# CrustAPI, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Find people on LinkedIn in 1 second. Or you don’t pay

CrustAPI's LinkedIn people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. CrustAPI's docs list 6 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Headline, Location, Photo, Followers.
We haven't run CrustAPI through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 437 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.267 per 1,000 people or less.
[Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/kooperativa/499-monthly-license-get-company-current-employees/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 people. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many people as Kooperativa's rate limit allows.
[Magileads's €133 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/magileads/133-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of people. Magileads's €133 monthly plan costs less up front than Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan.
[BlitzAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/blitzapi/499-monthly-scale-post-v2-search-people/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly-plus-post-v2-search-people/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly-growth-post-search-reasoning/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/free
- [LinkedIn people search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://crustapi.com/v1/linkedin`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing#search-fields
- Sold by: CrustAPI (https://crustapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Education: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: People refresh · Profile · Company · Jobs · Posts · Maps · Places · News · Shopping · Images · Reviews · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete · Webpage · Lens · Process a list of LinkedIn URLs

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find people on LinkedIn in 1 second. Or you don’t pay

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "The Service is for business and professional use only. It is a business-to-business product. It is not a consumer or end-user service, and you may not use it for personal, household, or consumer purposes." "We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for your own business purposes" [...] "Do not resell or redistribute the raw data as a competing dataset or API without adding meaningful value." "Do not use CrustAPI for anything illegal, and comply with all laws that apply to you and to your use of the data."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $6 a month
- Enough for: about 3,061 pages a month
- Expires: month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: type "people". Optional: keywords, location, company, school, title, profession, industry, companySize, pastCompany, followersMin, followersMax, connectionsMin, connectionsMax, expCountMin, expCountMax, titleExclude, companyExclude, locationExclude, pastCompanyExclude, count, num, limit, start
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: businesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only)

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

full name, first name, last name, headline, location, profile URL, profile picture, current title, current company, education, follower count, connections count, total results

## CrustAPI's plans (10)

- [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/5-pack/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $149](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-149/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $549](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-549/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $1,999](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-1999/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $6,500](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-6500/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $27,500](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-27500/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $50,000](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-50000/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $100,000](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-100000/llms.txt): 46% complete, live

## CrustAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/linkedin`: [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)

## CrustAPI's APIs (15)

- [CrustAPI: web scraping API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: image search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: search autocomplete API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business reviews API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: news API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Google Shopping search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/linkedin](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/linkedin/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Lens](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-lens/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Patents](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-patents/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-scholar/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Maps](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-maps/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-places/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, GET linkedin, People refresh](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin-people-refresh/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST linkedin/batch, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch-process-a-list-of-linkedin-urls-profile/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST linkedin/batch, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, refresh](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch-process-a-list-of-linkedin-urls-refresh/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, GET linkedin, Profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin-profile/llms.txt)

## CrustAPI: 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
- [HarvestAPI, 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
- [Bridgly, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/bridgly/free/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 2026-11-06.

- https://crustapi.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/linkedin-people-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/linkedin-profile-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing