# upAPI, free: LinkedIn people search API

> Find LinkedIn profiles by job title and location. Returns name, headline, and profile URL. Web-search backed — no login required.

upAPI's LinkedIn people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. upAPI's docs list 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Headline.
We haven't run upAPI through [our LinkedIn people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 437 plans for LinkedIn people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.267 per 1,000 people or less.
[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. Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many people as Kooperativa's rate limit allows.
[Magileads's €133 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/magileads/133-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of people. Magileads's €133 monthly plan costs less up front than Kooperativa's $499 monthly plan.
[BlitzAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/blitzapi/499-monthly-scale-post-v2-search-people/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly-plus-post-v2-search-people/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly-growth-post-search-reasoning/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/upapi/free
- [LinkedIn people search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.upapi.io/linkedin-profile-search.post`
- API key: with the plan, on https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://upapi.io/apis/search/linkedin-profile-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: upAPI (https://upapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headline: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Repeat free: 10 minutes
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 112 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find LinkedIn profiles by job title and location. Returns name, headline, and profile URL. Web-search backed — no login required.

## Data

- Searches in: a search engine's index
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: about 66 pages a month
- Expires: the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: keyword. Optional: location, maxResults, proxyUrl
- Method: POST
- Path: /linkedin-profile-search.post

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, message, query, keyword, name, headline, profile URL, result position, total results, time taken

## upAPI's plans (4)

- [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [upAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/upapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [upAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/upapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): 8% complete

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

- `POST /linkedin-profile-search.post`: [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)

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## upAPI: LinkedIn people search API alternatives

- [BlitzAPI, free trial, POST /v2/search/employee-finder](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/blitzapi/free-trial-post-v2-search-employee-finder/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Reverse Contact, free trial, POST /v2/search/people/prompt](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/reverse-contact/free-trial-post-v2-search-people-prompt/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [Icypeas, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/icypeas/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 30 days
- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://upapi.io/apis/search/linkedin-profile-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/apis/social-media/linkedin-get-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-people-search-api-pricing