# Reply.io, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Run a set of Live Data filters and add the people it matches to your contacts.

Reply.io's LinkedIn people search API on its 14-day free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns none of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline and 9 more.
We haven't run Reply.io through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 411 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.267 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/reply-io/free
- [LinkedIn people search API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://reply.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.reply.io/v3/live-data/searches`
- API key: with the plan, on https://reply.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.reply.io/api-reference/live-data/start-a-live-data-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Reply.io (https://reply.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Run a set of Live Data filters and add the people it matches to your contacts.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not access or use the Services if You are our direct competitor, except with our prior written consent. [...] You must not use the Services to: violate applicable law or the rights of others, send spam, unsolicited commercial messages, or other communications in violation of applicable anti-spam, marketing, privacy, or communications laws, use purchased, rented, harvested, scraped, or otherwise unlawfully obtained contact lists, [...] bypass, disable, or interfere with security, rate limit, usage, deliverability, or abuse-prevention controls, use the Services to develop, train, or improve competing products or services, use the Services for benchmarking, competitive analysis, scraping, or monitoring without our prior written consent, [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 25 results, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.83
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: filters, contactsCountToAdd. Optional: filters.accountListIds, filters.industries, filters.companyLocations, filters.companySizes, filters.headcountGrowth, filters.departmentHeadcountGrowth, filters.minRevenue, filters.maxRevenue, filters.accountKeywords, filters.isHiringOnLinkedIn, filters.contactLocations, filters.jobTitles, filters.departments, filters.seniorities, filters.contactKeywords, addContactsWithoutEmails, maxPeoplePerCompany, sequenceId, listIds, referenceUrl, searchContactPhones
- Method: POST
- Path: /v3/live-data/searches

## About the plan

- Plan: 14-day free trial
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over: "feel free to create a 14-day free trial Reply account", "The Services are not intended for individuals under eighteen (18) years old"

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, status, started at, contacts found, credits consumed, user ID, target sequence ID, target sequence name, target lists, filters applied

## Reply.io's plans (28)

- [Reply.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/39-monthly/llms.txt): $390.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/59-monthly/llms.txt): $2,360.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $69 monthly, Email Volume, 2,000 active contacts/month, per user, billed monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/69-monthly-email-volume-2000-active-contacts-month-per-user-billed-monthly/llms.txt): $2,760.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $69 monthly, 500 credits](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/69-monthly-500-credits/llms.txt): $276.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/79-monthly/llms.txt): $3,160.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $99 monthly, Email Volume, 5,000 active contacts/month, per user, billed monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/99-monthly-email-volume-5000-active-contacts-month-per-user-billed-monthly/llms.txt): $3,960.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $99 monthly, Multichannel, per user, billed monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/99-monthly-multichannel-per-user-billed-monthly/llms.txt): $3,960.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/119-monthly/llms.txt): $238.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/179-monthly/llms.txt): $7,160.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $219 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/219-monthly/llms.txt): $175.20 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/299-monthly/llms.txt): $11,960.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/399-monthly/llms.txt): $133.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/499-monthly/llms.txt): $19,960.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/599-monthly/llms.txt): $119.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/999-monthly/llms.txt): $39,960.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $588 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/588-yearly/llms.txt): $1,960.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $708 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/708-yearly/llms.txt): $2,360.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $828 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/828-yearly/llms.txt): $2,760.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $1,068 yearly, Email Volume, 5,000 active contacts/month, per user, billed annually](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/1068-yearly-email-volume-5000-active-contacts-month-per-user-billed-annually/llms.txt): $3,560.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $1,068 yearly, Multichannel, per user, billed annually](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/1068-yearly-multichannel-per-user-billed-annually/llms.txt): $3,560.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/1908-yearly/llms.txt): $6,360.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $3,108 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/3108-yearly/llms.txt): $10,360.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $5,508 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/5508-yearly/llms.txt): $18,360.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, $10,788 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/10788-yearly/llms.txt): $35,960.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, contact us, Email Volume, 200,000 active contacts/month, contact sales](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/contact-us-email-volume-200000-active-contacts-month-contact-sales/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, contact us, Email Volume, 300,000 active contacts/month, contact sales](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/contact-us-email-volume-300000-active-contacts-month-contact-sales/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [Reply.io, contact us, Email Volume, 500,000 active contacts/month, contact sales](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/contact-us-email-volume-500000-active-contacts-month-contact-sales/llms.txt): 0% complete, live

## Reply.io's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v3/live-data/searches`: [Reply.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/free/llms.txt)

## Reply.io's APIs (2)

- [Reply.io: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 28 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reply-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Reply.io: email verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/reply-io/20-monthly/llms.txt)

## Reply.io: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Scrupp, $35 pack, 1,000 credits one-time pack, POST /sn/search, Sales Navigator People Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrupp/35-pack-1000-credits-one-time-pack-post-sn-search-sales-navigator-people-search-full/llms.txt): $70.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Generect, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /api/v1/search/realtime/leads/, Search realtime leads, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/generect/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-search-realtime-leads-search-realtime-leads-full/llms.txt): $80.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Evaboot, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/evaboot/9-monthly/llms.txt): $90.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, Sales Navigator Leads Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly-team-post-v1-runs-sales-navigator-leads-scraper-full/llms.txt): $124.40 per 1,000, 62% 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.reply.io/api-reference/live-data/get-a-live-data-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.reply.io/api-reference/live-data/start-a-live-data-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.reply.io/api-reference/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://how.reply.io/specifications/prospect-data.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://reply.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://reply.io/reply-io-pricing.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://reply.io/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://support.reply.io/en/articles/100799-existing-limits-in-reply?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing