LinkedIn API Pricing 2026: Compared by Charging Unit
Twenty-seven vendors, nine ways to charge, sorted by what each one actually bills for, so a per-call number and a per-account number stop looking comparable when they are not.
At the leading vendors, a LinkedIn API costs from $0 to $99 per connected account per month, or from about a third of a cent to ten cents per call, or a credit whose dollar value you have to work out yourself. The number on a pricing page tells you little until you know its unit. The price table below sorts every vendor by the unit first and the price second.
Two numbers on two pricing pages can look alike and still count different things. ConnectSafely charges $10 a month for a connected account. Scrapingdog charges $40 for 200,000 credits and spends 50 of them on one profile. Linked API sells a seat, and one seat is one account. The page groups vendors by what the meter counts, gives each price as the vendor states it, and shows how to compare prices in different units.
On this page
How much does a LinkedIn API cost?
It depends on what the vendor meters, and the meter tells you what kind of product it is.
- Vendors that act on an account you own (connect, message, read the inbox) mostly charge per account, flat, with unlimited calls: $39 falling to $10 at GTM API, EUR 49 for up to ten accounts at Unipile, $55 for up to ten at LinkupAPI, $10 at ConnectSafely, $69 or $99 a seat at Linked API, and $69 as an add-on inside a sequencer like Reply.io. We-Link is the exception and charges per action, about 4.9 cents a call on its cheapest plan and 2.5 cents on its largest.
- Vendors that sell data about other people charge per call, per credit or per record: about a cent a call at Netrows’ entry tier, a tenth of a cent a result at Lobstr, $0.0025 a dataset row at Bright Data.
- LinkedIn’s own API publishes no price. Access depends on partner approval, and the invitation and messaging endpoints it documents sit in a program that is closed to new applications.
- Self-hosted open-source MCP servers cost $0 and leave the browser, the proxy and the pacing to you.
Because the units differ, the useful answer is a table sorted by unit, and the rest of this page is that table.
The nine charging units
Every vendor in the price table uses one of these.
| Unit | What the meter counts |
|---|---|
| Connected account / month | One LinkedIn account you own, connected to the vendor, billed flat per month |
| Seat / month | A licence per user, where the vendor also says one seat is one account |
| API call | One request, whatever it returned |
| Credit | A vendor token with a per-endpoint multiplier: one profile might cost 1, 4, 30 or 50 credits |
| Record or result | One row returned or one unique lead, regardless of how many calls it took |
| Identity or connection / month | The connected thing as its own meter, separate from usage, common in integration platforms |
| Browser-hour | Compute time of a cloud browser, by the minute |
| Outcome | A contacted prospect, an attended meeting |
| $0 or n/a | Self-hosted open source, or the official API with no published price |
Prices by charging unit
Prices are as each vendor states them on its own pricing page or docs. Annual-billed rates are marked, because several pages open on the annual toggle.
Per connected account per month
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| gtm-api.com | Free plan with one account. Then $39 per connected account, falling to $10 at volume, with every bracket on the pricing page. Unlimited API calls and actions on every paid bracket |
| Unipile | EUR 49 for up to 10 accounts, then EUR 5.00 per account (11 to 50), EUR 4.50 (51 to 200), EUR 4.00 (201 to 1,000), EUR 3.50 (1,001 to 5,000), EUR 3.00 above. Unlimited calls, ex VAT. Any connected account counts, whatever the channel, so a WhatsApp number or a mailbox bills like a LinkedIn profile |
| LinkupAPI | $55 / month flat for up to 10 connected accounts, then $5.50 per account (11 to 50), $5.00 (51 to 200), $4.50 (201 to 640), and Unlimited at $3,000 / month flat. No credits and no per-call fees, every endpoint on every plan, ex VAT. An account is a LinkedIn profile, a Gmail or Outlook mailbox or a WhatsApp number |
| ConnectSafely | $10 per LinkedIn account / month, $9 billed yearly, up to 100 accounts. API, MCP and CLI in one plan |
| Woodpecker | $29 / month per LinkedIn account, on top of a usage base that starts at $0 and bills $7.00 per 100 contacted prospects |
| Reply.io | $69 per LinkedIn account / month as an add-on to the Email Volume plan, which is priced by active contacts with unlimited users. The Multichannel plan, $89 per user billed annually or $99 monthly, includes one LinkedIn account per user |
The two sequencers are here on purpose. A LinkedIn step inside an email tool is priced per account too, $29 a month at Woodpecker and $69 at Reply.io, and it usually sits on top of a seat or a usage base. What an automation API does for its per-account price, and who holds the daily limits behind it, is on LinkedIn automation API.
