# Anakin, free, Starter, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search: LinkedIn people search API

> Search LinkedIn people by keyword, 25 per page: name, profile link, summary, location, current title and company, and photo. Use page for more.

Anakin's LinkedIn people search API on its Starter plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, About, Location, Photo.
The cheapest of the 265 plans we rank by price is [EnvoAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/companies/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/envoapi/499-monthly-scale-get-v1-companies-people/llms.txt), at $0.02 per 1,000 people. EnvoAPI charges for each page of results. The $0.02 price is for pages of 100 people each.
[Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt), [Anysite](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anysite/300-monthly-scale-post-api-linkedin-search-users/llms.txt) and [Vayne](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/vayne/49-monthly-starter-post-api-find-people/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/free-starter-post-v1-wire-task-people-search
- [Best LinkedIn people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://anakin.io/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.anakin.io/v1/wire/task`, People Search
- API key: with the plan, on https://anakin.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://anakin.io/docs/social-media/platforms/linkedin#people-search
- Sold by: Anakin (https://anakin.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 2,500
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 5,352 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search LinkedIn people by keyword, 25 per page: name, profile link, summary, location, current title and company, and photo. Use page for more.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not (and must not attempt to): use the Services for unlawful, harmful, or fraudulent activities, violate or infringe any third party's rights (including IP, privacy, publicity, or trade secret rights), collect, process, or disclose personal data or sensitive data (e.g., health, financial, government identifiers) without a valid legal basis and all required notices/consents, use the Services to facilitate malware, phishing, credential theft, exploitation, or unauthorized access, interfere with or disrupt Targets or the Services (including excessive load, denial-of-service, or evasion of rate limits), probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems, bypass our access controls, or attempt to circumvent our safety or usage enforcement, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms of the Services (except to the limited extent prohibited by law), resell, rent, or provide access to the Services to third parties as a service bureau, time-sharing, or managed service without our written permission, use the Services to build, benchmark, or improve a competing product or service, or to train models primarily intended to compete with the Services, create multiple Accounts to evade limits, enforcement, pricing, or plan restrictions. [...] you own your Output as between you and us, subject to third-party rights (Targets may own or control content, and you may need licenses/permissions). [...] You grant Anakin (and our affiliates, contractors, and subprocessors) a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, cache, reproduce, process, transmit, display, modify (for formatting/processing), and otherwise use Customer Content and Output to: provide, operate, and maintain the Services, prevent or address security issues, abuse, fraud, and operational incidents, comply with law and enforce these Terms, perform analytics, debugging, quality assurance, and service improvement, and train and improve our systems, including models, heuristics, classifiers, extractors, and related technology.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300 credits
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: action_id "linkedin_people_search", params.query. Optional: params.location, params.page, webhook_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/wire/task

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business use

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, location, page, profile URL, full name, summary, current title, current company, profile picture

## Anakin's plans (30)

- [Anakin, free, Starter, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/free-starter-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/top-up-from-10-business-top-up-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, top-up from $10, Scale top-up, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/top-up-from-10-scale-top-up-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, top-up from $10, Pro top-up, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/top-up-from-10-pro-top-up-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $19 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/19-monthly-pro-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $19 monthly, Starter (social data), POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/19-monthly-starter-social-data-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $100 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/100-monthly-scale-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $100 monthly, Growth (social data), POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/100-monthly-growth-social-data-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $200 monthly, Build your plan, $200 a month, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/200-monthly-build-your-plan-200-a-month-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $300 monthly, Build your plan, $300 a month, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/300-monthly-build-your-plan-300-a-month-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $300 monthly, Advanced (social data), POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/300-monthly-advanced-social-data-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $400 monthly, Build your plan, $400 a month, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/400-monthly-build-your-plan-400-a-month-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $500 monthly, Business, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/500-monthly-business-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $500 monthly, Volume (social data), POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/500-monthly-volume-social-data-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $600 monthly, Build your plan, $600 a month, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/600-monthly-build-your-plan-600-a-month-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $700 monthly, Build your plan, $700 a month, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/700-monthly-build-your-plan-700-a-month-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $800 monthly, Build your plan, $800 a month, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/800-monthly-build-your-plan-800-a-month-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $900 monthly, Build your plan, $900 a month, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/900-monthly-build-your-plan-900-a-month-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $144 yearly, Pro, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/144-yearly-pro-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $804 yearly, Scale, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/804-yearly-scale-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $1,608 yearly, Build your plan, $200 a month, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/1608-yearly-build-your-plan-200-a-month-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $2,412 yearly, Build your plan, $300 a month, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/2412-yearly-build-your-plan-300-a-month-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $3,216 yearly, Build your plan, $400 a month, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/3216-yearly-build-your-plan-400-a-month-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $4,020 yearly, Business, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/4020-yearly-business-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $4,824 yearly, Build your plan, $600 a month, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/4824-yearly-build-your-plan-600-a-month-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $5,628 yearly, Build your plan, $700 a month, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/5628-yearly-build-your-plan-700-a-month-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $6,432 yearly, Build your plan, $800 a month, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/6432-yearly-build-your-plan-800-a-month-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, $7,236 yearly, Build your plan, $900 a month, annual, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/7236-yearly-build-your-plan-900-a-month-annual-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Anakin, contact us, Enterprise (social data), POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/contact-us-enterprise-social-data-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt): 31% complete

## Anakin's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/wire/task`, Company Employees: [Anakin, free, Starter, POST /v1/wire/task, Company Employees](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/free-starter-post-v1-wire-task-company-employees/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/wire/task`, People Search: [Anakin, free, Starter, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/free-starter-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt)

## Anakin's APIs (11)

- [Anakin: web search API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 30 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/anakin/free/llms.txt)
- [Anakin: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 30 plans, POST /v1/wire/task, People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anakin/free-starter-post-v1-wire-task-people-search/llms.txt)

## Anakin: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [Anysite, free, trial, POST /api/linkedin/search/users](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anysite/free-trial-post-api-linkedin-search-users/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [HarvestAPI, free, Free, GET /linkedin/lead-search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/harvestapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, free, 10 free credits, POST /people-search/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-people-search-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

- https://anakin.io/docs/documentation/pricing
- https://anakin.io/docs/documentation/rate-limits
- https://anakin.io/docs/social-media/platforms/linkedin
- https://anakin.io/docs/social-media/pricing
- https://anakin.io/pricing
- https://anakin.io/terms