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Jooble is one of the largest global job search engines, operating in 60+ countries. Their API provides access to job listings pulled from thousands of sources worldwide. CleanJobData is a developer-first job data API that pulls directly from employer ATS systems and returns a fully normalized, consistent JSON schema. Here's how they compare for building a production product.
How the Jooble API worksJooble API: Key, Endpoint, Limits and Examples| Feature | CleanJobData | Jooble |
|---|---|---|
| Data source | ATS platforms and company career sites — direct from employers | Multi-source aggregation (thousands of job sites) |
| Schema consistency | Uniform across all sources — same fields, same types | Varies by source — field presence is inconsistent |
| Company metadata | Logo, headcount, LinkedIn, description | Company name only |
| Salary normalization | Parsed min, max, currency fields | A single free-text salary string per job, not min/max/currency |
| Seniority data | Filterable EN/MI/SE/EX field, inferred from the title | Not available |
| API format | REST JSON — Bearer auth, cursor pagination | JSON via POST, API key embedded in the URL path rather than a header |
| Geographic coverage | 60+ countries with lat/lng precision | 60+ countries — broad coverage, inconsistent depth |
| Free trial | 14 days, 300 req/day — no card | Free plan: 500 requests total per key (lifetime, per Jooble help center) |
| Plan | CleanJobData | Jooble |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 300 req/day — no card | 500 requests total per key (lifetime cap), key issued after a request form |
| Starter | $39/mo — 50,000 requests | Paid pricing not published |
| Pro | $99/mo — 100,000 requests | Paid pricing not published |
Jooble has impressive geographic reach and broad source coverage — useful for consumer-facing job search products that need maximum listing volume across many countries. CleanJobData is better suited for developers who need structured, normalized data for job boards, hiring analytics, or AI pipelines — where schema consistency and company metadata matter more than raw listing count.
300 requests a day during the trial, no card required.
CleanJobData also covers 60+ countries, but the two numbers aren't measuring the same thing: Jooble reaches that count by aggregating thousands of local job sites per market, with data depth varying a lot by country. CleanJobData's coverage comes from employers using ATS platforms and company career sites, which skews toward tech hiring in major markets (US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, India) rather than broad depth in every market Jooble touches.
When Jooble aggregates from thousands of sources, some return salary data and some don't, some have structured location and some have a freeform string, some include full company names and some have abbreviations. Your application has to handle all of those cases. CleanJobData's schema is the same for every listing — you write your integration once.
Jooble's REST API is free to request but not open: you fill in a form on jooble.org/api/about and Jooble issues the key. Jooble's help center states the free plan has a lifetime cap of 500 requests per key (not per month). We couldn't find published paid pricing. CleanJobData's pricing is public — a free Trial of 300 requests/day, then $39/mo (Starter) or $99/mo (Pro).
Fill in the request form at jooble.org/api/about (name, position, email, website and phone number). Jooble reviews the request and issues a personal key. Keys are per country domain: a key from jooble.org covers only that market, so you register separately on regional domains such as uk.jooble.org or de.jooble.org.
Jooble documents a single search call: POST https://jooble.org/api/{your_key} with a JSON body. keywords and location are required; optional fields are radius (0, 4, 8, 16, 26, 40 or 80 km), salary (minimum), page, ResultOnPage, SearchMode and companysearch. The response has totalCount and a jobs array with id, title, location, snippet, salary, source, type, link, company and updated. Docs live in the Jooble Help Center (REST API Documentation).
Jooble's help center says the free plan has a lifetime limit of 500 requests per key, not a monthly quota. We couldn't find a published paid price list or rate-limit table, so treat anything beyond the free plan as something to confirm with Jooble directly. For comparison, CleanJobData's Trial is 300 requests/day and paid plans start at $39/mo for 50,000 requests.
CleanJobData is self-serve: sign up, get a key immediately, and query a REST API with a Bearer token and GET parameters. It sources from employer ATS platforms rather than from Jooble's index, so it isn't a drop-in copy of Jooble's listings.
Yes — the API is built for that. A typical search combines title, location (city_id or a free-text location string), remote=true, experience_level=SE,EX, and salary=80000,150000 in one request, with sort_by=relevance or sort_by=published and cursor-based pagination for infinite scroll. The Next.js starter template at cleanjobdata.com wires all of this up out of the box, including Geo Suggest for the location search box.
