# LinkedIn prospecting API. Build ICP lists by the hundred.

> Build prospect lists from LinkedIn: search people by title, seniority, function, company size and location. Full profiles at $0.004 each.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/use-cases/sales-prospecting · Updated 2026-10-16

Describe your ideal buyer and get the list: heads of data at 51 to 200 person fintechs in London, founders who changed jobs this quarter, VPs of sales at companies hiring SDRs. Every result is a full profile.

- For: Founders and SDR teams
- Billed: Per record
- Free to start: $0.10
- Minimum top-up: $5

## How it works

1. Search companies that fit your ICP by industry, size and location.
2. List the people at each one, filtered by title, seniority and function.
3. Read their recent posts and comments to find a reason to reach out.
4. Hand the list to your sequencer or your AI SDR, with every source dated.

## The calls

the accounts:

```json
{
  "op": "searchCompanies",
  "query": "fintech",
  "locations": [
    "London"
  ],
  "companySizes": [
    "51-200"
  ],
  "limit": 25
}
```

the people at one account:

```json
{
  "op": "searchPeople",
  "company": "stripe",
  "seniority": [
    "director",
    "vice_president",
    "cxo"
  ],
  "functions": [
    "engineering"
  ],
  "limit": 10
}
```

## What it costs

At today's per-record prices, pay as you go. Quotes are free, records that do not come back are refunded, and a record your account already fetched today is free.

| Job | Records | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 25 target accounts | 25 companies | $0.10 |
| 10 decision makers at each | 250 profiles | $1.00 |
| Their last 5 posts each | 1,250 posts | $2.50 |

## Questions

### Is this a Sales Navigator replacement?

For finding and reading profiles and companies, it covers what most teams use Sales Navigator for, by API and per record. It does not send InMail or connection requests.

### How do I avoid the wrong person?

Search within a company rather than globally when you can, and check the headline and current position in each row before you use it.

## 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