agentbeacon

Comparisons · Job data APIs · read on October 15, 2026

AgentBeacon vs Adzuna API for AI agents

Adzuna API is a REST API from the Adzuna job search engine for searching its job ads plus salary and labour-market data. AgentBeacon is built on beacons, each a few plain words about what someone has or needs right now, live while they renew it. Each result is one, with the employer’s Apply link for a hiring beacon or an address to message a business’s through AgentBeacon. It needs no key.

The short answer

  • Adzuna API: Building a job board or labour-market tool with an aggregated, multi-country job feed plus salary data.
  • AgentBeacon: Giving an agent a job to apply for or a home-service business to message, with no key.

AgentBeacon covers far less today: jobs in Austin, Texas, and remote, and businesses in and around Austin. Where it has what the agent is looking for, it is free and needs no sign-up.

Adzuna API and AgentBeacon, side by side

Adzuna APIAgentBeacon
SearchesAdzuna's aggregated job ads, queried per country via a two-letter code in the URL (docs examples use gb).Hiring beacons from employers’ own job boards (Austin, Texas, and remote) and home-service businesses around Austin
ReturnsJSON results with id, title, a description snippet, company.display_name, location, category, salary_min/salary_max, salary_is_predicted, contract_type, created, latitude/longitude and redirect_url.Plain Markdown, one beacon per result: its own words, quoted, when it was updated, until when it’s open, and where it was seeded from. Typed JSON on request.
Before the first callRegister for an app_id and app_key, sent as query parameters on every call.One empty request to /v1/connect, which returns a token. No account, email or card.
FreeDefault limits of 25 hits per minute, 250 per day, 1,000 per week and 2,500 per month; commercial use is permitted subject to a 14-day trial.Free: 600 finds a minute and 20,000 a day for each connected agent
PaidNot stated on its pagesFree for agents
Acting on a resultredirect_url; the documented examples point to adzuna.co.uk/jobs/land/ad/... (through Adzuna), not straight to the employer.A hiring beacon has the employer’s Apply link; every other beacon is messaged through AgentBeacon, and the business replies there. A business that hasn’t taken over the beacon AgentBeacon seeded for it isn’t told, so a message to it waits 30 days.
Limits on keeping or showing resultsEach displayed ad must carry an 'Adzuna' label at least 116x23 px, linked to Adzuna; on termination all Adzuna data must be removed; after the trial a licence agreement may be required.Agents read beacons and message them; the terms say reading one doesn’t give the right to reuse it freely.
AI in its termsNot stated on its pagesBuilt for AI agents. An agent may act only with its owner’s permission, and the terms don’t let AgentBeacon train AI models on what businesses write.
CoverageNot stated on its pagesHiring in Austin, Texas, and remote; home services around Austin, for now
MCP serverNo official server listedhttps://api.agentbeacon.sh/mcp/search, with no sign-in

Try AgentBeacon

Connect, then find:

curl https://api.agentbeacon.sh/v1/connect \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-binary '{}'
curl -G https://api.agentbeacon.sh/v1/beacons \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AGENTBEACON_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "q=remote analytics engineer jobs over 130k"

Or let the JavaScript client connect for you. The Python client, agentbeacon-sdk, works the same way.

npm install @agentbeacon/sdk

import { find } from "@agentbeacon/sdk";
console.log(await find("remote analytics engineer jobs over 130k"));

Agent apps that take MCP servers can add https://api.agentbeacon.sh/mcp/search, which needs no sign-in. The jobs docs have the full code, every parameter and each line of the answer.

One result, as it read on October 15, 2026:

## Hiring: Analytics Engineer at Ontic. $135,000–$145,000 a …
> Hiring: Analytics Engineer at Ontic. $135,000–$145,000 a year. Full-time, remote. Apply: [website: open this beacon]
Expires Oct 17, 00:00 CDT · Updated yesterday
Location: anywhere
Verification (agentbeacon.sh): Seeded by AgentBeacon from Ontic’s job board, read again every day. Its employer isn’t on AgentBeacon yet: a message waits 30 days for it to join.
Link: https://agentbeacon.sh/beacon/369348e4-b3d0-490f-82b4-a666041243cf

What AgentBeacon doesn’t do yet

  • Jobs come from the job boards of a growing list of companies, in Austin and remote.
  • Businesses are in Austin, Texas, for now.
  • It shows no phone numbers or websites: a business is reached by messaging its beacon through AgentBeacon.

Questions people ask

What do I need before I can use AgentBeacon?

One empty request to /v1/connect, which returns a token. No account, email or card.

Is AgentBeacon free?

Free: 600 finds a minute and 20,000 a day for each connected agent.

What do I need before I can use Adzuna API?

Register for an app_id and app_key, sent as query parameters on every call.

Is Adzuna API free?

Default limits of 25 hits per minute, 250 per day, 1,000 per week and 2,500 per month; commercial use is permitted subject to a 14-day trial.

Sources

Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.

Adzuna API, read on October 15, 2026: