The Indeed API question, answered: what closed, what remains, what to use

Does Indeed have an API in 2026?

No. Indeed has not offered a public job search API since it closed the Publisher Program to new applicants in October 2022, and the program remains closed in 2026 with no open signup and no published rate card (Job Boardly, checked September 6, 2026). Existing Publisher API keys stopped working in 2023 when Indeed retired the API, and no self-serve key has been issued since, paid or free (JobsPipe, checked September 6, 2026). What remains at docs.indeed.com is a set of employer-side partner APIs, all gated behind an integration request that Indeed must approve before it issues OAuth credentials.

None of those partner APIs returns job listings. The Job Sync API is a GraphQL interface for ATS partners to create, upsert, expire, and check the status of their own postings by ID. The only search-shaped product Indeed still documents for publishers is the Publisher JavaScript Plugin, a hosted widget that renders HTML inside your page rather than returning data. If your goal is to read jobs from Indeed, the official route does not exist, which is why every option below is a scraper or a scraping-based data product.

• Job Sync API: partners push postings into Indeed with qualifications, salary, and benefits; status lookups need the posting ID, and there is no search endpoint
• Indeed Apply: delivers applications from Indeed into a partner ATS; the job must be posted through Job Sync or an XML feed, and Indeed must approve an integration request first
• Disposition Sync API: reports candidate outcomes back to Indeed, no listing retrieval
• Publisher JavaScript Plugin: a hosted search widget that returns rendered HTML, not JSON
• Publisher Program: closed to new publishers since October 2022; existing keys retired in 2023 (sources rechecked September 6, 2026)

How do you get Indeed API access today?

There are two honest answers. If you are an employer, ATS, or job distributor who wants to put jobs on Indeed, file an integration request at docs.indeed.com; Indeed reviews it, and approved partners receive OAuth credentials for Job Sync, Indeed Apply, and Disposition Sync. That is the only Indeed-issued API access that exists, and it is write-only from your side.

If you want to read listings, developers use one of three routes as of September 2026. Per-row scrapers on the Apify platform bill $0.10 to $6.00 per 1,000 jobs with no subscription. Scraping SaaS products sell the same data on their own terms: Bright Data's jobs scraper covers Indeed, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor with a free tier of 5,000 records per month and API pricing from $0.75 per 1,000 records on subscription (brightdata.com, checked September 6, 2026). Enterprise feeds such as JobsPikr sell credit-based plans whose dollar prices are not shown on the pricing page, with a quote-only Enterprise tier (jobspikr.com, checked September 6, 2026). The table below puts all of them side by side.

• Posting jobs into Indeed: integration request, then Indeed-issued OAuth credentials, free to apply
• Reading jobs per row: Apify actors from $0.10 per 1,000, no key, no subscription
• Reading jobs via SaaS: Bright Data from $0.75 per 1,000 records on subscription, free 5,000 records per month
• Reading jobs at enterprise scale: JobsPikr credit plans, prices gated behind sales contact

Indeed API alternatives compared: price per 1,000, rating, users

Seven products cover the read-Indeed use case, and the table records their live numbers as of September 6, 2026. Among Apify actors the spread is wide: valig/indeed-jobs-scraper lists $0.10 per 1,000 jobs on the free plan ($0.07 on higher plans) with a 5.00 rating from 14 reviews, 27,836 users, and zero failed runs in the last 30 days. borderline/indeed-scraper charges $5.00 per 1,000 at 4.78 stars from 27 reviews and 23,369 users.

misceres/indeed-scraper is the incumbent with 30,224 users and 2,341 in the last month, yet it carries the lowest rating on the table at 3.87 from 65 reviews and now lists $6.00 per 1,000 on the free plan, dropping to $1.00 per 1,000 on the highest subscription tier. factden/indeed-jobs-scraper sits at $2.00 per 1,000 ($1.20 on higher plans) with a 5.00 rating from 5 reviews but only 54 users, and its API shows a pricing change scheduled for September 14, 2026, so check before committing.

