# Z Scraper, $199 monthly: LinkedIn profile API

> LinkedIn Data API gives you real-time structured access to profiles, companies, jobs, posts, groups, and search metadata through one RapidAPI subscription. Built for teams that need a reliable LinkedIn data API without building and maintaining scraping infrastructure.

Z Scraper's LinkedIn profile API on its Mega plan, $0.663 per 1,000 profiles. 6 of the 13 LinkedIn profile sections: Headline, Location, Photo, Followers, Connections, Open to work.
The median plan costs $4.49 per 1,000. This plan costs less than 95% of the 1,294 priced plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/z-scraper/199-monthly
- Get it: https://rapidapi.com/zscraper/api/linkedin-data-api8/pricing
- Its API docs: https://rapidapi.com/zscraper/api/linkedin-data-api8/playground/apiendpoint_ce0ef5ec-77c9-4d09-bfa8-f8423c85f865
- Sold by: Z Scraper (https://z-scraper.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-16

## In the answer

- Completeness: 46%
- Experience: 
- Education: 
- Skills: 
- Headline: ✓
- About: 
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Followers: ✓
- Connections: ✓
- Certifications: 
- Languages: 
- Recommendations: 
- Open to work: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $0.663
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $199

## Strengths

- Strengths: under $1 per 1,000, read live

## Charges

- Repeat free: 
- Per: call
- Extra fields: 

## Overage

- $ per 1,000: $3.00

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.663

## In their words

- Their pitch: LinkedIn Data API gives you real-time structured access to profiles, companies, jobs, posts, groups, and search metadata through one RapidAPI subscription. Built for teams that need a reliable LinkedIn data API without building and maintaining scraping infrastructure.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree to use Z Scraper APIs in compliance with: Applicable laws and regulations, LinkedIn's User Agreement and Privacy Policy, Third-party platform terms (RapidAPI, API.market), Ethical data collection and usage practices. You may not: Violate any applicable laws or third-party rights, Use the API for spam, harassment, or malicious activity, Attempt to reverse engineer or compromise API infrastructure, Exceed rate limits or abuse service resources, Resell API access without authorization, Use data in ways that violate platform policies or user privacy [...] Data accessed through Z Scraper APIs is subject to the source platform's terms and policies. You are responsible for ensuring your use of retrieved data complies with applicable requirements. [...] You may not copy, modify, or distribute our API implementation, documentation, or branding without permission.

## Plan

- Pay: $199
- You get: 300,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 300,000 calls a month
- Expires: 

## Rate limit

- Per day: 
- Per second: 5
- Concurrent: 
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 

## The call

- You send: nothing required, username, urn, url
- Method: GET
- Path: /profile

## About the plan

- Plan: Mega
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over, not in Belarus, Cuba, Crimea, Donetsk, Iran, North Korea, Russia or Syria

## The 33 fields in the plan's answer

success, member ID, profile ID, username, first name, last name, headline, location, country, country code, account created, premium, influencer, creator, hiring, open to work, badges, email required to connect, profile picture, cover image, AI-generated picture, supported locales, primary locale, hashtags, birth date, open profile, public profile, privacy settings, personal website, pronouns, connections, followers, geo URN

## Z Scraper's plans (4)

- [Z Scraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/z-scraper/free/llms.txt): 46% complete, live
- [Z Scraper, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/z-scraper/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.633 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [Z Scraper, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/z-scraper/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.99 per 1,000, 46% complete, live
- [Z Scraper, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/z-scraper/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.663 per 1,000, 46% complete, live

## Similar plans of other providers

- [benthepythondev, $4.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/benthepythondev/4-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.665 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [DataScraperES on Apify, $10,788 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/datascraperes-on-apify/10788-yearly/llms.txt): $0.675 per 1,000, 85% complete, live
- [Up2Data, $70,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/up2data/70000-pack/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 92% complete, live
- [Serpent API, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/serpent-api/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 69% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-16.

- https://docs.rapidapi.com/docs/additional-request-headers
- https://docs.rapidapi.com/docs/hub-listing-monetize-tab.md
- https://github.com/z-scraper/linkedin-api-docs/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md
- https://github.com/z-scraper/linkedin-api-docs/blob/main/docs/profile.md
- https://rapidapi.com/terms
- https://rapidapi.com/zscraper/api/linkedin-data-api8
- https://rapidapi.com/zscraper/api/linkedin-data-api8/playground/apiendpoint_ce0ef5ec-77c9-4d09-bfa8-f8423c85f865
- https://rapidapi.com/zscraper/api/linkedin-data-api8/pricing
- https://z-scraper.com/about
- https://z-scraper.com/apis/linkedin-api
- https://z-scraper.com/pricing
- https://z-scraper.com/terms