Lever Postings API vs LinkedIn Jobs 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. LinkedIn documents no public job search API; its jobs API is for approved partners (ATS systems, job distributors) to post jobs to LinkedIn, and it is closed to new partners.
The short answer
- Lever Postings API: Reading a known company's live openings, with direct apply links, from its own Lever account.
- LinkedIn Jobs: ATS vendors and job distributors that already partner with LinkedIn and need to publish jobs to it; not for finding jobs.
Side by side
| Lever Postings API | LinkedIn Jobs | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | One company's Lever postings per call (by site name); employer-direct; global and EU endpoints. | Not a search API: it posts jobs into LinkedIn on behalf of customers. |
| Returns | JSON (or iframe/HTML) postings with id, text, categories, country, workplaceType, description, descriptionPlain, lists, salaryRange (optional), hostedUrl and applyUrl. | – |
| Before the first call | Nothing to read postings: no key, only the company’s board name. Sending applications needs the company’s key. | LinkedIn approval, a signed API agreement with data restrictions, and Talent Solutions partner status; currently not accepting new partnerships (points to Apply Connect instead). |
| Free | No key needed, and its pages state no price | – |
| Acting on a result | applyUrl is Lever's hosted application form for the employer's job. | – |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | Not stated on its pages | LinkedIn API Terms forbid caching or storing Content except as needed to run your application, and bar content obtained by scraping or crawling outside the APIs. |
| Coverage | Wherever the employer hires (EU-hosted accounts use api.eu.lever.co). | – |
| MCP server | No official server listed | – |
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 LinkedIn Jobs.
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.
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.”
LinkedIn Jobs, read on October 15, 2026:
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/job-postings/api/overview: “We are currently not accepting new partnerships for LinkedIn's Job Posting API.”
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/job-postings/api/overview: “enables authorized third parties such as clients, ATS systems, and job distributors to post jobs directly to LinkedIn”
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/talent/job-postings/api/overview: “The use of these APIs is restricted to those developers approved by LinkedIn.”
- linkedin.com/legal/l/api-terms-of-use: “You must not capture, copy, cache, or store any Content”
- linkedin.com/legal/l/api-terms-of-use: “scraping, crawling, spidering or using any other technology or software to access LinkedIn content outside the APIs”