Live Data Technologies pricing and alternatives: cached LinkedIn profile API, POST /{org_id}/persons/lookup_by_ids

Live Data Technologies's site llms.txt Best cached LinkedIn profile API in 2026

31% complete: 4 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections

50+ fields100+ profiles a request

$0.00per 1,000 profilesThe cheapest of the 316 plans we rank by price is GetLeads, $249 monthly, Partner, POST /api/v1/enrich/csv, at $0.042 per 1,000.

Plan: Free Edition one of Live Data Technologies's 2 plans

Call: POST /{org_id}/persons/lookup_by_ids one of Live Data Technologies's 4 calls

API: Cached LinkedIn profile API one of Live Data Technologies's 4 APIs

About this item

A copy at most 14 days old. You get profiles from Live Data Technologies's copy of LinkedIn.
4 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Education, Location, Connections.
Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 500 results.
One call. You send org_id and ids to POST /{org_id}/persons/lookup_by_ids. You can also send fields. The call returns a profile for each person you send.
Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Live Data Technologies: cached LinkedIn profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

	This planLive Data Technologies, free, Edition, POST /{org_id}/persons/lookup_by_ids	AI Ark, free, Plan, POST /v1/people/export/single	The Swarm, free	Icypeas, free	LeadIQ, free
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	31%	92%	85%	62%	23%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	500 results a month	100 calls a month	1,000 results, once	about 33 calls, once	not published
Freshness	14 days	30 days	1 day	1 month	1 month
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over	anyone 18 or over with authority to bind the company or organization the account is for, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party list	anyone over 18	business use only (strictly B2B), over the age of 13	anyone, for their internal business purpose only, 18 or over with authority to bind it when accepting for a company, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted list

Every cached LinkedIn profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-24.

Product details

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

Experience
Education
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
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
Billing	free

Strengths
Strengths	50+ fields, 100+ profiles a request

Aggregators
Aggregators	Clay: paid, no fixed price, this call or another Live Data Technologies call

Charges
Repeat free	the same calendar month
Per	result

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	A Workforce Data API to Power Your Dream Apps [...] Our API unlocks fast, accurate job change and work history data on 124M professionals for all of these use cases.

Data
Freshness	14 days
Keep data	no limit
Use data	Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES" section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to: Access the Services, and download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access. solely for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose. [...] Except as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission. [...] If we ever grant you the permission to post, reproduce, or publicly display any part of our Services or Content, you must identify us as the owners or licensors of the Services, Content, or Marks and ensure that any copyright or proprietary notice appears or is visible on posting, reproducing, or displaying our Content. [...] The Services are not tailored to comply with industry-specific regulations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), etc.), so if your interactions would be subjected to such laws, you may not use the Services. You may not use the Services in a way that would violate the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). [...] (5) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise, (6) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, and (7) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation. [...] You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us. As a user of the Services, you agree not to: Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us. [...] Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person. [...] Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations. [...] Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. [...] Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software. [...] Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses. [...] Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	500 credits a month
Enough for	500 results a month

Rate limit
Batch	50,000

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	org_id, ids. Optional: fields
Method	POST
Path	/{org_id}/persons/lookup_by_ids

About the plan
Plan	Free Edition
Who can get it	anyone 18 or over

The 53 fields the plan's answer can hold

provider record ID, first seen at, updated at, job last changed, last job change detected at, name, first name, last name, username, connections, employment status, location, country, country code, region, region code, locality, county, postal code, metro area, location coordinates, current title, current seniority, current job function, start date, current job location, current job duration, months in company, current company, current company provider record ID, current company universal name, jobs, job title, job seniority, job function, job start date, job end date, job duration, job location, job location city, job location state, job location country, job location county, job location coordinates, job company, job company provider record ID, job company universal name, schools, school name, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date