Lever Postings API vs Remote OK API 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. Remote OK API is a public JSON feed of the jobs posted on the Remote OK remote job board.
The short answer
- Lever Postings API: Reading a known company's live openings, with direct apply links, from its own Lever account.
- Remote OK API: The simplest no-key feed of remote tech and startup jobs for a site that links back to Remote OK.
Side by side
| Lever Postings API | Remote OK API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | One company's Lever postings per call (by site name); employer-direct; global and EU endpoints. | Remote OK's own remote job board only. |
| Returns | JSON (or iframe/HTML) postings with id, text, categories, country, workplaceType, description, descriptionPlain, lists, salaryRange (optional), hostedUrl and applyUrl. | JSON array of jobs with id, slug, company, position, tags, location, salary_min, salary_max, url, apply_url, date, epoch, description and logo fields. |
| Before the first call | Nothing to read postings: no key, only the company’s board name. Sending applications needs the company’s key. | Nothing: no key or sign-up. The feed at remoteok.com/api answers without one. |
| Free | No key needed, and its pages state no price | 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. | Both url and apply_url point to the job page on remoteok.com, not to the employer. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | Not stated on its pages | Must link back (followed, not nofollow) to the Remote OK URL and name Remote OK as source, or access is suspended; don't use the Remote OK logo without written permission. |
| Coverage | Wherever the employer hires (EU-hosted accounts use api.eu.lever.co). | Remote jobs; location is free text (e.g. 'Remote', 'US, UK, Canada, Australia + 35 other countries'). |
| MCP server | No official server listed | 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 Remote OK API.
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 Remote OK API?
Nothing: no key or sign-up. The feed at remoteok.com/api answers without one.
Is Remote OK 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.”
Remote OK API, read on October 15, 2026:
- remoteok.com/api: “Please link back (with follow, and without nofollow!) to the URL on Remote OK”
- remoteok.com/api: “If you do not we'll have to suspend API access.”
- remoteok.com/api: “https://remoteOK.com/remote-jobs/remote-ai-trainer-imerit-technology-1137513”