# Best LinkedIn API: ranked by live price The best LinkedIn API depends on how much of the profile you need. For a quick lookup of name, position and company, the cheapest call wins. For full work history, posts or company pages, pick a provider that returns them. This page ranks the looot catalog providers by live price per call. ## Providers - anyapi: Two profile endpoints. The full one returns work history with job titles and descriptions, skills, education and certifications. The light one returns no job titles, descriptions or skills. Also: Company people, Post search. - anysite: Returns a member profile. Flags choose which sections come back, such as experience and education, and the endpoint is billed by the sections you ask for. Also: Company profile, Company posts. - brightdata: Returns name, headline, about, location, current company, experience, education, followers, connections and recent activity. It takes a profile URL, and slow targets can take a few minutes. Also: Company profile, Post. - icypeas: Returns name, headline, current and past roles, education and location, with a found or not found status in the same call. The catalog lists no about text or skills for it. Also: Company profile. - leadmagic: Returns bio, current position, company name, company industry, certifications and country. The catalog lists no work history or education fields for it. - scrapecreators: Returns name, photo, location, followers, about, recent posts, experience, education, publications, projects and recommendations. It returns only what a signed-out visitor can see. Also: Company profile, Company posts, Post search. - tikhub: Returns public fields such as name, current company, about, location, followers, experience and education. It takes a full profile URL and nothing else. Also: Company profile. ## How we rank Every provider here has an endpoint that returns a LinkedIn person profile in the looot catalog. We rank by the price per call of that endpoint, read live from the catalog. A cheaper call ranks higher. The catalog does not publish a measured success rate for these endpoints, so this page does not rank by one and quotes none. Extras are other LinkedIn endpoints the provider has in the catalog. More extras does not mean better results. The fields a profile returns differ by provider. The ranking compares price, not how complete the profile is. Providers outside the looot catalog are not ranked. ## Choosing one - Full work history with job titles, descriptions and skills: anyapi - Profile, recent posts and recommendations from one call: scrapecreators - Pick the sections you pay for, such as experience or education: anysite - Profile with connections and recent activity from a list of URLs: brightdata - Bio, current position and industry for a known URL: leadmagic ## Prompt Use looot to pull the LinkedIn profiles for my list of profile URLs: for each URL call the cheapest LinkedIn person profile endpoint, show name, headline, current company and location in a table, and tell me the total cost. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for each step and check its price before you call. 3. Run the cheapest endpoint that fits. 4. Show the results as a table and the total cost. ## What is the best LinkedIn API? It depends on the job. This page ranks the looot catalog providers by live price per call for a LinkedIn person profile. Pick the cheapest for plain lookups, or the provider that returns the fields you need, such as full work history or recent posts. ## What is the cheapest LinkedIn API? The first row of the ranking above, read live from the catalog. Prices can change, so the page reads them on each refresh and shows no number when the catalog is unreachable. ## How much does a LinkedIn API call cost? It depends on the provider. The ranking above shows the live price per call for each one. The catalog shows the price of any endpoint before you run it, and some providers bill by the sections you request. ## Does LinkedIn have an official API? What LinkedIn's own API allows is set by LinkedIn, and this page makes no claim about it. Read LinkedIn's developer documentation for that. This page ranks the looot catalog endpoints that return a public profile from a profile URL. ## What is a LinkedIn scraper API? A service that takes a profile URL and returns the profile as structured data, so you do not parse a web page yourself. The providers above do that, and the fields they return differ. ## What does a LinkedIn profile API return? Usually a name, headline, location and current position. Some also return work history, education, skills, posts or follower counts. The verdict on each row says what that provider lists in the catalog. ## Can I get company pages as well as profiles? Some providers can. The extras tags in the ranking show which ones have a company profile endpoint in the catalog, and a few also return company posts. ## Can I search for people by job title or company? This page ranks one job, a profile from a profile URL. Some providers have search endpoints too, and the catalog lists them. Use a search endpoint first to find the URLs, then run the profile endpoint on each. ## How does an agent call a LinkedIn API? Paste the prompt on this page into your agent. It sets up looot, finds the profile endpoint, checks the price and runs the cheapest one that fits. Your agent calls it through one connection with no UI. ## What are the best LinkedIn scraper API alternatives? This page ranks every catalog provider that returns a LinkedIn person profile, and your agent can call any of them with one key. A vendor that is not in the looot catalog is not ranked here. ## Why does this page not show success rates? The catalog does not publish a measured success rate for these endpoints. We would rather rank by a number we can read than quote one we cannot. ## Do I pay while my agent is idle? No. looot bills per call, and nothing runs while your agent is idle. ## Related pages - /best/serp-api - /use-cases/linkedin-scraper-api - /use-cases/linkedin-post-search-api - /use-cases/enrich-a-person ## Last reviewed 2026-10-10. The ranking by price per call is read live from the catalog on the web page. ## Agent skill for this page https://looot.ai/best/linkedin-api/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below. ## For agents ### Give this to your agent ```text set up looot for Best LinkedIn API - https://looot.ai/best/linkedin-api/skill.md ```