# Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), free: LinkedIn profile API

> Get real-time LinkedIn profile data, including experience, education, current company and more. [...] designed to extract detailed profile information from public LinkedIn URLs — without the need for cookies or login.

Apify user freshdata (not FreshData)'s LinkedIn profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages.
We haven't run Apify user freshdata (not FreshData) through [our LinkedIn profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,005 plans for LinkedIn profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.00 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[Village's $1 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/village/1-monthly-core-post-v2-people-enrich-enrich-person-cached-only/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 profiles: as little as $0.0000039. Village's $1 monthly plan covers up to 259,200,000 profiles a month at no extra cost.
Village's $1 monthly plan covers any number of profiles on the call named “[Enrich Person (Bulk), cached only](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/village/1-monthly-core-post-v2-people-enrich-bulk-enrich-person-bulk-cached-only/llms.txt)”.
[Bridgly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bridgly/300-pack/llms.txt), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/free
- [LinkedIn profile API: 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/freshdata~fresh-linkedin-profile-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items`
- API key: with the plan, on https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Apify user freshdata (not FreshData) (https://apify.com/freshdata?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-16

## In the answer

- Completeness: 85%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Strengths

- Strengths: 50+ fields, read live

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get real-time LinkedIn profile data, including experience, education, current company and more. [...] designed to extract detailed profile information from public LinkedIn URLs — without the need for cookies or login.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to your compliance with this Contract and applicable laws, Creator grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Actor through the Apify platform for your own internal business purposes. [...] This right to use the Actor does not include the right to: (i) copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Actor or any part of it, or (ii) sublicense, resell, or redistribute access to the Actor to third parties. [...] It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of Actor Output complies with applicable laws and the third-party intellectual property rights. [...] You are responsible for: (i) ensuring you have a lawful basis under applicable data protection law for any personal data processing carried out through the Actor, (ii) responding to data subject rights requests relating to personal data you have instructed the Actor to process, and (iii) ensuring that any personal data you submit as Actor Input is provided lawfully.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5 a month
- Enough for: about 1 call a month
- Expires: end of the billing cycle

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: LinkedIn URL
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/actors/freshdata~fresh-linkedin-profile-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: business use only, 18 or over

## The 58 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, username, profile ID, member ID, profile picture, name, first name, last name, headline, about, location, city, region, country, current title, current company, current company LinkedIn URL, current company logo, start date, current job duration, current school, followers, connections, creator, influencer, premium, verified, verifications, account created, profile photo updated, jobs, job title, job company, job company ID, job company URL, job company logo, job start date, job end date, job duration, job description, job location, job employment type, job is current, job skills, schools, school name, school ID, school URL, school logo, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, school activities, skills, languages, certifications, message

## Apify's plans for this API (9)

- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/1-pack/llms.txt): 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/19-monthly/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/199-monthly/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/999-monthly/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), $204 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/204-yearly/llms.txt): $26.842 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), $2,148 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/2148-yearly/llms.txt): $26.985 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), $10,788 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/10788-yearly/llms.txt): $26.997 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/contact-us/llms.txt): 85% complete, live

## Apify user freshdata (not FreshData)'s calls (1)

- `POST /v2/actors/freshdata~fresh-linkedin-profile-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items`: [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData), free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/free/llms.txt)

## Apify user freshdata (not FreshData)'s APIs (1)

- [Apify user freshdata (not FreshData): LinkedIn profile API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/apify-user-freshdata-not-freshdata/free/llms.txt)

## Apify user freshdata (not FreshData): LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [Fiber AI, $24,000 yearly, Enterprise, POST /v1/linkedin-live-fetch/batch/start](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/fiber-ai/24000-yearly-enterprise-post-v1-linkedin-live-fetch-batch-start/llms.txt): $26.667 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [Linkedin Scrapers on Apify, $204 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedin-scrapers-on-apify/204-yearly/llms.txt): $26.842 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Andrey Afanasenko on Apify, $204 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/andrey-afanasenko-on-apify/204-yearly/llms.txt): $26.842 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Pvalyou on Apify, $204 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/pvalyou-on-apify/204-yearly/llms.txt): $26.842 per 1,000, 62% 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 2026-10-16.

- https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/freshdata~fresh-linkedin-profile-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/freshdata~fresh-linkedin-profile-data/builds/default?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/freshdata?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data/input-schema?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/freshdata/fresh-linkedin-profile-data/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://apify.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.apify.com/account/billing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.apify.com/account/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.apify.com/api/v2/actor-run-sync-get-dataset-items-post?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.apify.com/legal/general-terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.apify.com/legal/standard-actor-contract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing