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pipe0 pricing and alternatives: cached LinkedIn profile API

pipe0's sitellms.txtBest cached LinkedIn profile API in 2026
38% complete: 5 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections
100+ profiles a request
Top-up from $10The cheapest of the 309 plans we rank by price is GetLeads, $249 monthly, Partner, POST /api/v1/enrich/csv, at $0.042 per 1,000 profiles.
Plan: Pay as you go one of pipe0's 5 plans
Call: POST /v1/pipes/run/sync pipe0's only call for this API
API: Cached LinkedIn profile API one of pipe0's 18 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get profiles from pipe0's copy of LinkedIn. pipe0 doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • 5 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Location, Languages.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $10 or more. You spend all of it on calls.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/pipes/run/sync with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: businesses only, in the course of their trade, business or profession. Keep data: no time limit, not cached or shared to avoid running a pipe. Use data: with conditions.

pipe0: cached LinkedIn profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans that you pay for up front. These plans come closest to this plan in number of LinkedIn profile sections. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

This planpipe0, top-up from $10B2B Enrich Search on Apify, $1 pack, Prepaid token, POST /v2/actors/b2bsearch~bulk-people-enrichment/run-sync-get-dataset-itemsSaleshandy, $13 packOlympus on Apify, $1 pack
Completeness38%77%15%15%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$10$1$13$1
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itbusinesses only, in the course of their trade, business or professionAI agents paying in stablecoins over x402 or MPP, no Apify account neededanyone on a Saleshandy planAI agents paying in stablecoins over x402 or MPP, no Apify account needed

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 2026-10-22.

  1. docs.crustdata.com/general/data-updates
  2. pipe0.com/docs/api/pipes/run-sync
  3. pipe0.com/docs/billing
  4. pipe0.com/docs/pipe-catalog/person:profile:waterfall/2
  5. pipe0.com/docs/rate-limits
  6. pipe0.com/pricing
  7. pipe0.com/resources/legal/dpa
  8. pipe0.com/resources/legal/terms-of-service/20261014
  9. prospeo.io/our-data

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
  • 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
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Score
Overall score34.8
Price score0
Data score45
Cost to get started score93
Bundle score67
Performance score45
Price
Billingpay first
Strengths
Strengths100+ profiles a request
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
In their words
Their pitchEnrichment & search API: Every provider behind one call, for your product and your agents. [...] Every waterfall bills only the provider that found the data.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano time limit, not cached or shared to avoid running a pipe
Use dataonly your own internal business purposes, to initiate and manage business relationships relevant to the person's professional role, not resold or made available to third parties other than service providers acting for you, not used to build a database, list, directory or enrichment service offered to others or to compete with pipe0 or a provider, no eligibility decisions, consumer-oriented offers, re-identification or unlawful unsolicited communication
Plan
Pay$10
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second33.33
Batch100
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
Median0.22 s
The call
You sendpipes ([{"pipe_id": "person:profile:waterfall@2"}]) and input (up to 100 records, each with profile_url). Optional: config, field_annotations, scopes, and each pipe's config, run_if and connector
MethodPOST
Path/v1/pipes/run/sync
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itbusinesses only, in the course of their trade, business or profession
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

location, jobs, schools, skills, languages, current title, current seniority

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