# Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/: Cached LinkedIn profile API

> Retrieve a full lead profile from cached data by Generect ID, LinkedIn URL, or email (reverse lookup).

Generect's cached LinkedIn profile API on its "Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.
The cheapest of the 309 plans we rank by price is [GetLeads, $249 monthly, Partner, POST /api/v1/enrich/csv](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/getleads/249-monthly-partner-post-api-v1-enrich-csv/llms.txt), at $0.042 per 1,000 profiles.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead
- [Best cached LinkedIn profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-cached-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://generect.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/enrich/enrich-database-lead
- Sold by: Generect (https://generect.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-23

## In the answer

- Completeness: 85%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓
- Open to work: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Strengths

- Strengths: 60+ fields

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: Databar: your key 0 credits a call on the Build or Scale plan, paid $39.60 per 1,000 results

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve a full lead profile from cached data by Generect ID, LinkedIn URL, or email (reverse lookup).

## Data

- Freshness: 12 months
- Keep data: a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services for the duration of Your paid use of Our Services [...] the User can continue to use the results of the request at any time while lawful using Our Services
- Use data: a worldwide, non-exclusive right to use the business contact records You export from the Services for Your own internal sales, marketing and recruiting purposes (or, for agencies, on behalf of your clients), provided such use complies with applicable data protection and anti-spam laws [...] the Services will be used exclusively by You and/or users, who are subject to the same obligations, as You are using Your personal account in Our SaaS product “Generect” [...] You agree not to apply the following non-exhaustive list of practices that are not considered “Legitimate Use” of Our Services: using Our Services for unreasonable workloads We determine (in Our sole discretion) to be unrelated to the deployment and maintenance of Your own services, re-selling Our Services or parts thereof to another third party, using Our Services, violate any laws in Your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright, spam, or trademark laws), use a robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Services, using Our Services in a manner We determine (in our sole discretion) could cause harm to Our Services or another third party, or unusual usage patterns inconsistent with those We reasonably consider as normal use when compared to other customers

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $10
- Enough for: 500 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 500
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.76 s

## The call

- You send: id, linkedin_url or email, exactly one. Optional: people_also_viewed, posts, comments, reactions, get_full_experience, inexact_company
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/

## About the plan

- Plan: Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over with a work email

## The 91 fields the plan's answer can hold

provider record ID, Sales Navigator ID, LinkedIn ID, profile URL, Sales Navigator URL, first name, middle name, last name, name, unformatted full name, translated first name, headline, about, gender, nationality, industry, location, city, region, county, country, connections, profile picture, X URL, personal website, websites, premium, open profile, open to work, retired, full profile, has current position, current title, raw job title, start date, job end date, current job location, job location city, job location state, job location county, job location country, current seniority, current title start date, current company, current company provider record ID, current company ID, current company LinkedIn URL, current company logo, current company start date, past companies, past job titles, jobs, job title, job description, job start date, job is current, job location, job company ID, job company, raw company name, job company URL, job company logo, schools, school ID, school name, school URL, school logo, school description, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issuer ID, certification issue date, languages, language proficiency, volunteering, volunteering title, volunteering cause, volunteering company, volunteering company ID, volunteering description, volunteering start date, patents, publications, skills, profile source, amount charged

## Generect's plans (3)

- [Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 12 months
- [Generect, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/generect/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 12 months
- [Generect, contact us, Enterprise, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/generect/contact-us-enterprise-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt): 85% complete, 12 months

## Generect's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/`: [Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-lead/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/enrich/database/leads/bulk/`: [Generect, free, Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/leads/bulk/](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/generect/free-start-with-5-free-5-more-after-your-first-search-post-api-v1-enrich-database-leads-bulk/llms.txt)

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- [Apollo, $4,284 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/apollo/4284-yearly/llms.txt): $19.833 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 month
- [Forager, $540 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-linkedin-profile-apis/forager/540-yearly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, 3 weeks
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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/database-vs-realtime
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/enrich/enrich-database-lead
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/enrich/enrich-realtime-lead
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/enrich/get-leads-bulk
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/introduction
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/limits
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/migration-guide
- https://docs.generect.com/api-reference/openapi.yaml
- https://docs.generect.com/billing/faq
- https://docs.generect.com/billing/pricing
- https://docs.generect.com/docs/cached-databases
- https://generect.com/pricing
- https://generect.com/privacy
- https://generect.com/terms