Fantastic.jobs alternative: Arihaan vs Fantastic.jobs

Fantastic.jobs: AI-enriched job postings API from ATS career sites and job boards. Arihaan: live job postings from employers' own career sites, in Claude, ChatGPT and your code, free to start. Facts about Fantastic.jobs are from its own pages on October 21, 2026.

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ArihaanFantastic.jobs
Free planYes, forever: about 60 US jobs a day, no card14-day trial, 500 jobs, no card
Entry price$35 a month$45 a month
Entry plan buysAbout 1,600 US jobs a day, about 48,000 a month5,000 jobs and 2,500 API requests a month
Per 1,000 jobs at entryAbout $0.73$9.00
Where the jobs come fromEmployers’ career sites and the 30+ hiring platforms they post on (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, Ashby ...); LinkedIn and job board history as an optionCareer sites on 58 ATS platforms; LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator jobs
Coverage, as each states it4,030,111 open jobs from 106,352 companies in 229 countries, live3M+ career site jobs and 11M+ job board jobs a month; 275k+ career sites
HistoryOpen jobs; last 90 days, or since January 2025 with LinkedIn and job boards6 months (Backfill API)
FreshnessDaily; every 6 hours as an optionHourly
MCP serverYes, remote, OAuth or API key; in Claude’s directory and the official MCP RegistryNo
DeliveryMCP, REST API, daily CSV or Parquet, feeds to BigQuery, S3 or GCSAPI, Apify actors, bulk files on high-volume plans
Company dataYes: sector, size, ownership, B2B or B2C, hiring profileYes
Contact dataYes: B2B contacts with work email, phone and LinkedIn (Arihaan People)Not stated on its site

Per 1,000 jobs is our arithmetic from each entry plan: its price over the jobs it includes. Arihaan meters tokens: about 300 for a job in search results, more for a job in full with its description.

Choose Arihaan if

  • An MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and your agents
  • About 12x less per 1,000 jobs, and a free plan that does not end
  • History since January 2025 instead of 6 months
  • B2B contacts beside the jobs

Choose Fantastic.jobs if

  • You need hourly freshness
  • You want LinkedIn, Wellfound and Y Combinator jobs in the live feed

Sources: Fantastic.jobs · Fantastic.jobs API. Checked October 21, 2026.

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