Lever Postings API vs Coresignal for AI agents
Lever Postings API is Lever's REST API for a company's published job postings, designed to help that company build a job site. Coresignal is a B2B jobs data API and dataset of deduplicated job postings merged from many sources into one format.
The short answer
- Lever Postings API: Reading a known company's live openings, with direct apply links, from its own Lever account.
- Coresignal: Large-scale, historical job-postings data for analytics, research and data products.
Side by side
| Lever Postings API | Coresignal | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | One company's Lever postings per call (by site name); employer-direct; global and EU endpoints. | Company websites, professional networks, ATS platforms and major job aggregators; 486M+ postings, 52M+ active, 195+ countries. |
| Returns | JSON (or iframe/HTML) postings with id, text, categories, country, workplaceType, description, descriptionPlain, lists, salaryRange (optional), hostedUrl and applyUrl. | Records with job_id, status, title, description, seniority, employment_type, company_name, company_domain, location, country/city, salary (min, max, currency), external_url and job_sources[].url. |
| Before the first call | Nothing to read postings: no key, only the company’s board name. Sending applications needs the company’s key. | A Coresignal account and API key (trial available); queries use Elasticsearch DSL. |
| Free | No key needed, and its pages state no price | Trial with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required (1 credit per job posting record). |
| Paid | Not stated on its pages | Self-serve plans from $49 per month (Mini, 2,500 credits per month); datasets are custom-priced from $1,000. |
| Acting on a result | applyUrl is Lever's hosted application form for the employer's job. | external_url is the job URL on the company's own site (not always filled); job_sources[].url gives each source posting. |
| Coverage | Wherever the employer hires (EU-hosted accounts use api.eu.lever.co). | 195+ countries. |
| MCP server | No official server listed | Official Coresignal MCP server, OAuth 2.1: https://mcp.coresignal.com/mcp/v2 (legacy https://mcp.coresignal.com/mcp deprecated Nov 1, 2026) |
Where Openpath fits
If the agent needs a job to apply for in Austin, Texas, or a remote one, Openpath returns the listings themselves, free and with no key. See Openpath vs Lever Postings API and Openpath vs Coresignal.
Questions people ask
What do I need before I can use Lever Postings API?
Nothing to read postings: no key, only the company’s board name. Sending applications needs the company’s key.
Is Lever Postings API free?
No key needed, and its pages state no price.
What do I need before I can use Coresignal?
A Coresignal account and API key (trial available); queries use Elasticsearch DSL.
Is Coresignal free?
Trial with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required (1 credit per job posting record).
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
Lever Postings API, read on October 15, 2026:
- github.com/lever/postings-api: “This API is designed to help you create a job site.”
- github.com/lever/postings-api: “A URL which points to Lever's hosted application form to apply to the job posting.”
- github.com/lever/postings-api: “To use the POST API, you need an API key.”
Coresignal, read on October 15, 2026:
- coresignal.com/solutions/jobs-data-api: “Jobs data from company websites, professional networks, ATS platforms, and major jobs data aggregators”
- coresignal.com/solutions/jobs-data-api: “2,000 free credits · No credit card required”
- coresignal.com/solutions/jobs-data-api: “195+ countries covered”
- coresignal.com/pricing: “monthly plans starting at $49/month”
- coresignal.com/pricing: “One price, full data record”
- docs.coresignal.com/jobs-api/multi-source-jobs-api/data-dictionary-multi-source-jobs-api: “External (company) job URL”
- docs.coresignal.com/integrations/coresignal-mcp: “OAuth 2.1 sign-in via the Coresignal dashboard”