LinkedIn limits, and whose account pays for exceeding them

Roughly 20 to 25 connection requests a day for an established, warmed account. Far fewer. Five to ten, for an account under thirty days old or with little activity history.

Around a hundred API-shaped actions a day per account across everything: searches, profile reads, messages. Any single search caps at about a thousand results.

There is no compliant automation API for LinkedIn. Any tool doing this is operating against the user agreement, and being told otherwise by a vendor should reduce your confidence in them rather than increase it.

The mitigation is not a clever workaround. It is volume discipline: stay well inside the limits, look like a person, and never run a brand-new account hard.

This is the single most useful thing to understand about LinkedIn sourcing. A search on a post's reactions returns dozens of identities in one call. A profile read returns one person for the same cost.

So prefer the paths that return many people per call, cache company lookups, and budget the fan-out per sweep rather than letting it grow with the list.

If the account is genuinely established, the ramp is unnecessary friction. Attest to its age and let it run at your own limit, but keep the limit under the platform ceiling, because being right about the account does not change what LinkedIn does at 40 invitations a day.