# Ocean.io, free trial, POST /v2/lookup/people: LinkedIn profile API

> A 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

Ocean.io's LinkedIn profile API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 9 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Experience, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Open to work.
We rank 928 plans by price. [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 has no cap on profiles on one call: [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).
[Fetchin](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/fetchin/50-monthly-subscription-50k-get-api-v1-profile-get-profile-full/llms.txt), [Bridgly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bridgly/top-up-from-5/llms.txt) and [Reverse Contact](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/reverse-contact/449-monthly/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-lookup-people
- [Best LinkedIn profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.ocean.io/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.ocean.io/v2/lookup/people`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.ocean.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://app.ocean.io/docs/lookupPeople
- Sold by: Ocean.io (https://www.ocean.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-26

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Experience: ✓
- Skills: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Open to work: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Strengths

- Strengths: 100+ profiles a request

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: treg: your key free, paid $4.05 per 1,000 results

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A 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

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: during the term of this Agreement
- Use data: a 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 get: 300 credits
- Enough for: 6,000 results, once
- Expires: 2 weeks

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1,000

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.10 s

## The call

- You send: linkedinHandles or oceanIds
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/lookup/people

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Ocean.io's plans (3)

- [Ocean.io, free trial, POST /v2/lookup/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-lookup-people/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Ocean.io, $3,000 yearly, Growth, POST /v2/lookup/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ocean-io/3000-yearly-growth-post-v2-lookup-people/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Ocean.io, contact us, Revenue Navigator, POST /v2/lookup/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ocean-io/contact-us-revenue-navigator-post-v2-lookup-people/llms.txt): 69% complete, stored

## Ocean.io's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v2/enrich/people`: [Ocean.io, free trial, POST /v2/enrich/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-enrich-people/llms.txt)
- `POST /v2/lookup/people`: [Ocean.io, free trial, POST /v2/lookup/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-lookup-people/llms.txt)

## Ocean.io's APIs (11)

- [Ocean.io: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/ocean-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/ocean-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/ocean-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/ocean-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: LinkedIn post repost API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-repost-apis/ocean-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: similar companies API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/ocean-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: similar people API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-people-apis/ocean-io/free/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v2/enrich/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-enrich-companies/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v2/enrich/company](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-enrich-company/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: company enrichment API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v2/lookup/companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-lookup-companies/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v2/lookup/people](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-lookup-people/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: email finder API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v2/enrich/person, Enrich person](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-enrich-person/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: email finder API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v2/reveal/emails](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/ocean-io/free-trial-post-v2-reveal-emails/llms.txt)
- [Ocean.io: phone finder API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/ocean-io/3000-yearly/llms.txt)

## Ocean.io: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [Hunter, $299 monthly, Scale, GET /people/find](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/hunter/299-monthly-scale-get-people-find/llms.txt): $2.392 per 1,000, 31% complete, stored
- [B2B Enrich Search on Apify, $999 monthly, Business, POST /v2/actors/b2bsearch~profile-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/b2b-enrich-search-on-apify/999-monthly-business-post-v2-actors-b2bsearch-profile-lookup-run-sync-get-dataset-items/llms.txt): $2.56 per 1,000, 77% complete, stored
- [Dropleads, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v2/prime-db/leads/bulk-enrich](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/dropleads/29-monthly-starter-post-api-v2-prime-db-leads-bulk-enrich/llms.txt): $2.90 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Dievio, $175 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/dievio/175-pack/llms.txt): $2.917 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored

## 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.

- https://app.ocean.io/docs/getting-started/credits
- https://app.ocean.io/docs/getting-started/rate-limiting
- https://app.ocean.io/docs/lookupPeople
- https://cdn.ocean.io/assets/tos-08-2025.pdf
- https://support.ocean.io/en/articles/13130846-start-your-free-trial
- https://support.ocean.io/en/articles/17346893-using-ocean-io-api-data-in-your-product-or-service
- https://www.ocean.io/api
- https://www.ocean.io/pricing