# API.SH, free: LinkedIn company search API

> Public LinkedIn company pages matching a keyword, from public search results (LinkedIn's own search needs a login): name, page URL and slug, and when shown the follower count, industry, company size, headquarters, type, founding year and specialties.

API.SH's LinkedIn company search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 4 of the 12 key fields we check: Industry and type, Employees, Headquarters, Followers.
We haven't run API.SH through [our LinkedIn company search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-company-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 177 plans for LinkedIn company search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less.
[Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/kooperativa/499-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.00046. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan covers up to 21,600,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 50 companies.
[Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan (/v2/search/organizations)](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly-plus-post-v2-search-organizations/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan costs less up front than Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan.
[Up2Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/up2data/200-pack-100k-post-v1-search-companies/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly-plus-post-v2-search-organizations/llms.txt) and [BlitzAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/blitzapi/499-monthly-scale-post-v2-search-companies/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn company search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/free
- [LinkedIn company search API: the 12 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-company-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.api.sh/linkedin/v1/search/companies`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.sh/docs/linkedin-search-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: API.SH (https://api.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Industry and type: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 6,019 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Public LinkedIn company pages matching a keyword, from public search results (LinkedIn's own search needs a login): name, page URL and slug, and when shown the follower count, industry, company size, headquarters, type, founding year and specialties.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month
- Expires: unused credits don't roll over

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: industry, location, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /linkedin/v1/search/companies

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, slug, kind, company URL, follower count, industry, size, headquarters, type, founded, specialties, snippet

## API.SH's plans (8)

- [API.SH, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [API.SH, top-up from $15](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/top-up-from-15/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [API.SH, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/50-monthly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [API.SH, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/100-monthly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [API.SH, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/250-monthly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [API.SH, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/500-monthly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [API.SH, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/1000-monthly/llms.txt): 33% complete
- [API.SH, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

## API.SH's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /linkedin/v1/search/companies`: [API.SH, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/api-sh/free/llms.txt)

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## API.SH: LinkedIn company search API alternatives

- [Reverse Contact, free trial, POST /v2/search/organizations/prompt](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/reverse-contact/free-trial-post-v2-search-organizations-prompt/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://api.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/docs/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/docs/linkedin-search-companies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing
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- https://api.sh/openapi/linkedin.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing
- https://api.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-company-search-api-pricing