# Wellfound Jobs API — $0.001 per job

> Wellfound Jobs API: Startup jobs from Wellfound by role, city or remote — with salary. $0.001 per delivered job, nothing delivered means nothing charged.

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# Wellfound Jobs API

A Wellfound jobs API that searches startup jobs by role, city or remote and returns one row per listing: title, company with its one-line pitch, headcount and Actively Hiring state, the salary range exactly as posted, location, workplace model, remote flag, experience required, posting age, company badges and the listing URL.

By [Aldo Morese](https://quanticdata.io/about/), founder of QuanticData · Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 2026

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$0.001 per delivered job · $2 free every month · Failed runs never billed

POST /v1/scraper/collectors/wellfound_jobs/run

```
$ curl $QD/wellfound_jobs/run \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
    -d '{"role": "software engineer", "location": "Austin", "max_results": 50}'
{ "status": "done", "count": 50,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "…",
      "title": "…",
      "company": "…",
      "company_slug": "…" } ],
  "cost": 0.05 }
# 50 jobs × $0.001 · nothing delivered, nothing charged
```

You send role and location; the run goes out through a residential exit and comes back as jobs with id, title and company — 19 fields on every row — and you are billed $0.001 for each job actually delivered, nothing for a run that delivers none.

**$0.001 / job**2,000 jobs on the free $2 every month

**Semantic input**role, location, remote — no URL lists

**Up to 300**jobs per run, pagination handled for you

**No browser**read over HTTP/TLS — cheaper and faster than rendering

On this page: [Try it](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#try) [What it is](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#what) [Limits](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#caps) [Output fields](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#output) [Inputs](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#input) [Pricing](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#pricing) [Integration](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#integration) [Use cases](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#use-cases) [Versus the alternatives](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#compare) [FAQ](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#faq)

Try it

## Wellfound startup jobs, running now

Change the input and run it against the live collector — nothing to install, no sign-up.

Run it from your own code, on your own inputs

Same collector, same rows — $2 of free API credit every month, no card.

[Get my free API key](https://app.quanticdata.io/register)

## What a Wellfound jobs API does

Wellfound is a Next.js site and every search page ships an embedded Apollo cache with the job and company entities you would want. It is also, on some renders, incomplete: on one city page the cache materialised only the first seven of twenty companies — sixteen job entities against forty-four rows the same HTML rendered — while another city page the same day materialised all twenty. A source that silently drops two thirds of the page on an unpredictable subset of renders cannot be the contract, so the rows are read from the server-rendered markup, which renders every row every time. Where both were populated they agreed on every field checked across 39 rows, so the DOM is not a lossy fallback here; it is the same data, complete.

The markup’s class names are utilities that churn, and nothing keys on them. The anchors are a URL contract — the job link carrying the numeric id rows are deduplicated on — a test hook Wellfound maintains deliberately for each company block, and structure: cards and rows are found by containment, and the three meta chips are told apart by what they say, never by position. The cache is still read for the two page-level facts it always carries — the resolved role and location, and the result totals used for pagination notes.

Input is meaning, not a URL *role* *location* *remote* *country* *max_results*

## Limits, in plain numbers

Everything that bounds one run of this collector. No hidden throttles.

Max per run

300 jobs

Price

$0.001 / job

Per 1,000

$1.00

Failed runs

Free zero rows, zero charge

Free every month

$2 no card

Rate limit

60 req/min on the free tier

## What one job looks like

Every delivered job carries these fields. Nullable means the source did not publish it — the field stays empty instead of being guessed.

| Field | Type | What it holds |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | Wellfound job listing id — stable, and the de-duplication key. |
| `title` | string | Job title as the listing states it. |
| `company` | string · nullable | Company name. |
| `company_slug` | string · nullable | Company handle in Wellfound URLs. |
| `company_description` | string · nullable | The company's one-line pitch. |
| `company_size` | string · nullable | Headcount band as shown, e.g. "501-1000", "5000+". |
| `actively_hiring` | boolean | True when the card carries Wellfound's "Actively Hiring" marker. |
| `salary` | string · nullable | Compensation exactly as posted, e.g. "$150k – $215k" or "$85k – $105k • No equity". Null when the listing states none. |
| `location` | string · nullable | Primary location, e.g. "Austin", "Everywhere". |
| `extra_locations` | integer · nullable | Additional locations the listing accepts, from its "+N" chip. Null when it shows none. |
| `workplace` | string · nullable | Workplace model as labelled: "In office", "Remote", "Remote only", "Onsite or remote". Null when unlabelled. |
| `remote` | boolean | True when the workplace model allows remote work. |
| `job_type` | string · nullable | Employment type, e.g. "Full-time". |
| `experience` | string · nullable | Required experience as shown, e.g. "5 years of exp". Null when unstated. |
| `posted` | string · nullable | Posting age as shown, e.g. "yesterday", "3 weeks ago". |
| `tags` | string[] | Company badges the card renders, e.g. "B2B", "Scale Stage", "Top Investors". |
| `tags_hidden` | integer · nullable | Badges collapsed behind the card's "+N" chip. Null when none were collapsed. |
| `url` | string | Listing URL on wellfound.com. |
| `company_url` | string · nullable | Company profile URL on wellfound.com. |

## Inputs

The whole request. Anything you leave out falls back to the default shown in the catalog.

| Input | Type | Required | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `role` | string | yes | Job family, e.g. "software engineer", "product manager", "data engineer". Matched against Wellfound's own role pages — a role it does not publish is reported rather than silently widened. |
| `location` | string | no | City, state or country, e.g. "Austin", "New York", "United States". Omit to search every location. |
| `remote` | boolean | no | Search Wellfound's remote listings for the role. Ignored when a location is given — Wellfound has no remote page scoped to a city; read the per-row remote field instead. |
| `country` | string | no | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool. |
| `max_results` | integer | no | How many jobs to deliver at most (1–300). You pay only for delivered jobs. |

Pricing

## Wellfound Jobs API pricing

$0.001 per delivered job. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing: blocked pages, challenges and retries are on us, and the $2 monthly allowance covers about 2,000 jobs before you spend anything.

