Comparison / JobFront vs. LinkUp

JobFront vs. LinkUp.

LinkUp's index is built for investors. JobFront gives you live per-job data you can publish downstream — from $199/month instead of an annual license.

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Why teams switch

When you need the jobs, not just the index.

Per-job data, not a time series

LinkUp is built around its index and its history. We deliver every posting in full — 81 fields each — so you build your own signals.

Publish it downstream

LinkUp licenses are typically internal-use-only for research. Our model assumes you'll redistribute — power a product, a board, or a model.

A fraction of the cost

Annual licenses for institutional data commonly run $20K–$200K+. Our plans start at $199/month.

What maps to what

Everything has a home here.

What you use at LinkUp today, and where it lives on JobFront. Figures as of July 2026.

At LinkUp On JobFront
Direct-employer index — 86,000+ employer websites Careers sites and every major ATS — 400K companies tracked
Daily index deliveries Live feed — continuous refresh, daily by default, faster lanes available
Historical series back to 2007 Historical data access on enterprise plans
Ticker-mapped company universe Company relationship graph — subsidiaries, aliases, and acquisitions, public and private companies alike
Annual license, internal use only Monthly plans with redistribution built into the model
LinkUp figures from their own public materials, as of July 2026
How to switch

Four steps. No downtime.

Step 01

Pick your universe

List the companies your models track. Check them against our live coverage.

Step 02

Validate on a sample

Start with 10 of them. Compare our per-job data against the index.

Step 03

Fill the gaps

Anything we don't track gets a custom scraper, from $5/source/month — private companies included.

Step 04

Feed your pipeline

Pull via API, S3/SFTP, or bulk files into your warehouse, and build signals on the raw postings.

Common questions

Before you switch.

Can we redistribute the data?
Yes. Powering products, job boards, and models downstream is the core use case — not a license exception.
Do you have history like LinkUp's?
LinkUp's series back to 2007 is genuinely hard to replicate. We offer historical access on enterprise plans; if your research needs two decades of backtesting depth, LinkUp is strong there.
Can you track private companies?
Yes. If a company posts jobs publicly on the web, we can track it — no ticker required.

Run both, side by side.

Keep LinkUp running, try us in parallel, and switch when the data speaks for itself.

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LinkUp details come from their own public website and docs, reviewed July 2026. JobFront is not affiliated with LinkUp. Spot something wrong? Email hello@jobfront.com and we'll fix it.