No single free source covers every company and every live job — a layered pipeline of open registries, free ATS endpoints and TheirStack or Techmap does
Asked (summary):
We need free options — ideally with generous startup credits — for a flow where users search any company name and then see every live job on that company's career portal, matching the employer's own posted count. List what each service does, what it costs, and whether its data may be used in skipwait.me.
This report compares 24 services and data sources — company-name registries, direct ATS job-board endpoints, aggregated jobs APIs and scraping platforms — plus documented public endpoints for 7 applicant-tracking systems, researched on 24 October 2026. No source claims to hold all companies worldwide or guarantee complete job coverage; the verified free offers are recurring free tiers, not large startup-credit grants. 15 of the 24 option rows rest on a single source page and are marked single-sourced in the table.
The pipeline: where each of the 24 options fits, and what you may show publicly
Hover or tap a block for its free allowance and rights note. Colour is the skipwait.me usage verdict, not the vendor.
Recommended — public display supportedUseful with limits — rights unverified or narrowDo not use publicly without written permission
What the pipeline cannot say alone
TheirStack is the best aggregator fit: its standard terms explicitly permit republishing postings publicly and integrating the data into your product; free plan 200 jobs and 66 signals, API from $49/month for 1,500 credits — theirstack.com
Techmap is the strongest ongoing free allowance: a permanent 1,000 postings/month tier, paid plans from $29/month, public display on job portals allowed, raw-posting resale prohibited — jobdatafeeds.com
Coresignal's master agreement bars communicating or displaying the data to the public and re-utilizing it, so despite 2,000 free API credits and $49/month entry it cannot power public skipwait.me listings without a separate written license — coresignal.com
Bright Data gives 5,000 free scraper records/month, but the reviewed pages establish no downstream display rights — obtain written confirmation before showing its output on skipwait.me — brightdata.com
Direct employer-board endpoints: the route to "without missing any"
Deduplicated from 47 ATS-documentation findings — one line per applicant-tracking system. Query these per employer, page fully, and reconcile the count against the rendered board.
All 24 options compared
Verdict: Recommended / Limits / No public use. Prices and terms are snapshots of 24 October 2026. Rows with one supporting page are single-sourced.
Service
Role
Free offer
Paid entry
Verdict
Rights note
Source
Implementation checklist
Normalize legal name, trading name, canonical domain and careers URL as separate fields
Preserve the canonical employer source and apply URL on every listing
Page every endpoint fully — a fixed cap silently truncates large boards
Reconcile per-employer counts against the employer's rendered board
Refresh periodically and infer closures: closed postings simply stop appearing
Respect robots.txt and published rate limits; back off on 429s
Record provenance per posting and keep a takedown path
Do not call an unspecified free trial "startup credits" — none were verified here
Have legal review Coresignal-style display restrictions before any public use
Method: 24 canonical service/product rows (function, coverage, free offer, paid entry, reuse-rights verdict, source URLs) and 47 ATS-documentation findings deduplicated to 7 systems, researched 24 October 2026 across overlapping sets of 1,321 ATS pages, 1,567 company-data pages, 1,111 pricing pages and 1,512 licensing pages. Prices are published entry points in USD; free offers are recurring allowances unless noted. 15 option rows are single-sourced from one page; vendor-page claims were favored less than official terms and docs. Long rights clauses were shortened for space; follow each source link for full terms.