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Generect pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn profile API, database/lead

Generect's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn profile API in 2026

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85% complete: 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections
60+ fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 888 plans by price. Village's $1 monthly plan 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 has no cap on profiles on one call: Enrich Person (Bulk), cached only.Fetchin, Bridgly and Reverse Contact are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Start with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search one of Generect's 3 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/ one of Generect's 5 calls for this API
API: LinkedIn profile API one of Generect's 13 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 12 months old. You get profiles from Generect's copy of LinkedIn.
  • 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $10 of credit once, enough for 500 calls. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You call POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/. You send exactly one of id, linkedin_url or email. You can also send people_also_viewed, posts, comments, reactions, get_full_experience and inexact_company. The call returns the profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over with a work email. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Generect: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

The table starts with Generect's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to Generect's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a year old.

Generect, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, POST /api/v1/enrich/database/lead/Reverse Contact, $1,000 pack, Pay-as-you-go, 100K credits, POST /v2/fetch/persons/liveDatamagnet, $2,000 pack, Scale, POST /person, People ProfileThe Swarm, $12,000 yearly, Enterprise 2500, GET /v3/profiles/fetch/refreshSocialKit, $30 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$20.00$20.00$20.00$20.00$20.00
Completeness85%100%100%77%31%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstyearlypay first
Pay$20$1,000$2,000$12,000$30
Enough for1,000 calls50,000 calls100,000 calls600,000 results a year1,500 calls
Freshness12 monthslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or over with a work emailprofessionals acting in their professional capacity, not as consumersanyoneanyone over 18anyone

Every LinkedIn profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

  1. docs.generect.com/api-reference/database-vs-realtime
  2. docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/enrich/enrich-database-lead
  3. docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/enrich/enrich-realtime-lead
  4. docs.generect.com/api-reference/endpoint/enrich/get-leads-bulk
  5. docs.generect.com/api-reference/introduction
  6. docs.generect.com/api-reference/limits
  7. docs.generect.com/api-reference/migration-guide
  8. docs.generect.com/api-reference/openapi.yaml
  9. docs.generect.com/billing/faq
  10. docs.generect.com/billing/pricing
  11. docs.generect.com/docs/cached-databases
  12. generect.com/pricing
  13. generect.com/privacy
  14. generect.com/terms

Product details

The LinkedIn profile sections this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills
  • Headline
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections
  • Certifications
  • Languages
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Strengths
Strengths60+ fields
Aggregators
AggregatorsDatabar: your key 0 credits a call on the Build or Scale plan, paid $39.60 per 1,000 results
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve a full lead profile from cached data by Generect ID, LinkedIn URL, or email (reverse lookup).
Data
Freshness12 months
Keep dataa non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Services for the duration of Your paid use of Our Services [...] the User can continue to use the results of the request at any time while lawful using Our Services
Use dataa worldwide, non-exclusive right to use the business contact records You export from the Services for Your own internal sales, marketing and recruiting purposes (or, for agencies, on behalf of your clients), provided such use complies with applicable data protection and anti-spam laws [...] the Services will be used exclusively by You and/or users, who are subject to the same obligations, as You are using Your personal account in Our SaaS product “Generect” [...] You agree not to apply the following non-exhaustive list of practices that are not considered “Legitimate Use” of Our Services: using Our Services for unreasonable workloads We determine (in Our sole discretion) to be unrelated to the deployment and maintenance of Your own services, re-selling Our Services or parts thereof to another third party, using Our Services, violate any laws in Your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright, spam, or trademark laws), use a robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Services, using Our Services in a manner We determine (in our sole discretion) could cause harm to Our Services or another third party, or unusual usage patterns inconsistent with those We reasonably consider as normal use when compared to other customers
Plan
Pay$0
You get$10
Enough for500 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Concurrent500
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.76 s
The call
You sendid, linkedin_url or email, exactly one. Optional: people_also_viewed, posts, comments, reactions, get_full_experience, inexact_company
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/enrich/database/lead/
About the plan
PlanStart with $5 free, +$5 more after your first search
Who can get itanyone 18 or over with a work email
The 91 fields the plan's answer can hold

provider record ID, Sales Navigator ID, LinkedIn ID, profile URL, Sales Navigator URL, first name, middle name, last name, name, unformatted full name, translated first name, headline, about, gender, nationality, industry, location, city, region, county, country, connections, profile picture, X URL, personal website, websites, premium, open profile, open to work, retired, full profile, has current position, current title, raw job title, start date, job end date, current job location, job location city, job location state, job location county, job location country, current seniority, current title start date, current company, current company provider record ID, current company ID, current company LinkedIn URL, current company logo, current company start date, past companies, past job titles, jobs, job title, job description, job start date, job is current, job location, job company ID, job company, raw company name, job company URL, job company logo, schools, school ID, school name, school URL, school logo, school description, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issuer ID, certification issue date, languages, language proficiency, volunteering, volunteering title, volunteering cause, volunteering company, volunteering company ID, volunteering description, volunteering start date, patents, publications, skills, profile source, amount charged

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