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Arbeitnow vs Upwork

Arbeitnow

Arbeitnow's public job board API returns current European and remote listings — title, company, location, tags, and a full description — as a single unauthenticated JSON feed, paginated for bulk consumption. No registration or key is needed to read it.

Upwork

Upwork's public API is now a single GraphQL endpoint covering the freelance marketplace it once exposed as separate REST resources — job postings, proposals, contracts, time tracking, and messaging — authenticated via OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code Grant with PKCE). A live probe confirmed the stored docs URL still redirects to the current GraphQL reference and that the gateway itself returns a genuine 401 challenge to unauthenticated calls, with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header on either that request or a follow-up preflight. Registering an application is free, gated only by Upwork's own review and a 300-request-per-minute-per-IP rate limit.

ArbeitnowUpwork
AuthenticationNoneOAuth
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSONJSON, GraphQL
CORSyesno
HTTPSYesYes

Arbeitnow needs no API key, while Upwork requires OAuth — pick Arbeitnow to start without signup.

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