What is StepStone's API?
StepStone operates job boards in several European markets, including Germany. Its partner integrations let ATS and HR software post jobs to StepStone under a partner agreement. They are designed for publishing jobs, not for reading job-market data.
StepStone's partner integration is suited for:
- ATS vendors and HR software providers that distribute client job postings to StepStone's job seeker audience.
- Large enterprise HR teams with an existing StepStone commercial partnership.
- Recruitment marketing platforms approved through StepStone's partner program.
Techmap vs StepStone API at a glance
As of . StepStone API's figures are quoted from its public pages (see sources); Techmap's figures link to our live data.
| Techmap | StepStone API | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | 250 countries & territories incl. Remote (→ Explore) | StepStone markets[1] |
| Sources | 185 sources: 120 ATS platforms, job boards, aggregators, 7 public employment offices (→ Explore) | StepStone only[1] |
| Historical data & volume | 451M+ postings since January 2020 (8M new, 12M active per month) (→ Explore) | - |
| Duplicates | Duplicates kept and flagged (isDuplicate) - excluded with one API filter, or used to analyze where companies advertise (→ Explore) | - |
| Delivery | Jobs API & RSS API (RapidAPI), daily JSON Lines files on AWS S3 via AWS Data Exchange (→ Explore) | Partner integrations for posting jobs[1] |
| Pricing | API $1 per 1,000 job postings; feeds $400 per country & month; datasets $2,400 - $4,800 per country, one-time (→ Explore) | Partner agreement[1] |
| Free tier | 1,000 postings/month (Jobs API), 300 (RSS API), free Luxembourg feed & dataset (→ Explore) | None[1] |
- StepStone - Partner integrations, 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 StepStone API
Choose Techmap if
- Read access to job-market data without a partner agreement.
- StepStone plus Arbeitsagentur, ATS pages and other boards in one feed.
- A historical archive since January 2020.
Choose StepStone API instead if
- You post jobs to StepStone through an ATS integration.
Why teams choose Techmap for DACH job market data
Techmap is built for data buyers needing DACH and European job market coverage - with StepStone included alongside XING, Stellenanzeigen.de, the Arbeitsagentur and employer ATS career pages.
Techmap's key advantages:
- StepStone postings included: See current volumes per source. (→ Explore)
- Multi-source DACH coverage: XING, Stellenanzeigen.de, meinestadt.de, karriere.at, Arbeitsagentur and German ATS career pages - all in one schema.
- 250 countries & territories incl. Remote: Put DACH data in global context for international labor market research. (→ Explore)
- Historical archive: 451M+ postings from January 2020 for multi-year German and European trend analysis.
- GDPR-compliant (Techmap GmbH, EU): A German company as your data provider.
- Bulk AWS delivery: Gzip-compressed JSON Lines files per country, updated hourly and delivered to your S3 bucket via AWS Data Exchange.
- Transparent pricing: API from $1 per 1,000 job postings, data feeds $400 per country & month; discounts for 3/12-month bundles, Country Bundle and Startup & Research on /pricing.
