agentbeacon

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

AgentBeacon vs The Muse API for AI agents

The Muse API is a public JSON API for job and company listings posted on The Muse. 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

  • The Muse API: A free, no-key way to pull The Muse's curated job listings with company context.
  • 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.

The Muse API and AgentBeacon, side by side

The Muse APIAgentBeacon
SearchesJobs listed on The Muse, filterable by company, category, level and location (including flexible/remote).Hiring beacons from employers’ own job boards (Austin, Texas, and remote) and home-service businesses around Austin
ReturnsJSON pages of 20 results; each job has name, contents (description), publication_date, locations, levels, categories, company and refs.landing_page.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 callNothing for testing; an api_key from registration is required for any use beyond testing.One empty request to /v1/connect, which returns a token. No account, email or card.
Free500 requests per hour without a key; 3,600 per hour with a registered key. No price is stated.Free: 600 finds a minute and 20,000 a day for each connected agent
PaidNot stated on its pagesFree for agents
Acting on a resultrefs.landing_page points to the job page on themuse.com.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 resultsContent shown via the API must link back to The Muse; on termination you must destroy stored Muse Content (terms last modified 7/25/2015).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.
CoverageThe location filter lists cities worldwide; no stated country coverage.Hiring 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 The Muse API?

Nothing for testing; an api_key from registration is required for any use beyond testing.

Is The Muse API free?

500 requests per hour without a key; 3,600 per hour with a registered key. No price is stated.

Sources

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

The Muse API, read on October 15, 2026: