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Clay pricing and alternatives: cached LinkedIn people search API

Clay's sitellms.txtBest cached LinkedIn people search API in 2026
15% complete: 2 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 people
Plan: Free one of Clay's 34 plans
Call: POST /search/query-mode/{search_id}/run Clay's only call

About this item

  • Stored. You get people from Clay's copy of LinkedIn. Clay doesn't say how old its data is.
  • 2 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Location.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, which pay for Clay's other calls. This call costs none of them for up to 100 results a month. Unused credits expire at the end of the monthly cycle.
  • One call. You send search_id to POST /search/query-mode/{search_id}/run. You can also send limit. The call returns the matching people.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Clay: 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 planClay, freeBlitzAPI, freeScrappa, freeEnrich Layer, freeLimadata, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness15%69%0%92%8%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 results a month1,000 results, once500 pages a monthnot published1,000 results
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyoneprofessional B2B clients with a professional email address, not BlitzAPI's competitorsanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or overanyone

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.

  1. developers.clay.com/api-reference/search/run-the-query-mode-iterator-and-return-the-next-page-of-results
  2. developers.clay.com/openapi.json
  3. developers.clay.com/public-api/rate-limits
  4. developers.clay.com/searches
  5. developers.clay.com/searches/advanced
  6. university.clay.com/docs/actions-data-credits
  7. university.clay.com/docs/clay-api-cli
  8. university.clay.com/docs/finding-companies-and-people-in-clay
  9. university.clay.com/docs/plans-and-billing
  10. university.clay.com/docs/work-email-waterfall
  11. clay.com/pricing
  12. clay.com/terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Experience
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
AggregatorsDeepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000 · Monid: paid $1.00 per 1,000 results
Charges
Perresult
Most per search50
Also pays forActions: 500 a month · from the same budget: Searches of companies
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearches let you find companies and people in Clay's GTM database, then fetch structured records to use in your application, workflow, or agent.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to license, sell, or transfer your account without our prior written approval. If you purchase credits from us ("Clay Credits"), you agree not to sell or transfer your Clay Credits to any other user without our prior written approval. You also agree not to re-sell any data you obtain from Clay.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits a month
Enough for100 results a month
Expiresend of the monthly cycle
The call
You sendsearch_id. Optional: limit
MethodPOST
Path/search/query-mode/{search_id}/run
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, name, first name, last name, profile URL, location, city, state, matched jobs, job company, job title, job location, job start date, job end date, has more

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