# Coresignal, $5,000 monthly, Elite, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape: LinkedIn profile API

> Use the Real-time Employee API when you need the most current data of a profile – ideal for Sales Tech, HR, Investment and AI applications.

Coresignal's LinkedIn profile API on its Elite plan, $6.00 per 1,000 profiles. 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections: Experience, Education, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Recommendations.
The median plan costs $3.98 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 36% of the 1,336 priced plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/5000-monthly-elite-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape
- Get it: https://coresignal.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/real-time-employee-api/post-request
- Sold by: Coresignal (https://coresignal.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-16

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $6.00
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $5,000

## Strengths

- Strengths: 60+ fields, read live, nothing charged when not found

## Charges

- Per: call
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Jobs APIs · Employee Posts APIs · Company Posts APIs · Historical Headcount API · Company APIs · Employee APIs · Search Preview · Agentic Search API · Employee contact enrichment

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use the Real-time Employee API when you need the most current data of a profile – ideal for Sales Tech, HR, Investment and AI applications.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: “Upon written request, either Party will return or destroy all copies of the other Party’s Confidential Information that are in its possession or control”, the Data being “a confidential, proprietary, trade secret and copyrighted work of Coresignal”
- Use data: “a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, limited license to use the Data for internal business purposes” [...] “The Client has no right to communicate or display to the public the Data, Substantial part of the Data, or the Data’s logic and structure.” [...] “Client shall not re-utilize the Data. For the purpose of the Agreement, ‘Re-utilization’ shall mean any form of making available to the public the Data or a Substantial part of the Data by the distribution of copies, renting, online, or other forms of transmission (including but not limited to sub-licensing).” “Notwithstanding Article 1.2. of the Agreement, the Client is permitted to create derivative works using the Data and license such works to its clients as long as the Client complies with the terms and conditions of the Agreement. [...] works created by the Client shall entail sufficient alteration of the Data to constitute derivate works (e.g., integration of individual data points taken from the Data to the Client’s own product or service).” “The Client shall not, directly or indirectly, use the Data or any of the contents of the Data to conduct or operate any bulk mail activity” [...] “The Client shall only use or otherwise process such information in accordance with all applicable data protection laws. The Client shall be solely responsible for assessment and compliance of the Data’s use by the Client with all applicable data protection laws and regulations.”

## Plan

- Pay: $5,000
- You get: 10,000,000 credits a month
- Enough for: about 833,333 calls a month
- Expires: rolled over, up to 3 months after they're added

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.83
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url, max_age
- Method: POST
- Path: /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Elite
- Who can get it: anyone with a business email

## The 135 fields in the plan's answer

name, first name, last name, profile ID, profile picture, headline, profile URL, location, about, recommendations count, updated at, country, connections, username, canonical username, job count, deleted, followers, services, order in profile, people also viewed, people also viewed name, people also viewed URL, people also viewed headline, people also viewed location, honors, award name, award issuer, award description, award date, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification credential ID, certification URL, certification issue date, certification expiration date, certification issuer URL, certification logo, courses, course organizer, course name, course suggestions, suggested course name, suggested course URL, hidden details, hidden collection, schools, school name, school program, school start date, school end date, school activities, school description, school URL, school slug, jobs, job title, job location, job company, job company URL, job company universal name, job start date, job end date, job is current, job duration, job description, job company logo, languages, language proficiency, organizations, organization name, organization position, organization description, organization start date, organization end date, patents, patent name, patent status, patent inventors, patent inventor name, patent inventor URL, patent filing date, patent URL, patent description, patent or application number, projects, project name, project URL, project description, project start date, project end date, project contributors, project contributor name, project contributor URL, publications, publication name, publication publisher, publication date, publication description, publication authors, publication author name, publication author URL, publication URL, recommendations, recommendation text, recommender name, recommender URL, similar profiles, similar profile URL, similar profile name, similar profile headline, similar profile location, similarly named profiles, similarly named profile URL, similarly named profile name, similarly named profile headline, similarly named profile location, test scores, test name, test date, test description, test score, volunteering, volunteering company, volunteering title, volunteering cause, volunteering start date, volunteering end date, volunteering duration, volunteering description, volunteering company URL, volunteering company slug, websites, personal website

## Coresignal's plans (14)

- [Coresignal, free, trial, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/free-trial-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt): $392.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [Coresignal, $199 monthly, Starter, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/199-monthly-starter-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $199.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/499-monthly-pro-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $171.086 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $1,000 monthly, Growth, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/1000-monthly-growth-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $80.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $1,500 monthly, Premium, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/1500-monthly-premium-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $18.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $3,000 monthly, Scale, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/3000-monthly-scale-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $5,000 monthly, Elite, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/5000-monthly-elite-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $2,149 yearly, Starter, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/2149-yearly-starter-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $179.083 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $5,389 yearly, Pro, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/5389-yearly-pro-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $153.971 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $10,800 yearly, Growth, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/10800-yearly-growth-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $72.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $16,200 yearly, Premium, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/16200-yearly-premium-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $16.20 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $32,400 yearly, Scale, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/32400-yearly-scale-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $8.10 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Coresignal, $54,000 yearly, Elite, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/54000-yearly-elite-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt): $5.40 per 1,000, 85% complete, live

## Coresignal's calls (2)

- `GET /v2/employee_multi_source/collect/{profile_url/shorthand_name}`: [Coresignal, $5,000 monthly, Elite, GET /v2/employee_multi_source/collect/{profile_url/shorthand_name}](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/5000-monthly-elite-get-v2-employee-multi-source-collect-profile-url-shorthand-name/llms.txt)
- `POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape`: [Coresignal, $5,000 monthly, Elite, POST /rtapi/v2/employee/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/coresignal/5000-monthly-elite-post-rtapi-v2-employee-scrape/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [EnvoAPI, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/envoapi/29-pack/llms.txt): $5.80 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crawlbase/599-monthly/llms.txt): $5.99 per 1,000, 77% 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
- [MYM on Apify, $2,148 yearly, Scale, POST /v2/actors/myagizm~linkedin-people-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/mym-on-apify/2148-yearly-scale-post-v2-actors-myagizm-linkedin-people-scraper-run-sync-get-dataset-items/llms.txt): $6.117 per 1,000, 31% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-16.

- https://coresignal.com/data-transparency/
- https://coresignal.com/pricing/
- https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions-api-dashboard/
- https://coresignal.com/terms-and-conditions/
- https://dashboard.coresignal.com/sign-up
- https://docs.coresignal.com/additional-sources/professional-network-data
- https://docs.coresignal.com/api-introduction/credits
- https://docs.coresignal.com/api-introduction/rate-limits
- https://docs.coresignal.com/api-introduction/response-codes
- https://docs.coresignal.com/company-data/overview
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/overview
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/real-time-employee-api
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/real-time-employee-api/dictionary
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/real-time-employee-api/post-request
- https://docs.coresignal.com/employee-data/real-time-employee-api/url-validation
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/data-and-compliance
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/faq
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/product-comparison
- https://docs.coresignal.com/introduction/welcome-to-coresignal
- https://docs.coresignal.com/jobs-data/overview
- https://docs.coresignal.com/pricing/pricing
- https://docs.coresignal.com/release-notes/april-2026
- https://docs.coresignal.com/release-notes/october-2026
- https://docs.coresignal.com/social-posts-data/employee-posts