LINKEDIN-LIMITS.md
Your assistant stops proposing 300 connection requests a week, because it now knows the ceiling is about 100. The file nobody else publishes, and the reason this toolkit lives on this domain. Attach it to any Project doing outreach planning and every plan that comes back fits inside what LinkedIn actually permits — with the figures dated, so the model can tell the user how current they are.
# LinkedIn limits — reference for the assistant
This file is reference data, not a template. The only lines to edit are the two under "My setup".
Figures below are LinkedIn's published US figures as read by Linkediz, last verified 12 September 2026.
Source and updates: https://www.linkediz.com/linkedin-limits
## My setup
- Plan: <Sales Navigator Core>
- Sending seats: <1>
## Instruction to the assistant
Treat everything below as a hard constraint on any plan, cadence, list size or campaign you produce. If a request cannot be satisfied inside these limits, say which limit it breaks and propose the version that fits. Never quietly exceed a limit and never quietly scale a plan down without saying you did.
When you state a limit to the user, say when it was verified. These figures move — LinkedIn repriced Sales Navigator on 1 August 2026 — and a confident stale number is worse than an admitted uncertainty.
LinkedIn platform limits that apply on EVERY plan, including the most expensive one:
- Connection invitations: ~100 per week. Applies on every plan including Recruiter Corporate. LinkedIn adjusts it per account based on acceptance rate, so a low-acceptance account gets less, never more.
- InMail credit expiry: 90 days. Unused credits expire. They accrue to at most three times the monthly allowance, and a credit is returned if the recipient replies within 90 days.
- Commercial use limit: Monthly search cap. Free accounts hit a monthly ceiling on profile searches. Every paid tier lifts it, but none of them removes the per-search result cap.
- Profiles per search: 1,000 / 2,500. Regular LinkedIn search stops at 1,000 results; Sales Navigator stops at 2,500, paginated 25 at a time. Both are per search, not per day.
Treat these as hard constraints, not guidance. A plan that exceeds them is not an ambitious plan, it is a plan that gets the account restricted.
Per-plan allowances, US list prices, last verified 12 September 2026 by Linkediz:
| Plan | US list price / month | InMail credits / month | Results per search | Saved searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Career | $39.99 | 5 | 1,000 | 3 |
| Premium Business | $69.99 | 15 | 1,000 | 3 |
| Sales Navigator Core | $119.99 | 50 | 2,500 | 15 |
| Sales Navigator Advanced | $159.99 | 50 | 2,500 | 15 |
| Sales Navigator Advanced Plus | quote only | 50 | 2,500 | 15 |
| Recruiter Lite | $170 | 30 | 1,000 | 10 |
| Recruiter Corporate | quote only | 150 | 1,000 | 50 |
Notes the numbers do not show:
- Sales Navigator Advanced Plus and Recruiter Corporate carry no published price. LinkedIn quotes them per seat block. Never state a price for those two.
- The InMail allowance does not scale with price. Sales Navigator Core costs three times Premium Career and includes ten times the credits, so per credit the cheap plan is by far the most expensive.
- Unused InMail credits expire after 90 days and accrue to at most three months' worth. A credit comes back if the recipient replies within 90 days, so reply rate, not send volume, is what the allowance rewards.
- The ~100 invitations per week is adjusted per account by acceptance rate. It goes down for accounts that send poorly targeted invitations. It does not go up because a plan was upgraded.
If the user's request requires exceeding any figure above, say so explicitly, state which limit it breaks, and propose the version that fits inside it. Do not quietly scale the plan down and do not quietly exceed it.
## Arithmetic the assistant should use
- Weekly invitation budget = 100 x number of sending seats. It is per account, so several clients or campaigns on one account share one budget.
- Monthly InMail budget = the allowance for the plan above, per seat. Credits expire at 90 days, accrue to at most three months' worth, and are refunded when the recipient replies within 90 days.
- New prospects that can enter a sequence per week = weekly invitation budget minus the invitations already committed to prospects mid-sequence.
- A single search returns at most 2,500 results on Sales Navigator, 1,000 on regular LinkedIn search. A list larger than that is several searches, not one.
## What no amount of money removes
- The weekly invitation ceiling. It is the same on the free account and on Recruiter Corporate.
- The per-search result cap.
- The 90-day InMail expiry.
- The fact that a low acceptance rate reduces your own ceiling. Poor targeting is throttled, not just unproductive.
## When these figures are out of date
If the user's own billing page or LinkedIn's own interface disagrees with anything here, the user is right and this file is stale. Say so, use their figure, and point them at https://www.linkediz.com/linkedin-limits for the current record.- Any Project that plans outreach volume
- Agent folders
- Cursor / Claude Code repo root
- Your plan, at the top — the rest of the file is reference and needs no editing
- Your seat count
- Nothing else. This file is maintained by us, not by you.
Everything in <angle brackets> is example content, not instructions. Replace it. The file ships filled in rather than empty on purpose: an empty template gets abandoned, a filled one gets edited.
Using this file
Why does an AI need this file?
Because models have no reliable knowledge of LinkedIn’s current limits, and they do not say so. Ask one how many connection requests you can send a week and you will get a confident number, often 100 a day rather than 100 a week, and a plan built on it will get the account restricted. This file replaces the guess with a dated figure.
How do I keep it current?
Re-download it, or have your agent fetch https://www.linkediz.com/api/pricing.json instead — the same numbers, machine-readable, with a per-record verification date. The file is regenerated from that data layer whenever the figures move.
The reference behind this file
The human-readable version, with the sourcing and the dates for each family of figures.
Expiry, refunds and cost per credit by plan — the arithmetic behind the allowance line in this file.
If you would rather your agent fetch the figures than read them from a file, the open dataset is the machine-readable version.
Written to a fixed structure and run through Claude and ChatGPT to confirm each one returns the output format it declares. That is not the same as a measured reply-rate benchmark, and nothing here claims one — if you run these at volume and have numbers, we want them.
Packs that already contain this file
A pack is the folder with this file, the ones it references and the prompts that use them — so you are not assembling fifteen downloads by hand.
LinkedIn Sales Agent
A working agent folder — root instruction, seven context files and the prompts — that you fill in once and use for a year.
11 files, 8 promptsLinkedIn Recruiter Agent
A sourcing assistant that stays inside a 30-credit month and does not score things a profile cannot evidence.
7 files, 5 promptsLinkedIn Agency System
A per-client structure where one client’s proof point cannot end up in another client’s post.
8 files, 5 promptsLinkedIn AI Starter Pack
The whole toolkit as one folder, set up in twenty minutes, whatever your role is.
12 files, 12 promptsLinkedIn MCP Setup Kit
A folder you can wire an assistant to LinkedIn from, with the exposure of each route stated before the first run rather than after it.
4 files, 3 promptsOne file is a start. The folder is the point.
Files reference each other — CLAUDE.md declares the reading order, the prompts expect the files by name. The packs ship them together, already wired up.