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Ocean.io pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn profile API, POST /v2/lookup/people

Ocean.io's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn profile API in 2026

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69% complete: 9 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections
100+ profiles a request
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 928 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: Free trial one of Ocean.io's 3 plans
Call: POST /v2/lookup/people one of Ocean.io's 2 calls for this API
API: LinkedIn profile API one of Ocean.io's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get profiles from Ocean.io's copy of LinkedIn. Ocean.io doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • 9 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Open to work.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 300 credits once, enough for 6,000 results. Unused credits expire after 2 weeks.
  • One call. You send linkedinHandles or oceanIds to POST /v2/lookup/people. The call returns a profile for each person you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a company email (no Gmail or other personal address). Keep data: during the term of this Agreement. Use data: with conditions.

Ocean.io: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

The table starts with Ocean.io's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to Ocean.io's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

Ocean.io, $3,000 yearly, Growth, POST /v2/lookup/peopleHunter, $299 monthly, Scale, GET /people/findB2B Enrich Search on Apify, $999 monthly, Business, POST /v2/actors/b2bsearch~profile-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-itemsDropleads, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v2/prime-db/leads/bulk-enrichDievio, $175 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$2.50$2.392$2.56$2.90$2.917
Completeness69%31%77%15%8%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$3,000$299$999$29$175
Enough for1,200,000 results a year125,000 calls a monthabout 390,234 results a month10,000 results a month60,000 results
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone with a company email (no Gmail or other personal address)anyone 18 or over (in India, businesses only)business use only, 18 or overanyone aged 18 or overanyone

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 2026-10-26.

  1. app.ocean.io/docs/getting-started/credits
  2. app.ocean.io/docs/getting-started/rate-limiting
  3. app.ocean.io/docs/lookupPeople
  4. cdn.ocean.io/assets/tos-08-2025.pdf
  5. support.ocean.io/en/articles/13130846-start-your-free-trial
  6. support.ocean.io/en/articles/17346893-using-ocean-io-api-data-in-your-product-or-service
  7. ocean.io/api
  8. ocean.io/pricing

Product details

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

  • Experience
  • Education, not in the answer
  • 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 profiles$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Strengths
Strengths100+ profiles a request
Aggregators
Aggregatorstreg: your key free, paid $4.05 per 1,000 results
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA simple REST API to access 85M+ company profiles, 950M+ people records, and AI-powered lookalike scoring — directly in your stack. [...] Consistent schema, typed fields, and millisecond response times
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep dataduring the term of this Agreement
Use dataa revocable, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Ocean.io services and any outputs generated therefrom solely for Customer’s internal business purposes during the term of this Agreement. Customer may share such outputs with its professional advisors, auditors, and clients as reasonably necessary in the ordinary course of business, provided that such third parties are bound by confidentiality obligations no less protective than those in this Agreement. [...] Customer agrees not to: Use bots, scrapers, or automated extraction tools, Reverse engineer, decompile, or probe security features, Upload malware or introduce security vulnerabilities, Resell the Services or use them to operate a service bureau, Misrepresent identity or impersonate other users, Violate the intellectual property rights of Ocean.io or third parties. [...] standard subscriptions do not include reseller, redistribution, or sublicensing rights unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing.
Plan
Pay$0
You get300 credits
Enough for6,000 results, once
Expires2 weeks
Rate limit
Per day1,000
Per second1
Batch1,000
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.10 s
The call
You sendlinkedinHandles or oceanIds
MethodPOST
Path/v2/lookup/people
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone with a company email (no Gmail or other personal address)
The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

provider record ID, name, first name, last name, country, region code, location, profile URL, current seniority, current department, current sub-department, profile picture, current title, current job description, jobs, job title, job start date, job end date, job description, job company universal name, about, skills, updated at, connections, followers, headline, open to work, hiring, current company, current company logo, submitted count, results returned, credits consumed

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