# ScrapeAtlas, free: LinkedIn profile API

> Public profile as LinkedIn publishes it: name, photo, location, follower count, connection bucket, about text, recent posts, experience, articles, education, publications, projects, recommendations and similar profiles. Job titles and descriptions are returned exactly as the public page shows them.

ScrapeAtlas's LinkedIn profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 8 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Experience, Education, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Recommendations.
The cheapest of the 538 plans we rank by price is [PayPerQ, pay as you go, Pay per request with L402, POST /api/minerva/enrich](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/payperq/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-with-l402-post-api-minerva-enrich/llms.txt), at $0.115 per 1,000 profiles.
[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/300-pack/llms.txt) and [HarvestAPI](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/harvestapi/280-pack/llms.txt) are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/free
- [Best LinkedIn profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapeatlas.com/linkedin-api
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/linkedin/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapeatlas.com/linkedin-api
- Its API docs: https://scrapeatlas.com/docs/platforms/linkedin/profile
- Sold by: ScrapeAtlas (https://scrapeatlas.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 62%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Recommendations: ✓

## Price

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

## Strengths

- Strengths: read live

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Public profile as LinkedIn publishes it: name, photo, location, follower count, connection bucket, about text, recent posts, experience, articles, education, publications, projects, recommendations and similar profiles. Job titles and descriptions are returned exactly as the public page shows them.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: While you comply with these terms, you may access ScrapeAtlas for lawful research, internal operations, and applications you build for your users. This permission is limited, non-exclusive and subject to your account's applicable limits. It does not transfer ownership of our software, branding or documentation. [...] Obtain any permissions, notices and lawful basis required for your collection, storage, analysis and distribution of that content, and comply with applicable source-platform terms. Contact us before reselling access to ScrapeAtlas itself or offering an unmodified proxy of our API as a competing service. Do not use ScrapeAtlas to break the law, infringe rights, commit fraud, distribute spam, deceive people, or facilitate harassment, stalking or doxxing. Do not build biometric-identification databases, re-identify anonymized people, or profile individuals using sensitive personal characteristics. Unlawful surveillance or discriminatory decision-making is prohibited. Do not use the service to bypass source-platform login requirements, paywalls or access restrictions, or continue access you are not authorized to undertake. Do not request private messages or login-restricted information, supply stolen credentials, defeat our authentication or usage limits, create accounts to exploit allowances, or interfere with service security or availability. These terms do not restrict rights that applicable law makes non-waivable. We may investigate suspected misuse and restrict access when reasonably necessary to protect people or the service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 4
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/linkedin/profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement, a business's account holder must be authorized to bind it

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

request ID, success, status, normalized profile URL, scraped at, warnings, name, profile picture, location, followers, connections, about, jobs, job title, job company, job company URL, job location, job description, schools, school name, school URL, school start date, school end date, publications, publication name, publication URL, projects, project name, project URL, project date range, project description, project contributors, project contributor name, project contributor URL, recommendations, recommender name, recommender URL, recommendation text, similar profiles, similar profile URL, similar profile name, similar profile picture

## ScrapeAtlas's plans (5)

- [ScrapeAtlas, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [ScrapeAtlas, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/19-pack/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [ScrapeAtlas, $89 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/89-pack/llms.txt): $1.78 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [ScrapeAtlas, $249 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/249-pack/llms.txt): $1.245 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [ScrapeAtlas, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/contact-us/llms.txt): 62% complete, live

## ScrapeAtlas's calls for this API (1)

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

## ScrapeAtlas's APIs (5)

- [ScrapeAtlas: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeAtlas: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeAtlas: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeAtlas: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeAtlas: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapeatlas/free/llms.txt)

## ScrapeAtlas: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [Axiom Works on Apify, $2,148 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/axiom-works-on-apify/2148-yearly/llms.txt): $1.223 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $220,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapingdog/220000-yearly/llms.txt): $1.239 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [Up2Data, $12,500 pack, 10M, POST /v1/profiles/enrich, Enrich a profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/up2data/12500-pack-10m-post-v1-profiles-enrich/llms.txt): $1.25 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ReapX on Apify, $2,148 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/reapx-on-apify/2148-yearly/llms.txt): $1.274 per 1,000, 85% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

- https://scrapeatlas.com
- https://scrapeatlas.com/docs/platforms/linkedin
- https://scrapeatlas.com/docs/platforms/linkedin/profile
- https://scrapeatlas.com/linkedin-api
- https://scrapeatlas.com/terms