# Swarmhit, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Swarmhit's LinkedIn search API imports the results of a classic LinkedIn or Sales Navigator people search through a sender you connected, with one POST to /lead-imports.

Swarmhit's LinkedIn people search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 4 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience, Headline, Location, Photo.
You get 2 linked accounts, which pay for Swarmhit's other calls. This call costs none of them for up to 60,000 results a month.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/free
- Get it: https://www.swarmhit.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://developer.swarmhit.com/api-reference/lead-imports/createLeadImport
- Sold by: Swarmhit (https://www.swarmhit.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-22

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Experience: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: result
- Most per search: 2,500
- Also pays for: Connection requests · Messages · InMails · Profile views · Follows · Post likes · Post comments

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Swarmhit's LinkedIn search API imports the results of a classic LinkedIn or Sales Navigator people search through a sender you connected, with one POST to /lead-imports.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You will not use Swarmhit to: Send unlawful, harassing, deceptive, or discriminatory messages. Impersonate another person or business or misrepresent your affiliation. Scrape, resell, or sublicense Swarmhit’s data, software, or AI outputs. Bypass the sending limits, safeguards, rate limits, or other technical controls we apply. Send messages to prospects in jurisdictions where you lack a lawful basis (for example, B2C contacts under GDPR or CASL without consent). [...] You own your customer content. You grant Swarmhit a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, transmit, and process that content strictly to provide the service. [...] Purchased, scraped, enriched, licensed, or publicly available data may be used only where Customer has assessed the source, rights, notice obligations, accuracy, and lawful basis for the intended use. [...] Customer must not: [...] bypass throttling, rate limits, safety controls, account limits, technical restrictions, or verification measures, use bots, scripts, or tools outside supported functionality to interfere with the Services, create excessive Accounts or use multiple Accounts to evade enforcement, probe, scan, or test Swarmhit systems without written authorization, use the Services in a way that degrades reliability for others.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2 linked accounts
- Enough for: 60,000 results a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: accountId, url or params. Optional: listId, listName, campaignId, name, maxLeads, tags
- Method: POST
- Path: /lead-imports

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and authorized to bind their organization, with a LinkedIn account to connect as a sender

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

first name, last name, headline, job title, current company, location, profile picture, profile URL, username, open profile, total results

## Swarmhit's plans (8)

- [Swarmhit, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, $16.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/16-90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.563 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, $859.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/859-90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.562 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, $2,347.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/2347-90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.518 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, $3,635.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/3635-90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.483 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, $6,358.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/6358-90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.423 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, $15,256.90 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/15256-90-monthly/llms.txt): $0.339 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Swarmhit, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/contact-us/llms.txt): 31% complete, live

## Swarmhit's calls (1)

- `POST /lead-imports`: [Swarmhit, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)

## Swarmhit's APIs (2)

- [Swarmhit: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)
- [Swarmhit: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/swarmhit/free/llms.txt)

## Swarmhit: 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
- [Unipile, free, 7-day free trial, POST /api/v1/linkedin/search, Perform Linkedin search (Classic)](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/unipile/free-7-day-free-trial-post-api-v1-linkedin-search-perform-linkedin-search-classic/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Bright Data, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Captain Data, free, trial (100 credits), GET /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/captain-data/free-trial-100-credits-get-people-search/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://app.swarmhit.com/openapi.yaml
- https://developer.swarmhit.com/api-reference/lead-imports/createLeadImport
- https://www.swarmhit.com/acceptable-use
- https://www.swarmhit.com/linkedin-api/profile-visit
- https://www.swarmhit.com/linkedin-api/sales-navigator-import
- https://www.swarmhit.com/pricing
- https://www.swarmhit.com/terms