TheirStack vs HG Insights

Head-to-head at a glance

Quick Decision Guide

Choose TheirStack if

• You need a real-time solution that responds in 100ms-2s
• You want a fast and easy integration with a single API call
• You want to filter by attributes like company countries, industries, company sizes, job description, etc
• You want all the jobs from all the job boards in one place and don't want to handle job deduplication
• You prefer self-serve access with clear documentation and a developer-first experience

Choose HG Insights if

• You're buying an enterprise market-intelligence/technographics platform and can commit to annual contracts
• You're comfortable with pricing that starts around $10k per seat per year
• You're okay with a sales-led process (no self-serve), demos, and onboarding calls
• You don't need a real-time jobs API and are fine with dashboards, exports, or managed delivery

What is HG Insights?

HG Insights is an enterprise data platform focused on firmographics and technographics (e.g., what technologies companies use), TAM planning, and account selection. Their core strengths are in sales and marketing use cases at larger organizations.

TheirStack, by contrast, is built specifically for jobs. Jobs are at the core of what we do, so 100% of our effort goes into building a high-quality, end-to-end job data platform.

Pricing and contracts

• HG Insights pricing commonly starts around $10k per seat per year
• Access is sales-led with enterprise-style contracts and annual commitments
• There is no self-serve checkout; you must talk to sales to get access

TheirStack offers a developer-first experience with clear documentation and a simple API you can try right away.

Integration and developer experience

HG Insights is designed for enterprise deployments. Access typically goes through sales, and documentation is not openly self-serve. Implementations often center on dashboards, exports, or CRM integrations rather than a real-time jobs API.

TheirStack integration is straightforward with just a single API call needed. You can find our complete documentation here.

UI and contact data integrations

• Beyond the API, TheirStack provides a rich UI where you can run company and job searches and quickly find people contacts from selected companies.
• We integrate with leading contact data providers (Apollo, ContactOut) and LinkedIn (Free, Recruiter, Sales Navigator) to streamline outreach from search results.
• Learn more in our guide: Find people.

APIs and capabilities

• If you want technographics via API, both platforms can work. TheirStack is much more affordable and you can test it for free.
• TheirStack offers a real-time Jobs API; HG Insights does not provide a jobs API.
• HG Insights includes dedicated enterprise endpoints, while TheirStack delivers similar outcomes via jobs-derived signals:
  • Installs-like signals: quantified mentions per company, confidence, first/last seen, mention location, and relative occurrence vs similar technologies
  • Spend orientation: HG models technology spend; TheirStack emphasizes observed adoption and hiring intensity signals from jobs
  • Functional area insights: infer likely department with job role/department fields and where the tech is mentioned (title/description/URL)
  • Intent: HG exposes an Intent API; TheirStack enables intent-like workflows via keyword searches and trend analysis in job postings

Choose HG Insights if you specifically need those enterprise endpoints. Choose TheirStack for fast, self-serve, and cost-effective programmatic access to job data and practical technographic signals from job postings.

Response time

When you make a request to TheirStack, we search our database, which already contains millions of jobs scraped from thousands of job boards and websites. The response comes back almost instantly — 90% of requests finish in less than 2 seconds.

For example, to get the last data analyst jobs posted in NYC in the last 7 days you'd make this call:

curl --request POST \
--url "https://api.theirstack.com/v1/jobs/search" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <api_key>" \
--data '{
  "posted_at_max_age_days": 7,
  "job_country_code_or": [
    "US"
  ],
  "job_title_or": [
    "data analyst"
  ],
  "job_location_pattern_or": [
    "new york",
    "nyc"
  ]
}'

HG Insights isn't positioned as a real-time jobs API. If your use case relies on instant queries and programmatic filtering over job postings, TheirStack is the better fit.

Extensive filtering capabilities

• Company filters (TheirStack): By industry, size, country, revenue, funding, URL, LinkedIn URL or slug, etc.
• Job filters (TheirStack): By title, description, country, city, remote options, salary, etc. Regular expression filters are supported by many fields like title, description or locations.

HG Insights focuses on firmographics/technographics for account selection and market intelligence, not deep, real-time job-posting filters.

Historical data

TheirStack maintains a comprehensive historical database of jobs dating back to 2019, enabling analysis across larger time spans. HG Insights' primary strength is historical technographic and firmographic context; job postings are not the focus of their platform.

Job consolidation across multiple job boards

With TheirStack, we consolidate jobs from many sources into a single database and provide a single API endpoint to access them. You can get all the jobs you want with one request instead of orchestrating multiple scrapers.

Job deduplication

Because we offer a single entry point for all our job data, we have built our own job deduplication algorithm that lets us identify if the same job has already been scraped. You won't get the same job twice and you won't have to handle deduplication yourself.