# DataVertex, free: LinkedIn profile API

> Enhance existing candidate records with updated employment history, skills, certifications, social links, and contact data.

DataVertex's LinkedIn profile API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. DataVertex's docs list 9 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections on our checklist: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.
We haven't run DataVertex through [our LinkedIn profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,076 plans for LinkedIn profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.00 per 1,000 profiles or less. [See how many LinkedIn profile API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
[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. Village's $1 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many profiles as Village's rate limit allows.
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), [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/llms.txt) and [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/free
- [LinkedIn profile API: the best of 90+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.data-vertex.com/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.data-vertex.com/v1/lookup`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.data-vertex.com/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.data-vertex.com/candidate_lookup_endpoint/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing#credit-costs
- Sold by: DataVertex (https://www.data-vertex.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Certifications: ✓
- Languages: ✓
- Open to work: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Enhance existing candidate records with updated employment history, skills, certifications, social links, and contact data.

## Data

- Keep data: for the Term of the license, on its expiry or termination, delete or destroy all copies of the Licensed Data
- Use data: "DataVertex grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Licensed Data via the API or On-Demand solely for Recruiting Use during the Term." "Customer may not (and may not permit others to): sell, lease, sublicense, distribute, publish, or otherwise make the Licensed Data available to any third party (other than Customer's direct clients as permitted above) for any use, Use the Licensed Data for any purpose other than recruiting, candidate sourcing/enrichment, or placement services for Customer's internal team or direct clients, use the Licensed Data for lead generation, telemarketing, sales, email blasts, list rental, resale, or any mass-outreach use, use, or permit use of, the Licensed Data to assist others in competing with DataVertex or its data-services business, reverse engineer, decompile, or extract the API or underlying data beyond what is permitted under the API documentation, access or use the API or Licensed Data in any manner that violates applicable laws, regulations, or the rights of individuals or third parties."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Expires: most trials last approximately 14 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of linkedin_url or candidate_id, reveal_detailed_person_enrichment true
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/lookup

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a business email (the trial form asks for one, DataVertex reaches out about the use case and provisions the trial)

## The 46 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, profile URL, candidate ID, name, current title, current company, location, headline, about, open to work, skills, schools, school name, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, jobs, job title, job description, job company, job company URL, job is current, job start date, job end date, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issue date, languages, language proficiency, projects, project title, project description, project URL, project start date, project end date, volunteering, volunteering title, volunteering company, volunteering cause, volunteering description, volunteering start date, volunteering end date, credits consumed, credits remaining

## DataVertex's plans (10)

- [DataVertex, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/30-monthly/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/100-monthly/llms.txt): $27.778 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/250-monthly/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $480 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/480-monthly/llms.txt): $24.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $324 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/324-yearly/llms.txt): $27.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $1,080 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/1080-yearly/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $2,700 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/2700-yearly/llms.txt): $22.50 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, $5,184 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/5184-yearly/llms.txt): $21.60 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [DataVertex, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/contact-us/llms.txt): 69% complete

## DataVertex's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/lookup`: [DataVertex, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt)

## DataVertex's APIs (4)

- [DataVertex: email finder API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt)
- [DataVertex: phone finder API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt)
- [DataVertex: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datavertex/free/llms.txt)
- [DataVertex: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/search, Candidate Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/free-trial-post-v1-search-candidate-search/llms.txt)
- [DataVertex: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/search, Job Description Search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/datavertex/free-trial-post-v1-search-job-description-search/llms.txt)

## DataVertex: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [Deeplead, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/deeplead/100-pack/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 15% complete
- [Edges, $2,143 monthly, GOLD, 150,000 credits / month, POST /actions/linkedin-extract-people/run/live](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/edges/2143-monthly/llms.txt): $21.435 per 1,000, 85% complete
- [Ahmed Khaled Ali on Apify, $204 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ahmed-khaled-ali-on-apify/204-yearly/llms.txt): $21.474 per 1,000, 77% complete, live
- [Enrich Layer, $1,000 pack, PAYG $1,000, GET /api/v2/profile, Person Profile Endpoint](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/enrich-layer/1000-pack-payg-1000-get-api-v2-profile-person-profile-endpoint/llms.txt): $21.60 per 1,000, 92% complete, stored
- [Scrupp, $261 yearly, 1,000 credits / month, yearly, POST /linkedin/profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrupp/261-yearly-1000-credits-month-yearly-post-linkedin-profile/llms.txt): $21.75 per 1,000, 31% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.data-vertex.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.data-vertex.com/candidate_lookup_endpoint/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://docs.data-vertex.com/candidate_search_endpoint/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/api-pricing-plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/recruiting-contact-data-enrichment-api-services?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://www.data-vertex.com/service-agreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing