# Crustdata, free, $20 free credits: Cached LinkedIn profile API

> The Freshest People Enrichment API To Power Your AI Agents, Platforms And Teams [...] Choose how fresh you need it. Pull data live from the web in real time, or draw from our continuously refreshed database. You get the same unified schema either way, resolved from 15+ sources.

Crustdata's cached LinkedIn profile API on its $20 free credits plan, $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. 12 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits
- Get it: https://crustdata.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/person-apis/enrich-person-profiles-from-cached-dataset
- Sold by: Crustdata (https://crustdata.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-15

## In the answer

- Completeness: 92%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓
- Open to work: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Strengths

- Strengths: 60+ fields

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: AnyAPI: paid $96.00 · Clay: your key no Data Credits, 1 Action per call (Actions start at less than $0.01 each) · Databar: your key 0 credits a call on the Build or Scale plan, paid $198.00 per 1,000 results · Deepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000, paid, no fixed price · Orthogonal: paid, no fixed price · treg: your key free, paid $2100.00 per 1,000 results

## Charges

- Per: result
- Extra fields: GitHub bio, GitHub location, GitHub company, GitHub blog, GitHub hireable, GitHub followers, GitHub following, GitHub public repo count, GitHub repositories, GitHub stars, GitHub languages, GitHub topics, GitHub organizations: +$0.00 · research profile URL, research affiliation, research interests, scholarly works count, scholarly citations, scholarly citations by year, h-index, i10-index, scholarly publication title, scholarly publication year, scholarly publication venue, scholarly publication citations, research co-authors: +$0.00

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Freshest People Enrichment API To Power Your AI Agents, Platforms And Teams [...] Choose how fresh you need it. Pull data live from the web in real time, or draw from our continuously refreshed database. You get the same unified schema either way, resolved from 15+ sources.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.25
- Batch: 25

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: professional_network_profile_urls (up to 25 LinkedIn profile URLs, vanity or URN) and the x-api-version header (2025-11-01). Optional: fields, preview
- Method: POST
- Path: /person/enrich

## About the plan

- Plan: $20 free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 74 fields the plan's answer can hold

input data, matched by, match status, match confidence, provider record ID, updated at, name, first name, last name, headline, current title, normalized job title, current department, current sub-department, about, languages, profile picture, location, city, region, country, continent, pronouns, connections, followers, account created, verifications, open to work, hiring, scraped at, skills, profile URL, GitHub URL, Twitter handle, jobs, job company, job company ID, job company provider record ID, job company URL, job company logo, job title, job description, job location, job employment type, job start date, job end date, job is current, job seniority, job function, years in company, position ID, years of experience, schools, school name, school degree, school field of study, school description, school location, school logo, school activities, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issue date, certification expiration date, certification credential ID, certification URL, honors, award name, award issuer, award date, award description, authenticity verdict, authenticity tier

## Crustdata's plans (4)

- [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 1 month
- [Crustdata, free, Crustdata University Program](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/free-crustdata-university-program/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 1 month
- [Crustdata, contact us, Real-time API access](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/contact-us-real-time-api-access/llms.txt): 92% complete, 1 month
- [Crustdata, contact us, In-DB API access](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/contact-us-in-db-api-access/llms.txt): 92% complete, 1 month

## Crustdata's calls (1)

- `POST /person/enrich`: [Crustdata, free, $20 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/crustdata/free-20-free-credits/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [FullEnrich, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/fullenrich/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, 1 month
- [Data Legion, free, Trial, POST /person/enrich/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/data-legion/free-trial-post-person-enrich-bulk/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 month
- [Data Legion on Apify, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/data-legion-on-apify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 month
- [GetLeads, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/getleads/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-15.

- https://crustdata.com/apis/people-enrichment
- https://crustdata.com/pricing
- https://crustdata.com/terms
- https://docs.crustdata.com/api-reference/person-apis/enrich-person-profiles-from-cached-dataset
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/credits
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/pricing
- https://docs.crustdata.com/general/rate-limits
- https://docs.crustdata.com/person-docs/enrichment/introduction
- https://docs.crustdata.com/person-docs/enrichment/reference
- https://docs.crustdata.com/person-docs/search/reference