LinkedIn Profile API

We use the FreshData Web Scraping API from RapidAPI to scrape LinkedIn profile data. This is the backend service that powers profile lookups.

Current Plan

Pro — $45/mo (active subscription)

Metric	Limit
Credits	4,500/mo
Requests	6,000/mo (hard limit)
Rate limit	30 req/min

Available Plans

Pro — $45/mo

• 4,500 credits/mo
• 6,000 requests/mo (hard limit)
• 30 requests/min

Ultra — $250/mo

• 32,000 credits/mo
• 40,000 requests/mo (hard limit)
• 60 requests/min

Mega — $1,000/mo

• 200,000 credits/mo
• 240,000 requests/mo (hard limit)
• 150 requests/min

Profile Credit Pricing

New Pricing (effective June 20, 2026)

FreshData announced pricing changes to LinkedIn profile endpoints. The new costs:

Request	Credits
Basic profile (no includes)	2
Each additional include	+1 per include

Examples: basic + 3 includes = 5 credits, basic only = 2 credits.

No maximum cap was mentioned — unlike the old pricing which capped at 3 credits.

Old Pricing (until June 20, 2026)

Request	Credits
Basic profile	1
Each include	+0.5 (rounded down, max 3 credits)

Impact Comparison

Scenario	Old	New	Increase
Basic profile only	1	2	+100%
Basic + 1 include	1*	3	+200%
Basic + 2 includes	2	4	+100%
Basic + 3 includes	3	5	+67%
Basic + 5 includes	3 (capped)	7	+133%

* The old pricing rounded down from 1.5, so the first include was effectively free.

Plan Capacity at New Pricing

Assuming all requests use basic profile + 3 includes (5 credits/request):

Plan	Credits/mo	Max profile requests/mo
Pro ($45)	4,500	900
Ultra ($250)	32,000	6,400
Mega ($1,000)	200,000	40,000

Other profile endpoints (posts search, activity detection, etc.) remain at their existing credit rates beyond the personal profile endpoint changes.

Integration

This API is called from our backend services to fetch LinkedIn profile data. Results are processed and stored in the Qwestly candidate database.

• RapidAPI endpoint: freshdata-freshdata-default/api/web-scraping-api2
• Auth: RapidAPI key required