# Tapline, free: LinkedIn profile API

> A public member profile: headline, location, followers, About, experience and education with titles, recent posts, articles, projects, recommendations, and similar profiles.

Tapline's Free plan for the LinkedIn profile API costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. We check each provider's docs for 13 LinkedIn profile sections. Tapline's docs list 9: Experience, Education, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Recommendations.
In [our LinkedIn profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt), the best plan from Tapline scores 45.8 out of 100. Tapline ranks 66th of 109 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 1,221 plans for LinkedIn profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $9.833 or less per 1,000 profiles. [497 LinkedIn profile API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt) [Bridgly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bridgly/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 100 calls in total. Bridgly is the best LinkedIn profile API in our benchmark.
[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) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles, with no charge per call. You get as many profiles as Village's rate limit allows. [John on Apify's $1 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/john-on-apify/1-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 profiles a month: $1.00.
Village's $1 monthly plan covers any number of profiles on the call named “[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)”.
[Bridgly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bridgly/300-pack/llms.txt), [EveryInfra](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/everyinfra/10-pack/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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/free
- [LinkedIn profile API in 2026: the best of 100+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-linkedin-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://tapline.sh/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.tapline.sh/v1/linkedin/profile`
- API key: with the plan, on https://tapline.sh/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://tapline.sh/docs/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Tapline (https://tapline.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 69%
- Experience: ✓
- Education: ✓
- Headline: ✓
- About: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Recommendations: ✓

## Price

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

## Strengths

- Strengths: read live

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A public member profile: headline, location, followers, About, experience and education with titles, recent posts, articles, projects, recommendations, and similar profiles.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Services provide market-data and analytics outputs for your internal business, research, and analytical purposes. [...] You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You shall not, and shall not permit anyone acting on your behalf to: (a) use the Services to access, collect, or attempt to collect data that is not publicly available, including data behind authentication, login, or paywall barriers, or data you are not authorized to access, (b) use the Services in a manner that infringes, misappropriates, or violates the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or contractual or terms-of-service rights of any third party, (c) use the Services to collect, assemble, or process personal data in violation of any applicable data-protection or privacy law, (d) resell, sublicense, redistribute, or make the Services or substantial portions of the data outputs available to a third party as a standalone product, or use the Services to build a competing data product, (e) interfere with, disrupt, place an undue load on, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, our systems, or the systems of any third party, including via denial-of-service activity, the introduction of malware, or probing security vulnerabilities, (f) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Services, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law, (g) use the Services for any fraudulent, deceptive, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful activity, or in any way that could damage the reputation of Tapline or our payment providers, or (h) use the Services in violation of any applicable law, regulation, sanctions regime, or governmental order.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 50 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.97 s

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile URL, username, name, headline, profile picture, location, followers, connections, about, jobs, job title, job start date, job end date, job description, schools, school name, school start date, school end date, publications, projects, recommendations, similar profiles, personal website

## Tapline's plans (7)

- [Tapline, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Tapline, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/9-pack/llms.txt): $3.60 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Tapline, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Tapline, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Tapline, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Tapline, $468 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/468-yearly/llms.txt): $0.78 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Tapline, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/contact-us/llms.txt): 69% complete, live

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

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

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## Tapline: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

[Tapline alternatives: every LinkedIn profile API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/tapline-alternatives.txt)

We list Tapline's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Tapline in price per 1,000 profiles. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Tapline, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/tapline/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Mart.dev, $2,999 monthly, Power monthly, GET /v1/linkedin, Profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/mart-dev/2999-monthly-power-monthly-get-v1-linkedin-profile/llms.txt): $0.24 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrappa, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [Scrappa on Apify, $204 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrappa-on-apify/204-yearly/llms.txt): $0.268 per 1,000, 69% complete, live
- [LeadShark, $590 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/leadshark/590-yearly/llms.txt): $0.273 per 1,000, 69% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://tapline.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/SKILL.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/compare/hasdata-vs-tapline?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/docs/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/openapi.linkedin.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
- https://tapline.sh/refund-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=linkedin-profile-api-pricing
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