# SocQ, top-up from $5: LinkedIn profile API

> Retrieve public LinkedIn profiles from /in/{slug} URLs with normalized identity and current role, career history, skills, location, and visible audience counts.

SocQ's LinkedIn profile API on its Starter plan. It costs $12.50 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 8 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check: Experience, Education, Skills, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections.
Half of the 500 plans we rank by price cost $10.00 per 1,000 profiles or less. This plan is cheaper than 42% of the 500 plans.
The cheapest plan 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/top-up-from-5/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/socq/top-up-from-5
- [Best LinkedIn profile API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://socq.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.socq.ai/v1/linkedin/profiles`
- API key: with the plan, on https://socq.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/linkedin/profiles
- Sold by: SocQ (https://socq.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

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

## Score

- Overall score: 49.5
- Price score: 53
- Data score: 35
- Cost to get started score: 93
- Bundle score: 99
- Performance score: 3

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $12.50
- Per: result
- Billing: pay first

## Strengths

- Strengths: read live, nothing charged when not found

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve public LinkedIn profiles from /in/{slug} URLs with normalized identity and current role, career history, skills, location, and visible audience counts.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $5
- Expires: never

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook
- Median: 28.45 s

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: callback_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/linkedin/profiles

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, URL, platform, record type, username, name, about, profile picture URL, cover image URL, personal website, verified, location, city, region, country, location coordinates, followers, connections, current title, current company, jobs, schools, skills, scraped at

## SocQ's plans (2)

- [SocQ, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 62% complete, live
- [SocQ, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socq/contact-us/llms.txt): 62% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/linkedin/profiles`: [SocQ, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)

## SocQ's APIs (12)

- [SocQ: SERP API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: company open jobs API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)
- [SocQ: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/socq/top-up-from-5/llms.txt)

## SocQ: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

- [RelatedIn, $24.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/relatedin/24-99-monthly/llms.txt): $12.495 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Captain Data, $31,250 monthly, Diamond, 5,000,000 credits / month, GET /people/enrich, Enrich People, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/captain-data/31250-monthly-diamond-5000000-credits-month-get-people-enrich-enrich-people-full/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [gtm-api.com, $150 monthly, 5 to 9 accounts, $30 per account a month, from $150 for 5, POST /api/linkedin-enrichment/person-full-profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/gtm-api-com/150-monthly/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 77% complete, live
- [Enrow, $125 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/enrow/125-pack/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 8% 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/agent-api/authentication
- https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/agent-api/overview
- https://docs.socq.ai/api-manual/linkedin/profiles
- https://socq.ai/alternatives/linkedin-api-alternatives
- https://socq.ai/apis/linkedin/profiles
- https://socq.ai/pricing
- https://socq.ai/privacy
- https://socq.ai/terms