# API Direct, free: LinkedIn profile API

> Get a LinkedIn person's profile by profile URL, public slug, or member URN. Returns name, headline, about, location, follower and connection counts, open-to-work status, and the experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, honors, publications, volunteering, and projects sections.

API Direct's LinkedIn profile API on its Free tier plan, $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. 12 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/api-direct/free
- Get it: https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing
- Its API docs: https://apidirect.io/docs/linkedin-person
- Sold by: API Direct (https://apidirect.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-15

## In the answer

- Completeness: 92%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓
- Recommendations: 
- Open to work: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: free
- $ a month: 

## Strengths

- Strengths: 60+ fields, read live

## Charges

- Repeat free: 
- Per: call
- Extra fields: 

## Overage

- $ per 1,000: 

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get a LinkedIn person's profile by profile URL, public slug, or member URN. Returns name, headline, about, location, follower and connection counts, open-to-work status, and the experience, education, skills, certifications, languages, honors, publications, volunteering, and projects sections.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Infringe upon intellectual property rights of others, Engage in any activity that could damage, disable, or impair the Service, Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Service, Use the Service for any illegal, harmful, or fraudulent purposes, Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limits, usage limits, or security measures, Use automated means to create accounts or generate API keys, Harass, abuse, or harm individuals using data obtained through the Service, Scrape our Service [...] You are responsible for complying with the terms of service of the underlying platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) when using data obtained through our Service [...] You have a lawful basis for requesting, receiving, and using the data you obtain through the Service [...] You will comply with applicable data protection law, including providing any notices and honouring any rights owed to individuals by you as controller [...] You will not use the Service to identify or target individuals on the basis of special categories of personal data

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a month
- Enough for: 50 calls a month
- Expires: reset on the 1st of each month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 
- Per second: 1.39
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 

## The call

- You send: url
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/person

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms

## The 67 fields in the plan's answer

member ID, username, profile URL, first name, last name, name, headline, about, location, country code, profile picture, cover image, followers, connections, premium, creator mode, open to work, jobs, job title, job company, job company ID, job company URL, job company logo, job location, job employment type, job description, job start date, job end date, job is current, schools, school name, school ID, school URL, school logo, school degree, school field of study, school description, school start date, school end date, skills, endorsements, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issue date, languages, language proficiency, honors, award name, award issuer, award date, award description, publications, publication name, publication publisher, publication date, publication URL, volunteering, volunteering title, volunteering company, volunteering start date, volunteering end date, projects, project name, project description, project start date, project end date

## API Direct's plans (2)

- [API Direct, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/api-direct/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [API Direct, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, live

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Apivault Labs on Apify, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apivault-labs-on-apify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Data Slayer on Apify, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/data-slayer-on-apify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Datamagnet, free, 10 free credits](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datamagnet/free-10-free-credits/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Fetchin, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/fetchin/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-15.

- https://apidirect.io/dashboard/billing
- https://apidirect.io/docs
- https://apidirect.io/docs/batch
- https://apidirect.io/docs/linkedin-person
- https://apidirect.io/docs/pricing
- https://apidirect.io/docs/rate-limits
- https://apidirect.io/dpa
- https://apidirect.io/endpoints/linkedin-person
- https://apidirect.io/openapi.json
- https://apidirect.io/terms