Openpath vs Greenhouse Job Board API for AI agents
Greenhouse Job Board API is a public JSON view of one company's offices, departments and published jobs on Greenhouse, meant for building that company's careers site. Openpath is an open directory of real-world listings built for AI agents: each result is one listing, with the employer’s Apply link for a job or an Openpath inbox address for a business’s owner. It needs no key.
Openpath reads many of its jobs from employers’ public job boards on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, and searches across all of them in one call. Greenhouse’s API reads one company’s board at a time.
The short answer
- Greenhouse Job Board API: Reading a known company's live openings straight from its own applicant tracking system.
- Openpath: Giving an agent a job to apply for or a local business to message, with no key.
Openpath covers far less today: jobs in Austin, Texas, and remote, and businesses in and around Austin. Where it has what the agent is looking for, it is free and needs no sign-up.
Greenhouse Job Board API and Openpath, side by side
| Greenhouse Job Board API | Openpath | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | One employer's Greenhouse job board per call (by board_token); employer-direct, no cross-company search. | Live jobs from employers’ own job boards (Austin, Texas, and remote) and local businesses in Austin |
| Returns | JSON jobs with id, title, location.name, updated_at, absolute_url and, with content=true, the full description, departments and offices. | Plain Markdown, one listing per result: its facts, its source and the day it was checked. Typed JSON on request. |
| Before the first call | Nothing for GET: no authentication; you need the company's board_token. Submitting applications needs the company's API key. | One empty request to /v1/connect, which returns a token. No account, email or card. |
| Free | No key needed, and its pages state no price | Free: 600 searches a minute and 20,000 a day for each connected agent |
| Paid | Not stated on its pages | Free for agents |
| Acting on a result | absolute_url is the employer's own job post (the docs don't say where it is hosted). | A job has the employer’s Apply link; a business, and every listing its owner added, has an Openpath inbox address. An agent writes to it and the owner answers there. Openpath doesn’t notify owners who haven’t joined yet, so a message to them waits 30 days. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | Not stated on its pages | Agents read listings and act on them; the terms say reading a listing doesn’t give the right to reuse it freely. |
| AI in its terms | Not stated on its pages | Built for AI agents. An agent may act only with its owner’s permission, and the terms don’t let Openpath train AI models on what owners post. |
| Coverage | Wherever the employer hires. | Jobs in Austin, Texas, and remote; businesses in Austin, for now |
| MCP server | No official server listed | https://api.openpath.sh/mcp/search, with no sign-in |
Try Openpath
Connect, then search:
curl https://api.openpath.sh/v1/connect \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary '{}'
curl -G https://api.openpath.sh/v1/search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENPATH_TOKEN" \
--data-urlencode "q=remote analytics engineer jobs over 130k"Or let the JavaScript client connect for you. The Python client, openpath-sh, works the same way.
npm install @openpath/sdk
import { search } from "@openpath/sdk";
console.log(await search("remote analytics engineer jobs over 130k"));Agent apps that take MCP servers can add https://api.openpath.sh/mcp/search, which needs no sign-in. The jobs docs have the full code, every parameter and each line of the answer.
One result, as it read on October 15, 2026:
## Analytics Engineer at Ontic
Pay: $135,000–$145,000 a year.
Full-time.
Remote.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ontic/27d32707-54e2-47be-be62-376df6d2b0f3/application
Source: Ontic’s job board on Ashby, checked yesterday.
Link: https://api.openpath.sh/v1/listings/369348e4-b3d0-490f-82b4-a666041243cfWhat Openpath doesn’t do yet
- Jobs come from the job boards of a growing list of companies, in Austin and remote.
- Businesses are in Austin, Texas, for now.
- It shows no phone numbers or websites: owners are reached through their Openpath inbox.
Questions people ask
What do I need before I can use Openpath?
One empty request to /v1/connect, which returns a token. No account, email or card.
Is Openpath free?
Free: 600 searches a minute and 20,000 a day for each connected agent.
What do I need before I can use Greenhouse Job Board API?
Nothing for GET: no authentication; you need the company's board_token. Submitting applications needs the company's API key.
Is Greenhouse Job Board 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.
Greenhouse Job Board API, read on October 15, 2026:
- docs.greenhouse.io/job-board.html: “Job Board data is publicly available, so authentication is not required for any GET endpoints.”
- docs.greenhouse.io/job-board.html: “a simple JSON representation of your company's offices, departments, and published jobs”