Jobven and Fantastic.jobs

Both APIs serve jobs from employer career sites. Here is how each one delivers new and closed jobs, what it meters, and how you can try it.

Side by side

What each API offers, from its own documentation.
Where jobs come from

Jobven: Employer career sites and the applicant tracking systems behind them, including Workday, SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS and Oracle.

Fantastic.jobs: Over 275,000 career sites across 58 applicant tracking systems, plus LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator jobs.

How often boards are read

Jobven: Every employer board is checked at least daily, most at least twice a day.

Fantastic.jobs: Every applicant tracking system is polled hourly.

New and changed jobs

Jobven: Search over REST, or receive job.created and job.updated webhooks at your endpoint on Starter and above.

Fantastic.jobs: REST endpoints you poll, with a modified-jobs endpoint on the larger plans.

Closed jobs

Jobven: A job.closed webhook and a closedAt date, about 30 days after the role was last listed. Closures do not count against your allowance.

Fantastic.jobs: An expired-jobs endpoint on paid plans from 20,000 jobs a month, with expiry checked once a day.

What a plan counts

Jobven: Jobs delivered. Empty responses, errors and company lookups count zero.

Fantastic.jobs: Jobs and requests per month, with requests capped at half the job count.

Free access

Jobven: 2,500 jobs in your first 7 days, then 300 jobs every month on the free plan.

Fantastic.jobs: A 14-day trial with 500 jobs and 100 requests, no card needed.

Description formats

Jobven: HTML, Markdown or plain text, chosen per request.

Fantastic.jobs: Text and HTML.

Other ways to buy

Jobven: Apify actors, RapidAPI, and an MCP server for coding assistants.

Fantastic.jobs: Apify actors and RapidAPI.

Fantastic.jobs details are from its own website, read on October 19, 2026. Check its site for current terms.

What Jobven gives you

Built for keeping a job dataset in step with employers' own boards.
Webhooks for the whole job lifecycle
job.created, job.updated, job.closed and job.deleted arrive at your endpoint, with an optional filter on search fields. On Starter and above.
Closures are free
Closed jobs reach you even when your account is over its limit, so the jobs you hold stay current.
A free plan that stays
300 jobs every month after the first week, for testing and small projects.
Straight from employers
Over 1.2 million open jobs from more than 8,000 employers' career sites, each with the employer's apply URL.

When Fantastic.jobs fits

Cases its documentation covers that Jobven does not.
  • You want LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator jobs in the same feed as career-site jobs.
  • You want each applicant tracking system polled every hour.

Questions

About choosing between the two.

Sources

Fantastic.jobs details come from these pages, read on October 19, 2026.