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Desearch pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API

Desearch's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn people search API in 2026
46% complete: 6 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleWe rank 357 plans by price. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 people: as little as $0.00023. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan covers up to 21,600,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 people.Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan (/v2/search/people) covers any number of people. Reverse Contact's $449 monthly plan costs less to start than Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan.Reverse Contact, BlitzAPI and DataForB2B are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: $5 in API credits for a new account one of Desearch's 7 plans
Call: POST /desearch/people/search/linkedin Desearch's only call for this API
API: LinkedIn people search API one of Desearch's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches LinkedIn when you make it.
  • 6 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit, enough for 100 results.
  • One call. You send query to POST /desearch/people/search/linkedin. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: new accounts that attach a card in Console. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Desearch: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

The table starts with Desearch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to Desearch's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Desearch, top-upEvaboot, $49 monthlyFindymail, $49 monthlyEdges, $165 monthly, BRONZE, 5,000 credits / month, POST /actions/salesnavigator-search-people/run/liveCaptain Data, $247 monthly, Bronze, 5,000 credits / month, GET /people/search
$ per 1,000 people$50.00$49.00$49.00$49.485$51.459
Completeness46%54%8%31%31%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Payany amount$49$49$165$247
Enough foras many as you pay for1,000 results a month1,000 results a monthabout 3,333 results a monthabout 192 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over acting for professional purposes, with a LinkedIn Sales Navigator seatanyone 18 or overprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity)professionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity)

Every LinkedIn people search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. desearch.ai
  2. desearch.ai/credit-plans
  3. desearch.ai/docs/api-reference/get-desearch-people-tasks-task_id-results
  4. desearch.ai/docs/api-reference/post-desearch-people-search-linkedin
  5. desearch.ai/docs/guide/apis/people-search
  6. desearch.ai/docs/guide/introduction/pricing-and-billing
  7. desearch.ai/docs/guide/introduction/rate-limit
  8. desearch.ai/pricing
  9. desearch.ai/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
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers
  • 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 people$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search200
Also pays forfrom the same budget: AI Search · Web Search · Extract · X Search · X Profile Search · YouTube Creator Search · TikTok Creator Search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFind LinkedIn members by what they post and by their role. Describe the people you want in plain language
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYour use of our APIs is subject to rate limits and usage quotas as specified in your plan. You agree not to circumvent these limits or use our APIs in ways that could harm our infrastructure or other users. [...] You agree not to use our Services for: Any unlawful purpose or to violate any laws, Harassment, abuse, or harm to others, Distributing malware or other harmful code, Attempting to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Reselling our Services without authorization
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Enough for100 results
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
Median266.13 s
The call
You sendquery. Optional: count, min_score, exclude, metadata, filters.min_followers, filters.max_followers, filters.countries, filters.keywords, filters.exclude_keywords, Idempotency-Key header
MethodPOST
Path/desearch/people/search/linkedin
About the plan
Plan$5 in API credits for a new account
Who can get itnew accounts that attach a card in Console
The 29 fields the plan's answer can hold

task ID, status, profile ID, handle, profile URL, name, profile picture, about, location, followers, headline, current company, links, contacts, evidence, match score, qualification status, match summary, matched signals, profile fit, buying triggers, reasons, concerns, criteria checks, fully verified, enrichment status, enrichment error, next cursor, has more

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