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Linked API pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn profile API, POST /workflows, st.openPersonPage

Linked API's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn profile API in 2026
69% complete: 9 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections
read live
$0.00per 1,000 profiles
Plan: 7-day free trial of Core or Plus one of Linked API's 6 plans
Call: POST /workflows, st.openPersonPage one of Linked API's 2 calls
API: LinkedIn profile API one of Linked API's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from LinkedIn when you call.
  • 9 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Languages.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
  • One call. You send personUrl to POST /workflows. You set actionType to "st.openPersonPage". You can also send label, basicInfo and then.actionType. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Linked API: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the table gives live data, like this plan.

This planLinked API, free, 7-day free trial of Core or Plus, POST /workflows, st.openPersonPageFetchin, freeHarvestAPI, freeRenidly, freeScrappa, free, Basic
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness69%100%100%92%69%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limit1,000 calls, onceabout 156 calls, once100 calls, once100 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itnew users, for one seat, with a payment method on file, businesses and professionals 18 or over, not consumers, a seat for each LinkedIn account they connect ("One seat = one LinkedIn account")anyone 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyoneanyone 18 or over with a work email (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other free providers aren't accepted)anyone 18 or over, not in Belarus, Cuba, Crimea, Donetsk, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Syria

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. linkedapi.io/docs/action-nv-open-person-page
  2. linkedapi.io/docs/action-st-open-person-page
  3. linkedapi.io/docs/action-st-retrieve-person-education
  4. linkedapi.io/docs/action-st-retrieve-person-experience
  5. linkedapi.io/docs/action-st-retrieve-person-languages
  6. linkedapi.io/docs/action-st-retrieve-person-skills
  7. linkedapi.io/docs/admin-limits
  8. linkedapi.io/docs/common-errors
  9. linkedapi.io/docs/core-concepts
  10. linkedapi.io/docs/executing-workflows
  11. linkedapi.io/docs/making-requests
  12. linkedapi.io/docs/retrieving-person-data
  13. linkedapi.io/docs/workflows-overview
  14. linkedapi.io/guides/linkedin-profile-scraper
  15. linkedapi.io/guides/understanding-linkedin-limits
  16. linkedapi.io/pricing
  17. linkedapi.io/terms-of-use

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
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Strengths
Strengthsread live
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Percall
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLinked API's route is account-based: fetchPerson opens any public profile by URL through a dedicated cloud browser on your own account and returns the typed JSON shown below – one profile at a time or a list in bulk.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataa limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Linked API for your internal business purposes [...] you may write software that calls our API endpoints for your company’s use [...] You may not sublicense, resell, or commercially exploit access to our Service to third parties (for example, offering Linked API functionality as a service bureau or as part of a competing product) without our explicit permission [...] You may use Linked API only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms [...] It is crucial that you use the Service in compliance with LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Professional Community Policies, and any other applicable LinkedIn terms [...] you agree to process any personal data in compliance with all applicable data protection laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and any applicable third‑party terms. You must use such data only for legitimate purposes for which you have a documented lawful basis, and you must not resell, republish, or otherwise distribute LinkedIn‑derived data in a manner that violates applicable law or third‑party terms
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Rate limit
Per second1.67
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendactionType "st.openPersonPage" and personUrl. Optional: label, basicInfo, then.actionType
MethodPOST
Path/workflows
About the plan
Plan7-day free trial of Core or Plus
Who can get itnew users, for one seat, with a payment method on file, businesses and professionals 18 or over, not consumers, a seat for each LinkedIn account they connect ("One seat = one LinkedIn account")
The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, member ID, profile URL, hashed profile URL, headline, location, country code, current title, about, current company, current company LinkedIn URL, followers, profile picture, connection degree, jobs, job title, job company, job company URL, job employment type, job workplace type, job description, job duration, job start date, job end date, job location, schools, school name, school URL, school degree, school field of study, skills, languages, language proficiency, current company ID

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