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A Composio alternative an agent can buy itself.

Composio and this API solve different problems. Composio lets an agent act as you, on your own LinkedIn account, through LinkedIn's official API: post, comment, read your organisation's stats. This API returns public data about other people and companies: profiles, search, jobs, posts.

Profiles from
$0.004
To start
$5
Free trial
$0.10
Facts checked
October 2026

Updated 22 October 2026

API for Agents and Composio, side by side

Their side is from their own pages, linked below, as seen on 16 October 2026. Prices change: check the source before you decide.

BillingPer record, pay as you goPer tool call, monthly plans
To start paying$5 top-up, no planFree tier, then $29 a month
Agent signs itself upYes: one POST, a person claims it laterNo
Your own LinkedIn accountNot neededYes, connected by OAuth
MCP serverNot yet: REST, OpenAPI and llms.txtYes

When Composio is the better pick

  • Your agent needs to post, comment or manage your company page.
  • You want one platform for hundreds of app integrations, not just data.

When API for Agents is the better pick

  • Your agent needs to search people by title and company, or read any public profile.
  • You need company search, job listings or the LinkedIn Ad Library.
  • You do not want to connect a personal LinkedIn account to an agent.

What you get with API for Agents, whichever you pick

  • One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
  • A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
  • Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
  • $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
  • Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
  • Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
  • Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
  • Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

Try it before you move anything

quote a profile, free
curl -s -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/agent/identity -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"type":"anonymous"}'
# exchange identity_assertion at /oauth2/token, then:
curl -s -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/linkedin -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"profiles","subjects":["satyanadella"],"estimateOnly":true}'

Questions people ask.

Can Composio search LinkedIn for people?

Its LinkedIn toolkit, as listed on its site on the date above, works through LinkedIn's official API on the user's own account and does not include people search, company search or job search.

Can I use both?

Yes. A typical sales agent researches leads with this API and posts or messages through tools connected to the user's own account.

Sources (2)
  1. Composio LinkedIn toolkit, seen 16 October 2026
  2. Composio pricing, seen 16 October 2026

Try it in a minute. $0.10 free.

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type.

Try in playground

Quickstart · Every price · All platforms

Why people pick API for Agents

  • One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
  • A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
  • Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
  • $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
  • Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
  • Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
  • Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
  • Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

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