# SocQ, top-up from $5: LinkedIn people search API

> Discover candidate public LinkedIn profiles from people-search URLs with normalized identity, description, images, location, website, account signals, and available metrics.

SocQ's LinkedIn people search API on its Starter plan. It costs $5.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 5 of the 13 key fields we check: About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections.
Half of the 236 plans we rank by price cost $3.90 per 1,000 people or less. This plan is cheaper than 37% of the 236 plans.
The cheapest plan we rank by price is [EnvoAPI, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /v1/companies/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/envoapi/499-monthly-scale-get-v1-companies-people/llms.txt), at $0.02 per 1,000 people.
[Anysite](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/anysite/300-monthly-scale-post-api-linkedin-search-users/llms.txt), [Vayne](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/vayne/159-monthly-expand-post-api-find-people/llms.txt) and [HarvestAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/harvestapi/280-pack/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5
- [Best LinkedIn people search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socq.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.socq.ai/v1/linkedin/search-people`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socq.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/linkedin/search-people
- Sold by: SocQ (https://socq.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $5.00
- Per: result
- Billing: pay first

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 170 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Discover candidate public LinkedIn profiles from people-search URLs with normalized identity, description, images, location, website, account signals, and available metrics.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $5
- Expires: never

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: callback_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/linkedin/search-people

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, URL, name, username, about, profile picture, cover image, personal website, verified, location, followers, connections, scraped at

## SocQ's plans (2)

- [SocQ, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [SocQ, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socq/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/linkedin/search-people`: [SocQ, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)

## SocQ's APIs (12)

- [SocQ: SERP API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: company open jobs API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)

## SocQ: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [WizLeads, $99 monthly, Agency, POST /tasks/add, Create Task (Account-Less Mode)](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/wizleads/99-monthly-agency-post-tasks-add-create-task-account-less-mode/llms.txt): $4.95 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Pipecorn, $1,490 yearly, Grow, 9,000 credits a month, billed yearly, POST /leads/advanced_search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/pipecorn/1490-yearly-grow-9000-credits-a-month-billed-yearly-post-leads-advanced-search/llms.txt): $4.967 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Scrupp, $499 monthly, 100,000 credits / month, POST /sn/search, Sales Navigator People Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrupp/499-monthly-100000-credits-month-post-sn-search/llms.txt): $4.99 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, $1,250 pack, Growth, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datamagnet/1250-pack-growth-post-people-search/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 23% 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.socq.ai/api-manual/agent-api/authentication
- https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/agent-api/overview
- https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/linkedin/profiles
- https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/linkedin/search-people
- https://socq.ai/alternatives/linkedin-api-alternatives
- https://socq.ai/apis/linkedin/profiles
- https://socq.ai/apis/linkedin/search-people
- https://socq.ai/pricing
- https://socq.ai/privacy
- https://socq.ai/terms