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LinkupAPI pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API, POST /v2/profiles, Search People Nav

LinkupAPI's sitellms.txtBest cached LinkedIn people search API in 2026
38% complete: 5 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 people
Plan: 7-day free trial one of LinkupAPI's 6 plans
Call: POST /v2/profiles, Search People Nav one of LinkupAPI's 3 calls
API: LinkedIn people search API one of LinkupAPI's 13 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. LinkupAPI doesn't say how fresh a search's results are.
  • 5 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Headline, About, Location, Photo.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many results as you like.
  • One call. You send account_id to POST /v2/profiles. You set action to "search_people_nav". The call returns the matching people.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

LinkupAPI: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 people.

This planLinkupAPI, free, 7-day free trial, POST /v2/profiles, Search People NavHarvestAPI, free, Free, GET /linkedin/lead-searchlobstr.io, free, Free, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Leads ScraperOutX.ai, freePloid, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness38%23%92%23%23%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limit10 pages, once100 results a month150,000 calls a monthnot published
Freshnessnot publishedlivelivelivenot published
Who can get itonce per customer (one workspace, one Stripe customer), on the first subscription only, with a valid payment method, at least 18 years old, using the service for professional purposes, with accounts you own or that their owner has explicitly authorized you to connect and operateanyoneprofessionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.ioanyone at least 18 (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) who can enter a binding agreement, with a valid LinkedIn account and the OutX Chrome extension on a team member's browseranyone who creates an account, for lawful business and professional outreach (its terms: not for personal, non-business use)

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.linkupapi.com/api-reference/v2/best-practices
  2. docs.linkupapi.com/api-reference/v2/introduction
  3. docs.linkupapi.com/api-reference/v2/profiles/search-people-nav.md
  4. linkupapi.com/legal/terms-of-use
  5. linkupapi.com/llms.txt
  6. linkupapi.com/pricing
  7. linkupapi.com/product-endpoint/linkedin-profile-api

Product details

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

  • Experience
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • 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$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Most per search2,500
Also pays forConnection Requests (Invitations) · Profile Retrieval · Messaging · InMail · Content & Posts · Other LinkedIn Routes · WhatsApp: New conversations · WhatsApp: Messages to existing chats
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch leads with Sales Nav using its full filter set.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are granted a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to access and use the API, the dashboard, the MCP server, and the documentation for the duration of your subscription, for your internal business purposes and for the products you provide to your own customers. [...] You agree to: comply with all applicable laws on electronic marketing and data protection, including the GDPR, the ePrivacy rules, and, where applicable, the CAN-SPAM Act and the TCPA, only contact recipients for whom you have a valid legal basis (consent or legitimate interest, as applicable), honor opt-out and unsubscribe requests promptly, and not re-contact recipients who have opted out, [...] You must not: use the API for illegal activities or to infringe third-party rights, connect an account without its owner's authorization, attempt to reverse engineer, resell, or sublicense the service without our written consent, other than through end-user keys as described in section 3, share API credentials with unauthorized third parties, exceed the technical limits of section 8 or attempt to bypass technical restrictions or security measures, use the service to build a competing product based on our infrastructure, use the service to harass, threaten, or discriminate against anyone, or to collect data on minors. [...] Email addresses returned by the email enrichment endpoints [...] you may use them for your internal business purposes and in your own products, in compliance with applicable law and section 6, and may not resell them as a standalone dataset.
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendaccount_id, action "search_people_nav". Optional: params.sales_nav_url, params.keyword, params.current_title, params.past_title, params.seniority_level, params.function, params.years_in_current_position, params.years_at_current_company, params.years_of_experience, params.current_company, params.past_company, params.company_size, params.company_type, params.company_headquarters, params.industry, params.first_name, params.last_name, params.geography, params.region, params.profile_language, params.school, params.relationship, params.connection_of, params.category_interest, params.shared_experiences, params.lead_interactions, params.persona, params.group, params.account_list, params.lead_list, params.saved, params.exclude, params.offset, params.count
MethodPOST
Path/v2/profiles
About the plan
Plan7-day free trial
Who can get itonce per customer (one workspace, one Stripe customer), on the first subscription only, with a valid payment method, at least 18 years old, using the service for professional purposes, with accounts you own or that their owner has explicitly authorized you to connect and operate
The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, current title, current company, location, profile URL, Sales Navigator URL, recipient URN, profile picture, connection degree, headline, about, premium, open profile, viewed profile, changed job recently, shared connections, TeamLink count, current company size, latest activity, badges, badge type, badge header, badge text, badge details, associations, jobs, job title, job company, job company ID, job duration, job start date, job description, job period, results on page, offset, total results, open profile badge visible, warning, success, credits consumed, response timestamp

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