**$0.001**per delivered job*$1 per 1,000 delivered jobs*

**2,000 jobs**on the free allowance*$2 every month, no card*

**Zero rows**zero charge*blocks, captchas and retries are on us*

**−30%**on volume tiers*the catalog returns your key's price*

### Pay as you go

$0/mo

- $2 free credit / month

- 60 requests / min

- List unit prices

### Starter

$19/mo

- $15 free credit / month

- 300 requests / min

- 10% off unit prices

Most popular

### Growth

$79/mo

- $50 free credit / month

- 600 requests / min

- 20% off unit prices

### Scale

$299/mo

- $250 free credit / month

- 1,200 requests / min

- 30% off unit prices

Same wallet, same key and same $2 monthly allowance as every other [Data API](https://quanticdata.io/web-data-api-for-ai/). Prices are launch pricing read live from the billing config — `GET /v1/scraper/collectors` returns the price your key actually pays.

Integration

## One POST, typed rows

Base URL `https://api.quanticdata.io/v1`, Bearer auth, the same key as every other Data API. Endpoint: `POST /v1/scraper/collectors/wellfound_jobs/run`.

```
curl -X POST https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/wellfound_jobs/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"role":"software engineer","location":"Austin","max_results":50}'
```

```
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/wellfound_jobs/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {QD_API_KEY}"},
    json={
        "role": "software engineer",
        "location": "Austin",
        "max_results": 50
    },
    timeout=120,
)
for row in r.json()["payload"]["results"]:
    print(row)
```

```
const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/wellfound_jobs/run",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.QD_API_KEY}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({"role":"software engineer","location":"Austin","max_results":50}),
  },
);
const { payload } = await res.json();
console.table(payload.results);
```

```
claude mcp add quanticdata \
  -e QUANTICDATA_API_KEY=qd_live_your_key_here \
  -- npx -y quanticdata-mcp

# then, in the chat:
> run the wellfound_jobs collector with role="software engineer" and location="Austin"
```

## What people build with the Wellfound jobs API

Three shapes of work this endpoint was designed around.

### Startup hiring signals

Which companies are Actively Hiring for a role in a city, with headcount and pitch — a sourcing list for sales or recruiting.

### Compensation research

Salary ranges as posted, including equity where Wellfound states it, across roles and locations.

### Remote-work mapping

Workplace model and remote flag per listing, filtered by `remote` at query time.

## Wellfound Jobs API versus rolling your own

The differences that actually cost time when you build this in-house.

|  | DIY scraper | This collector |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Source | The embedded cache — two thirds of the rows missing on some renders | The rendered rows, complete every time, verified against the cache |
| Anchors | Utility class names | The job URL, a maintained test hook, and structure |
| Salary | A parsed number that loses the equity part | Exactly as posted |
| Identity | Title plus company text | The numeric job id from the URL |

## What people search for

Live autocomplete demand around Wellfound startup jobs, pulled with our own Keyword ideas collector.

Searches: [wellfound scraper github](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#try) [wellfound jobs scraper](/collectors/wellfound-jobs-api/#try)

The same call you would paste into a terminal: a Bearer key, role, location and remote in the body, and back the envelope every QuanticData endpoint returns — type, message, payload — where count is how many jobs arrived and usage.cost_usd is $0.05, which is 50 × $0.001. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing. The key is good for 60 req/min on the free tier.

## Sources and standards

The platform documentation and standards this collector is built against — check any claim on this page against the primary source:

- [Schema.org: the JobPosting type](https://schema.org/JobPosting)

- [Google Search Central: JobPosting structured data](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/job-posting)

- [IETF: RFC 9309, Robots Exclusion Protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html)

## FAQ

Questions we get about the Wellfound jobs API.

[Something else? Ask us →](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

### Why not read the embedded JSON?

Because it is sometimes incomplete — on one measured page it held 16 job entities against 44 rendered rows — and it fails silently. The rendered rows carry every job, and they were cross-checked against the cache wherever it was complete.

### How is salary delivered?

Exactly as Wellfound states it, including equity ranges when present. Parsing it to a single number would throw away the part that makes startup compensation different.

### Can I search remote-only?

Yes: set `remote` to true, with or without a location. The row also states the workplace model.

### Does Wellfound have an API?

Not a public jobs API. This reads the public role and location landing pages.

### Is there a free Wellfound jobs API?

Every account gets $2 of credit every month with no card, which is about 2,000 delivered jobs on this endpoint at $0.001 each. It renews monthly, and a run that delivers nothing is never billed — so a failed or blocked attempt does not eat the allowance.

### How much does one run cost?

Multiply the rows you actually receive by $0.001. A run capped at 300 jobs — the maximum for this collector — costs $0.3 if every row comes back, and less when the source has fewer. Volume tiers take up to 30% off, and `GET /v1/scraper/collectors` returns the price your key actually pays.

## Run the Wellfound jobs API now

$2 of free credit every month, no card. Your key returns its own prices from `GET /v1/scraper/collectors`.

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