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Generect pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API, Search realtime leads, full

Generect's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn people search API in 2026
85% complete: 11 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 237 plans we rank by price is EnvoAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/companies/people, at $0.02 per 1,000 people.
Plan: Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search one of Generect's 3 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/search/realtime/leads/, Search realtime leads, full one of Generect's 2 calls for this API
API: LinkedIn people search API one of Generect's 23 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches LinkedIn when you make it.
  • 11 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $10 of credit once, enough for 125 results. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send nothing required to POST /api/v1/search/realtime/leads/. You set include_full_profile to "true". The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over with a work email. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Generect: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

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

Generect, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /api/v1/search/realtime/leads/, Search realtime leads, fullEdges, $110 monthly, BRONZE, 2,500 credits / month, POST /actions/salesnavigator-search-people/run/liveCaptain Data, $165 monthly, Bronze, 2,500 credits / month, GET /people/searchScrupp, $35 pack, 1,000 credits one-time pack, POST /sn/search, Sales Navigator People Search, fullEvaboot, $29 monthly
$ per 1,000 people$80.00$65.985$68.619$70.00$72.50
Completeness85%31%31%15%54%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$20$110$165$35$29
Enough for250 resultsabout 1,666 results a monthabout 96 pages a month500 results400 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or over with a work emailprofessionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity)professionals (anyone acting for their commercial, industrial or liberal activity)anyone aged 18 or overanyone 18 or over acting for professional purposes, with a LinkedIn Sales Navigator seat

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 2026-10-26.

  1. docs.generect.com/api-reference/database-vs-realtime.md
  2. docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/search/realtime-leads.md
  3. docs.generect.com/api-reference/introduction
  4. docs.generect.com/api-reference/limits.md
  5. docs.generect.com/api-reference/openapi.yaml
  6. docs.generect.com/billing/faq.md
  7. docs.generect.com/billing/pricing
  8. docs.generect.com/billing/pricing.md
  9. docs.generect.com/docs/faq
  10. generect.com/pricing
  11. generect.com/privacy
  12. generect.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills
  • Headline
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections
  • Certifications
  • Languages
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work
Price
$ per 1,000 people$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search2,400
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Database search & enrich · Real-time search & enrich · Real-time count · Email Finder · Email Validation · Preview
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch fresh leads with advanced filters (keywords, past companies, schools, groups). Response time 5-60 sec. Billed per result returned.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep dataa non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services for the duration of Your paid use of Our Services [...] the User can continue to use the results of the request at any time while lawful using Our Services
Use dataa worldwide, non-exclusive right to use the business contact records You export from the Services for Your own internal sales, marketing and recruiting purposes (or, for agencies, on behalf of your clients), provided such use complies with applicable data protection and anti-spam laws [...] the Services will be used exclusively by You and/or users, who are subject to the same obligations, as You are using Your personal account in Our SaaS product “Generect” [...] You agree not to apply the following non-exhaustive list of practices that are not considered “Legitimate Use” of Our Services: using Our Services for unreasonable workloads We determine (in Our sole discretion) to be unrelated to the deployment and maintenance of Your own services, re-selling Our Services or parts thereof to another third party, using Our Services, violate any laws in Your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright, spam, or trademark laws), use a robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Services, using Our Services in a manner We determine (in our sole discretion) could cause harm to Our Services or another third party, or unusual usage patterns inconsistent with those We reasonably consider as normal use when compared to other customers
Plan
Pay$0
You get$10
Enough for125 results, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrent50
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required, include_full_profile "true". Optional: job_titles, seniorities, locations, exclude_locations, company_locations, exclude_company_locations, company_industries, exclude_company_industries, company_headcounts, exclude_company_headcounts, company_types, company_name, company_link, company_id, exclude_names, exclude_ids, filter_empty_vars, limit_by, offset_by, strict, skip_truncated_names, personas, first_name, last_name, lead_industries, exclude_lead_industries, past_job_titles, exclude_functions, past_company_ids, exclude_past_company_ids, exclude_current_company_ids, groups_keywords, years_of_experience, num_of_connections, mentioned_in_news, keywords, functions, past_company_names, schools, groups, years_in_position, years_in_company, changed_jobs, posted_on_linkedin, linkedin_filter_link, find_by_emails, include_total_count, max_profiles_scanned
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/search/realtime/leads/
About the plan
PlanStart with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search
Who can get itanyone 18 or over with a work email
The 104 fields the plan's answer can hold

provider record ID, Sales Navigator ID, profile ID, profile URL, Sales Navigator URL, first name, middle name, last name, name, unformatted full name, translated first name, headline, about, gender, nationality, industry, location, city, state, county, country, connections, profile picture, X URL, personal website, websites, premium, open profile, open to work, retired, full profile, current title, raw job title, start date, job end date, current job location, job location city, job location state, job location county, job location country, current company provider record ID, current company, current company URL, current company website, current company industry, current company location, current company description, current company logo, jobs, job title, job description, job start date, job is current, job location, job company ID, job company, raw company name, job company URL, job company website, job company industry, job company size, job company location, job company headquarters city, job company headquarters state, job company headquarters country, job company logo, job company description, schools, school ID, school name, school URL, school logo, school description, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issuer ID, certification issue date, languages, language name, language proficiency, volunteering, volunteering title, volunteering cause, volunteering company, volunteering company ID, volunteering description, volunteering start date, patents, publications, skills, profile source, current company ID, matched persona, current seniority, phone, cached profile picture, total results, amount charged, past companies

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