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Lightcast
What it is
Lightcast provides labor-market data and software for enterprise, education, and government teams. Its database combines more than 2.5 billion job postings and career profiles with government labor-market information. The portfolio includes Analyst, Career Coach, Developer, GoRecruit, Recruit, SmartReq, Talent Analyst, Talent Transform, and Widget Builder, among others. APIs let customers control when, where, and how data appears in a website or application. Data shares can be delivered through Amazon S3, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, SFTP, Snowflake, Snowflake Marketplace, and Databricks Marketplace. API taxonomies include more than 34,000 standardized skills, 75,000 standardized titles, and 1,800 specialized occupations. Rhetorik adds professional profiles, company records, technology-product insights, and company data, with refreshes every one to two days and a monthly assembled view. Analyst supports OIDC and SAML single sign-on. Consulting, software subscriptions, and custom data delivery are offered with pricing on request.
For and against
For
- Covers enterprise, education, and government use cases
- Offers API and multiple data-share delivery methods
- Includes extensive skills and title taxonomies
- Analyst supports OIDC and SAML SSO
- Rhetorik data refreshes every one to two days
Against
- Pricing is available only on request
- Large data volumes may require integration work
The verdict
Lightcast offers a broad labor-market data portfolio with software, APIs, and data delivery choices. Buyers need to contact Lightcast to shape a solution and obtain pricing.
Who it suits
It suits organizations using labor-market information for workforce, recruiting, education, or government work. API and data-share options support teams integrating information into their own systems.
Plans and prices
Public-Good Skills API
nonprofits/public-good use · up to 50 skill-extraction requests per month · limited scope · no production-scale usage
Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.lightcast.io
Consulting
one-time consulting projects · economist-led analysis
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lightcast.io
Data Delivery
data piped into internal systems · custom displays
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lightcast.io
Software
subscription software · customizable access
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lightcast.io
On the record
- Alumni Pathways
- Alumni Pathways analyzes post-graduation career paths and outcomes.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Analyst
- Analyst supports supply-and-demand analysis, career-pathway alignment and education program strategy.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- Many APIs use OAuth 2.0 client-credentials authentication with bearer tokens that expire after 3,600 seconds.docs.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation
- The developer documentation includes setup, API keys, endpoint references, datasets, use cases, Postman examples and changelogs.docs.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- API limits
- Documented limits include 300 Core LMI requests per five minutes, five Skills or Titles requests per second, and 10 requests per second for Companies, JPA and Profiles APIs.docs.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- API taxonomies
- Lightcast advertises 34,000-plus standardized skills, 75,000-plus standardized titles, and 1,800-plus specialized occupations in its taxonomies.lightcast.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- API use
- Lightcast APIs let customers customize when, where, and how Lightcast data appears on a website or application.lightcast.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Career Coach
- Career Coach offers interest and skills exploration, recommended education options and local job postings for learners.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Commercial licensing
- For-profit or production API use requires a commercial license; Lightcast may offer time-bound, prorated evaluation access.docs.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Lightcast as privately held, founded in 2000, headquartered in Moscow, Idaho, with 501–1,000 employees.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Corporate history
- Lightcast says Emsi and Burning Glass combined under the Lightcast name in 2022; KKR purchased Emsi and merged it with Burning Glass in 2021.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Data access
- Data can be accessed by API or through shares delivered via Amazon S3, Databricks, BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, SFTP, Snowflake and marketplace listings.docs.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Data coverage
- Lightcast says its database contains more than 2.5 billion job postings and career profiles and combines those sources with government labor-market information.lightcast.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Data delivery
- Lightcast supports API access and data shares through Amazon S3, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, SFTP, Snowflake, Snowflake Marketplace, and Databricks Marketplace.docs.lightcast.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Data scale
- LinkedIn describes a database exceeding 3 billion job postings, 1.2 billion career profiles and 100-plus government sources.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Developer platform
- Developer provides location, employment, demographic, wage, industry, occupation, profile and job-posting analysis for economic and workforce professionals.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Funding and owner
- Crunchbase lists one private-equity funding round, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts as investor and six acquisitions.crunchbase.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Global coverage
- Its data covers 165 countries and markets representing 99% of world GDP.lightcast.io · read 15 Oct 2026
