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Needle pricing: LinkedIn profile API

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62% complete: 8 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run Needle through our LinkedIn profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,070 plans for LinkedIn profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $10.00 per 1,000 profiles or less.Village's $1 monthly plan 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”.Bridgly, Reverse Contact and DataForB2B are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Free Trial one of Needle's 4 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/linkedin/profiles/{identity} Needle's only call for this API
API: LinkedIn profile API one of Needle's 16 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 8 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Open to work.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1 linked account. This call is free. Needle limits how many calls you get but gives no number. Unused units expire after 7 days.
  • One call. You send identity and connectedAccountId to GET /api/v1/linkedin/profiles/{identity}. The call returns the profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a LinkedIn, Instagram or email account to connect. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

Needle: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

Needle alternatives: other LinkedIn profile API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 profiles.

This planNeedle, freeBridgly, freeReverse Contact, free trial, POST /v2/fetch/personsFetchin, free, GET /api/v1/profile, Get ProfileMart.dev, free, GET /v1/linkedin, ProfileData Doping on Apify, free
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness62%77%100%100%100%62%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published100 calls, once500 calls, once1,000 calls, once100 calls1,250 results a month
Freshnessunknownlivestoredliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone with a LinkedIn, Instagram or email account to connectanyone with a real email address (disposable and forwarding addresses do not qualify)professionals acting in their professional capacity, not as consumers, one trial per customeranyone 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyone who can enter a binding agreement and verifies their emailbusiness use only, 18 or over

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.

  1. needle.app/api/v1/openapi
  2. needle.app/docs/api-reference/get-linkedin-profile
  3. needle.app/pricing
  4. needle.app/terms

Product details

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

  • Experiencecurrent job
  • Education
  • Skills
  • Headline
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers, not in the answer
  • Connections, not in the answer
  • Certifications, not in the answer
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns a profile by public identifier or user id.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use dataYou may use Needle only in compliance with these terms and all applicable laws. [...] You agree not to misuse the service, including by attempting to access it in unauthorized ways, disrupting its operation, or using it to violate the rights of others.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1 linked account
Expires7 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendidentity, connectedAccountId
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/linkedin/profiles/{identity}
About the plan
PlanFree Trial
Who can get itanyone with a LinkedIn, Instagram or email account to connect
The 35 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, profile URL, first name, last name, full name, headline, about, location, current company, current title, profile picture, profile picture large, cover image, follower count, connection degree, connection status, invitation status, open profile, open to work, is hiring, experience, education, school name, school degree, school start date, school end date, skills, endorsements, projects, project name, project description, project start date, project end date, project skills, websites

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