TheirStack and Coresignal are both data providers that offer job and company data.
Quick Decision Guide
Choose TheirStack if
- ✓You need deduplicated job data from over 318k sources including LinkedIn, Indeed, and ATS platforms.
- ✓You want a single API to access jobs combined and deduplicated from multiple sources (LinkedIn, Indeed and 16k+ more).
- ✓You value the possibility of making job searches filtering by company attributes (for example, "give me jobs from US companies" or "give me jobs from companies under 1000 employees")
- ✓You value the possibility of making company searches filtering by job attributes (for example, "give me companies hiring SDRs" or "give me companies with Python jobs")
- ✓You need mostly jobs and company data, and you care about not paying too much for it.
Choose Coresignal if
- ✓You need employee data (email, experience, skills, etc.). Coresignal's employee data is very good.
- ✓You want highly detailed company data (including news, financials, etc.). Coresignal's company data is very good as well.
- ✓You don't need to make company searches filtering by their jobs, or job searches filtering by company attributes.
- ✓If you want jobs, you're OK with getting only jobs from LinkedIn.
- ✓You don't mind paying more for fewer jobs than you could get with TheirStack.
Feature comparison
Data Coverage
| Feature | TheirStack | Coresignal |
|---|---|---|
| Job data | ✓Jobs Linkedin, Indeed, ATS Platforms (Lever, Workable, Greenhouse...). More than 16.000 sources | Only Linkedin (Glassdoor and Indeed not via API) |
| Company data | Including funding, size, industry... | Including funding, size, industry, news... |
| Employee data | No employee data | ✓Employee data including email, experience, skills... |
| Technographic data | ✓More than 32k technologies tracked in jobs and companies, not only frontend tools | Only information about frontend technologies |
Data Processing & Freshness
| Feature | TheirStack | Coresignal |
|---|---|---|
| Job deduplication | ✓We deduplicate jobs posted in multiples sources | Not supported (just jobs from LinkedIn via API) |
| Job freshness | ✓Jobs database updated every minute, almost in real-time | Jobs database updated every 6 hours |
Filtering & Search
| Feature | TheirStack | Coresignal |
|---|---|---|
| Filtering jobs by company attributes | ✓Fully supported (industry, size, revenue, description...) | Not supported |
| Filtering companies by job attributes | ✓Fully supported (title, description, date, location...) | Not supported |
API & Integration
| Feature | TheirStack | Coresignal |
|---|---|---|
| Data delivery methods | ✓API, Webhooks, Flat Files | API, Flat Files (no Webhooks) |
| API complexity | ✓Single job search endpoint to get all data | 2 API endpoints: search and collect |
| Documentation | ✓Clear and easy to understand | Confusing, not clear what each endpoint does |
| User Interface | ✓Intuitive UI to explore the data and build API queries | No UI available |
Pricing & Plans
| Feature | TheirStack | Coresignal |
|---|---|---|
| Credit roll-over | ✓Unused credits roll-over. Credits can be used for up to 12 months, even in monthly plans | No roll-over. Credits reset every month |
| Free plan | ✓Free plan with 50 new company credits and 200 new API credits per month forever | 14-day free trial |
What is Coresignal?
Coresignal is a data provider focused on 3 kinds of datasets:
- Jobs data
- Company data
- Employee data
Up to this date, all of Coresignal's data comes from LinkedIn. Even though t
Coresignal's interface is API only and there is no way to explore the data visually.
Coresignal has a free plan, but in small plans the costs per credit are very high, up to $0.2 per job. They are sales-led and their pricing is heavily weighted towards customers buying expensive plans, needed to support their sales team.
To fetch jobs with Coresignal, you need to use 2 API endpoints: search to get the job data and collect to get the job data.
What is TheirStack
TheirStack is a data provider focused on 3 kinds of datasets:
- Jobs data
- Company data
TheirStack combines jobs data from multiple sources and deduplicates them.
TheirStack has a free plan and put a lot of effort into the developer experience and into making the product as self-service as possible.
TheirStack's pricing is thought to be able to support both customers starting out as well as bigger customers with higher usage needs.
With a single API, TheirStack customers can fetch jobs data, making it easier to build integrations and estimate costs.
TheirStack offers a UI that can be used to explore the data visually, export it, integrate with other sources and also works as an API playground to learn how to use the API.
Price comparison
This is what fetching jobs from TheirStack and Coresignal costs via API:
| Number of jobs | TheirStack (see pricing) | Coresignal (see pricing) |
|---|---|---|
| 200 | ✅ Free | ✅ Free |
| 1,500 | ✅ $59 | ❌ $294 (5x more expensive) |
| 5,000 | ✅ $100 | ❌ $800 (8x more expensive) |
| 10,000 | ✅ $169 | ❌ $800 (4.7x more expensive) |
| 20,000 | ✅ $239 | ❌ $1,000 (4.2x more expensive) |
| 50,000 | ✅ $400 | ❌ $1,500 (3.8x more expensive) |
| 100,000 | ✅ $600 | ❌ $2,000 (3.3x more expensive) |
| 200,000 | ✅ $900 | ❌ $3,000 (3.3x more expensive) |
| 500,000 | ✅ $1,000 | ❌ $5,000 (5x more expensive) |
| 1,000,000 | ✅ $1,500 | ❌ $7,000 (4.7x more expensive) |