Linked API alternative: LinkedIn profiles by URL, without a LinkedIn account

Linked API bills each seat by the month or by the year, and one seat is one LinkedIn account. In October 2026, its pricing page listed these prices, in dollars:

You save 29% on Core by paying yearly, the page says, and 25% on Plus by our math. Both plans list "Unlimited workflow execution", and Plus adds Sales Navigator actions. You get a 7-day free trial first. You contact Linked API for volume discounts. It invoices yearly plans of 5 seats or more.

Linked API charges nothing per profile, so a seat's price per 1,000 depends on how many profiles one LinkedIn account can view. Linked API's guide bases these numbers on user reports, and says LinkedIn publishes no official limits. For a month, we multiply the guide's daily number by 30 days.

The guide puts Sales Navigator and Recruiter at 1,000 a day, but only inside their own interfaces. Linked API's Sales Navigator call, on Plus, returns a person's basic information. Linked API lets you cap profile views for each account by day, week or month. Past the cap, Linked API returns an error instead of viewing the profile.

Per 1,000 profiles, our $1.485 through Fetchin is less than Linked API's lowest here, $10.89. LinkedIn bills Premium itself, and we leave its cost out of these prices.

For Linked API, we count one Core seat, and so one LinkedIn account, for each 80 profiles a day on free LinkedIn accounts. For Datacircle, we count our lowest price: Fetchin for every profile, at $1.485 per 1,000, with no daily limit.

The same volumes on LinkedIn Premium accounts, at about 150 profiles a day each:

We left the free trials out of the tables: Linked API's 7 days and our $5 credit. At each volume in these tables, we cost less than Linked API, including Core billed yearly on Premium accounts. With Linked API, you need 42 free LinkedIn accounts, each connected and in use, for 100,000 profiles a month.

Linked API runs each request as a workflow on one of your LinkedIn accounts. You send it, with your Linked API token and the account's token, then ask for its result by the workflow's id, or wait for a webhook. Its docs give this workflow for a person's experience and education:

curl -X POST "https://api.linkedapi.io/workflows" \
  -H "linked-api-token: $LINKED_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "identification-token: $IDENTIFICATION_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"actionType": "st.openPersonPage", "personUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/person1", "basicInfo": false,
       "then": [{"actionType": "st.retrievePersonExperience"}, {"actionType": "st.retrievePersonEducation"}]}'

Its docs say an account runs its workflows one at a time, and their example puts one workflow at about 30 to 60 seconds. An account can have working hours: a workflow you send outside them waits, which can mean the next working day, and fails after 7 days of waiting.

Through us, you send Up2Data's 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, with no daily limit:

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"

Or Fetchin's, at $1.485 per 1,000, with no daily limit. Fetchin charges the same for a profile it can't find:

curl "https://api.datacircle.dev/api/v1/profile?profileUrlOrUrn=https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates" \
  -H "Authorization: Token $DATACIRCLE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Data-Provider: fetchin"

Each call returns one profile, with its job history and schools. Every answer carries datacircle_meta: which provider answered, what the call cost, your balance after it. Our docs' LinkedIn Profile API page has all three providers' requests and answers, field by field. Run the same call over a CSV in Python or Node.js.

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• Acting on LinkedIn as your account: messages, invitations, posts, comments and reactions, with your inbox in sync.
• LinkedIn search for people, companies, jobs and posts, and company pages with their posts.
• A person's own posts, comments and reactions, on the same profile call.
• Sales Navigator actions, on Plus.

To act on LinkedIn through your own accounts, use Linked API. If you need profiles by URL through Fetchin or HarvestAPI, any number a day, with no account to connect and no seat to buy, use Datacircle.

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