# Ploid, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Structured LinkedIn people search by keywords, location, title, company, and school.

Ploid's LinkedIn people search API on its Free trial plan, $0.00 per 1,000 people. 3 of the 13 key fields: Headline, Location, Photo.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/ploid/free
- Get it: https://ploid.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://ploid.com/documentation/api/linkedin#people-search
- Sold by: Ploid (https://ploid.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-21

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch a LinkedIn profile (GET /v1/linkedin/profile) · List recent LinkedIn posts (GET /v1/linkedin/posts) · List a profile's comments (GET /v1/linkedin/profiles/comments) · Get a LinkedIn company (GET /v1/linkedin/companies/get) · List a company's posts (GET /v1/linkedin/companies/posts) · Enrich a social profile (POST /v1/socials) · Search (POST /v1/search) · GitHub search (POST /v1/github/search) · Datasets (POST /v1/datasets) · Contacts (POST /v1/enrich) · Person (POST /v1/person) · Monitors (POST /v1/monitors)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Structured LinkedIn people search by keywords, location, title, company, and school.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Services are intended for lawful business and professional outreach (for example recruiting and sales) only, not for personal, non-business use, harassment, stalking, spam, or unpermitted surveillance. [...] you must not use the Services to obtain or process sensitive data unlawfully. [...] You agree not to, and not to permit others to: Use the Services in violation of applicable law, including privacy, employment, anti-discrimination, anti-spam, and data protection laws. Use the Services or people data for personal, non-business purposes in a way that violates applicable law or reasonable privacy expectations (including harassment, stalking, or doxxing). Scrape, crawl, harvest, or extract data from the Services in an automated way except through documented APIs or features we expressly permit. Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our or others’ systems. Use the Services to send spam, phishing, malware, or deceptive communications. Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code of the Services except where prohibited by law. Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or outputs in a way that competes with Ploid or breaches your agreement. [...] You are solely responsible for your use of people data obtained through the Services, including obtaining any required notices, consents, or legal bases, honoring individual rights requests where applicable, and complying with regulations governing recruiting, marketing, and background screening in your jurisdiction.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: filters (keywords, location, title, currentCompany, school), limit (1 to 100), cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/linkedin/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone who creates an account, for lawful business and professional outreach (its terms: not for personal, non-business use)

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, username, profile URL, name, headline, location, industry, profile picture, connection degree, total results, next page token, request ID, credits consumed, credits remaining

## Ploid's plans (4)

- [Ploid, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/ploid/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete
- [Ploid, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/ploid/200-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete
- [Ploid, $600 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/ploid/600-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete
- [Ploid, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/ploid/contact-us/llms.txt): 23% complete

## Ploid's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/linkedin/search`: [Ploid, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/ploid/free/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Reverse Contact, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reverse-contact/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [BlitzAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/blitzapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Bright Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Renidly, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/renidly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, 20 minutes

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.

- https://ploid.com/documentation/api/errors-and-limits
- https://ploid.com/documentation/api/linkedin
- https://ploid.com/documentation/api/social
- https://ploid.com/openapi.json
- https://ploid.com/pricing
- https://ploid.com/terms