Lightcast

What is Lightcast?

Lightcast provides labor market data and analytics for education, enterprises and the public sector. The vendor says its data covers 165 countries, representing markets that make up 99% of world GDP, drawn from job postings, professional profiles and government statistics.

Key capabilities of Lightcast

• Analyst platform: tools including Alumni Pathways, Analyst, Developer and Talent Analyst.
• Career Coach: helps learners and workers explore careers.
• Labour Insight: job posting analytics.
• Data delivery: feeds for custom displays and applications.
• Interactive visualization tools: maps and graphs software.
• MCP and Ask: new ways to bring labor market data into AI workflows, announced by the vendor.

How Lightcast works

Organizations license Lightcast data and tools to see which skills and jobs are in demand, plan workforce and education programs, and benchmark against other markets. Data can be delivered by API for use in your own applications, and the vendor also offers professional consulting.

Who uses Lightcast?

Education institutions, enterprises and public-sector bodies, with industries including healthcare, manufacturing and staffing.

Lightcast pricing

Lightcast does not list prices; it asks visitors to speak with a data specialist or schedule a demo.

Lightcast alternatives

Eightfold AI is a talent intelligence platform for matching and workforce planning inside a company. Draup provides talent and market intelligence with a workforce analytics focus. Perceptyx is an employee listening platform and does not supply external labor market data.