# Datamagnet, free, 10 free credits, POST /people/search: LinkedIn people search API

> Search LinkedIn members by keyword with filters for job title, company, and name. Returns matching profiles in structured JSON.

Datamagnet's LinkedIn people search API on its 10 free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 3 of the 13 key fields we check: Headline, Location, Photo.
The cheapest of the 237 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-people-search
- [Best LinkedIn people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.datamagnet.co/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.datamagnet.co/api-reference/endpoints/people-search
- Sold by: Datamagnet (https://www.datamagnet.co)
- Checked: 2026-10-26

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: People Profile · Person Activity · Company Profile · Company Posts · Funding Rounds · Job Details · Job Change Search · Post Details · Post Comments · Post Reactions · Post Reposts · Create Signal · Update Signal · ICP People Search · ICP Company Search · ICP Search — Suggest · People Search DB · Company Search DB · Sales Navigator Search · Sales Navigator Company Search · Company Search · Post Search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search LinkedIn members by keyword with filters for job title, company, and name. Returns matching profiles in structured JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: DataMagnet grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable limited license to access and utilize the Site and Service and make use of the Data in accordance with and subject to the provisions contained in this Agreement. [...] this license does not include any resale or commercial use of the Site, Service, or the Data, any derivative use of the Site, Service, or the Data or any use of data mining, scraping, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction software, technology, or tools. [...] You may only access and utilize the Site, Service, and Data for your internal business purposes only and in accordance with the applicable law or regulation(s) as required by the state, governmental or regulatory authority. [...] unless expressly authorized by DataMagnet in writing, you may not do, permit, or authorize the doing of any of the following acts in relation to the Site or Services: in a way that is unlawful, copy, reformat, reprocess, distribute, dispose of, duplicate, transmit, display, revise, perform, reproduce, publish, license, hyperlink, deep-link, create derivative works from, transfer, trade, sell, or re-sell, download (other than page caching) or modify any portion of it, use in connection with any material that contains computer viruses or spyware or malware of any description or with any material that is designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer hardware or software or any communications network, use in any manner in which simultaneous access by multiple unauthorized users is permitted, use a personal or proxy account to register an account with DataMagnet to access and utilize the Site for the purposes of downloading, transferring, or copying Data for the benefit of another merchant or business, frame, inline link, or utilize other techniques to associate or juxtapose any of DataMagnet’s name, logos, or other materials with advertisements and/or other information not originating from the Site, translate, edit, reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Site or attempt to do so

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 1 page

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: keyword, page, title_free_text, company_free_text, company_linkedin_url, first_name, last_name
- Method: POST
- Path: /people/search

## About the plan

- Plan: 10 free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, name, first name, last name, headline, location, profile URL, member URN, profile picture, total results, offset, results on page, has more, duplicates removed, credits consumed

## Datamagnet's plans (13)

- [Datamagnet, free, 10 free credits, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-people-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, top-up from $5, Credit calculator, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/top-up-from-5-credit-calculator-post-people-search/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $10 pack, Trial, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/10-pack-trial-post-people-search/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $300 pack, Pro, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/300-pack-pro-post-people-search/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $1,250 pack, Growth, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/1250-pack-growth-post-people-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $2,000 pack, Scale, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/2000-pack-scale-post-people-search/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $39 monthly, Starter, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/39-monthly-starter-post-people-search/llms.txt): $7.80 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/99-monthly-pro-post-people-search/llms.txt): $1.98 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $199 monthly, Scale, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/199-monthly-scale-post-people-search/llms.txt): $1.592 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $348 yearly, Starter, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/348-yearly-starter-post-people-search/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $1,068 yearly, Pro, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/1068-yearly-pro-post-people-search/llms.txt): $1.78 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $2,148 yearly, Scale, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/2148-yearly-scale-post-people-search/llms.txt): $1.432 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, contact us, Enterprise, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/contact-us-enterprise-post-people-search/llms.txt): 23% complete, live

## Datamagnet's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /people-search/search`: [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)
- `POST /people/search`: [Datamagnet, free, 10 free credits, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-people-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /salesnavigator/search`: [Datamagnet, free, 10 free credits, POST /salesnavigator/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-salesnavigator-search/llms.txt)

## Datamagnet's APIs (12)

- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn post repost API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-repost-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 17 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 13 plans, POST /company/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-company-search/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 13 plans, POST /people-search/search/company](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 13 plans, POST /salesnavigator/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-salesnavigator-company-search/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 13 plans, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-people-search/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 13 plans, POST /jobs/detail, Job Details](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/datamagnet/free/llms.txt)
- [Datamagnet: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 13 plans, POST /jobs/detail, Job Details, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-jobs-detail-job-details-full/llms.txt)

## Datamagnet: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Vayne, $1,590 yearly, Expand, POST /api/orders](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/vayne/1590-yearly-expand-post-api-orders/llms.txt): $1.325 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [WizLeads, $449 quarterly, Cartel, POST /tasks/add, Create Task](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/wizleads/449-quarterly/llms.txt): $1.497 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [ScrapeLi, $14,999 pack, Pay-as-you-go 10,000,000 credits, POST /company-employees/orders/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapeli/14999-pack-pay-as-you-go-10000000-credits-post-company-employees-orders/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Up2Data, $1,500 pack, 1M, POST /v1/batch, Create a batch job (search.people.sales_nav)](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/up2data/1500-pack-1m-post-v1-batch-create-a-batch-job-search-people-sales-nav/llms.txt): $1.50 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 2026-10-26.

- https://docs.datamagnet.co/api-reference/endpoints/people-db-search.md
- https://docs.datamagnet.co/api-reference/endpoints/people-search
- https://docs.datamagnet.co/api-reference/errors
- https://docs.datamagnet.co/changelog/october-2026
- https://docs.datamagnet.co/rapid.open.api.json
- https://www.datamagnet.co/
- https://www.datamagnet.co/linkedin-scraper-api
- https://www.datamagnet.co/people-api/
- https://www.datamagnet.co/pricing/
- https://www.datamagnet.co/terms/