RichAPI pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn people search API, POST /people_search

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

100% complete: all 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: Sandbox one of RichAPI's 5 plans

Call: POST /people_search one of RichAPI's 4 calls

API: LinkedIn people search API one of RichAPI's 19 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
All 13 key fields we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Recommendations, Open to work.
Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 1,000 results.
One call. You send limit and page to POST /people_search. You can also send linkedin, domain, industry, employee_size_start, employee_size_end, job_title and location. The call returns the matching people.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

RichAPI: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

The table starts with RichAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 people closest to RichAPI's.

	RichAPI, $800 pack, Scale, POST /people_search	Vayne, $159 monthly, Expand, POST /api/orders	lobstr.io, $192 yearly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Leads Scraper	Zooq, $20 pack	WizLeads, $499 monthly, Kingpin, POST /tasks/add, Create Task
$ per 1,000	$1.60	$1.59	$1.60	$1.60	$1.663
Completeness	100%	62%	92%	15%	38%
Billing	pay first	monthly	yearly	pay first	monthly
Pay	$800	$159	$192	$20	$499
Enough for	500,000 results	100,000 results a month	10,000 results a month	250 pages	300,000 results a month
Freshness	unknown	live	live	unknown	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone 18 or over	professionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.io	anyone	anyone

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 2026-10-25.

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
Certifications
Languages
Recommendations
Open to work

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	from the same budget: 69 other calls

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Filter on job title, industry, location, company domain and headcount range, and get a paginated list of people back with their LinkedIn URLs.

Data
Keep data	no API terms
Use data	no API terms

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	100 credits
Enough for	1,000 results, once

Rate limit
Per second	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	limit, page. Optional: linkedin, domain, industry, employee_size_start, employee_size_end, job_title, location
Method	POST
Path	/people_search

About the plan
Plan	Sandbox
Who can get it	anyone

The 64 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, first name, middle name, last name, headline, industry, location, city, state, country, profile picture, cover image, about, skills, languages, certifications, publications, courses, organizations, patents, projects, awards, test scores, recommendations, volunteering, schools, jobs, job title, job company, job company ID, job company URL, job company logo, job company size, job location, job description, job employment type, birth date, hiring, creator, influencer, verified, open to work, premium, followers, connections, username, profile URN, member ID, page size, page, total pages, total results, results on page, first page, last page, offset, request ID, execution time, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits status, credits reason code, credits reason, estimated credits charge