Techmap vs Lightcast at a glance
As of . Lightcast's figures are quoted from its public pages (see sources); Techmap's figures link to our live data.
| Techmap | Lightcast | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | 250 countries & territories incl. Remote (→ Explore) | 165 countries[1] |
| Sources | 185 sources: 120 ATS platforms, job boards, aggregators, 7 public employment offices (→ Explore) | Job postings and career profiles[1] |
| Historical data & volume | 451M+ postings since January 2020 (8M new, 12M active per month) (→ Explore) | 2.5B+ postings; US since 2010[1] |
| Duplicates | Duplicates kept and flagged (isDuplicate) - excluded with one API filter, or used to analyze where companies advertise (→ Explore) | Deduplicated, taxonomy-coded[1] |
| Delivery | Jobs API & RSS API (RapidAPI), daily JSON Lines files on AWS S3 via AWS Data Exchange (→ Explore) | APIs, analyst software, some AWS datasets[1] |
| Pricing | API $1 per 1,000 job postings; feeds $400 per country & month; datasets $2,400 - $4,800 per country, one-time (→ Explore) | Enterprise pricing[1] |
| Free tier | 1,000 postings/month (Jobs API), 300 (RSS API), free Luxembourg feed & dataset (→ Explore) | None[1] |
- Lightcast - Data, retrieved September 2026.
What you should know before choosing Techmap
The API returns 10 postings per request
Correct - the Jobs API is metered per request of 10 postings, which works out at $1 per 1,000 job postings. For bulk volumes you don't page through the API at all: daily JSON Lines files per country arrive in your own S3 bucket via AWS Data Exchange, without request limits.
The API only covers the last 3 months
Correct - the API is built for fresh postings. Everything older lives in the historical archive: 451M+ postings since January 2020, sold per country as datasets in the same schema, so current and historical data join without mapping.
Duplicates are flagged, not removed
Correct - a posting with the same company, city, country and title within 3 days is kept and marked isDuplicate: true, with isDuplicateOf pointing to the first one. Add isDuplicate=false to an API query to exclude them. Keeping them is useful for analysis: they show on which boards, career pages and employment offices a company distributes its job ads - and how much it spends on them.
What you get with Techmap in return
- 250 countries & territories incl. Remote - including markets many providers skip.
- Archive since January 2020 - 451M+ postings for trend research and model training.
- First-party sources - 120 ATS platforms and 7 public employment offices next to job boards and aggregators.
- Bulk price per posting - $1 per 1,000 job postings via API, flat per-country prices for files.
- AWS Data Exchange delivery - buy through your AWS account, files land in your S3 bucket.
- Duplicates as a signal - see where a company distributes its job ads and estimate its job ad spend.
- Free Luxembourg feed and dataset - check the full schema before you spend anything.
- Data stored in the EU - all data lives in AWS eu-central-1 (Frankfurt, Germany), GDPR-compliant.
When to choose Techmap - and when Lightcast
Choose Techmap if
- Raw postings with full text you can analyse yourself, at a public price.
- More countries and territories, including Remote.
- Self-serve start on RapidAPI or AWS Data Exchange.
Choose Lightcast instead if
- You need finished labour-market analytics, skills taxonomies and US history back to 2010.
Reasons to Choose Techmap's Job Data
If your core requirement is job posting data - for a job board backfill, a sales intelligence platform, or a labour market analytics product - Techmap delivers structured, global job data with a free tier and public pricing.
What Techmap offers:
- 250 countries and territories incl. Remote: From 185 sources, incl. 7 public employment offices.
- Public pricing: $1 per 1,000 job postings via the API, $400 per country & month for data feeds.
- Start in minutes: Free tier on RapidAPI - no sales call required.
- Raw postings with full text: Analyse them with your own models and taxonomies.
- AWS Data Exchange listed: Per-country files delivered to your S3 bucket.
- Historical archive: 451M+ postings from January 2020 as JSON Lines files, easily converted to CSV or Parquet.
- Discounts: 3- and 12-month feed bundles, Country Bundle, and Startup & Research discounts.
