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lobstr.io pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn profile API, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Profile Scraper

lobstr.io's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn profile API in 2026
77% complete: 10 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections
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$0.00per 1,000 profiles
Plan: Free one of lobstr.io's 9 plans
Call: POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Profile Scraper one of lobstr.io's 3 calls
API: LinkedIn profile API one of lobstr.io's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from LinkedIn when you call.
  • 10 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Open to work.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 100 results.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/runs with the inputs in Product details. 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, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans. Use data: with conditions.

lobstr.io: 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 planlobstr.io, free, Free, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Profile ScraperFetchin, freeHarvestAPI, freeRenidly, freeScrappa, free, BasicLix, free
$ per 1,000$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness77%100%100%92%69%46%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 results a month1,000 calls, onceabout 156 calls, once100 calls, once100 calls a month10 calls, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itprofessionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.ioanyone 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 Syriabusinesses and other legal entities acting in the course of business, not consumers, 18 or over, one account each

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. api.lobstr.io/v1/plans
  2. docs.lobstr.io/docs/concepts
  3. docs.lobstr.io/docs/configure-webhook-delivery
  4. docs.lobstr.io/docs/pricing
  5. docs.lobstr.io/docs/rate-limiting
  6. docs.lobstr.io/docs/start-run
  7. docs.lobstr.io/examples/linkedin-profile-scraper/add-tasks
  8. docs.lobstr.io/examples/linkedin-profile-scraper/credit-cost
  9. docs.lobstr.io/examples/linkedin-profile-scraper/get-results
  10. docs.lobstr.io/examples/linkedin-profile-scraper/update-settings
  11. help.lobstr.io/billing/manage-subscription
  12. help.lobstr.io/billing/reset-billing-cycle
  13. help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/credits
  14. lobstr.io/legal/terms-of-use
  15. lobstr.io/pricing
  16. lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-scraper

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
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work
Price
$ per 1,000$0.00
Billingfree
Strengths
Strengthsread live
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Perresult
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExtract verified email + full LinkedIn profile data at scale — no code, no hassle. [...] Capture full data from any LinkedIn profile URL — jobs, education, skills, everything.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans
Use dataThe User hereby asserts and affirms that the utilization of the Platform is solely for professional activities, thereby exempting the User from being classified as a "consumer" under the governing law. [...] Squiders are obligated to: (i) Procure requisite permissions for accessing websites through Squids, (ii) Abstain from extracting substantial portions of databases, whether in terms of quality or quantity, (iii) Refrain from unauthorized access to confidential or proprietary information, (iv) Observe all third-party rights, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights, (v) Comply with all pertinent laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations, inclusive of those related to the protection of personal data. [...] a global, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, and non-sublicensable right to employ the Platform for the duration of the User's active account on said Platform [...] Absent express written consent from LOBSTR, the User shall abstain—and shall prohibit any third parties acting on their behalf, including but not limited to employees, agents, affiliates, and subcontractors—from: (i) Decompiling, disassembling, or reverse-engineering the Platform, or attempting to discern its source code, foundational ideas, algorithms, file formats, or interoperability features [...], (ii) Independently or with third-party assistance, rectifying any Platform defects to render it compliant with its intended use [...], (iii) Removing or altering any notifications, labels, or references pertaining to the intellectual property rights of LOBSTR or any third parties, (iv) Engaging in the transfer, utilization, or exportation of the Platform in a manner that contravenes applicable laws, (v) Integrating, associating, or amalgamating the Platform with any other software or documents, or generating derivative works based in whole or part on the Platform, (vi) Conducting any activities with the Platform other than those explicitly sanctioned by these Terms and Conditions
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits a month
Enough for100 results a month
Expirescredits refresh each month and don't roll over at renewal, only a paid billing-cycle reset carries unused credits over, for 30 days
Rate limit
Per second2
Concurrent1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendsquid (a LinkedIn Profile Scraper squid, crawler 5c11752d8687df2332c08247c4fb655a, holding the profile URLs as its tasks (url), with a synced LinkedIn account linked to it). Optional: email_enrichment
MethodPOST
Path/v1/runs
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itprofessionals, not consumers, through their own LinkedIn account synced to lobstr.io
The 48 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, username, first name, last name, name, headline, about, location, industry, member ID, Sales Navigator URL, connection degree, connections URL, mutual connections URL, shared connections, profile picture, cover image, creator mode, open to work, connections, followers, skills, jobs, job title, job description, job location, job start date, job end date, job company, job company URL, job company logo, schools, school name, school field of study, school start date, school end date, school activities, school grade, school ID, school logo, school description, followed companies, groups, group name, group URL, group picture, featured, scraped at

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