The Swarm pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn person post API

The Swarm's site llms.txt Best LinkedIn person post API in 2026

71% complete: 5 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields

$0.00per 1,000 posts

Plan: 14-day free trial one of The Swarm's 18 plans

Call: GET /social/profile/posts The Swarm's only call

GET /social/profile/postsFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: LinkedIn person post API one of The Swarm's 17 APIs

About this item

Freshness. The Swarm doesn't say how fresh a person's posts are.
5 of the 7 key fields we check. Text, Media, Reshared post, Engagement, Author.
Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for 1,000 pages. Unused credits expire at the end of the 14-day trial.
One call. You call GET /social/profile/posts. You send one of linkedinID, linkedinName or linkedinEntityID. You can also send perPage and paginationToken. The call returns the person's posts.
Who can get it: anyone over 18. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

The Swarm: LinkedIn person post API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts.

	This planThe Swarm, free	Fetchin, free	HarvestAPI, free	AnyAPI, free, trial key, POST /v1/run/linkedin.profile_posts_thin	API Direct, free, tier, POST /v1/batch
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	71%	100%	86%	43%	57%
Billing	free	free	free	free	free
Pay	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Enough for	1,000 pages, once	1,000 pages, once	250 pages, once	10 pages, once	50 pages a month
Freshness	not published	live	live	not published	live
Who can get it	anyone over 18	anyone 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into the terms	anyone	anyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Text
Media
Links and tags, not in the answer
Reshared post
Engagement
Author
Audience, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	page of 10
Also pays for	Search Profiles · Search Companies · Relationships · Add Connector · from the same budget: Fetch Profile · Fetch Company · Refresh a Profile · Get Comments / Reactions / Reshares · Network Mapper (for Partners) · Get company posts

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Fetch LinkedIn posts published by a person

Data
Keep data	Upon termination of your subscription or access to the Service: Your license to use Swarm Data ends immediately. At The Swarm’s request, you must delete all Swarm Data in your possession, including backups. You may retain internal Derived Materials that do not contain identifiable Swarm Data fields. You must certify deletion upon request.
Use data	Subject to your compliance with these Terms, The Swarm grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the data, insights, relationship mappings, and related information made available through the Service (“Swarm Data”) for your own internal business purposes. “Internal business purposes” includes, but is not limited to: Sales prospecting, Recruiting and talent sourcing, Partnerships and BD research, Investor outreach, Relationship mapping and warm intro workflows, CRM enrichment, Go-to-market operations and analytics, Executive dashboards and internal reporting. You may store, analyze, enrich, combine, and use Swarm Data inside your own systems, tools, CRMs, or internal workflows, as long as such use is internal to your organization. Except as expressly permitted by The Swarm in writing, you may not, directly or indirectly: Sell, resell, license, sublicense, publish, or otherwise redistribute Swarm Data to any third party. Provide Swarm Data to customers, clients, partners, vendors, contractors, affiliates, or the public. Include Swarm Data in any commercial data product, enrichment service, dataset, marketplace offering, or AI model intended for external use. Use Swarm Data to build, train, or improve any AI or ML model that is accessible to third parties. Use Swarm Data to develop or enhance any product or service that competes with The Swarm or provides relationship-mapping or people-data features. Upload or share raw Swarm Data into third-party platforms for any purpose other than your internal business operations. Any use of Swarm Data outside your organization requires prior written approval from The Swarm. If you wish to redistribute, resell, or otherwise make Swarm Data available to third parties (including in workflows where they can view or access data), you must obtain The Swarm’s prior written consent. You may create internal analyses, models, segments, reports, dashboards, or insights derived from Swarm Data (“Derived Materials”), provided these remain internal to your organization and are not sold, published, shared externally, or used to train publicly available AI systems.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	1,000 credits
Enough for	1,000 pages, once
Expires	at the end of the 14-day trial

Rate limit
Per second	1
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	one of linkedinID, linkedinName or linkedinEntityID. Optional: perPage, paginationToken
Method	GET
Path	/social/profile/posts

About the plan
Plan	14-day free trial
Who can get it	anyone over 18

The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

post URN, author URL, author name, author type, author picture, author universal name, post range earliest, post range latest, posted ago, comments, reposts, reactions, reactions by type, images URL, post URL, video URL, video thumbnail, reshared post, text, activity header, header entity type, header entity picture, header entity URL, header entity name, header entity universal name, next page token