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Best LinkedIn people search API in 2026

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We benchmarked 5 LinkedIn people search API providers. We list the three we score highest. For each one, we show its top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 people cost.

Best cached LinkedIn people search API in 2026

Every LinkedIn people search API provider we score, ranked

  1. Anysite, $300 monthly, Scale: Overall score 81.7, Data score 90, $0.158 per 1,000 people
  2. Vayne, $49 monthly, Starter: Overall score 78.2, Data score 92, $1.47 per 1,000 people
  3. HarvestAPI, $280 pack, Pro: Overall score 77.1, Data score 92, $2.32 per 1,000 people
  4. NeuralVerge, $50 monthly, Base: Overall score 59.6, Data score 85, $9.00 per 1,000 people
  5. Datamagnet, $10 pack, Trial: Overall score 55.8, Data score 92

  1. #1 Anysite: LinkedIn people search API

    Anysite, $300 monthly, Scale

    It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Headline, Location, Photo, Open to work.

    Overall score
    81.7
    $ per 1,000
    $0.158
    Price score
    76
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find no one: $1.579
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 194
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 people than this plan: 26
    Data score
    90
    Cost to get started score
    65
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $300
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 6,270 other calls
    Performance score
    70
    • Its median time per call in our benchmark of 25 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.086 s
    • HarvestAPI, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.454 s
    • In our benchmark of 25 October 2026, we called this provider on all 20 of our searches.
    • We scored this plan 0.9 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 90.

  2. #2 Vayne: LinkedIn people search API

    Vayne, $49 monthly, Starter

    It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, About, Location, Photo.

    Overall score
    78.2
    $ per 1,000
    $1.47
    Price score
    63
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find no one: $36.75
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 194
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 people than this plan: 55
    Data score
    92
    Cost to get started score
    78
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $49
    Bundle score
    93
    • Also pays for: Check LinkedIn Sales Navigator URL (does not consume credits, 10 requests per minute per user)
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Scrape a single LinkedIn URL · Create an order (Sales Navigator orders) and 10 more
    Performance score
    70
    • Its median time per call in our benchmark of 25 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.074 s
    • HarvestAPI, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.454 s
    • In our benchmark of 25 October 2026, we called this provider on all 20 of our searches.
    • We scored this plan 0.92 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 92.

  3. #3 HarvestAPI: LinkedIn people search API

    HarvestAPI, $280 pack, Pro

    It returns 3 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Location, Photo.

    Overall score
    77.1
    $ per 1,000
    $2.32
    Price score
    53
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find no one: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 194
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 people than this plan: 76
    Data score
    92
    Cost to get started score
    69
    • How you pay: a pack you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $280
    Bundle score
    97
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Get Profile · Get Profile with findEmail · Search LinkedIn profiles · Profile Posts and 25 more
    Performance score
    100
    • Its median time per call in our benchmark of 19, 21, 22, 23 and 25 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.454 s
    • HarvestAPI, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.454 s
    • In our benchmark of 19, 21, 22, 23 and 25 October 2026, we called this provider on all 20 of our searches.
    • We scored this plan 0.9237 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 92.

The Data score on LinkedIn people search APIs

Out of 100: the share of requested people the call returned who match the search on their own LinkedIn profile, with a current job at the company under the title searched. We asked for 10 people per search. A provider called on fewer searches is set against how the others did on those same searches, so an easier few don't lift it. A provider we called more than once on the same search is scored on all those calls, so no one run decides it.

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