# LinkedIn API pricing: what the data costs.

> What LinkedIn profiles, companies, posts and jobs cost by API, per record, and what common jobs cost: 1,000 leads for $4, a month of job signals for $1.50.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/guides/linkedin-api-pricing · Updated 2026-10-16

LinkedIn's own API has no public price list; access beyond sign-in and posting goes through partner programmes. Data APIs publish prices. Here: $0.004 per profile, $0.004 per company, $0.002 per post, comment, reaction or ad, $0.001 per job. Pay as you go from $5, no plan.

- Profile: $0.004
- Company: $0.004
- Post: $0.002
- Job: $0.001

## Every LinkedIn operation, per record

Prices as of 2026-10-21. The live list is GET https://apiforagents.dev/v1/platforms, free.

| Operation | You get | Per record |
|---|---|---|
| profiles | A person: headline, location, skills, positions | $0.004 |
| companies | A company: size, industry, website, followers | $0.004 |
| searchPeople | People matching title, company, location | $0.004 per profile |
| searchCompanies | Companies matching keyword and filters | $0.004 per company |
| posts | A person's or company's posts | $0.002 |
| searchPosts | Posts matching a keyword | $0.002 |
| postComments, profileComments | Comments | $0.002 |
| postReactions, profileReactions | Reactions | $0.002 |
| adsLibrary | Ads from the LinkedIn Ad Library | $0.002 |
| jobs | Job listings | $0.001 |

## What common jobs cost

| Job | Records | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Enrich 1,000 leads | 1,000 profiles | $4.00 |
| 250 decision makers at 25 accounts | 275 records | $1.10 |
| A month of daily hiring scans, 50 jobs a day | 1,500 jobs | $1.50 |
| An account brief: company, 10 leaders, 15 posts, 20 jobs | 46 records | $0.094 |

## What you are not charged for

- Quotes (estimateOnly), your balance and your history.
- A record your account already fetched the same day.
- A subject that did not come back: refunded and named.
- A call that fails on our side.

## Questions

### How much does the LinkedIn API cost?

LinkedIn does not publish prices for its partner APIs; access is by application. Third-party data APIs publish theirs: here, $0.004 per profile, $0.001 per job, pay as you go from $5.

### Is there a monthly fee?

No. You top up from $5 and spend per record. Unused money is kept.

## Why 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.

## Start

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. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md