# Ploid, free: LinkedIn profile API

> Read supported public LinkedIn profiles, people search results, profile activity, and companies.

Ploid's LinkedIn profile API on its Free trial plan, $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. 9 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections: Experience, Education, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Open to work.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ploid/free
- Get it: https://ploid.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://ploid.com/documentation/api/linkedin#profile
- Sold by: Ploid (https://ploid.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-21

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Read supported public LinkedIn profiles, people search results, profile activity, and companies.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Services are intended for lawful business and professional outreach (for example recruiting and sales) only, not for personal, non-business use, harassment, stalking, spam, or unpermitted surveillance. [...] you must not use the Services to obtain or process sensitive data unlawfully. [...] You agree not to, and not to permit others to: Use the Services in violation of applicable law, including privacy, employment, anti-discrimination, anti-spam, and data protection laws. Use the Services or people data for personal, non-business purposes in a way that violates applicable law or reasonable privacy expectations (including harassment, stalking, or doxxing). Scrape, crawl, harvest, or extract data from the Services in an automated way except through documented APIs or features we expressly permit. Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our or others’ systems. Use the Services to send spam, phishing, malware, or deceptive communications. Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code of the Services except where prohibited by law. Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or outputs in a way that competes with Ploid or breaches your agreement. [...] You are solely responsible for your use of people data obtained through the Services, including obtaining any required notices, consents, or legal bases, honoring individual rights requests where applicable, and complying with regulations governing recruiting, marketing, and background screening in your jurisdiction.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: url, identifier
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone who creates an account, for lawful business and professional outreach (its terms: not for personal, non-business use)

## The 42 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, username, profile URL, first name, last name, name, headline, about, location, country code, industry, connection degree, followers, connections, profile picture, cover image, current title, current company, current company LinkedIn URL, current job location, current job description, current company start date, jobs, job title, job company, job company URL, job location, job description, job start date, job end date, job is current, schools, school name, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, open to work, premium, request ID, credits consumed, credits remaining

## Ploid's plans (4)

- [Ploid, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ploid/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete
- [Ploid, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ploid/200-monthly/llms.txt): 69% complete
- [Ploid, $600 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ploid/600-monthly/llms.txt): 69% complete
- [Ploid, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/ploid/contact-us/llms.txt): 69% complete

## Ploid's calls (1)

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

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Pubrio, free, trial](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/pubrio/free-trial-post-people-linkedin-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [PND Team, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/pnd-team/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [Pratik Dani on Apify, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/pratik-dani-on-apify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete
- [Pranjal Yadav on Apify, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/pranjal-yadav-on-apify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-21.

- https://ploid.com/documentation/api/errors-and-limits
- https://ploid.com/documentation/api/linkedin
- https://ploid.com/documentation/api/social
- https://ploid.com/openapi.json
- https://ploid.com/pricing
- https://ploid.com/terms