# Octolens, free, 7-day free trial: LinkedIn post search API

> Runs a one-time search for `query` across the workspace's enabled sources over the last 1/7/30 days and AI-scores the results inline using the workspace's company profile.

Octolens's LinkedIn post search API on its 7-day free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 posts. It returns 4 of the 7 key fields we check: Text, Media, Author, Audience.
In [our LinkedIn post search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt), Octolens's best plan scores 50.7 out of 100.
This plan is free. We rank 107 plans for LinkedIn post search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.098 per 1,000 posts or less.
[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) costs the least per 1,000 posts: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 posts.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [Up2Data](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/up2data/25-pack-10k-post-v1-search-posts/llms.txt) and [Fetchin](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/fetchin/50-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn post search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial
- [LinkedIn post search API: 18 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-post-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://octolens.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://app.octolens.com/api/v2/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://octolens.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://octolens.com/docs/api-reference/search/run-an-on-demand-mention-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Octolens (https://octolens.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 114 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Runs a one-time search for `query` across the workspace's enabled sources over the last 1/7/30 days and AI-scores the results inline using the workspace's company profile.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The User agrees not to: [...] Resell or redistribute data obtained through the Software as a standalone product or dataset, or use the Software or such data to build or train a service that competes with the Software. For clarity, The User may use data obtained through the Software within its own organization and in its own systems, tools, and AI agents, and — where the subscription plan permits (e.g. agency plans) — in deliverables for its clients. [...] Use any information obtained from the Software to harass, abuse, or harm another person [...] The User is solely responsible for its own use of Third-Party Content outside the Software, in particular any republication, public display, storage outside the Software, or use in marketing materials. In doing so, The User must comply with applicable law — including copyright and data-protection law — and, where applicable, with the terms of the originating platform.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 results
- Enough for: 5,000 results
- Expires: 7 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.14
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling
- Median: 7.04 s

## The call

- You send: query, timeWindow. Optional: sources, excludeSources, keywordContext, additionalTerms, additionalTermsAndOr, excludeWords, minRelevance, includeNonRelevant, maxResults, waitMs
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v2/search

## About the plan

- Plan: 7-day free trial
- Who can get it: new users, a natural person over 18, a legal person or an organizational unit, no credit card

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post URL, title, text, platform, date, author username, author name, author picture, author URL, author followers, relevance score, sentiment polarity, dominant emotion, language, keyword, is reply, post image

## Octolens's plans (7)

- [Octolens, free, 7-day free trial](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Octolens, free, Agents](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/free-agents/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Octolens, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/199-monthly/llms.txt): $13.267 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Octolens, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/599-monthly/llms.txt): $11.98 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Octolens, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/1908-yearly/llms.txt): $10.60 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Octolens, $5,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/5988-yearly/llms.txt): $9.98 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Octolens, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/contact-us/llms.txt): 57% complete

## Octolens's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v2/search`: [Octolens, free, 7-day free trial](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Octolens's APIs (2)

- [Octolens: Hacker News search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt)
- [Octolens: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Octolens: 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, $7,549 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/edges/7549-monthly/llms.txt): $9.06 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Bytemine, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/bytemine/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [ProLevelMax, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/prolevelmax/1000-pack/llms.txt): $10.191 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 2026-11-04.

- https://octolens.com/docs/api/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/docs/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/social-listening-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-post-search-api-pricing