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LinkupAPI pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn company search API

LinkupAPI's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn company search API in 2026
33% complete: 4 of the 12 key fields we checkSee the 12 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companies
Plan: 7-day free trial one of LinkupAPI's 6 plans
Call: POST /v2/profiles LinkupAPI's only call
API: LinkedIn company search API one of LinkupAPI's 13 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches LinkedIn when you make it.
  • 4 of the 12 key fields we check. Industry and type, Images, Locations, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many results as you like.
  • One call. You send account_id to POST /v2/profiles. You set action to "search_companies". You can also send params.keyword, params.location, params.sector, params.company_size, params.offset and params.count. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

LinkupAPI: LinkedIn company search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data, like this plan.

This planLinkupAPI, freeHarvestAPI, free, Free, GET /linkedin/company-searchAPI Direct, free, tier, POST /v1/batchlobstr.io, free, Free, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search ScraperRenidly, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness33%42%25%67%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limit250 pages, once50 pages a month100 results a month100 pages, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itonce per customer (one workspace, one Stripe customer), on the first subscription only, with a valid payment method, at least 18 years old, using the service for professional purposes, with accounts you own or that their owner has explicitly authorized you to connect and operateanyoneat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Termsprofessionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.ioanyone 18 or over with a work email (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other free providers aren't accepted)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

  1. docs.linkupapi.com/api-reference/v2/best-practices
  2. docs.linkupapi.com/api-reference/v2/introduction
  3. docs.linkupapi.com/api-reference/v2/profiles/search-companies.md
  4. linkupapi.com/legal/terms-of-use
  5. linkupapi.com/llms.txt
  6. linkupapi.com/pricing
  7. linkupapi.com/product-endpoint/company-search-api
  8. linkupapi.com/product-endpoint/linkedin-profile-api

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description, not in the answer
  • Industry and type
  • Images
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees, not in the answer
  • Headquarters, not in the answer
  • Locations
  • Funding, not in the answer
  • Revenue, not in the answer
  • Domain, not in the answer
  • Followers
  • Contact, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Also pays forConnection Requests (Invitations) · Profile Retrieval · Search Results · Messaging · InMail · Content & Posts · WhatsApp: New conversations · WhatsApp: Messages to existing chats
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch for company pages using various filters.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are granted a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to access and use the API, the dashboard, the MCP server, and the documentation for the duration of your subscription, for your internal business purposes and for the products you provide to your own customers. [...] You agree to: comply with all applicable laws on electronic marketing and data protection, including the GDPR, the ePrivacy rules, and, where applicable, the CAN-SPAM Act and the TCPA, only contact recipients for whom you have a valid legal basis (consent or legitimate interest, as applicable), honor opt-out and unsubscribe requests promptly, and not re-contact recipients who have opted out, [...] You must not: use the API for illegal activities or to infringe third-party rights, connect an account without its owner's authorization, attempt to reverse engineer, resell, or sublicense the service without our written consent, other than through end-user keys as described in section 3, share API credentials with unauthorized third parties, exceed the technical limits of section 8 or attempt to bypass technical restrictions or security measures, use the service to build a competing product based on our infrastructure, use the service to harass, threaten, or discriminate against anyone, or to collect data on minors. [...] Email addresses returned by the email enrichment endpoints [...] you may use them for your internal business purposes and in your own products, in compliance with applicable law and section 6, and may not resell them as a standalone dataset.
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendaccount_id, action "search_companies". Optional: params.keyword, params.location, params.sector, params.company_size, params.offset, params.count
MethodPOST
Path/v2/profiles
About the plan
Plan7-day free trial
Who can get itonce per customer (one workspace, one Stripe customer), on the first subscription only, with a valid payment method, at least 18 years old, using the service for professional purposes, with accounts you own or that their owner has explicitly authorized you to connect and operate
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, company URL, industry, location, logo, followers text, followers, open jobs text, open jobs count, results on page, total results, success, credits consumed, response timestamp

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