Per seat where one seat is one account
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| Linked API | Core $69, Plus $99 per seat / month, and one seat is one connected LinkedIn account. The page renders the annual toggle first, which shows $49 and $74 |
| We-Connect | $49 / $59 per seat / month billed annually, a Scale tier at $79 marked as coming. A seat is one connected LinkedIn account |
| ScaliQ | Starter $46 per month for one LinkedIn account and 500 leads a month, Pro $96 for three accounts and 1,500 leads. The plan cards carry the badge “Launch pricing for the first 1,500 users”, so these are introductory |
Per API call
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| Netrows | EUR 99 / month for 10,000 credits, EUR 499 for 100,000, EUR 1,499 for 500,000. One credit per API call, per their own npm README, so EUR 0.0099 down to EUR 0.003 per call |
| Lix | $49 for 500 credits on the LinkedIn and Search APIs at one credit per call, so $0.098 a call, and credits never expire. Org data $49 for 2,500 |
Per credit with a multiplier per endpoint
This is the unit that needs a calculator. The headline is a bundle of credits, and the price of the thing you want is the bundle price divided by the credits, times the multiplier for that endpoint. The first vendor here acts on an account you connect and meters each action in credits. The rest sell data.
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| We-Link | Four prepaid plans with unlimited accounts: Starter $39 for 4,000 credits ($0.0098 each, valid a month), Growth $99 for 12,000 ($0.0083, 3 months), Scale $249 for 40,000 ($0.0062, 6 months), Pro $490 for 100,000 ($0.0049, a year). Most calls cost 5 credits (connect, send a message, view a profile, search), about 4.9 cents a call on Starter and 2.5 on Pro, connections 14, message threads 12, login 8, and the internal proxy 410 a month. 100 free credits for 14 days, no card |
| Coresignal | Mini $49 / month for 2,500 credits, up to Elite $5,000 for 10M. An employee or company record costs 10 to 20 credits, a job posting 1, a contact enrichment 20. Datasets priced by contract |
| Enrich Layer | Pay as you go from $10 per 100 credits ($0.10 each) down to $0.0216 at volume. Annual Starter $588 / year for 35,000. People API 1 to 3 credits per found person, Search API 3 per search |
| Captain Data | EUR 59.99 per 1,000 credits at the base tier, EUR 29.99 at Silver. 1 credit per enriched record, 2 per find. No seat fee |
| Scrapingdog | LITE $40 / month for 200,000 credits, a 27-rung ladder up to $30,000 / month. The Profile Scraper costs 50 credits a request, 100 if the profile is protected, the LinkedIn Jobs API 5 |
| ScraperAPI | Hobby $49 / month for 100,000 credits, up to Advanced $1,975. A LinkedIn request costs 30 credits, about $0.0147 on Hobby. 7-day trial with 5,000 credits |
| Veezee | Pay as you go $2.00 per 1,000 credits with a $20 minimum, Production $99 / month for 80,000. A profile costs 4 credits, a company 4, a people search 10, and failed calls are refunded. 200 free credits per IP per day with no signup |
| Evaboot | $29, $49 and $99 a month for 400, 1,000 and 3,000 credits, so $0.072 down to $0.033 per credit, and a custom Enterprise tier above. 1 credit is 1 lead exported with its verified email included, charged whether an email is found or not, or 1 email found with the Email Finder. Unlimited seats |
| LinkdAPI (now Renidly) | Credits bought by balance tier, 100 per $1 at the entry tier to 400 per $1 at the top, which is $10 down to $2.50 per 1,000. A successful live call costs 1 to 5 credits depending on endpoint, and cache hits within 20 minutes are free. Credits never expire. Card only through RapidAPI or crypto on linkdapi.com with a $20 minimum, while renidly.com quotes a $50 minimum top-up |
Per record or per result
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| Bright Data | Web Scraper API $1.5 per 1,000 records pay as you go, Scale $499 / month for 384,000. LinkedIn datasets about $0.0025 per record with a $250 minimum |
| Lobstr | Starter $20 / month for 10,000 credits to Team $500 for 1M, and one credit is one unique result, so $0.002 down to $0.0005 per result. Sales Navigator leads $2 to $0.5 per 1,000 |
| Generect | Real-time search and enrich $0.04 per returned result, cached $0.02, Email Finder $0.02 per valid email, Phone Finder $0.40 per found phone. These are the API price table figures, and the marketing page quotes $0.03 per email instead |
Per identity or connection per month
The connected thing as its own meter, separate from usage. Two of the three are integration platforms rather than LinkedIn vendors. They are here because an identity or a connection is the same thing GTM API and Unipile bill as a connected account, under a different name.
