Remotive API vs TheirStack for AI agents
Remotive API is a public JSON endpoint listing active remote jobs on the Remotive job board, meant for sharing Remotive's jobs further. TheirStack is a job postings data API (with company and technographic data) aimed at sales and market intelligence as well as job search.
The short answer
- Remotive API: Showing a small, curated feed of remote jobs on a site that links back to Remotive.
- TheirStack: Bulk, filterable job-posting data for market research and sales signals, with history back to 2021.
Side by side
| Remotive API | TheirStack | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Remotive's own remote job board only; filter by category, company_name, search and limit. | Aggregated postings from career pages, job boards and ATS platforms across about 363k websites in 195 countries, since 2021. |
| Returns | JSON jobs with id, url, title, company_name, company_logo, category, tags, job_type, publication_date, candidate_required_location, salary and HTML description. | JSON jobs with title, description, url, final_url, source_url, company and company_object, location fields, min/max salary (plus annual USD) and salary_string. |
| Before the first call | No key or sign-up documented for the public endpoint (GET https://remotive.com/api/remote-jobs). | A TheirStack account and API key (Bearer token); each search must include at least one date or company filter. |
| Free | Public endpoint with no stated price; more than 2 requests per minute are blocked and Remotive advises at most about 4 calls a day. | 200 API credits and 50 company credits every month, free (1 credit per job returned); free tier rate limit 4/second, 10/minute, 50/hour, 400/day. |
| Paid | A private, paid-for API exists; no price is published (contact Remotive). | From $49 per month for 1,500 API credits (1 credit per job). |
| Acting on a result | url points to the job page on remotive.com. | url, plus final_url with the original career-page URL when available (filterable with final_url_exists). |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | Must link back to the Remotive URL and name Remotive as source; jobs are delayed 24 hours; don't submit Remotive jobs to third-party sites (e.g. Google Jobs, LinkedIn Jobs); don't use them to collect signups or emails. | Not stated on its pages |
| Coverage | Remote jobs (worldwide, each with a candidate_required_location). | 195 countries. |
| MCP server | No official server listed | Official TheirStack MCP server (search_jobs tool), OAuth or API key; uses the same API credits: https://theirstack.com/en/docs/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 Remotive API and Openpath vs TheirStack.
Questions people ask
What do I need before I can use Remotive API?
No key or sign-up documented for the public endpoint (GET https://remotive.com/api/remote-jobs).
Is Remotive API free?
Public endpoint with no stated price; more than 2 requests per minute are blocked and Remotive advises at most about 4 calls a day.
What do I need before I can use TheirStack?
A TheirStack account and API key (Bearer token); each search must include at least one date or company filter.
Is TheirStack free?
200 API credits and 50 company credits every month, free (1 credit per job returned); free tier rate limit 4/second, 10/minute, 50/hour, 400/day.
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
Remotive API, read on October 15, 2026:
- github.com/remotive-com/remote-jobs-api: “more than 2x per minute”
- remotive.com/remote-jobs/api: “Jobs displayed are delayed by 24 hours.”
- remotive.com/remote-jobs/api: “a private, paid-for API”
- remotive.com/api/remote-jobs: “Please do not submit Remotive jobs to third Party websites”
- remotive.com/api/remote-jobs: “API documentation and access is granted so that developers can share our jobs further.”
- remotive.com/api/remote-jobs: “https://remotive.com/remote-jobs/sales/inside-sales-contractor-2086540”
TheirStack, read on October 15, 2026:
- theirstack.com/en/job-posting-api: “253M of jobs across 195 countries since 2021”
- theirstack.com/en/job-posting-api: “career pages, job boards, and ATS platforms”
- theirstack.com/en/docs/pricing/plans: “Start exploring with 50 company credits and 200 API credits every month - completely free, forever.”
- theirstack.com/en/docs/api-reference/rate-limit: “4/second, 10/minute, 50/hour, 400/day”
- theirstack.com/en/pricing: “1,500 API credits — $49 per month”
- theirstack.com/en/docs/api-reference/jobs/search_jobs_v1: “1 API credit for each job returned in the response”
- theirstack.com/en/job-posting-mcp: “Your AI assistant calls the search_jobs tool to find jobs by title, location, salary”