Is Fantastic.jobs better than Hiring Index?

For some jobs, yes — You are syncing a feed and need change events within the hour. We would rather tell you that than have you find out after a month of integration.

What does Hiring Index do that Fantastic.jobs does not?

Age is reported as a distribution, not only as a change event — you can see the shape of a market, not just what moved.

Where did these numbers come from?

From Fantastic.jobs's own published pages, read on 27–28 August 2026. They are that vendor's claims, not our measurements, and vendors update their pages — check the current figures before you decide.

Versus

Hiring Index vs Fantastic.jobs

Freshness-first ATS feed with separate expired and modified streams. Here is where each of us is the better answer, with their published numbers as of 27–28 August 2026.

Their side

What Fantastic.jobs publishes

Measure	Their claim
Freshness claimed	Hourly refresh; 95% of new postings within 3 hours
Pricing	Starter $95 for 20k, up to Scale $750 for 500k; overage $0.0015–0.0025
Notable	Dedicated expired and modified endpoints
Coverage gap	No CIS coverage

Read from fantastic.jobs on 27–28 August 2026. These are their statements about their own product; we have not independently verified them.

Honest

Where Fantastic.jobs is stronger

The strongest freshness claim in this comparison, and separate change streams are genuinely useful.
Overage pricing is the cheapest per record of anyone here.

Our side

Where Hiring Index is stronger

Age is reported as a distribution, not only as a change event — you can see the shape of a market, not just what moved.
Aggregates and an MCP server come with the same key.

Decision

Which to pick

Pick Fantastic.jobs if…

You are syncing a feed and need change events within the hour.

Pick Hiring Index if…

You are answering questions about a market rather than syncing a mirror of it.

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