Datapika's job board scraper is the only multi-source Apify row: $0.005 per job ($5 per 1,000), a 5.0 rating from 3 reviews, 2,582 users with 395 in the last 30 days, and zero failed runs in the last 30 days. It is not the cheapest Indeed-only feed. It wins on covering Indeed plus LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Google Jobs, ZipRecruiter, Naukri, Bayt, and BDJobs in one deduplicated dataset, with no API key or login.

• Cheapest Indeed-only feed: valig at $0.10 per 1,000 (5.00 rating, 27,836 users, 0 failed runs in 30 days)
• Most used single-board actor: misceres at $6.00 per 1,000 free plan (3.87 rating, 30,224 users, 99.1% success)
• Flat-priced single board: borderline at $5.00 per 1,000 (4.78 rating, 23,369 users, 96.4% success)
• Multi-board with dedup and MCP: Datapika at $5 per 1,000 (5.0 rating, 2,582 users, 0 failed runs in 30 days)
• SaaS route: Bright Data free 5,000 records per month, then from $0.75 per 1,000 on subscription (September 6, 2026)

What does it cost to pull 1,000 or 10,000 Indeed jobs?

Pay-per-event pricing keeps the arithmetic simple: multiply rows by the per-row price. For 1,000 Indeed jobs on free-plan rates as of September 6, 2026, valig costs $0.10, factden $2.00, borderline $5.00, Datapika $5.00, and misceres $6.00. At 10,000 jobs that becomes $1.00, $20.00, $50.00, $50.00, and $60.00. Bright Data's first 5,000 records in a month are free, then roughly $7.50 per additional 10,000 at its $0.75 per 1,000 subscription rate.

The Datapika number changes meaning when you need more than Indeed. A 10,000-row sweep across Indeed, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor with three single-board actors is three separate runs, three schemas to reconcile, and duplicate postings you pay for more than once. The same sweep through Datapika is one run at $0.005 per deduplicated row, so a job that appears on all three boards is billed once and tagged with every source.

Compare like with like. If Indeed is your only source, valig at $1.00 per 10,000 is 50x cheaper than Datapika and the honest recommendation. If you already run two or more boards, price the whole pipeline, not the Indeed slice.

• 1,000 jobs: valig $0.10, factden $2.00, borderline $5.00, Datapika $5.00, misceres $6.00 (free-plan rates, September 6, 2026)
• 10,000 jobs: valig $1.00, factden $20.00, borderline $50.00, Datapika $50.00, misceres $60.00
• Datapika bills only deduplicated rows that land in the dataset; a posting seen on three boards costs $0.005 once
• Subscription tiers cut some rates: misceres to $1.00 per 1,000, valig to $0.07, factden to $1.20; include the Apify plan fee when comparing

Which Indeed API alternative should you choose?

Choose valig when Indeed is your only source and price dominates: at $0.10 per 1,000 with a 5.00 rating and 3,752 monthly users as of September 6, 2026, it is the default for budget feeds. Choose misceres if you want the longest track record; 30,224 users are real, but budget for the 3.87 rating and the $6.00 free-plan price. Choose factden if you must paginate past roughly 1,000 results per query or want its companies dataset, accepting that 54 users means limited public evidence and that a pricing change is scheduled for September 14, 2026.

Choose Bright Data if you prefer a SaaS contract and can live inside its LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor coverage; the free 5,000 records per month make it easy to trial. Choose JobsPikr only if you are an enterprise buyer comfortable getting prices from a sales call. Choose Datapika when the question is not how to read Indeed but how to get every relevant job once: recruiters, hiring-signal pipelines, and agents that search across boards get one schema, one bill at $0.005 per row, and no keys. Skip it if you will only ever query Indeed; at 50x the price of valig for that single board, it is the wrong tool. If you need to post jobs into Indeed rather than read them, none of these applies: file an integration request with Indeed and use the Job Sync API.

• Indeed-only, lowest cost: valig ($0.10 per 1,000)
• Indeed-only, longest track record: misceres ($6.00 per 1,000 free plan, 30,224 users)
• Indeed plus 7 boards, deduplicated, MCP-ready: Datapika ($5 per 1,000, 5.0 rating)
• SaaS with a free tier: Bright Data (5,000 records per month free, then from $0.75 per 1,000 on subscription)
• Posting jobs into Indeed rather than reading them: request partner access and use the Job Sync API