# LinkedInDataAPI, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Discover executives, engineering leaders, and GTM decision-makers across any target company or industry.

LinkedInDataAPI's LinkedIn people search API on its Free Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Headline, Location, Photo.
We haven't run LinkedInDataAPI through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 411 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.267 per 1,000 people or less.
[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: 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.
[BlitzAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/blitzapi/499-monthly-scale-post-v2-search-people/llms.txt), [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly-growth-post-search-reasoning/llms.txt) and [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly-plus-post-v2-search-people/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free
- [LinkedIn people search API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://linkedindataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.linkedindataapi.com/v1/people/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://linkedindataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://linkedindataapi.com/docs/people-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: LinkedInDataAPI (https://linkedindataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 2,500
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Enrich a B2B person profile by username or profile URL · Enrich company firmographics by slug, domain, or company URL · Fetch recent posts & thought-leadership activity for a B2B person profile · Fetch official company announcements, product launches & feed updates · Search public B2B posts & executive discussions by keyword · Search active company job openings & technographic hiring signals

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Discover executives, engineering leaders, and GTM decision-makers across any target company or industry.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use LinkedInDataAPI, or data obtained through it, to: harass, stalk, threaten, dox or intimidate any person, single out people based on sensitive characteristics such as health, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or political views, make consumer credit, housing, insurance or FCRA-regulated eligibility decisions, try to obtain non-public data, get around our access controls or rate limits, or use someone else’s API key, disrupt, overload, probe or reverse-engineer our systems, break any law, or infringe anyone else’s rights.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 12,000 credits
- Enough for: 6,000 results
- Expires: 60 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: company, title, query, country_code, page, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/people/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: new accounts that pass its automated abuse checks, once per developer

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, name, headline, current title, current company, current company universal name, location, country code, profile URL, profile picture, total results

## LinkedInDataAPI's plans (7)

- [LinkedInDataAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/25-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $89 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/89-pack/llms.txt): $0.148 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $249 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/249-pack/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.152 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $69 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/69-monthly/llms.txt): $0.115 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.08 per 1,000, 31% complete

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

- `GET /v1/people/search`: [LinkedInDataAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)

## LinkedInDataAPI's APIs (7)

- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)

## LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Icypeas, $3,992 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/icypeas/3992-monthly/llms.txt): $0.08 per 1,000, 31% complete, 30 days
- [Up2Data, $200 pack, 100K, POST /v1/search/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/up2data/200-pack-100k-post-v1-search-people/llms.txt): $0.08 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/social-fetch/2430-yearly/llms.txt): $0.081 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [WebAutomation, $999 monthly, Corporate, GET /v1/company/employees](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/webautomation/999-monthly-corporate-get-v1-company-employees/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://linkedindataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/docs/people-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/linkedin-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing