Glassdoor API: Is There One? 3 Alternatives for Reviews and Salaries

Does Glassdoor Have an API?

Not directly. Glassdoor's help article "Glassdoor API" says it "no longer supports API partnerships", and a request to the old api.glassdoor.com endpoint returned HTTP 410 (Gone) on 8 October 2026. Glassdoor data is available through third-party APIs and scraper services, and the three below are the ones we ran live.

Quick Answer: Best Glassdoor API Alternatives at a Glance

Tested and priced 8 October 2026. "Per 1,000 reviews" assumes one review per record, and for OpenWeb Ninja 10 reviews per request, which we checked against the usage meter.

We build option #1, so read its row with that in mind. It leads the list because it was the only option that returned every data type in our run.

How We Evaluated

• One company: Stripe, Glassdoor company ID 671932, so every option answers the same question.
• Live calls, 8 October 2026: OpenWeb Ninja three runs per endpoint (median time). Bright Data and Apify one or two runs each, because they are slow and billed per record.
• Pricing: every number was read from the provider's own pricing page or API listing on 8 October 2026. Monthly billing unless stated.
• Docs vs observations: prices and coverage come from each provider's own pages. Times and values come from our calls. Where we did not run something, the table says "Not tested".
• Scope: one US company, in English. It is a smoke test, not a benchmark.
• Order: by how much Glassdoor data each option returned in our run, then cost. We kept it to three options we could run ourselves.

We build one of these APIs, so read the OpenWeb Ninja section with that in mind. The other sections are as flattering as the published numbers allow.

Same Company, Two Sources: Stripe on OpenWeb Ninja and Bright Data

Values for Stripe (Glassdoor company ID 671932), as returned by each source on 8 October 2026.

The ratings agree, and so do Stripe's founding year (2010), size band (1,001 to 5,000 employees) and headquarters (San Francisco). The counts do not, and we did not find out why. Two things to take from it: pick the field you care about and compare it with Glassdoor's own page before you build on it, and treat count fields as approximate. In our own API, the job count in company search (8) did not match the single job that company-jobs returned (1).

Best for: bulk records from lists of Glassdoor URLs, delivered as JSON or to cloud storage

Bright Data's Glassdoor scraper has three products on its page: company overview, reviews and job listings. Each takes Glassdoor URLs, up to 5,000 per call. Pricing from the page: $1.50 per 1,000 records pay-as-you-go, or $499 a month for 384,000 records with $1.30 per 1,000 beyond that. The free tier is 5,000 credits a month.

curl -X POST "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l7j0bx501ockwldaqf&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Stripe-EI_IE671932.11,17.htm"}]'

Response after 60 s: still running

{
  "snapshot_id": "sd_muz5hccp7tl9w74dc",
  "message": "Your request is still in progress and cannot be retrieved in this call. ..."
}

The synchronous call returned after 60 seconds with a snapshot ID, so we polled the progress endpoint and downloaded the snapshot. The company record was ready after a collection time of 63 s.

Snapshot (trimmed)

[
  {
    "id": "671932",
    "company": "Stripe",
    "ratings_overall": 3.8,
    "details_size": "1001 to 5000 Employees",
    "details_founded": 2010,
    "details_headquarters": "San Francisco, CA",
    "details_industry": "Internet & Web Services",
    "ratings_work_life_balance": 3.3,
    "reviews_count": 1452,
    "salaries_count": 0,
    "interviews_count": 0,
    "jobs_count": 0,
    ... more fields
  }
]

Reviews are a different dataset and need a days field (the call returned a validation error without it).

curl -X POST "https://api.brightdata.com/datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l7j1po0921hbu0ri1z&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"url": "https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Stripe-Reviews-E671932.htm", "days": 365}]'

With days set to 30 the snapshot came back after 170 s with no records, and with 365 after 126 s, also with no records. Bright Data's message was "No records found. The data may not be available or has changed." We ran each once, so this may be a bad moment rather than a pattern.

Glassdoor Data Pricing: Cost per 1,000 Reviews, Tiers and Free Limits

Read from each provider's own page or API listing on 8 October 2026. OpenWeb Ninja returns 10 reviews per request, so 1,000 reviews is 100 requests.

Apify adds $0.00001 per result row (included in the per-1,000 figures) and lists the Actor as "from $3.88 / 1,000". Its run log showed a free-usage cap of $1.00 for this Actor on a free account.

Per-page pricing (OpenWeb Ninja) is cheapest when you pull many reviews for the same company. Per-record pricing (Bright Data, Apify) is simpler to forecast, because one review is one billed record.

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