{"title":"Alion vs TheirStack","summary":"Both sell job postings and company data through an API. Alion charges 0.02 credits ($0.002) for a job or a company in a list and adds slices for +0.05 credits; TheirStack listed $49 a month for 1,500 API credits; a job costs 1 credit and a company 3 credits on its pricing page on 6 October 2026 (about $0.033 a job and $0.10 a company). Alion reads postings from employers' own careers boards and re-checks each one every 48 hours.","sections":[{"heading":"When Alion fits","text":"You want employer-sourced postings with closed ones removed within 48 hours; You pay per row and want one balance for jobs, companies and AI agents; You need visa sponsorship, ghost-job flags or stated pay alongside each posting"},{"heading":"When to look further","text":"If you need contact data on people, Alion has none: it holds companies and jobs only. If you need years of historical postings for backtesting, ask us what history covers your case first."},{"heading":"Try the same query on both","text":"curl \"https://alion.io/api/job.getList?technologies=python&locations=us&posted_since=24h&limit=50\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY\""}],"faq":[{"q":"Where does the TheirStack price come from?","a":"From its public pricing page, read on 6 October 2026. Prices change: check https://theirstack.com/en/pricing for the current one."},{"q":"Can I test Alion before paying?","a":"Yes: new accounts start with 30 free credits, enough for 1,500 jobs or companies."}],"html_url":"https://alion.io/compare/theirstack","json_url":"https://alion.io/compare/theirstack.json","offers":[{"id":"company.list","title":"Companies by industry, country, size, technology and hiring","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per company in a list","note":"the whole list with a card per company","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_companies"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.list&for=compare%2Ftheirstack"},{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"any company of the list in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=compare%2Ftheirstack"}],"meta":{"source":"Alion (alion.io), CC BY-SA 4.0","updated_at":"2026-10-12T04:27:16+00:00","built_at":"2026-10-12T04:27:16+00:00","indexable":true,"generated_at":"2026-10-12T21:27:18+00:00","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json"}}