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The Swarm: cached LinkedIn profile API pricing, 18 plans

The Swarm's sitellms.txt
85% complete: 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sectionsSee which
60+ fields100+ profiles a request
$0.00per 1,000 profiles
Plan: 14-day free trial one of The Swarm's 18 plans
Call: POST /v3/profiles/fetch The Swarm's only call

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get profiles from The Swarm's copy of LinkedIn.
  • 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Open to work.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for 1,000 results. Unused credits expire at the end of the 14-day trial.
  • One call. You call POST /v3/profiles/fetch with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone over 18. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Compare with similar plans

Other providers' plans with the closest prices per 1,000. Like this plan, each is live or a copy at most a day old.

This planThe Swarm, freeRenidly, freePullAPI, free, Basic, GET /linkedin/profileSpecter, free, Trial, POST /api/v1/people/by-id/bulkCUFinder, $3,780 yearly
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$15.75
Completeness85%92%69%69%69%
Billingfreefreefreefreeyearly
Pay$0$0$0$0$3,780
Enough for1,000 results, once100 calls, once10 calls a month200 results20,000 calls a month
Freshness1 day20 minutes1 hour1 day1 day
Who can get itanyone over 18anyone 18 or over with a work email (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other free providers aren't accepted)anyone 18 or over, not in Belarus, Cuba, Crimea, Donetsk, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Syriateams requesting an API key in the API console, for professional and business use, not as consumersanyone with a work email

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-19.

  1. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/credits-usage.md
  2. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/introduction.md
  3. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/rate-limiting.md
  4. docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/add-connector.md
  5. docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-profile.md
  6. docs.theswarm.com/docs/enrichment-data/profile/sample-data.md
  7. docs.theswarm.com/docs/examples/fetch-endpoint.md
  8. docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/faq.md
  9. docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/introduction
  10. help.theswarm.com/en/articles/14121950-plans-billing-connector-limits-api-credits
  11. theswarm.com/api
  12. theswarm.com/pricing
  13. theswarm.com/terms

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
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers
  • Connections
  • Certifications
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Strengths
Strengths60+ fields, 100+ profiles a request
Aggregators
AggregatorsDeepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000
Charges
Perresult
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Swarm API gives developers, AI agents, and product teams access to over 500 million professional profiles, 50 million companies, and the deepest relationship mapping data available on the market. Unlike traditional enrichment providers, The Swarm combines people data, company data, relationship intelligence, job changes, and fundraising data into a single platform accessible through APIs, integrations (including Clay, HubSpot, and others), and our native MCP server. [...]
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datawhile your license lasts, on termination, delete it at The Swarm's request, backups included (derived materials without identifiable Swarm Data fields may stay)
Use datayour own internal business purposes only (sales prospecting, recruiting, CRM enrichment and the like), no resale or redistribution to third parties, no commercial data product or AI model for external use, no product that competes with The Swarm
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 results, once
Expiresat the end of the 14-day trial
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1,000
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.02 s
The call
You sendat least one of linkedin_names (LinkedIn profile URL slugs), ids, linkedin_ids or linkedin_entity_ids, each up to 1,000 values. Optional: fields, x-authenticate-team
MethodPOST
Path/v3/profiles/fetch
About the plan
Plan14-day free trial
Who can get itanyone over 18
The 62 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, name, first name, last name, headline, about, profile URL, profile picture, current title, current job function, current seniority, current company ID, current company, current company logo, current company LinkedIn URL, location, city, region, country, continent, jobs, job title, job seniority, job function, job location, job description, job start date, job end date, job is current, job company, job company ID, job company logo, job company URL, job last changed, job updated at, skills, schools, school name, school location, school URL, school ID, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, school activities, school grade, school description, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issue date, certification expiration date, social links, connections, followers, hiring, open to work, updated at, last refresh at, created at, matched by