Credits and request limits
A credit is a billing unit used across all 17 data actions (and the 2 aliases of person-lookup).
Cost per result
| Data action | Credits per returned record |
|---|---|
Immediate profile enrichment (person-lookup) | 1 |
Complete history profile enrichment (linkedin-extract-people) | 20 |
| Company enrichment | 1 |
| Sales Navigator people search | 1 |
| Profile posts or content search | 1 |
| Post comments or reactions | 1 |
| A successful call returning no records uses zero customer credits. A failed run refunds its remaining reservation. Records with omitted optional fields are still returned records; design your quality checks around the fields your application needs. |
Reserve, run, settle
Before work starts, the API reserves max_results × credits_per_record. If max_credits is set below that amount, the request is rejected before execution. This prevents a request from silently exceeding its declared budget.
For a ten-result search, the reservation is 10 credits. If seven records are returned, the final charge is seven credits and three are released. A full-profile request reserves 20 credits for a maximum of one record. Available credits exclude active reservations; credits_reserved reports outstanding reservations separately.
Introductory credits
A verified new workspace receives 100 one-time credits. You can spend them on any supported action. This covers five full-profile records at 20 credits each, 100 essential profile records at 1 credit each, or a combination. You cannot interpret 100 credits as 100 full profiles.
Monthly subscription plans
Workspaces can subscribe to recurring monthly plans via Stripe Checkout directly from the workspace dashboard:
| Plan | Monthly price (USD) | Credits | Illustrative cost per 1,000 credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49 | 10,000 | $4.90 |
| Growth | $149 | 50,000 | $2.98 |
| Pro | $249 | 100,000 | $2.49 |
| Scale | $599 | 300,000 | $2.00, rounded |
Scale is the largest standard tier. These figures exclude any applicable taxes and do not establish overage, rollover, refund, annual-billing, or SLA terms.
Request and queue limits
| Boundary | Current value |
|---|---|
| Workspace API requests | 60 per minute |
| Subject API requests | 100 per minute |
| Source IP requests | 120 per minute |
| Outstanding runs per workspace | 20 |
| Results per list action | 1–100; default 10 |
| Results per profile/company enrichment | 1 |
| Input string length | 500 characters |
| Request body | 32 KiB |
| Queue expiry | 15 minutes |
| Running lease expiry | 120 seconds |
Infrastructure and upstream limits can be tighter than the workspace request rate. A live request can return 202 instead of completing immediately. Respect Retry-After on 429 responses.
Workload planning
Publicly available source data varies. Read coverage and run a representative sample before choosing your workload mix.
Immediate profile enrichment (1 credit) vs complete history (20 credits)
ProfileGlide provides two tiers of real profile enrichment:
- Immediate profile enrichment (
person-lookup, 1 credit): A real profile enrichment that returns current professional details: current job title, company name, headline, location, tenure start, summary, profile image, and verified LinkedIn and Sales Navigator profile URLs and IDs. It is not a raw search row — it delivers the active profile record. - Complete history profile enrichment (
linkedin-extract-people, 20 credits): An exhaustive record including full career work experience history, education history, skills, languages, and network counts.
Empty results, ambiguous matches, and failed lookups on person-lookup cost zero credits.