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Captain Data pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API, GET /people/search

Captain Data's sitellms.txtBest cached LinkedIn people search API in 2026
31% complete: 4 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 people
Plan: Free trial (100 credits) one of Captain Data's 18 plans
Call: GET /people/search one of Captain Data's 2 calls
API: LinkedIn people search API one of Captain Data's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches LinkedIn when you make it.
  • 4 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, About, Location, Photo.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for about 3 pages.
  • One call. You send query to GET /people/search. You can also send cursor and page_size. The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Captain Data: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

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

This planCaptain Data, free, trial (100 credits), GET /people/searchHarvestAPI, free, Free, GET /linkedin/lead-searchDatamagnet, free, 10 free credits, POST /people-search/searchEdges, free, tier (100 credits), POST /actions/linkedin-search-company-employees/run/liveEnrichmentAPI, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness31%23%31%31%15%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forabout 3 pages, once10 pages, once1 pageabout 66 results200 pages
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity), one free trial eachanyoneanyoneprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity), one free trial eachanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-22.

  1. docs.captaindata.com/v1/api/people/search
  2. docs.captaindata.com/v1/credit-costs
  3. docs.captaindata.com/v1/pagination
  4. docs.captaindata.com/v1/rate-limits
  5. captaindata.com
  6. captaindata.com/llms.txt
  7. captaindata.com/people-enrichment
  8. captaindata.com/people-search
  9. captaindata.com/pricing
  10. captaindata.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Experiencecurrent job
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline, not in the answer
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perpage of 25
Most per search2,500
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Find People · Enrich People · List Experiences · List Skills · List Licenses & Certifications · Find Company · Search Companies · Enrich Company · Find Company Employees
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch professionals by title, company, location, and more. Returns profile summaries with job signals.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataany lawful use that infringes no third party's rights, the client warranting it may collect the data from LinkedIn, no GDPR special-category data, the service not resold or made available to third parties
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough forabout 3 pages, once
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: cursor, page_size
MethodGET
Path/people/search
About the plan
PlanFree trial (100 credits)
Who can get itprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity), one free trial each
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

provider record ID, name, first name, last name, current title, current company, about, location, profile ID, profile URL, profile picture, current company ID, start date, end date, tenure, recently hired, recently promoted

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