# DataVertex, free trial, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search: LinkedIn people search API

> Search across millions of profiles using semantic search or precise filters: titles, skills, seniority, location, education, industry, licenses, and more.

DataVertex's LinkedIn people search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. DataVertex's docs list 3 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Location, Connections.
We haven't run DataVertex 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. [See how many LinkedIn people search API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
[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/datavertex/free-trial-post-v1-search-candidate-search
- [LinkedIn people search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.data-vertex.com/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.data-vertex.com/v1/search`, Candidate Search
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.data-vertex.com/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.data-vertex.com/candidate_search_endpoint/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing#body-parameters
- Sold by: DataVertex (https://www.data-vertex.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Location: ✓
- Connections: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Job Description Search · Candidate Lookup: Personal Email · Candidate Lookup: Mobile Phone · Candidate Lookup: Detailed Profile · Candidate Lookup: Healthcare Data

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search across millions of profiles using semantic search or precise filters: titles, skills, seniority, location, education, industry, licenses, and more.

## Data

- Keep data: for the Term of the license, on its expiry or termination, delete or destroy all copies of the Licensed Data
- Use data: "DataVertex grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Licensed Data via the API or On-Demand solely for Recruiting Use during the Term." "Customer may not (and may not permit others to): sell, lease, sublicense, distribute, publish, or otherwise make the Licensed Data available to any third party (other than Customer's direct clients as permitted above) for any use, Use the Licensed Data for any purpose other than recruiting, candidate sourcing/enrichment, or placement services for Customer's internal team or direct clients, use the Licensed Data for lead generation, telemarketing, sales, email blasts, list rental, resale, or any mass-outreach use, use, or permit use of, the Licensed Data to assist others in competing with DataVertex or its data-services business, reverse engineer, decompile, or extract the API or underlying data beyond what is permitted under the API documentation, access or use the API or Licensed Data in any manner that violates applicable laws, regulations, or the rights of individuals or third parties."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Expires: most trials last approximately 14 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: at least one of search_criteria or free_text_search. Optional: search_criteria.current_title, search_criteria.previous_title, search_criteria.current_or_previous_title, search_criteria.department, search_criteria.management_levels, search_criteria.current_employer, search_criteria.previous_employer, search_criteria.company_name, search_criteria.company_domain, search_criteria.company_email, search_criteria.company_website_url, search_criteria.company_size, search_criteria.company_revenue, search_criteria.company_funding_min, search_criteria.company_funding_max, search_criteria.total_funding, search_criteria.company_publicly_traded, search_criteria.company_country_code, search_criteria.geo, search_criteria.state, search_criteria.postal_code, search_criteria.location, search_criteria.company_industry, search_criteria.company_industry_keywords, search_criteria.company_naics_code, search_criteria.company_sic_code, search_criteria.company_competitors, search_criteria.school, search_criteria.degree, search_criteria.major, search_criteria.years_experience, search_criteria.connections, search_criteria.health_credentials, search_criteria.health_license, search_criteria.health_npi, search_criteria.health_specialization, search_criteria.keywords, page_size, start, include_similar_titles
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a business email (the trial form asks for one, DataVertex reaches out about the use case and provisions the trial)

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, profile URL, name, current title, current company, location, provider record ID, connections, country, country code, current company domain, current company website, current company URL, coordinates, total results, page, page size, offset, has more, next offset, credits consumed, credits remaining, search parameters

## DataVertex's plans (10)

- [DataVertex, free trial, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/free-trial-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $30 monthly, POC, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/30-monthly-poc-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $100 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/100-monthly-starter-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.278 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $250 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/250-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $480 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/480-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.24 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $324 yearly, POC, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/324-yearly-poc-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.27 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $1,080 yearly, Starter, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/1080-yearly-starter-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $2,700 yearly, Growth, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/2700-yearly-growth-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.225 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, $5,184 yearly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/5184-yearly-scale-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): $0.216 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [DataVertex, contact us, Custom enterprise, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/contact-us-custom-enterprise-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt): 23% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search`, Candidate Search: [DataVertex, free trial, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/free-trial-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Job Description Search: [DataVertex, free trial, POST /v1/search, Job Description Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/free-trial-post-v1-search-job-description-search/llms.txt)

## DataVertex's APIs (4)

- [DataVertex: email finder API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt)
- [DataVertex: phone finder API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt)
- [DataVertex: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt)
- [DataVertex: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/free-trial-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt)

## DataVertex: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Anysite, $200 monthly, Growth, POST /api/linkedin/search/users](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anysite/200-monthly-growth-post-api-linkedin-search-users/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/25-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [gtm-api.com, $4,800 yearly, 20 to 49 accounts, $20 per account a month, annual (pay for 12 months, run 15), from $4,800 for 20, POST /api/linkedin-scraping/search-recruiter-people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/gtm-api-com/4800-yearly-20-to-49-accounts-20-per-account-a-month-annual-pay-for-12-months-run-15-from-4800-for-20-post-api-linkedin-scraping-search-recruiter-people/llms.txt): $0.213 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [HarvestAPI, $280 pack, Pro, GET /linkedin/service-search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/harvestapi/280-pack-pro-get-linkedin-service-search/llms.txt): $0.23 per 1,000, 23% 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://docs.data-vertex.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.data-vertex.com/candidate_lookup_endpoint/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.data-vertex.com/candidate_search_endpoint/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/api-pricing-plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/recruiting-contact-data-enrichment-api-services?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/service-agreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing