# LeadShark, $119 monthly: LinkedIn post search API

> Search LinkedIn for posts matching your keywords, as visible from your connected account. Defaults to the past month, sorted by relevance.

LeadShark's Apex plan for the LinkedIn post search API costs $0.013 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. LeadShark's docs list 3: Text, Engagement, Author.
You pay $119 a month for 1 linked account. This call is free for up to 180,000 calls a month.
We haven't run LeadShark through [our LinkedIn post search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 175 plans for LinkedIn post search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.27 or less per 1,000 posts. This plan costs less per 1,000 posts than 92% of the 175 plans.
[Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly-mini-post-v2-employee-post-search-es-dsl/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 posts, with no charge per call. You get as many posts as Coresignal's rate limit allows. [AnyAPI's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/anyapi/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-with-x402-and-mpp-post-v1-run-linkedin-search-posts-full/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 posts a month: $0.40.
[Mentionkit's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentionkit/49-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of posts, and costs as much up front as Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt) and [Floqer](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/floqer/49-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn post search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly
- [LinkedIn post search API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.leadshark.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://apex.leadshark.io/api/v1/posts/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.leadshark.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.leadshark.io/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing#post-stats
- Sold by: LeadShark (https://www.leadshark.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 posts: $0.013
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $119

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 67 other LeadShark calls: 100 req/min, 250 req/hr and 6,000 req/day

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search LinkedIn for posts matching your keywords, as visible from your connected account. Defaults to the past month, sorted by relevance.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Searches in: LinkedIn's search
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to full payment of applicable subscription fees, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the LeadShark platform for your personal or internal business purposes. This license does not include any rights to the platform's underlying software, databases, or proprietary content. [...] You agree not to use the Service in any way that: Violates applicable laws or regulations, Harasses, abuses, threatens, or defames others, Scrapes or harvests user data without consent, Sends spam or unsolicited LinkedIn communications, Circumvents daily rate limits, automation limits, or API usage guidelines, Attempts to reverse-engineer or bypass service protections or system code, Creates or operates automated LinkedIn activity through fake, non-real, or fabricated accounts.

## Plan

- Pay: $119
- You get: 1 linked account a month
- Enough for: 180,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 6,000
- Per second: 0.069 (250 an hour)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: keywords. Optional: sort_by, date_posted, limit, cursor
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/posts/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Apex
- Who can get it: anyone, for their personal or internal business purposes

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, share URL, text, title, date, reaction count, comment count, repost count, is repost, author ID, author name, author headline, author username, author type, author picture, next cursor, total results

## LeadShark's plans (5)

- [LeadShark, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LeadShark, $186 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/186-monthly/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LeadShark, $300 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/300-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LeadShark, $1,190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/1190-yearly/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LeadShark, $1,860 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/1860-yearly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 43% complete, live

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

- `POST /api/v1/posts/search`: [LeadShark, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt)

## LeadShark's APIs (8)

- [LeadShark LinkedIn company data API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn profile API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post repost API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-repost-apis/leadshark/39-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt)
- [LeadShark LinkedIn post search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/leadshark/119-monthly/llms.txt)

## LeadShark: LinkedIn post search API alternatives

[LeadShark alternatives: other LinkedIn post search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/leadshark-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 posts. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Fetchin, $1,700 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/fetchin/1700-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [EnvoAPI, $1,799 monthly, Volume, GET /v1/search/posts/by-hashtag](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/envoapi/1799-monthly-volume-get-v1-search-posts-by-hashtag/llms.txt): $0.018 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Up2Data, $125,000 pack, 250M, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/up2data/125000-pack-250m-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [HarvestAPI, $780 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/harvestapi/780-pack/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 86% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://www.leadshark.io/blog/linkedin-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://www.leadshark.io/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://www.leadshark.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://www.leadshark.io/terms-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing