# LeadShark, $119 monthly: LinkedIn people search API

> Search LinkedIn for people matching specific criteria.

LeadShark's Apex plan lets you call the LinkedIn people search API. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. LeadShark's docs list 1: Headline.
You pay $119 a month for 1 linked account. This call is free for up to 180,000 calls a month.
We haven't run LeadShark through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan costs $119 a month. We rank 476 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.50 or less per 1,000 people.
[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, with no charge 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' €133 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/magileads/133-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of people, and 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/leadshark/119-monthly
- [LinkedIn people search API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.leadshark.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://apex.leadshark.io/api/linkedin-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.leadshark.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.leadshark.io/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing#enrichment
- Sold by: LeadShark (https://www.leadshark.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headline: ✓

## Price

- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $119

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 67 other LeadShark calls: 100 req/min, 250 req/hr and 6,000 req/day

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search LinkedIn for people matching specific criteria.

## Data

- Searches in: LinkedIn's search
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to full payment of applicable subscription fees, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the LeadShark platform for your personal or internal business purposes. This license does not include any rights to the platform's underlying software, databases, or proprietary content. [...] You agree not to use the Service in any way that: Violates applicable laws or regulations, Harasses, abuses, threatens, or defames others, Scrapes or harvests user data without consent, Sends spam or unsolicited LinkedIn communications, Circumvents daily rate limits, automation limits, or API usage guidelines, Attempts to reverse-engineer or bypass service protections or system code, Creates or operates automated LinkedIn activity through fake, non-real, or fabricated accounts.

## Plan

- Pay: $119
- You get: 1 linked account a month
- Enough for: 180,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 6,000
- Per second: 0.069 (250 an hour)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: params.keywords, params.title, params.company, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/linkedin-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Apex
- Who can get it: anyone, for their personal or internal business purposes

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, headline, total results, results returned

## LeadShark's plans (5)

- [LeadShark, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [LeadShark, $186 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/186-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [LeadShark, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/300-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [LeadShark, $1,190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/1190-yearly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [LeadShark, $1,860 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/1860-yearly/llms.txt): 8% complete

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

- `POST /api/linkedin-search`: [LeadShark, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt)

## LeadShark's APIs (8)

- [LeadShark LinkedIn company data API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post repost API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-repost-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt)

## LeadShark: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

[LeadShark alternatives: other LinkedIn people search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/leadshark-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans billed monthly.

- [LinkFetch, $29 monthly, More LinkedIn accounts, GET /v1/companies/{company_id}/employees](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkfetch/29-monthly-more-linkedin-accounts-get-v1-companies-company-id-employees/llms.txt): 8% complete, live
- [Qampi, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/qampi/29-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [Salesbot, €29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/salesbot/29-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [upAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/upapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [Kairon, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/kairon/49-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete

## 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://www.leadshark.io/blog/linkedin-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.leadshark.io/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.leadshark.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.leadshark.io/terms-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing