# DeepAPI, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Search public LinkedIn profiles by role, location, company, or school.

DeepAPI's $1 starting credit plan for the LinkedIn people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. DeepAPI's docs list 1: Location.
We haven't run DeepAPI through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 451 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.267 or less per 1,000 people. [See the best free LinkedIn people search API plan.](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) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 people. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many people as Kooperativa's rate limit allows. [Scrappa's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 people a month: $0.50.
[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/deepapi/free
- [LinkedIn people search API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://deepapi.co/v1/scrape/linkedin/people`
- API key: with the plan, on https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://deepapi.co/docs/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: DeepAPI (https://deepapi.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Location: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 25
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: 74 other DeepAPI calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search public LinkedIn profiles by role, location, company, or school.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Lawful use only. Use DeepAPI only for lawful purposes. You must comply with all laws that apply to you — including privacy, data protection, anti-spam, intellectual property, and computer misuse laws — and with any third-party terms that bind you. [...] Web data rules. DeepAPI reads only publicly available web pages, without logging in. You must not use the service, or combine it with anything else, to: access data behind a login, paywall, or other access control, or submit credentials, session cookies, or authentication tokens for any third-party site, create or use fake accounts or misrepresent your identity to any platform, bypass or attempt to bypass technical protection measures such as CAPTCHAs, login walls, IP blocks, or anti-bot systems, collect data about people to stalk, harass, dox, discriminate against, or surveil them, resell raw personal data obtained through DeepAPI as a data product, or use it in ways privacy law forbids.

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 166.67
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: Idempotency-Key header, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: query, titles, locations, companies, schools, includeDetails, maxItems
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/scrape/linkedin/people

## About the plan

- Plan: $1 starting credit
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up and verifies their account

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, first name, last name, name, location, positions

## DeepAPI's plans (2)

- [DeepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/deepapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [DeepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/deepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 8% complete

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

- `POST /v1/scrape/linkedin/people`: [DeepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/deepapi/free/llms.txt)

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## DeepAPI: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Enrich Layer, $899 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v2/search/person, Person Search Endpoint, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/enrich-layer/899-monthly-pro-get-api-v2-search-person-person-search-endpoint-full/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [Generect, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /api/v1/search/realtime/leads/, Search realtime leads](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/generect/top-up-from-20/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/linkedin/company/people, List people at a LinkedIn company, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-linkedin-company-people-list-people-at-a-linkedin-company-full/llms.txt): $40.005 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [Findymail, $490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/findymail/490-yearly/llms.txt): $40.833 per 1,000, 8% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://deepapi.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/deepapi-skill/deepapi/references/scraping.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/docs/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/docs/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/index.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://deepapi.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing