# Serpent API, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Profile Search takes a name plus a company, title or location and returns up to 10 candidate public profiles, feed the winning URL straight into Profile or Full Profile for the experience and education history.

Serpent API's LinkedIn people search API on its Free calls plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Headline.
You get up to 10 pages in all.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/free
- Get it: https://apiserpent.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://apiserpent.com/docs#linkedin-search
- Sold by: Serpent API (https://apiserpent.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-22

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headline: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: page of 10
- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Web Search (Quick + Deep, any engine) · News · Images · Videos · AI Ranking · LinkedIn Company · LinkedIn Posts · LinkedIn Profile & Jobs · LinkedIn Profile Search · Maps (Quick, Deep, Place, Reviews) · YouTube · Instagram · Amazon · TikTok · X · Reddit · eBay direct calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Profile Search takes a name plus a company, title or location and returns up to 10 candidate public profiles, feed the winning URL straight into Profile or Full Profile for the experience and education history.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit, "You agree NOT to use the Service to: [...] Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms"
- Use data: You may use the API for lawful purposes in accordance with these Terms and applicable laws. [...] You agree NOT to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights of others, Distribute malware, spam, or harmful content, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers, Resell or redistribute the Service without authorization, Use automated means to abuse or overload the Service, Deliberately obtain discounted volume pricing for a completed workload and then seek a refund of the qualifying payment to retain that discount without paying the applicable Default rate. Refund requests alone, or ordinary API usage, are not abuse, any request is reviewed individually under our Cancellation & Refund Policy and applicable law, Open or operate more than one account in order to claim free searches, introductory pricing, or any promotional benefit more than once, Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms, Submit sensitive personal data in query strings, including health, financial account, government identification, biometric, or similar special-category information [...] Free searches are for evaluation purposes only. [...] You retain ownership of any content you create using data obtained through the Service, subject to third-party rights.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 10 pages, once
- Expires: after 12 months of account inactivity

## Rate limit

- Per day: 10,000
- Per second: 0.028
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: name. Optional: company, title, location
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/linkedin/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free calls
- Who can get it: one account per person or organisation, for evaluation

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, profile URL, username, name, headline, results on page, search parameters

## Serpent API's plans (6)

- [Serpent API, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $100](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-100/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Serpent API, top-up from $1,000](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-1000/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [Serpent API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 8% complete, live

## Serpent API's calls (1)

- `GET /api/linkedin/search`: [Serpent API, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt)

## Serpent API's APIs (6)

- [Serpent API: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpent API: LinkedIn person post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpent API: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpent API: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpent API: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpent API: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans, GET /api/linkedin/profile/full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/serpent-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpent API: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans, GET /api/linkedin/profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/serpent-api/free-calls-get-api-linkedin-profile/llms.txt)

## Serpent API: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [HarvestAPI, free, Free, GET /linkedin/lead-search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/harvestapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, free, Free, GET /v1/linkedin/company/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socialcrawl/free-free-get-v1-linkedin-company-people/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-10-22.

- https://apiserpent.com/docs
- https://apiserpent.com/docs#linkedin-search
- https://apiserpent.com/faq
- https://apiserpent.com/linkedin-api
- https://apiserpent.com/pricing
- https://apiserpent.com/refund
- https://apiserpent.com/terms