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| Edges | Identity meter $7.99 down to $3.82 per identity / month, plus credits at $43.99 per 1,000 at the base tier with a floor of $1.49. An identity is an account that sends invites, messages or InMails, and one used read-only is free |
| Merge | Free for 3 accounts, then $650 / month for up to 10 production Linked Accounts, $65 per Linked Account after that |
| Nango | Pay as you go $50 / month including $50 of credits, then $0.29 per connection / month plus $0.72 per compute hour |
Per browser-hour
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| Browser Use | $0.02 per browser-hour metered by the minute, plus traffic. Agents cost extra: API V2 at $0.006 per step and $0.01 per task, API V3 at 1.2 times the model’s token rates |
Per outcome
| Vendor | Published price |
|---|---|
| Woodpecker (base) | $7.00 per 100 contacted prospects, from $0 |
| ScaliQ (second lane) | Qualified B2B meetings “from $99 per attended meeting”, with no setup fee and no retainer. The same page puts most campaigns at $99 to $499 a meeting, depending on the audience |
$0 and no price at all
| Option | Price | What you supply yourself |
|---|---|---|
| Open-source LinkedIn MCP servers | $0, Apache-2.0, self-hosted | The browser, the proxy, the session, the pacing and the risk. The most-starred repo carries a Unipile sponsorship block pitching the managed alternative above its own tool table |
| LinkedIn official API | No price published. Access by partner approval | The approval itself. Invitations and messages are documented, but they sit in a Compliance program that is closed to new applications |
Comparing prices in different units
Three worked comparisons, using the numbers from the price table.
A per-call price against a per-account price
We-Link sells credits on four plans, from $0.0098 each on Starter down to $0.0049 on Pro, and spends 5 of them on most calls, a connection request, a message or a profile view, so one call costs about 4.9 cents on Starter and 2.5 cents on Pro. GTM API bills the account flat with unlimited calls, from $10 a month. At that price the break-even against We-Link is about 200 calls a month on Starter, roughly 7 a day, 240 on Growth, 320 on Scale and 400 on Pro, roughly 13 a day. An account that only syncs its inbox a few times a day stays under the line and is cheaper per call. An agent that searches, reads and sends through an account all day crosses it within days, and the flat price wins from there.
A credit bundle against the price of one profile
Scrapingdog’s LITE plan is $40 for 200,000 credits, which reads as $0.0002 per credit. A profile costs 50 credits, so a profile costs $0.01, and $0.02 if the profile is protected. The bundle holds 4,000 profiles, and the 200,000 figure is the credit count. ScraperAPI’s Hobby plan runs the same way: $49 for 100,000 credits at 30 credits per LinkedIn request is 3,333 requests, about $0.0147 each. Always divide the bundle by the multiplier before comparing it with a per-account or per-call price.
A seat against an account
Linked API’s Core plan is $69 per seat per month, and one seat is one connected account, so ten accounts are $690 a month. Ten accounts at Unipile are EUR 49 in total. Ten at LinkupAPI are $55. Ten at ConnectSafely are $100. Ten at GTM API are $250 a month. The word on the price card changes nothing about what is being counted, only about how easy the comparison is to see.
