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The Swarm pricing and alternatives: LinkedIn profile API, POST /v3/profiles/fetch

The Swarm's sitellms.txtBest LinkedIn profile API in 2026
85% complete: 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we checkSee the 13 sections
60+ fields100+ profiles a request
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe rank 881 plans by price. Village's $1 monthly plan 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.Fetchin, Bridgly and Reverse Contact are the best LinkedIn profile API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 14-day free trial one of The Swarm's 18 plans
Call: POST /v3/profiles/fetch one of The Swarm's 2 calls for this API
API: LinkedIn profile API one of The Swarm's 15 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get profiles from The Swarm's copy of LinkedIn.
  • 11 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections we check. Experience, Education, Skills, Headline, About, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Certifications, Open to work.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits once, enough for 1,000 results. Unused credits expire at the end of the 14-day trial.
  • One call. You call POST /v3/profiles/fetch. You send at least one of ids, linkedin_names, linkedin_ids or linkedin_entity_ids. You can also send fields and x-authenticate-team. The call returns a profile for each person you send.
  • Who can get it: anyone over 18. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

The Swarm: LinkedIn profile API alternatives

The table starts with The Swarm's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 profiles closest to The Swarm's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

The Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/profiles/fetchFetchin, $10,000 monthly, 50 req/s, GET /api/v1/profile, Get Profile, fullUp2Data, $200 pack, 100K, POST /v1/profiles/enrich, Enrich a profile, fullAnas Nadeem on Apify, $1 packWeb Data Labs on Apify, $999 monthly
$ per 1,000 profiles$4.00$4.00$4.00$4.00$4.00
Completeness85%100%100%92%54%
Billingyearlymonthlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$96,000$10,000$200$1$999
Enough for24,000,000 results a year2,500,000 calls a month50,000 calls250 results249,750 results a month
Freshness1 daylivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone over 18anyone 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into the termsanyoneAI agents paying in stablecoins over x402 or MPP, no Apify account neededbusiness use only, 18 or over

Every LinkedIn profile API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-19.

  1. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/credits-usage.md
  2. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/introduction.md
  3. docs.theswarm.com/docs/api-reference/rate-limiting.md
  4. docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/add-connector.md
  5. docs.theswarm.com/docs/endpoints/v3/fetch-profile.md
  6. docs.theswarm.com/docs/enrichment-data/profile/sample-data.md
  7. docs.theswarm.com/docs/examples/fetch-endpoint.md
  8. docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/faq.md
  9. docs.theswarm.com/docs/getting-started/introduction
  10. help.theswarm.com/en/articles/14121950-plans-billing-connector-limits-api-credits
  11. theswarm.com/api
  12. theswarm.com/pricing
  13. theswarm.com/terms

Product details

The LinkedIn profile sections this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Experience
  • Education
  • Skills
  • Headline
  • About
  • Location
  • Photo
  • Followers
  • Connections
  • Certifications
  • Languages, not in the answer
  • Recommendations, not in the answer
  • Open to work
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Strengths
Strengths60+ fields, 100+ profiles a request
Aggregators
AggregatorsDeepline: your key free for 50,000 calls a month, then $5.00 per 1,000
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Swarm API gives developers, AI agents, and product teams access to over 500 million professional profiles, 50 million companies, and the deepest relationship mapping data available on the market. Unlike traditional enrichment providers, The Swarm combines people data, company data, relationship intelligence, job changes, and fundraising data into a single platform accessible through APIs, integrations (including Clay, HubSpot, and others), and our native MCP server. [...]
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep dataUpon termination of your subscription or access to the Service: Your license to use Swarm Data ends immediately. At The Swarm’s request, you must delete all Swarm Data in your possession, including backups. You may retain internal Derived Materials that do not contain identifiable Swarm Data fields. You must certify deletion upon request.
Use dataSubject to your compliance with these Terms, The Swarm grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the data, insights, relationship mappings, and related information made available through the Service (“Swarm Data”) for your own internal business purposes. “Internal business purposes” includes, but is not limited to: Sales prospecting, Recruiting and talent sourcing, Partnerships and BD research, Investor outreach, Relationship mapping and warm intro workflows, CRM enrichment, Go-to-market operations and analytics, Executive dashboards and internal reporting. You may store, analyze, enrich, combine, and use Swarm Data inside your own systems, tools, CRMs, or internal workflows, as long as such use is internal to your organization. Except as expressly permitted by The Swarm in writing, you may not, directly or indirectly: Sell, resell, license, sublicense, publish, or otherwise redistribute Swarm Data to any third party. Provide Swarm Data to customers, clients, partners, vendors, contractors, affiliates, or the public. Include Swarm Data in any commercial data product, enrichment service, dataset, marketplace offering, or AI model intended for external use. Use Swarm Data to build, train, or improve any AI or ML model that is accessible to third parties. Use Swarm Data to develop or enhance any product or service that competes with The Swarm or provides relationship-mapping or people-data features. Upload or share raw Swarm Data into third-party platforms for any purpose other than your internal business operations. Any use of Swarm Data outside your organization requires prior written approval from The Swarm. If you wish to redistribute, resell, or otherwise make Swarm Data available to third parties (including in workflows where they can view or access data), you must obtain The Swarm’s prior written consent. You may create internal analyses, models, segments, reports, dashboards, or insights derived from Swarm Data (“Derived Materials”), provided these remain internal to your organization and are not sold, published, shared externally, or used to train publicly available AI systems.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 results, once
Expiresat the end of the 14-day trial
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1,000
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.00 s
The call
You sendat least one of ids, linkedin_names, linkedin_ids or linkedin_entity_ids. Optional: fields, x-authenticate-team
MethodPOST
Path/v3/profiles/fetch
About the plan
Plan14-day free trial
Who can get itanyone over 18
The 62 fields the plan's answer can hold

profile ID, name, first name, last name, headline, about, profile URL, profile picture, current title, current job function, current seniority, current company ID, current company, current company logo, current company LinkedIn URL, location, city, region, country, continent, jobs, job title, job seniority, job function, job location, job description, job start date, job end date, job is current, job company, job company ID, job company logo, job company URL, job last changed, job updated at, skills, schools, school name, school location, school URL, school ID, school degree, school field of study, school start date, school end date, school activities, school grade, school description, certifications, certification name, certification issuer, certification issue date, certification expiration date, social links, connections, followers, hiring, open to work, updated at, last refresh at, created at, matched by

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