need filters, ranking, or reliability Google does not expose. Move the data into your own store—outbound sync writes listings into your database or search engine continuously—and your search box queries your index instead of a metered third party.
Check economics at your real volume
Price a month of your actual traffic both ways: requests times rate on JSearch, delivered jobs on Jobo. The $5 free starting balance lets you sync a real segment first and measure how many jobs your use case actually consumes.
What do teams ask before choosing?
The questions that come up when weighing Jobo against JSearch, answered with both providers' published numbers.
- Is Jobo a good alternative to JSearch?
- When you need a dataset rather than a search box, yes: Jobo delivers hourly-refreshed listings from 150+ ATS platforms into your own database, with expiry tracking free and requests never billed. JSearch stays the better fit for zero-infrastructure live search across the major boards.
- What is the difference between Jobo and JSearch?
- The unit of value. JSearch sells search requests answered live from Google for Jobs—no storage, no archive, no export. Jobo sells delivered job records—bulk feed, search, export, and push sync from career-site-direct sources—billed per job with requests free.
- How does Jobo pricing compare with JSearch pricing?
- They meter different things. JSearch runs $0 to $150 per month metered in API requests, with per-request rates beyond each cap. Jobo runs $29 to $499 per month metered in delivered jobs, or $3.00 per 1,000 jobs with no subscription. High-query products pay more on request metering; high-volume data products pay more on job metering.
- Can JSearch replace a job data feed?
- Not structurally. JSearch returns what Google for Jobs serves for a query at that moment—there is no bulk export, no historical archive, and no expired-job signal, and OpenWeb Ninja's own positioning is real-time search. A feed product needs delivered, deduplicated records with lifecycle tracking, which is the shape Jobo (and dataset vendors) sell.
Try the data before you decide.
Every account starts with a $5 free starting balance—no credit card required. Export a sample and diff it against your current provider.