# PhantomBuster, free, Trial, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data: LinkedIn people search API

> PhantomBuster's LinkedIn Search to Profile Data extracts users from LinkedIn or Sales Navigator searches and collects detailed profile and company data, including professional email addresses.

PhantomBuster's LinkedIn people search API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, About, Location, Connections.
We haven't run PhantomBuster through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 416 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.233 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/phantombuster/free-trial-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data
- [LinkedIn people search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://phantombuster.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.phantombuster.com/api/v2/agents/launch`, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data
- API key: with the plan, on https://phantombuster.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://hub.phantombuster.com/reference/post_agents-launch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: PhantomBuster (https://phantombuster.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Education: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Connections: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: Professional Email Finder · AI LinkedIn Message Writer · AI LinkedIn Post Responder · /ai/completions · LinkedIn Profile URL Finder · LinkedIn Company URL Finder · HubSpot Contact LinkedIn URL Finder · Instagram Profile URL Finder · Facebook Profile URL Finder · Twitter Profile URL Finder · from the same budget: 100 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: PhantomBuster's LinkedIn Search to Profile Data extracts users from LinkedIn or Sales Navigator searches and collects detailed profile and company data, including professional email addresses.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Searches in: LinkedIn's search
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Our Services allows You to automate data collection and actions for Your own business purposes such as marketing, commercial or recruitment purposes. [...] You shall use the Services [...] in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations that are applicable in any country from which You access and/or use the Services, and/or You are based or established, in particular with the General Data Protection Regulation when it applies to You, and other data protection laws that may be applicable to You. Specifically, You have the responsibility to obtain any legally-necessary consents and provide accurate and transparent privacy information to any person whose Personal Data You input, provide or collect through the Services. [...] in an ethical and reasonable manner, respecting the limited number of actions imposed by any Independent Service with which the Services may interact at Your initiative and under Your control. [...] You shall not: (i) Use the Services, and the Data for any other purpose than the Purpose, (ii) Extract or attempt to extract a substantial (in terms of quality and/or quantity) part of a database or in a manner that clearly exceeds the normal conditions of use of a database [...] (vi) collect, process, store, submit, any sensitive data on the Platform

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2 execution hours
- Expires: at the end of the 14-day trial

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: id. Optional: argument (LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search URLs, LinkedIn cookie (session), an email discovery service (PhantomBuster, Dropcontact, Hunter or Snov.io)), arguments, bonusArgument, saveArgument, saveArguments, manualLaunch, maxInstanceCount, internalMetadata, userCustomMetadata, persistedVolumeKey
- Method: POST
- Path: /agents/launch

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: professionals and businesses 18 or over, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn session cookie ("Your LinkedIn cookie (session)")

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, first name, last name, current title, current company, about, schools, location, connections

## PhantomBuster's plans (7)

- [PhantomBuster, free, Trial, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/free-trial-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [PhantomBuster, $69 monthly, Start, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/69-monthly-start-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [PhantomBuster, $159 monthly, Grow, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/159-monthly-grow-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [PhantomBuster, $439 monthly, Scale, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/439-monthly-scale-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [PhantomBuster, $672 yearly, Start, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/672-yearly-start-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [PhantomBuster, $1,536 yearly, Grow, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/1536-yearly-grow-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [PhantomBuster, $4,224 yearly, Scale, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/4224-yearly-scale-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt): 38% complete, live

## PhantomBuster's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /agents/launch`, LinkedIn Company Employees Export: [PhantomBuster, free, Trial, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Company Employees Export](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/free-trial-post-agents-launch-linkedin-company-employees-export/llms.txt)
- `POST /agents/launch`, LinkedIn Search Export: [PhantomBuster, free, Trial, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search Export](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/free-trial-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-export/llms.txt)
- `POST /agents/launch`, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data: [PhantomBuster, free, Trial, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/free-trial-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt)

## PhantomBuster's APIs (3)

- [PhantomBuster: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/phantombuster/free/llms.txt)
- [PhantomBuster: email finder API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/phantombuster/free/llms.txt)
- [PhantomBuster: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 7 plans, POST /agents/launch, LinkedIn Search to Profile Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/phantombuster/free-trial-post-agents-launch-linkedin-search-to-profile-data/llms.txt)

## PhantomBuster: 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
- [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
- [Datamagnet, free, 10 free credits, POST /people-search/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits-post-people-search-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Bridgly, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/bridgly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% 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 2026-11-03.

- https://hub.phantombuster.com/docs/using-webhooks?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://hub.phantombuster.com/reference/post_agents-launch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://hub.phantombuster.com/reference/post_ai-completions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://phantombuster.com/automations/ai/3614446764718424/ai-linkedin-message-writer?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://phantombuster.com/automations/ai/5825898517687124/ai-linkedin-post-responder?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://phantombuster.com/automations/linkedin/25772/linkedin-search-to-profile-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://phantombuster.com/automations/linkedin/3112/linkedin-profile-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://phantombuster.com/automations/toolbox/18998/professional-email-finder?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://phantombuster.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://phantombuster.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://support.phantombuster.com/hc/en-us/articles/33900263987602-How-to-Fix-Plan-Credit-and-Export-Limit-Errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing