# Monocrawl, free: LinkedIn people search API

> People matching a name with optional title, location, company, school and industry filters: handle, headline, location, followers and badges.

Monocrawl's LinkedIn people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Headline, Location, Photo, Followers.
The cheapest of the 267 plans we rank by price is [EnvoAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/companies/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/envoapi/499-monthly-scale-get-v1-companies-people/llms.txt), at $0.02 per 1,000 people. EnvoAPI charges for each page of results. The $0.02 price is for pages of 100 people each.
[Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt), [Anysite](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anysite/300-monthly-scale-post-api-linkedin-search-users/llms.txt) and [Vayne](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/vayne/49-monthly-starter-post-api-find-people/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/free
- [Best LinkedIn people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.monocrawl.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/linkedin/search-people`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.monocrawl.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/linkedin/search-people
- Sold by: Monocrawl (https://www.monocrawl.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 650 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: People matching a name with optional title, location, company, school and industry filters: handle, headline, location, followers and badges.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: Customer responsibilities, its Public data page: "Establish and document a lawful purpose and data-protection basis for your own collection, enrichment, storage, combination, disclosure and decision-making. [...] Use proportionate retention and security, avoid collecting unnecessary personal information, and do not republish a raw response merely because it was technically retrievable. Respect platform terms and third-party intellectual-property or contractual restrictions that apply to you. Do not attempt to turn public endpoints into access to private, deleted, paywalled or access-controlled material."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 150 credits
- Enough for: about 18 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per day: 300
- Per second: 10
- Concurrent: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, title, location, current_company, past_company, school, industry, page, search_url, geocode_location
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/search-people

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified, non-disposable email

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, username, name, profile URL, headline, location, profile picture, followers, verified, next cursor, has more, total results, results returned, success, credits consumed, credits remaining, request ID, from cache

## Monocrawl's plans (13)

- [Monocrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/19-pack/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/59-pack/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/199-pack/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/29-monthly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/99-monthly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/299-monthly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/799-monthly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/276-yearly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $948 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/948-yearly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $2,868 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/2868-yearly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, $7,668 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/7668-yearly/llms.txt): 31% complete
- [Monocrawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 31% complete

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

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

## Monocrawl's APIs (11)

- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn profile comment API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn profile reaction API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn person recommendation API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-recommendation-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn post repost API pricing, 13 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-repost-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 13 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/search-posts](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/monocrawl/free-get-v1-linkedin-search-posts/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 13 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/search-posts-native](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/monocrawl/free-get-v1-linkedin-search-posts-native/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 13 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/person](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/monocrawl/free-get-v1-linkedin-person/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 13 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/monocrawl/free-get-v1-linkedin-profile-full/llms.txt)
- [Monocrawl: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 13 plans, GET /v1/linkedin/profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/monocrawl/free-get-v1-linkedin-profile/llms.txt)

## Monocrawl: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [Anysite, free trial, POST /api/linkedin/search/users](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anysite/free-trial-post-api-linkedin-search-users/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [HarvestAPI, free, GET /linkedin/lead-search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/harvestapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Bytemine, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/bytemine/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% 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 2026-10-28.

- https://www.monocrawl.com
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/credits
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoint-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/linkedin/profile
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/linkedin/search-people
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://www.monocrawl.com/legal/public-data
- https://www.monocrawl.com/openapi.json
- https://www.monocrawl.com/pricing