So the way to read any LinkedIn API price is to find its unit first: an account, a seat, a call, a credit or a record. Per-account pricing suits an account that sends, reads and searches every day, because the calls inside it are unlimited. Per-call and per-credit pricing suits occasional lookups and data bought at volume. GTM API bills the connected account, from $10 a month at volume with unlimited calls and a free plan for one account, and the current brackets are on the pricing page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a LinkedIn API cost?
At the leading vendors, between $0 and $99 per connected account per month if the vendor acts on an account you own, or from about a third of a cent to ten cents per call if it sells data about other people. The official LinkedIn API publishes no price, and the invitation and messaging endpoints it documents sit in a program closed to new applications. GTM API is per connected account, from $39 down to $10 at volume, with unlimited calls and a free plan for one account.
Is the LinkedIn API free?
LinkedIn’s own API has no published price and is rationed by partner approval, and what it opens without approval covers sign-in and posting, not outreach. Free tiers exist on third-party APIs: one connected account at GTM API with no card, 100 free credits for 14 days at We-Link, 200 free credits a day at Veezee with no signup, and a free plan for 3 accounts at Merge. Open-source MCP servers are free and self-hosted, which means you supply the browser, the proxy and the risk.
Which is cheaper, per account or per call?
It depends on how much one account does in a month. We-Link spends 5 credits on most calls, at $0.0098 a credit on its $39 Starter plan down to $0.0049 on its $490 Pro plan, so a call costs about 4.9 cents on Starter and 2.5 on Pro, and a GTM API account at $10 breaks even at about 200 calls a month against Starter, roughly 7 a day, and about 400 against Pro, roughly 13 a day. Below that a per-call price wins, above it the flat account price wins, and an agent that reads, searches and acts on an account all day crosses the line within days.
What is a credit worth on a LinkedIn data API?
Whatever the bundle price divided by the bundle size comes to, times the multiplier for the endpoint you call. Scrapingdog’s 200,000 credits for $40 is $0.0002 per credit and 50 credits per profile, so $0.01 per profile. Coresignal charges 10 to 20 credits for an employee record, Veezee 4 for a profile, ScraperAPI 30 for any LinkedIn request. The multiplier is on the vendor’s docs page, rarely on the pricing page.
Does GTM API charge per message or per action?
No. The connected account is the unit, and calls and actions inside it are unlimited. The price per account falls as more accounts are connected, from $39 to $10, and every bracket is on the pricing page. The 5G Proxy add-on is $15 per account per month and is the only optional line.
Why does the same vendor show two different prices?
Usually the annual toggle. Linked API’s page opens on the annual rate, $49 and $74, while the monthly rates are $69 and $99. Sometimes it is two meters: Woodpecker’s $29 per account sits on a usage base billed per contacted prospect, and Edges bills an identity meter and credits at the same time. Read the toggle and count the meters before comparing.
Sources & Further Reading
- gtm-api.com, pricing (core and the 5G Proxy add-on, read 2026-09-22)
- LinkedIn / Microsoft Learn, official API access (partner approval, no published price)
- Vendor pricing pages and docs, each read on 2026-09-22 and linked from its row in the price table, with the We-Link, LinkupAPI and Evaboot rows re-read on 2026-10-15 after all three changed their grids: Unipile, ConnectSafely, Woodpecker, Reply.io, Linked API, We-Connect, ScaliQ, Netrows, Lix, We-Link, LinkupAPI, Coresignal, Enrich Layer, Captain Data, Scrapingdog, ScraperAPI, Veezee, Evaboot, LinkdAPI and Renidly, Bright Data, Lobstr, Generect, Edges, Merge, Nango, Browser Use. Reply.io’s page returns a Cloudflare challenge to scripted fetches and was read in a browser
- Related: We-Connect and We-Link overview · The LinkedIn API · Best LinkedIn API · LinkedIn API access · LinkedIn messaging API · Unipile overview · Linked API overview · ConnectSafely overview · LinkedIn automation: how it works · LinkedIn automation tools ranked · LinkedIn limits calculator
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Last updated: October 2026 · Definitions and benchmarks verified at time of publication