lobstr.io pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper, full

lobstr.io's site llms.txt Best LinkedIn people search API in 2026

69% complete: 9 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields

$0.00per 1,000 peopleThe cheapest of the 194 plans we rank by price is EnvoAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/companies/people, at $0.02 per 1,000.

Plan: Free one of lobstr.io's 9 plans

Call: POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper, full one of lobstr.io's 7 calls

API: LinkedIn people search API one of lobstr.io's 14 APIs

About this item

Live. The call searches LinkedIn when you make it.
9 of the 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Open to work.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 50 results.
One call. You call POST /v1/runs with the inputs in Product details. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans. Use data: with conditions.

lobstr.io: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

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

	lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper, full	EnvoAPI, $29 pack, Starter top-up, GET /v1/profiles/search	Social Fetch, pay as you go	Up2Data, $45,000 pack, 50M, POST /v1/batch, Create a batch job (search.people.sales_nav)	Bridgly, $300 pack
$ per 1,000	$0.80	$0.58	$0.84	$0.90	$1.00
Completeness	69%	54%	92%	31%	31%
Billing	yearly	pay first	pay as you go	pay first	pay first
Pay	$4,800	$29	per call	$45,000	$300
Enough for	500,000 results a month	5,000 pages	as many as you pay for	50,000,000 results	300,000 results
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	professionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.io	subscribers to a paid plan: anyone, for lawful, professional B2B purposes, not in a sanctioned jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it	anyone	anyone with the legal capacity to agree to its terms, not a minor where they live

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 2026-10-23.

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
Connections, not in the answer
Certifications, not in the answer
Languages, not in the answer
Recommendations, not in the answer
Open to work

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Most per search	30
Also pays for	from the same budget: most scrapers · Email Enrichment

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Scrape every person, company & post from any LinkedIn search — 70 data points each.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans
Use data	The User hereby asserts and affirms that the utilization of the Platform is solely for professional activities, thereby exempting the User from being classified as a "consumer" under the governing law. [...] Squiders are obligated to: (i) Procure requisite permissions for accessing websites through Squids, (ii) Abstain from extracting substantial portions of databases, whether in terms of quality or quantity, (iii) Refrain from unauthorized access to confidential or proprietary information, (iv) Observe all third-party rights, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights, (v) Comply with all pertinent laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations, inclusive of those related to the protection of personal data. [...] a global, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, and non-sublicensable right to employ the Platform for the duration of the User's active account on said Platform [...] Absent express written consent from LOBSTR, the User shall abstain—and shall prohibit any third parties acting on their behalf, including but not limited to employees, agents, affiliates, and subcontractors—from: (i) Decompiling, disassembling, or reverse-engineering the Platform, or attempting to discern its source code, foundational ideas, algorithms, file formats, or interoperability features [...], (ii) Independently or with third-party assistance, rectifying any Platform defects to render it compliant with its intended use [...], (iii) Removing or altering any notifications, labels, or references pertaining to the intellectual property rights of LOBSTR or any third parties, (iv) Engaging in the transfer, utilization, or exportation of the Platform in a manner that contravenes applicable laws, (v) Integrating, associating, or amalgamating the Platform with any other software or documents, or generating derivative works based in whole or part on the Platform, (vi) Conducting any activities with the Platform other than those explicitly sanctioned by these Terms and Conditions

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 credits a month
Enough for	50 results a month
Expires	credits refresh each month and don't roll over at renewal, only a paid billing-cycle reset carries unused credits over, for 30 days

Rate limit
Per second	2
Concurrent	1

Speed
Answer	by polling or webhook

The call
You send	squid (a LinkedIn Search Scraper squid, crawler 0424cc372bc39cd81341b4a800203525, holding LinkedIn people search URLs as its tasks, with a synced LinkedIn account linked to it), profile_details "true". Optional: keywords, first_name, last_name, title, company, current_company_url, school, network, profile_language, location, max_results, max_unique_results_per_run
Method	POST
Path	/v1/runs

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	professionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.io

The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, profile ID, username, name, first name, last name, headline, location, profile picture, connection degree, premium, verified, open to work, followers, search URL, total results, page, about, current title, current company, creator, cover image, jobs, schools, skills