# Mentio, free, Welcome credit, POST /v1/searches: LinkedIn post search API

> Search a term over the last 24 hours, 7 or 30 days, without a keyword.

Mentio's Welcome credit plan for the LinkedIn post search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Mentio's docs list 5: Text, Media, Engagement, Author, Audience.
We haven't run Mentio through [our LinkedIn post search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 156 plans for LinkedIn post search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.26 or less per 1,000 posts. [See the best free LinkedIn post search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt)
[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. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan charges nothing 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. Mentionkit's $49 monthly plan costs as much up front as Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapefield/149-pack/llms.txt) and [Up2Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/up2data/25-pack-10k-post-v1-search-posts/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn post search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/free-welcome-credit-post-v1-searches
- [LinkedIn post search API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mentio.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mentio.dev/v1/searches`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mentio.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/create-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Mentio (https://mentio.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 71%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Audience: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 25
- Also pays for: 99 other Mentio calls · from the same budget: Track a keyword

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search a term over the last 24 hours, 7 or 30 days, without a keyword.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use the service only for lawful purposes. Do not resell or redistribute the monitored content as a data product, the service is for your organization's own listening and engagement. Do not use Mentio to harass, dox, or surveil individuals, or in ways that violate the terms of the monitored platforms. Do not probe, overload, or disrupt the service, respect documented API limits.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5.80
- Enough for: 725 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: term, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: range, platforms, kind, context, idempotency-key header
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/searches

## About the plan

- Plan: Welcome credit
- Who can get it: anyone able to form a binding contract, once per person

## The 35 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, post type, post URL, text, image, links, date, like count, repost count, reply count, quote count, view count, bookmark count, reply to author, reply to post URL, reply to text, author ID, author name, author username, author URL, author picture, author followers, author influence, relevance score, sentiment, intents, automated, language, classifier confidence, classifier note, relevant, already in workspace, result ID, search ID, next cursor

## Mentio's plans (3)

- [Mentio, free, Welcome credit, POST /v1/searches](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/free-welcome-credit-post-v1-searches/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Mentio, top-up from $20, Top-up, POST /v1/searches](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/top-up-from-20-top-up-post-v1-searches/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Mentio, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/searches](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-searches/llms.txt): 71% complete, live

## Mentio's calls (2)

- `GET /v1/mentions`: [Mentio, free, Welcome credit, GET /v1/mentions](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/free-welcome-credit-get-v1-mentions/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/searches`: [Mentio, free, Welcome credit, POST /v1/searches](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/free-welcome-credit-post-v1-searches/llms.txt)

## Mentio's APIs (2)

- [Mentio: Hacker News search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentio/free/llms.txt)
- [Mentio: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v1/searches](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentio/free-welcome-credit-post-v1-searches/llms.txt)

## Mentio: LinkedIn post search API alternatives

- [Captapi, $275 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/captapi/275-pack/llms.txt): $4.40 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Edges, $9,878 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/edges/9878-monthly/llms.txt): $7.41 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [LinkFetch, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/linkfetch/79-pack/llms.txt): $7.90 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, $10,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/prolevelmax/10000-pack/llms.txt): $9.304 per 1,000, 71% 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://docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/create-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/list-search-results?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mentio.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://mentio.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing