Cognism: 2 LinkedIn profile API plans

Cognism's site llms.txt

31% complete: 4 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sectionsSee which

100+ profiles a request

Plan: Pro one of Cognism's 2 plans

Call: POST /persons/filter Cognism's only call

POST /persons/filterContact us, Pro

About this item

Stored. You get profiles from Cognism's copy of LinkedIn. Cognism doesn't say how old the copy is.
4 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections. Experience, Education, Skills, Location.
No public price. You ask Cognism for one.
One call. You call POST /persons/filter. Every input is optional. The call returns the profile.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Compare with similar plans

Other providers' plans with no public price and the closest number of LinkedIn profile sections. Like this plan, each is a stored copy.

	This planCognism, contact us, Pro	Hunter, contact us	Ryan Clinton on Apify, contact us	Dropleads, contact us	Hundevmode Labs on Apify, contact us
Completeness	31%	31%	31%	15%	8%
Billing	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	a business: the entity named as Customer on its Order, on the package for teams that need advanced prospecting workflows (5 seats included)	anyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)	business use only, 18 or over	anyone aged 18 or over	business use only, 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-18.

Product details

We show which LinkedIn profile sections its answer holds, then each filled column of this plan's row on the sheet.

Experience
Education
Skills
Headline, not in the answer
About, not in the answer
Location
Photo, not in the answer
Followers, not in the answer
Connections, not in the answer
Certifications, not in the answer
Languages, not in the answer
Recommendations, not in the answer
Open to work, not in the answer

Price
Billing	contact

Strengths
Strengths	100+ profiles a request

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	Dictionaries · from the same budget: Search companies · Count persons · Count companies · MCP connector · Prospecting platform · Enrich · Browser extension

In their words
Their pitch	Best for teams that want Cognism data to power their systems, workflows and data pipelines. Search, enrich, and retrieve verified contact and company data programmatically, with the fields and signals your workflow needs.

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	no limit, after the subscription too, deleted without undue delay when the person is on Cognism's Opt-Out List, checked at least every 30 days, unless you have another lawful basis
Use data	Customer may use the Services solely for its internal business purposes. Customer is not permitted to sublicense, resell, transfer, offer for sale, disclose, distribute or make available any of the Profile Data or any part of the Services to any third party without Cognism's prior written consent. [...] Customer shall not, and shall ensure that its End Users shall not: [...] (b) reproduce, modify, create, or prepare derivative works of any of the Services or related Documentation, (c) work around technical limitations in a Service or restrictions in the related Documentation, [...] (f) disclose the results of any of the Cognism Technology or program benchmark tests to any third parties without Cognism's prior written consent, (g) access or extract data from the Services by any automated means (including bots, scrapers, scripts or AI agents) other than through Integrations or interfaces provided by Cognism for that purpose, or make the Services or any Profile Data available for crawling, (h) use data made available through the Service or a Non-Cognism Application, including Profile Data, to train, fine-tune, or improve any third-party artificial intelligence or large-language model, including the models underlying any AI application or assistant through which an End User accesses the Platform, (i) use the Services in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations, or (j) sublicense, resell, transfer, offer for sale, disclose, distribute or make available the Profile Data or the Services whether in part or in whole to any third party without Cognism's prior written consent.

Rate limit
Per second	8.33
Batch	100

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	nothing required. Optional: person.contact.linkedInUrl.include (LinkedIn profile URLs, matched exactly) or person.contact.email.include, the other person and company filters, options, view (demographics, contacts, education, pastCompanies, skills, job_join_events, job_leave_events, job_transition_events, email_change_events, phone_change_events, location_change_events), limit, cursor, offset
Method	POST
Path	/persons/filter

About the plan
Plan	Pro
Who can get it	a business: the entity named as Customer on its Order, on the package for teams that need advanced prospecting workflows (5 seats included)

The 43 fields in the plan's answer

next cursor, more results available, page size, total results, offset, redeem ID, provider record ID, name, first name, last name, current title, current company, profile URL, country, region, city, current seniority ID, current seniority, current department, is CXO, skills, schools, school name, school degree, school start date, school end date, jobs, job company, job company universal name, job title, job start date, job end date, job join date, job join title, job leave date, job leave title, job transition date, job transition title from, job transition title to, location change date, location change type, location change country from, location change country to