# LinkDeal, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Semantic ICP search using natural language. Find leads matching a description like "VP of Sales at SaaS companies in the UK".

LinkDeal's 5-day free trial plan for the LinkedIn people search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. LinkDeal's docs list 2 of the 13 fields on our checklist: Experience, Photo.
We haven't run LinkDeal through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 442 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.297 per 1,000 people or less. [See how many LinkedIn people search API plans are free.](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) costs the least per 1,000 people. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many people as Kooperativa's rate limit allows.
[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/linkdeal/free
- [LinkedIn people search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.linkdeal.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: Docs behind sign-up
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.linkdeal.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.linkdeal.ai/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: LinkDeal (https://www.linkdeal.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Photo: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: find_leads_by_company · find_leads_by_keyword · enrich_lead · get_lead_recent_posts · enrich_lead_comments

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Semantic ICP search using natural language. Find leads matching a description like "VP of Sales at SaaS companies in the UK".

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 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. The Owner reserves the right to take any appropriate measure [...] whenever Users are suspected to be in violation of any laws, regulations, third-party rights and/or these Terms, including, but not limited to, by engaging in any of the following activities: [...] sending abusive or excessively frequent requests to the Service via the API [...] adopting any automated process to extract, harvest or scrape information, data and/or content from this Application and all the digital properties thereto related unless where explicitly allowed to do so by the Owner [...] harvesting or collecting any personally identifying information of other Users including but not limited to their email addresses or contact information, by circumventing the privacy setting of other Users’ accounts on this Application or by any other means, using any information relating to other Users, including personal or contact data, for purposes other than those this Application is intended for [...] registering or using this Application in order to promote, sell or advertise products or services of any kind in any way

## Plan

- Pay: £0
- You get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 10 pages
- Expires: when the 5-day trial ends

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Docs behind sign-up

## About the plan

- Plan: 5-day free trial
- Who can get it: Users that do not qualify as Consumers, such as Business Users, with a payment card

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

name, profile picture, current title, current company, profile URL

## LinkDeal's plans (5)

- [LinkDeal, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkdeal/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [LinkDeal, top-up from £11.50](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkdeal/top-up-from-11-50/llms.txt): $7.668 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [LinkDeal, £19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkdeal/19-monthly/llms.txt): $6.334 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [LinkDeal, £49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkdeal/49-monthly/llms.txt): $5.445 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [LinkDeal, £99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkdeal/99-monthly/llms.txt): $4.401 per 1,000, 15% complete

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

- Docs behind sign-up: [LinkDeal, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkdeal/free/llms.txt)

## LinkDeal's APIs (6)

- [LinkDeal: email finder API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/linkdeal/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkDeal: phone finder API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/linkdeal/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkDeal: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/linkdeal/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkDeal: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkdeal/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkDeal: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/linkdeal/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkDeal: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 5 plans, find_leads_by_company](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/linkdeal/free-5-day-free-trial-find-leads-by-company/llms.txt)
- [LinkDeal: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 5 plans, find_leads_by_keyword](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/linkdeal/free-5-day-free-trial-find-leads-by-keyword/llms.txt)

## LinkDeal: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [ScrapeField, $149 pack, 250,000 credits, GET /v1/linkedin/employees](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapefield/149-pack/llms.txt): $4.08 per 1,000, 31% complete, 24 hours
- [Edges, $54,780 monthly, DIAMOND, 20,000,000 credits / month, POST /actions/salesnavigator-search-people/run/live](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/edges/54780-monthly-diamond-20000000-credits-month-post-actions-salesnavigator-search-people-run-live/llms.txt): $4.11 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Captain Data, $82,200 monthly, Diamond, 20,000,000 credits / month, GET /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/captain-data/82200-monthly-diamond-20000000-credits-month-get-people-search/llms.txt): $4.274 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [ScrapeLi, $26 pack, Pay-as-you-go 6,000 credits, POST /icp-orders/](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapeli/26-pack-pay-as-you-go-6000-credits-post-icp-orders/llms.txt): $4.333 per 1,000, 15% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/how-credits-work?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/icp-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/linkdeal-trial-and-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/mcp-tools-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/plans-and-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/topping-up-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/understanding-your-dashboard?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://help.linkdeal.ai/help/articles/what-is-the-linkdeal-mcp-server?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.linkdeal.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.linkdeal.ai/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.linkdeal.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://www.linkdeal.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing