# LinkedInDataAPI, free: LinkedIn profile API

> Returns structured work history (experiences), academic background (educations), skills, current employer (current_company, current_title), location, follower count, and hiring/open-to-work signals.

LinkedInDataAPI's LinkedIn profile API on its Free Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 12 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Languages, Open to work.
We haven't run LinkedInDataAPI through [our LinkedIn profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,005 plans for LinkedIn profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.00 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[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: 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 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), [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly/llms.txt) and [DataForB2B](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/dataforb2b/499-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/free
- [LinkedIn profile API: 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://linkedindataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.linkedindataapi.com/v1/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://linkedindataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://linkedindataapi.com/docs/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: LinkedInDataAPI (https://linkedindataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 92%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- 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: Returns structured work history (experiences), academic background (educations), skills, current employer (current_company, current_title), location, follower count, and hiring/open-to-work signals.

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use LinkedInDataAPI, or data obtained through it, to: harass, stalk, threaten, dox or intimidate any person, single out people based on sensitive characteristics such as health, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or political views, make consumer credit, housing, insurance or FCRA-regulated eligibility decisions, try to obtain non-public data, get around our access controls or rate limits, or use someone else’s API key, disrupt, overload, probe or reverse-engineer our systems, break any law, or infringe anyone else’s rights.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 12,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,200 calls
- Expires: 60 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username. Optional: url
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: new accounts that pass its automated abuse checks, once per developer

## The 43 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, URN, name, first name, last name, headline, about, current title, current company, current company universal name, country code, location, city, state, industry, profile picture, cover image, profile URL, followers, connections, is creator, open to work, is hiring, jobs, job title, job company, job company universal name, job company URL, job location, job is current, job start date, job end date, job duration, job description, schools, school name, school degree, school field of study, school start year, school end year, skills, certifications, languages

## LinkedInDataAPI's plans (7)

- [LinkedInDataAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 7 days
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/25-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 7 days
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $89 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/89-pack/llms.txt): $0.742 per 1,000, 92% complete, 7 days
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $249 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/249-pack/llms.txt): $0.498 per 1,000, 92% complete, 7 days
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.76 per 1,000, 92% complete, 7 days
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $69 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/69-monthly/llms.txt): $0.575 per 1,000, 92% complete, 7 days
- [LinkedInDataAPI, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 92% complete, 7 days

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

- `GET /v1/profile`: [LinkedInDataAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)

## LinkedInDataAPI's APIs (7)

- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)
- [LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/linkedindataapi/free/llms.txt)

## LinkedInDataAPI: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [Mart.dev, $999 monthly, Scale monthly, GET /v1/linkedin, Profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/mart-dev/999-monthly-scale-monthly-get-v1-linkedin-profile/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, beyond 1,111,111,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-beyond-1111111000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 77% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly, Team, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Profile Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly-team-post-v1-runs-linkedin-profile-scraper/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 77% complete, live
- [Mawsool International FZCO on Apify, $999 monthly, Business, POST /v2/actors/oday~mawsool-linkedin-company-checker/run-sync-get-dataset-items](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/mawsool-international-fzco-on-apify/999-monthly-business-post-v2-actors-oday-mawsool-linkedin-company-checker-run-sync-get-dataset-items/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 15% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://linkedindataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/docs/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/linkedin-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://linkedindataapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing