What LinkedIn actually costs in 2026
LinkedIn publishes its prices in six different places and quotes two of its products only on request. All of it is in one dated table below — plus the part LinkedIn does not print, which is the cheaper route to the same access.
✓ LinkedIn's plan pages re-checked
How much do LinkedIn’s paid plans cost?
Per seat per month: Premium Career $39.99, Premium Business $69.99, Sales Navigator Core $119.99, Sales Navigator Advanced $159.99 and Recruiter Lite $170; the prepaid annual prices are in the table. Sales Navigator Advanced Plus and Recruiter Corporate have no published price and are quoted by LinkedIn. US list prices in US dollars, excluding tax — Premium last checked on , Sales Navigator on and Recruiter on .
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (prepaid) | Effective / month | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Career | $39.99 | $239.88 | $19.99 | 10 September 2026read from LinkedIn ↗ |
| Premium Business | $69.99 | $575.88 | $47.99 | 10 September 2026read from LinkedIn ↗ |
| Sales Navigator Core | $119.99 | $1,079.88 | $89.99 | 12 September 2026read from LinkedIn ↗ |
| Sales Navigator Advanced | $159.99 | $1,799.88 | $149.99 | 12 September 2026read from LinkedIn ↗ |
| Sales Navigator Advanced Plus | Quote only | Quote only | — | 12 September 2026read from LinkedIn ↗ |
| Recruiter Lite | $170 | $1,680 | $140 | 10 September 2026read from LinkedIn ↗ |
| Recruiter Corporate | Quote only | Quote only | — | 10 September 2026read from LinkedIn ↗ |
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Nine plans, filtered your way
Filter by product, who it's for or price band, and switch the price between month-to-month and annual. The dated master table with every figure is below this.
- Premium
Career
$39.99/seat/mo
Job seekers and people who mainly need to be found
- 5 InMail credits
- Who Viewed Your Profile over 90 days
- applicant and salary insights
- Premium
Business
$69.99/seat/mo
Founders and operators who message people they have already found
- 15 InMail credits
- unlimited people browsing
- Who Viewed Your Profile over 365 days
- Sales Navigator
Core
$119.99/seat/mo
One seller building and working their own lists
- 50 InMail credits
- the advanced lead and account search
- saved lead lists and real-time alerts
- Sales Navigator
Advanced
$159.99/seat/mo
Teams that need TeamLink, Smart Links and shared lists
- Everything in Core plus TeamLink warm-intro paths
- Smart Links
- shared lists and activity writeback to the CRM
- Sales Navigator
Advanced Plus
Quote only
Enterprises wiring Sales Navigator into a CRM with data validation
- Everything in Advanced plus real-time CRM data validation
- contact enrichment and TeamLink Extend
- Recruiter
Recruiter Lite
$170/seat/mo
One recruiter sourcing inside their own network
- 30 InMail credits, 20+ recruiting filters
- search limited to your own network
- Recruiter
Recruiter
Quote only
In-house talent teams sourcing across the whole network
- 150 InMail credits
- the full LinkedIn network rather than your own, 40+ filters
- ATS integration and shared pipelines
- Learning
Learning
$39.99/seat/mo
Someone who wants the course library and nothing else
- The full course library — already bundled into both Premium tiers
- so buying it alone rarely makes sense
- Company Page
Company Page
$99.99/seat/mo
A company page trying to convert visitors rather than a person
- A page-level CTA button
- competitor benchmarking
- auto-invite credits and a testimonial section
Every LinkedIn paid plan and its real price
US list prices in USD, excluding tax. “Annual” is the prepaid twelve-month price; “effective” is what that works out to per month. Paying month by month for a full year always costs more than the annual column.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (prepaid) | Effective / month | A year, paid monthly | What it unlocks | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Career | $39.99 | $239.88 | $19.99 | $479.88 | 5 InMail credits, Who Viewed Your Profile over 90 days, applicant and salary insights, the full LinkedIn Learning library | 10 September 2026 |
| Premium Business | $69.99 | $575.88 | $47.99 | $839.88 | 15 InMail credits, unlimited people browsing, Who Viewed Your Profile over 365 days, company insights | 10 September 2026 |
| Sales Navigator Core | $119.99 | $1,079.88 | $89.99 | $1,439.88 | 50 InMail credits, the advanced lead and account search, saved lead lists and real-time alerts | 12 September 2026 |
| Sales Navigator Advanced | $159.99 | $1,799.88 | $149.99 | $1,919.88 | Everything in Core plus TeamLink warm-intro paths, Smart Links, shared lists and activity writeback to the CRM | 12 September 2026 |
| Sales Navigator Advanced Plus | Quote only | Quote only | — | — | Everything in Advanced plus real-time CRM data validation, contact enrichment and TeamLink Extend | 12 September 2026 |
| Recruiter Lite | $170 | $1,680 | $140 | $2,040 | 30 InMail credits, 20+ recruiting filters, search limited to your own network | 10 September 2026 |
| Recruiter Corporate | Quote only | Quote only | — | — | 150 InMail credits, the full LinkedIn network rather than your own, 40+ filters, ATS integration and shared pipelines | 10 September 2026 |
| LinkedIn Learning (standalone) | $39.99 | $239.88 | $19.99 | $479.88 | The full course library — already bundled into both Premium tiers, so buying it alone rarely makes sense | 10 September 2026 |
| Premium Company Page | $99.99 | Quote only | — | $1,199.88 | A page-level CTA button, competitor benchmarking, auto-invite credits and a testimonial section | 10 September 2026 |
Each row carries the date that figure was last read from LinkedIn's own published pricing — they are not all checked on the same day, and a single site-wide date would imply they were. LinkedIn last repriced Sales Navigator on 1 August 2026: Core rose $20 and Advanced fell $20, so any guide written before then has both numbers wrong — the before-and-after is on the price change record. Prices move without notice and differ by currency and region — treat this as the US baseline and confirm in your own billing page before signing an annual contract. Every row in this table is also published as a machine-readable LinkedIn pricing dataset — the same figures, the same per-record dates and source URLs, as JSON and CSV.
