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Emelia pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API

Emelia's sitellms.txtBest cached LinkedIn people search API in 2026
23% complete: 3 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$9.50per 1,000 peopleThe median plan costs $2.337 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 21% of the 243 priced plans.The cheapest plan is ConnectSafely, $108 yearly, API, MCP & CLI Access, per LinkedIn account, billed yearly, POST /linkedin/search/people, at $0.003 per 1,000.
Plan: 1,000 credits per month one of Emelia's 11 plans
Call: POST /linkedin-scrappers Emelia's only call
API: LinkedIn people search API one of Emelia's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches LinkedIn when you make it.
  • 3 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, About, Location.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $19 for 1,000 credits, enough for 2,000 results. Unused credits expire after 1 year.
  • One call. You call POST /linkedin-scrappers. You send name, authes and url. You can also send plannedStart and max_contacts. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: Users that do not qualify as Consumers, such as Business Users. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Emelia: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 people. Each plan in the table gives live data, like this plan.

This planEmelia, $19 monthlyEdges, $7,549 monthly, PLATINUM, 1,250,000 credits / month, POST /actions/salesnavigator-search-people/run/liveFindymail, $5,490 yearlyCaptain Data, $11,325 monthly, Platinum, 1,250,000 credits / month, GET /people/searchScrupp, $99 monthly, 10,000 credits / month, POST /linkedin/search
$ per 1,000$9.50$9.06$9.15$9.422$9.90
Completeness23%31%8%31%15%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlymonthlymonthly
Pay$19$7,549$5,490$11,325$99
Enough for2,000 results a monthabout 833,333 results a month600,000 results a yearabout 48,076 pages a month10,000 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itUsers that do not qualify as Consumers, such as Business Usersprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity)anyone 18 or overprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity)anyone aged 18 or over

LinkedIn people search API plans

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

  1. docs.emelia.io/docs/credits.md
  2. docs.emelia.io/docs/linkedin-scraper.md
  3. docs.emelia.io/docs/linkedin-scraper/download-csv.md
  4. docs.emelia.io/docs/linkedin-scraper/get-scraper.md
  5. docs.emelia.io/docs/linkedin-scraper/start-extraction.md
  6. docs.emelia.io/docs/rate-limits.md
  7. emelia.io/cgv
  8. emelia.io/guide/find-b2b-prospects/find-email-addresses/enrichment-credits
  9. emelia.io/hub/fullenrich-review-pricing-alternatives
  10. emelia.io/pricing

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, not in the answer
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • 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$9.50
Billingmonthly
$ a month$19
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Most per search2,500
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Email Finder · Phone Finder · Email Verifier · Emails of a LinkedIn extraction · Company search
In their words
Their pitchExtract the people or companies of a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search with the Emelia LinkedIn Scraper API, find their emails, download the CSV, and get them as an Emelia list.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataUsers may not, therefore, use such content in any way that is not necessary or implicit in the proper use of the Service. In particular, but without limitation, Users may not copy, download, share (beyond the limits set forth below), modify, translate, transform, publish, transmit, sell, sublicense, edit, transfer/assign to third parties or create derivative works from the content available on this Application [...]. Users may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of this Application and of its Service without the Owner’s express prior written permission granted either directly or through a legitimate reselling program.
Plan
Pay$19
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for2,000 results a month
Expires1 year
Rate limit
Per second0.5
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
The call
You sendname, authes, url. Optional: plannedStart, max_contacts
MethodPOST
Path/linkedin-scrappers
About the plan
Plan1,000 credits per month
Who can get itUsers that do not qualify as Consumers, such as Business Users
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, task ID, task status, total results, Sales Navigator ID, name, first name, last name, location, premium, open profile, profile URL, about, current title, current company, current company ID, current company URL, current company location, current company description, current company size, current company industry, current company website, current company type, current company revenue minimum, current company revenue maximum

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