LeadMagic alternative: the LinkedIn profile without the plan

Each plan as LeadMagic's pricing page gives it in October 2026, its credits spent on profiles alone, at 1 credit a profile found (its credits page). One pool of credits pays for all of its lookups, so a credit spent on an email or a mobile is one profile fewer.

Billed monthly, credits a month doesn't use roll over for up to 2 months; billed yearly, the year's credits come at once and refresh each year. Past the plan's credits, you top up or move up a plan. Profile Search takes 100 requests a minute.

Through Datacircle: $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data, $3.70 through HarvestAPI, with no plan and no seats: one balance, one API key. Up2Data takes $1 a day per account (800 profiles), with a shared daily limit for all customers, then answers 429 until 00:00 UTC; HarvestAPI has no daily limit. Sign up at datacircle.dev with your work email: a $5 credit, that's 4,000 LinkedIn profiles at $1.25 per 1,000.

The smallest LeadMagic plan whose month of credits takes each month's profiles, billed monthly, every credit spent on profiles, and Datacircle at its least: Up2Data for 800 profiles a day, 24,000 in a 30-day month, and HarvestAPI past them.

Billed yearly, Ultimate's 1.2 million credits come to $707.50 a month. Through Datacircle, 1.2 million profiles in a year is $3,734.40 at 100,000 a month: HarvestAPI's $3.70 per 1,000 is still under LeadMagic's best price, $7.08. A month you call less, a plan costs the same. On Datacircle, a month without calls costs nothing, and the balance waits: funds never expire.

On LeadMagic, a profile is a POST to api.leadmagic.io/v1/people/profile-search with the URL in profile_url and your key in X-API-Key. Through Datacircle, it's Up2Data's own request with your Datacircle key:

curl -X POST "https://api.datacircle.dev/v1/profiles/enrich" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $DATACIRCLE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Data-Provider: up2data" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates"}'

Or HarvestAPI's, at $3.70 per 1,000:

curl "https://api.datacircle.dev/linkedin/profile?url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $DATACIRCLE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Data-Provider: harvestapi"

Every answer carries datacircle_meta: which provider answered, what the call cost, your balance after it. Both providers' requests and answers, field by field: LinkedIn Profile API in the docs. The same call for a whole CSV: in Python or in Node.js. LeadMagic has an MCP server for AI clients; so do we. Use it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor: add api.datacircle.dev/mcp as an MCP server. More: LinkedIn MCP server.

LeadMagic's Job Change Detector is 3 credits a check: $59.40 per 1,000 checks on Essential. Checking each contact's LinkedIn profile yourself, once a week, is one profile call: $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data. The script that does it and writes each change to a CSV: track job changes of your contacts.

Its Profile to Email is 5 credits an email: $99.00 per 1,000 on Essential. For people in the U.S., the free 10M+ file holds 9,521,154 people by LinkedIn URL, 2,790,286 with a work email and 4,016,020 with a mobile: one query matches your list of URLs to them, on our ContactOut alternative page.

• Emails and mobiles: an email finder, a personal email finder, a mobile finder and email validation, from the same credits.
• Search: people, companies and jobs, unmetered on Professional and Ultimate, and company data (technographics, funding, competitors).
• Its app, a CSV upload and integrations with Clay, Apollo and Zapier, a terminal tool (lm-tui), and seats for a team.

If you need an email or a mobile for each person from one tool, that's what LeadMagic is built for. If you send LinkedIn URLs from your own code or your AI client and want each profile as it is today, at the provider's own price and without a plan, that's Datacircle.

Live. Each request goes to the provider and gets the profile as it is today. A call that fails is not charged, and every answer says what it cost.

Free: 10M+ U.S. B2B leads, as a flat file. Download it at datacircle.dev. Add $50 to your account: you get $50 of API PLUS the flat file. Or invite 3 people who sign up. What's in it: the B2B data co-op. Every LinkedIn profile API's price: LinkedIn profile API pricing compared.