Lever Postings API vs JSearch 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. JSearch is a commercial job search API that returns live job postings and salary estimates gathered from Google for Jobs.
The short answer
- Lever Postings API: Reading a known company's live openings, with direct apply links, from its own Lever account.
- JSearch: Broad, Google-for-Jobs-style job search across many boards from one API.
Side by side
| Lever Postings API | JSearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | One company's Lever postings per call (by site name); employer-direct; global and EU endpoints. | Aggregated postings via Google for Jobs, covering LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter and other public job sites. |
| Returns | JSON (or iframe/HTML) postings with id, text, categories, country, workplaceType, description, descriptionPlain, lists, salaryRange (optional), hostedUrl and applyUrl. | JSON jobs with job_id, job title, employer_name, job_publisher, job_city, job_country, job_min_salary, job_apply_link and apply_options; endpoints search-v2, job-details, company-job-salary, estimated-salary. |
| Before the first call | Nothing to read postings: no key, only the company’s board name. Sending applications needs the company’s key. | An account and API key from the OpenWeb Ninja developer portal (also sold on RapidAPI). |
| Free | No key needed, and its pages state no price | Not stated on its pages |
| Acting on a result | applyUrl is Lever's hosted application form for the employer's job. | job_apply_link is the primary apply link; apply_options lists links from other publishers, each flagged is_direct. |
| Coverage | Wherever the employer hires (EU-hosted accounts use api.eu.lever.co). | Not stated on its pages |
| MCP server | No official server listed | Official OpenWeb Ninja MCP server (npm @openwebninja/mcp-server) includes a jsearch tool: https://github.com/OpenWeb-Ninja/openwebninja-mcp |
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 JSearch.
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 JSearch?
An account and API key from the OpenWeb Ninja developer portal (also sold on RapidAPI).
Is JSearch free?
Its pages listed no free use when we read them on October 15, 2026.
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.”
JSearch, read on October 15, 2026:
- agents.openwebninja.com/manifest.json: “Returns live job postings from Google for Jobs covering LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter and other public job sites”
- agents.openwebninja.com/zcj/v8c3szxamb6i/services/jsearch/openapi.json: “The primary link to apply for the job.”
- agents.openwebninja.com/zcj/v8c3szxamb6i/services/jsearch/openapi.json: “Alternative apply links from other publishers.”
- openwebninja.com/documentation: “Sign up, manage subscriptions, and access API keys”
- github.com/OpenWeb-Ninja/openwebninja-mcp: “Official Model Context Protocol server for OpenWeb Ninja APIs”