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

RichAPI's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn people search API in 2026
23% complete: 3 of the 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 /profile_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.
  • 3 of the 13 key fields we check. Headline, Location, Photo.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 1,000 results.
  • One call. You call POST /profile_search. Every input is optional. 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 /profile_searchVayne, $159 monthly, Expand, POST /api/orderslobstr.io, $192 yearly, Starter, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Leads ScraperZooq, $20 packWizLeads, $499 monthly, Kingpin, POST /tasks/add, Create Task
$ per 1,000$1.60$1.59$1.60$1.60$1.663
Completeness23%62%92%15%38%
Billingpay firstmonthlyyearlypay firstmonthly
Pay$800$159$192$20$499
Enough for500,000 results100,000 results a month10,000 results a month250 pages300,000 results a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or overprofessionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.ioanyoneanyone

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.

  1. app.richapi.ai/api/openapi
  2. rapidapi.com/RichAPI/api/linkedin-scraper-api13
  3. rapidapi.com/RichAPI/api/linkedin-scraper-api13/pricing
  4. rapidapi.com/terms
  5. richapi.ai/data-transparency
  6. richapi.ai/data/linkedin-profile-search
  7. richapi.ai/data/person-enrichment
  8. richapi.ai/data/search-data
  9. richapi.ai/pricing
  10. richapi.ai/pricing.md
  11. richapi.ai/security
  12. richapi.ai/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience, not in the answer
  • Education, not in the answer
  • Skills, not in the answer
  • Headline
  • About, not in the answer
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Most per searchno limit
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 69 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch profiles the way LinkedIn's own search works: fuzzy name matching, strict first and last name filters, current and past company, school, title, and LinkedIn's geo and industry IDs.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for1,000 results, once
Rate limit
Per second1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: search, first_name, last_name, title, current_company, past_company, school, location, geo_id, industry_id, page, follower_of, keywords_company, keywords_school
MethodPOST
Path/profile_search
About the plan
PlanSandbox
Who can get itanyone
The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, name, profile picture, hidden profile, location, headline, profile URL, username, page size, page, total pages, total results, offset, request ID, execution time, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits status, credits reason code, credits reason, estimated credits charge

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