# ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50: LinkedIn people search API

> Send a keyword string, get back an array of public LinkedIn profiles matching it — name, headline, location, current company, follower count, profile URL.

ScraperSocial's LinkedIn people search API on its Top-up on the Annual plan. It costs $9.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Headline, Location, Followers.
We haven't run ScraperSocial through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 411 plans we rank by price cost $3.267 per 1,000 people or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 people than 29% of the 411 plans.
[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/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50
- [LinkedIn people search API: 20+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapersocial.com/v1/linkedin/people-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/people-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScraperSocial (https://scrapersocial.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Experience: ✓ current job
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Followers: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $9.00
- Per: result
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 230 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Send a keyword string, get back an array of public LinkedIn profiles matching it — name, headline, location, current company, follower count, profile URL.

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- Searches in: LinkedIn's search
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the API to: access private, login-gated or paywalled content, or attempt to, harass, stalk, dox or surveil individuals, or build profiles of specific private individuals across platforms, send spam or unsolicited outreach at scale, violate applicable law, including data-protection law that applies to your use of the data in your jurisdiction, resell raw API access wholesale under your own brand without written permission (building products on top of the API is what it's for, that's fine and encouraged), probe, overload or interfere with the service, or evade rate limits and metering. You are responsible for how you use the data you retrieve, including compliance with the target platforms' terms as they apply to you and with intellectual-property and privacy rights in downloaded media.

## Plan

- Pay: $4.50
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 500 results
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, cursor, fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/people-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Top-up on the Annual plan
- Who can get it: anyone on the Annual plan

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

username, name, headline, followers, location, current company, profile URL, next cursor, has more

## ScraperSocial's plans (5)

- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/5-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, $54 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/54-yearly/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 7 days
- [ScraperSocial, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/contact-us/llms.txt): 31% complete, 7 days

## ScraperSocial's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/linkedin/people-search`: [ScraperSocial, top-up from $4.50](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial's APIs (17)

- [ScraperSocial: Facebook page API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Facebook post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Instagram profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: Threads profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: TikTok video API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: X profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapersocial/free/llms.txt)
- [ScraperSocial: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapersocial/top-up-from-4-50/llms.txt)

## ScraperSocial: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [Scrupp, $531 yearly, 5,000 credits / month, yearly, POST /sn/search, Sales Navigator People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrupp/531-yearly-5000-credits-month-yearly-post-sn-search/llms.txt): $8.85 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Edges, $7,549 monthly, PLATINUM, 1,250,000 credits / month, POST /actions/linkedin-search-company-employees/run/live](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/edges/7549-monthly-platinum-1250000-credits-month-post-actions-linkedin-search-company-employees-run-live/llms.txt): $9.06 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Findymail, $5,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/findymail/5490-yearly/llms.txt): $9.15 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Pipecorn, $2,790 yearly, Grow, 18,000 credits a month, billed yearly, POST /leads/search, Find people at company](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/pipecorn/2790-yearly-grow-18000-credits-a-month-billed-yearly-post-leads-search/llms.txt): $9.30 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 2026-11-05.

- https://scrapersocial.com/api/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/people-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/linkedin/profile-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapersocial.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing