Fetchin vs LinkdAPI
LinkdAPI has the widest endpoint catalogue in this comparison, over 50 covering profiles, companies, jobs and skills, plus two policies worth crediting: credits never expire, and the tier upgrades automatically with your balance.
It also claims sub-200ms responses, which is faster than the 1s median we publish. We have not independently verified that figure, but we are not going to bury it.
The catch is throughput at the bottom of the ladder. The entry tier is 7 requests per minute, and you need a 100,000-credit balance before you reach 250 req/min. Fetchin gives 5 req/s, or 300 req/min, on every self-serve plan.
On unit price, their credit rate works out around $10 per 1,000 at the entry tier, falling toward $2.50 at a million credits.
- requests served per month
- 40M+requests served per month
- uptime
- 99.9%uptime
- median response time
- 1smedian response time
- serving production traffic since
- 2023serving production traffic since
Fetchin vs LinkdAPI, feature by feature
| Feature | Fetchin | LinkdAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price per 1,000 requests | $1.00 | $10.00 |
| Data freshness | Fetched live on every request | Live, collected at request time |
| Response time | 1s median, 1.5s P95 | Sub-200ms claimed |
| Delivery | Synchronous, or asynchronous via the Apify compatibility layer | Synchronous HTTP |
| Rate limit | 5 req/s self-serve, 10 to 100+ on request | 7 req/min entry, up to 550+ req/min at the top tier |
| Uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% claimed |
| Endpoints | Profile, company, posts, comments, reactions, engagement | 50+: profiles, companies, jobs, skills |
| Your own account required | ||
| Billed on failed lookups | Not stated publicly | |
| Free trial | 1,000 credits, no credit card | 100 credits, no credit card |
| Commitment | None, cancel anytime | None, credits never expire |
| Support | Live chat and email, same-day | |
| Public status page | Yes, at status.fetchin.io |
LinkdAPI figures are taken from their own public pages and were last verified in August 2026. Pricing and limits change, so check the sources below before making a decision.
Fetchin pricing: Starter plan, $50 for 50,000 credits. Drops to $0.90 per 1,000 at 1M credits.
LinkdAPI pricing: Credit rate improves with balance: 100 credits per dollar at entry, up to 400 at a 1M+ balance. Roughly $10 per 1,000 falling toward $2.50.
Where Fetchin wins
- $1.00 per 1,000 against roughly $10 at their entry tier. You need a six-figure credit balance to close that gap.
- 5 req/s from the first plan. Their entry tier is 7 requests per minute, which is a different order of throughput.
- 1,000 free credits against their 100.
- A public status page. LinkdAPI claims 99.9% but publishes nothing you can check.
- Published P95 as well as median, so you can size timeouts on the tail rather than the average.
Where LinkdAPI wins
- A sub-200ms latency claim, faster than our published 1s median. We have not verified it independently.
- Over 50 endpoints, including job postings and skills data that Fetchin does not cover.
- Credits never expire, and the tier upgrades automatically as your balance grows.
- At a 1M+ credit balance their rate reaches roughly $2.50 per 1,000, which narrows the gap considerably.
Choose Fetchin if…
- You need real throughput without first buying a large credit balance.
- Unit cost matters at anything short of six-figure balances.
- You want verifiable uptime rather than a claimed number.
Choose LinkdAPI if…
- You need job postings or skills endpoints.
- You buy credits in bulk infrequently and want them to never expire.
- Sub-200ms is a hard requirement and their figure holds up in your own testing.
Fetchin vs LinkdAPI, answered
- Is LinkdAPI faster than Fetchin?
- They claim sub-200ms responses against our published 1s median and 1.5s P95. We have not independently verified their figure. Both services offer free credits, so the honest answer is to measure both on your own sample.
- Is Fetchin cheaper than LinkdAPI?
- At entry, by roughly 10x. LinkdAPI gives 100 credits per dollar at the lowest tier, about $10 per 1,000, improving to 400 credits per dollar and roughly $2.50 per 1,000 only at a balance above one million credits.
- Which has the higher rate limit?
- Fetchin, at entry. LinkdAPI starts at 7 requests per minute and needs a 100,000-credit balance to reach 250 req/min. Fetchin gives 5 req/s, or 300 req/min, on every self-serve plan, raised to 100+ req/s on request.
- What does LinkdAPI cover that Fetchin does not?
- Job postings and skills endpoints, as part of a 50+ endpoint catalogue. Fetchin covers profile, company, posts, comments, reactions and engagement, with people search and bulk datasets planned for Q4 2026.
Sources, verified August 2026
Fetchin figures are our own measured values. Live availability is published here.
Try it against your own data
1,000 credits, no credit card. Run the same sample through Fetchin and LinkdAPI and compare field coverage and response times yourself.