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Reqbeat vs TheirStack
Two different answers to "which companies are hiring?". One is a dataset you query. One is an event feed you subscribe to. Updated October 2026.
Who is writing this: the Reqbeat team. We sell one of the two products on this page, so read accordingly. Every claim about TheirStack below comes from their own site and docs as of October 2026, we link to them throughout, and we tell you plainly where they are the better pick.
The short version
TheirStack is a job-posting and technographics database: 251 million postings across 195 countries and 33,000 tracked technologies, by their published numbers. You search it with rich filters, build lists, and on API plans you can attach webhooks to saved searches. It is strong for research, list building and tech-stack targeting.
Reqbeat is a hiring-signal event feed. The primitive is a watch: you register a company or a saved search with a webhook URL, and when a matching req is detected, the payload is pushed to you — with the real posting and its ATS link attached. The full corpus is re-read every 3 hours across 7 regions, every row names the board it was detected on, and the deduplication rule is published on the method page.
If your workflow starts with "give me a list", TheirStack will feel natural. If it starts with "tell me the moment this happens", that is the case Reqbeat is built for.
Side by side
| Reqbeat | TheirStack | |
|---|---|---|
| Core primitive | A watch: subscribe to a company or saved search, deliveries are pushed as events | A search over the dataset; webhooks can be attached to saved searches on API plans |
| Evidence per row | The real posting with its ATS link and the board it was detected on, every time | Posting records with source URLs |
| Refresh | Entire corpus re-read every 3 hours across 7 regions; each payload carries its detection time | Advertises continuous monitoring of its sources; no published method page to check cadence against |
| Deduplication | Rule published on the method page: repeat and re-posted ads collapse to one row per company, title and country | Dedup applied in webhook delivery per their docs; partition rule not published |
| Historical depth | Built for what changes now, not archive research — if you need years of history, that is not us | 251M postings, 195 countries (their numbers) — the stronger pick for historical research |
| Tech-stack signals | Skills and requirements as written in the posting text | Dedicated technographics product: 33,000 tracked technologies (their number) |
| Webhooks on the free tier | Yes — 3 live watches and 50 delivered changes a month, no card | Webhooks are a paid API-plan feature; app plans get email alerts |
| Pricing model | Usage-based with hard spend caps you set; prices on /pricing and as machine-readable JSON | Credit-based: one-time credit packs for the app, monthly credit subscriptions for the API |
| MCP | MCP-native: server, per-tool docs and a registry manifest; same key as REST | MCP offered for jobs, technographics and buying intent |
| People / contact data | None, by design — companies and roles only; pair with your own enrichment provider (data ethics) | None bundled either; they sell company-level data |
| When coverage is missing | Says so: coverage_status: "no_ats_signal" — unknown is never scored as "not hiring" |
No equivalent published semantics |
Pick TheirStack if…
- You target by technology stack. Their technographics product is the core of their platform and we do not compete with it.
- You need historical job-posting data for market research — trend analysis over years of postings is a dataset problem, and theirs is large.
- You want one vendor for job postings, technographics and buying-intent signals together.
Pick Reqbeat if…
- Your play is event-driven outbound: a watch fires, Clay or n8n enriches, a rep sends the same day — while the req is hours old, with the ATS link as the receipt. The recipes show the exact flows.
- You want webhooks without a paid plan: the free tier includes live watches and delivered changes, no card.
- You want to audit the data you act on: published dedup rule, detection time on every payload, a source board on every row, and an explicit "unknown" when we cannot see a company — the standard we argue for in ground truth beats inferred intent.
- Your consumer is an agent: the MCP server is a first-class interface with per-tool docs, not an add-on.
Honest bottom line
These products overlap less than the category name suggests. TheirStack is a bigger database with more filters; Reqbeat is a sharper trigger with evidence attached. Plenty of teams could justify both: TheirStack to build the territory, Reqbeat to watch it. Both have a free way in — theirs and ours — so the cheapest way to settle it is to run your own ICP through each and compare what lands.
See also: TheirStack alternatives, the best hiring signals APIs in 2026 and real-time job posting webhook APIs compared, or go straight to how to get a webhook when a company posts a job.
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