BlitzAPI pricing and alternatives: cached LinkedIn people search API

BlitzAPI's site llms.txt Best cached LinkedIn people search API in 2026

69% complete: 9 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 people

Plan: Free trial one of BlitzAPI's 6 plans

Call: POST /v2/search/people BlitzAPI's only call

POST /v2/search/peopleFree$0.00 per 1,000

About this item

Stored. You get people from BlitzAPI's copy of LinkedIn. BlitzAPI doesn't say how old its data is.
9 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Connections, Certifications.
Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 results once.
One call. You call POST /v2/search/people. Every input is optional. The call returns the matching people.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

BlitzAPI: cached LinkedIn people search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 people. Each plan in the table gives stored data, not live data, like this plan.

	This planBlitzAPI, free	Scrappa, free	Enrich Layer, free	Clay, free	Limadata, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	69%	0%	92%	15%	8%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	1,000 results, once	500 pages a month	not published	100 results a month	1,000 results
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	professional B2B clients with a professional email address, not BlitzAPI's competitors	anyone 18 or over	anyone 18 or over	anyone	anyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-17.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Experience
Education
Skills
Headline
About
Location
Photo
Followers, not in the answer
Connections
Certifications
Languages, not in the answer
Recommendations, not in the answer
Open to work, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	treg: your key free, paid $0.495 per 1,000 results

Charges
Per	result
Most per search	50,000
Also pays for	from the same budget: Company Enrichment · Employee Finder · Waterfall ICP Search · Company Search · TAM By Jobs · TAM By People · Search Jobs · Search Company Jobs · Person Enrichment · Find Work Email · Reverse Email Lookup · Reverse Phone Lookup · Domain to LinkedIn URL · LinkedIn URL to Domain · Company Employee Distribution by Country · Company Employee Distribution by Department

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	It combines company filters (industry, size, HQ) with person filters (job title, level, location) and returns matching profiles with their full position history, paginated by cursor.

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	no limit, after the subscription ends too, for internal business use only, erased when the person asks
Use data	BlitzAPI grants the Client a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license, during the term of its subscription, to access and use the Services and the Data for the Client’s own internal business purposes only, including to identify, research and communicate with businesses and professionals for legitimate B2B sales, marketing, recruiting and business-development activities. Agencies may use the Data on behalf of their own clients only under the Agency’s own subscription and solely for those clients’ internal B2B purposes, without any redistribution or resale rights. Under these Terms, resale and redistribution of the Data are strictly prohibited. The Client shall not, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly: resell, redistribute, sublicense, rent, lease, share, syndicate, publish or otherwise make the Data available to any third party, expose or provide access to the Data or the API through the Client’s own product, API, application, file export, feed, or interface used by third parties, act as a data provider, broker or reseller of the Data, or create any product, service or dataset (aggregated or not, identified or de-identified) derived from the Data for the benefit of third parties, list, offer or distribute the Data or API access on any marketplace or aggregation platform (e.g., RapidAPI, Apify, Clay), or access the Services on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any third party other than the Client’s own Authorized Users. Resale, redistribution or integration for the benefit of third parties is permitted only where expressly authorized under a separate signed Commercial Agreement with BlitzAPI. The Client shall not use the Data or Services to: send spam or unsolicited communications, or otherwise breach anti-spam, ePrivacy, PECR, CAN-SPAM, CASL or TCPA rules, engage in phishing, fraud, deception, harassment, defamation, or any unlawful or harmful activity, target consumers or use the Data for B2C purposes, consumer profiling, or any non-professional context, promote illegal products or services, firearms, adult content, gambling, or hate speech, use the Data for any purpose governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or equivalent, including consumer credit, employment, or insurance eligibility, infer, derive or enrich special categories of personal data (sensitive data), circumvent technical, rate or Fair Use limits, probe or reverse-engineer the Services, or extract data from the Services by automated means other than the documented API, use the Data to build, train, seed or benchmark a database or product intended to substitute for or compete with the Services, or infringe the rights of third parties, including data-protection rights and the terms of source platforms (e.g., LinkedIn). The Client may not access or use the Services if the Client or any of its Authorized Users is a competitor of BlitzAPI (as reasonably determined by BlitzAPI), nor for the purpose of building or supporting a competing product or dataset.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	1,000 results
Enough for	1,000 results, once

Rate limit
Per second	5

Speed
Median	0.32 s

The call
You send	nothing required. Optional: company.linkedin_url, company.name, company.industry, company.type, company.employee_range, company.employee_count, company.min_linkedin_followers, company.revenue, company.naics_code, company.sic_code, company.mx, company.web_traffic, company.ad_spend, company.total_funding, company.last_funding_amount, company.last_funding_year, company.last_funding_type, company.lead_investors, company.keywords, company.founded_year, company.hq, people.job_title, people.job_function, people.job_level, people.min_connections, people.is_recent_hire, people.location, people.education, people.include_active_jobs, people.include_past_jobs, max_results, cursor
Method	POST
Path	/v2/search/people

About the plan
Plan	Free trial
Who can get it	professional B2B clients with a professional email address, not BlitzAPI's competitors

The 50 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, results on page, page size, next page token, first name, last name, name, nickname, civility title, headline, about, location, city, state, country code, continent, postal code, street address, profile URL, profile picture, connections, jobs, job company, job title, job company URL, job company ID, job company domain, job description, job start date, job end date, job is current, job employment type, job workplace type, job location, schools, school name, school degree, school start date, school end date, skills, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification URL, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset date, second rate limit, requests left this second, request ID