# ChocoData, pay as you go: LinkedIn profile API

> Access LinkedIn profile data using our LinkedIn Scraper API. One API request returns clean, structured JSON while we get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection with rotating residential proxies.

ChocoData's LinkedIn profile API on its Pay-as-you-go top-up plan, $0.90 per 1,000 profiles. 1 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections: Followers.
The median plan costs $4.49 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 93% of the 1,294 priced plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/pay-as-you-go
- Get it: https://chocodata.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://chocodata.com/scraper-api/linkedin-profile
- Sold by: ChocoData (https://chocodata.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-15

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Experience: 
- Education: 
- Skills: 
- Headline: 
- About: 
- Location: 
- Photo: 
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: 
- Certifications: 
- Languages: 
- Recommendations: 
- Open to work: 

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.90
- Billing: pay first
- $ a month: 

## Strengths

- Strengths: under $1 per 1,000, read live, nothing charged when not found

## Charges

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

## Overage

- $ per 1,000: 

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Access LinkedIn profile data using our LinkedIn Scraper API. One API request returns clean, structured JSON while we get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection with rotating residential proxies.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: lawful purposes only and not to violate third-party rights, the data you extract remains yours, and you alone answer for its use complying with applicable laws and the data source's terms of service, only data that is publicly accessible, no reselling, sublicensing or distributing the Service without written authorization

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 
- Enough for: 
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

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

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.6 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required, url (a LinkedIn profile URL), username
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/linkedin/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay-as-you-go top-up
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 5 fields in the plan's answer

success, name, followers, verified, profile URL

## ChocoData's plans (9)

- [ChocoData, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.704 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.598 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 8% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $2,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/chocodata/2000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 8% complete, live

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Fetchin, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/fetchin/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Up2Data, $45,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/up2data/45000-pack/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [DataScraperES on Apify, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datascraperes-on-apify/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Serpent API, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/serpent-api/100-pack/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 69% complete, live

## Sources

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

- https://chocodata.com/
- https://chocodata.com/docs/changelog
- https://chocodata.com/docs/core-concepts
- https://chocodata.com/docs/guides/billing
- https://chocodata.com/docs/guides/errors
- https://chocodata.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
- https://chocodata.com/docs/guides/social-and-app-stores
- https://chocodata.com/llms.txt
- https://chocodata.com/openapi.json
- https://chocodata.com/pricing
- https://chocodata.com/privacy
- https://chocodata.com/scraper-api/linkedin-profile
- https://chocodata.com/terms