# Layrcake, free: LinkedIn profile post API

> Public social posts, and the people behind them, in four modes.

Layrcake's Free tier plan for the LinkedIn profile post API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. Layrcake's docs list 4 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Text, Engagement, Author, Audience.
We haven't run Layrcake through [our LinkedIn profile post API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-post-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 154 plans for LinkedIn profile post APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.58 per 1,000 posts or less. [See how many LinkedIn profile post API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-post-api.txt)
[Fetchin's $475 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/fetchin/475-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 posts: $0.0095. Fetchin charges for each page of results. We count 100 posts on each page to get the $0.0095 price.
[Fetchin](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/fetchin/50-monthly/llms.txt), [Village](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/village/1-monthly/llms.txt) and [HarvestAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/harvestapi/20-pack/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile post API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/layrcake/free
- [LinkedIn profile post API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-post-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.layrcake.dev/pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.layrcake.dev/v1/find_posts`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.layrcake.dev/pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.layrcake.dev/reference.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing#find_posts
- Sold by: Layrcake (https://layrcake.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 57%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Audience: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: find_leads · enrich · verify_email · find_intent · check_companies · find_companies · enrich_company · research_company · prospect_picture · llm

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Public social posts, and the people behind them, in four modes.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Data returned by our business-data providers is licensed to you for your own prospecting. You must not resell it, redistribute it, use it to build or enrich a database for third parties, or use it for any purpose other than your own business outreach.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300 credits
- Enough for: 600 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: author.type "profile_url", author.profile_url. Optional: intent, audience, within_days, limit, include, budget_credits, dry_run
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/find_posts

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: any business, account holder 18 or over

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, text, author name, author URL, author headline, author followers, author type, author verified, likes, comments, reposts, views, is repost, outcome, more available, credits charged, credits available, request ID

## Layrcake's plans (2)

- [Layrcake, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Layrcake, top-up from $20](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/layrcake/top-up-from-20/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 57% complete

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

- `POST /v1/find_posts`: [Layrcake, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)

## Layrcake's APIs (14)

- [Layrcake: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: company funding API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: tech stack API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: email finder API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: people search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: X post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/layrcake/free/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, hiring](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-hiring/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/find_companies, find_companies, technologies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-technologies/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: similar companies API pricing, 2 plans, find_companies, lookalikes](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-lookalikes/llms.txt)
- [Layrcake: similar companies API pricing, 2 plans, find_companies, lookalikes narrowed by country or size](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/layrcake/free-tier-post-v1-find-companies-find-companies-lookalikes-narrowed-by-country-or-size/llms.txt)

## Layrcake: LinkedIn profile post API alternatives

- [Edges, $110 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/edges/110-monthly/llms.txt): $3.299 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Zembra, top-up from $1](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/zembra/top-up-from-1/llms.txt): $3.60 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [SocQ, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [The Swarm, $1,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/the-swarm/1990-yearly/llms.txt): $6.633 per 1,000, 71% complete
- [agdata, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/agdata/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 43% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://api.layrcake.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.layrcake.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.layrcake.dev/pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- https://docs.layrcake.dev/reference.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- https://layrcake.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- https://layrcake.dev/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing
- https://layrcake.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-post-api-pricing