Why you can act on the numbers here
Every price on this site carries the day it was last read from LinkedIn's own published pricing, and the open dataset names the LinkedIn URL each figure came from, so any number here can be checked against its source. We sell nothing on this site. We are not disinterested either: Linkediz belongs to a group whose other sites rent and sell LinkedIn accounts. These are the four rules that keep the prices honest regardless, and all four are checkable without taking our word for anything.
Each page prints the day its figures were last read from LinkedIn's own published pricing. If the date is stale, treat the number as stale — that is what it is there for.
Where a pricing page mentions one of our setups it says so in that block, and only after LinkedIn's own price has been stated in full. The whole disclosure is on about.
The third-party tools on alternatives pay us nothing and their ordering is not for sale. Nothing on this site is a paid placement.
LinkedIn changes list prices without notice. When a figure here is wrong we fix the page and move its date forward rather than edit quietly. Found one? Tell us.
| Route | Relative size | Monthly list price |
|---|---|---|
| Premium Career | $39.99 | |
| Premium Business | $69.99 | |
| Sales Navigator Core | $119.99 | |
| Sales Navigator Advanced | $159.99 | |
| Recruiter Lite | $170 |
Advanced Plus and Recruiter Corporate are missing because LinkedIn quotes them per seat block and publishes no list price — a bar would be a guess. The two biggest steps are Business to Core (+$50) and Career to Business (+$30); everything above Core is close together, which is why what each tier allows decides more than price does.
Three questions that settle it
Most people overbuy by one tier. The deciding factor is what you do all day, not the feature list.
Premium Career or Business is enough — 5 or 15 InMails, profile viewers, Learning. Full tier comparison on LinkedIn Premium pricing.
Sales Navigator Core, or Advanced if you need TeamLink and Smart Links. Every tier and the monthly-vs-annual math is on Sales Navigator pricing.
Recruiter Lite covers your own network; Corporate is the one that searches all of LinkedIn. The breakpoint is on LinkedIn Recruiter pricing.
Then the tier is not your problem. See what each plan actually allows on LinkedIn limits by plan before you upgrade.
Four things you still cannot do after paying
Every paid tier has ceilings that money does not lift. They are the most common reason a team upgrades and sees nothing change — the full table is on LinkedIn limits by plan.
The weekly invitation ceiling of roughly 100 applies on every plan, free or paid. No tier removes it.
Credits are metered per tier — 5, 15, 50 or 150 a month — and they expire after 90 days.
Regular search stops at 1,000 results; Sales Navigator stops at 2,500, 25 per page.
A subscription upgrades one profile. Running two personas means two accounts, each with its own bill.
Two LinkedIn prices that are not on this table
A job post is priced per post or on a daily budget you set, not as a subscription tier, and no Premium plan includes one.
Ads are bought at auction and billed on cost per click, cost per thousand impressions or cost per send, so what you pay depends on the audience you target and who else is bidding for it rather than on a rate card.
Both are absent for the same reason Recruiter Corporate and Sales Navigator Advanced Plus carry no figure in the table above — LinkedIn publishes no list price, and this site does not print one it cannot source and date. Some of LinkedIn's AI features are sold the same way, with no figure to look up at all; which plan unlocks each one is on every AI feature LinkedIn ships and the plan behind it.
What the outreach tools cost on top
People searching for LinkedIn pricing are often really pricing the whole stack. These are vendor list prices, and none of them include the LinkedIn account they run on. The AI-branded part of the same stack is priced in the LinkedIn AI tools directory, where every entry is filed by how it reaches your account rather than by what it claims to do.
| Tool | List price | What to watch |
|---|---|---|
| Expandi | from $99 / seat / month | Cloud sequencer — one seat runs one LinkedIn account |
| Dripify | from $59 / seat / month | Cheaper entry tier, campaign limits on the lower plan |
| HeyReach | from $79 / sender / month | Priced per connected sender, built for agencies |
| Waalaxy | free plan, paid from $21 / month | Browser-based, lowest ceiling on daily volume |
| Lemlist | from $69 / user / month | Email-first, LinkedIn steps included on higher plans |
Vendor list prices, checked 12 September 2026. Every one of them is priced per seat or per sender, which means the real cost of a second sending identity is the tool seat plus the LinkedIn plan plus the account itself — the pairing question is covered at a setup with ready sending profiles. Before adding a seat to any of them: the research, the Boolean strings and the first drafts are already covered by the free LinkedIn prompt library, which runs in the assistant you already pay for.
Four legitimate ways to pay less
None of these is a coupon code. LinkedIn runs no public discount programme, and the sites offering one are reselling access to somebody else's account.
The single biggest saving LinkedIn offers itself: $239.88 instead of $479.88 on Premium Career, $1,079.88 instead of $1,439.88 on Sales Navigator Core — $360 a year on Core alone. Only worth it if you are certain about twelve months, because cancellations are not pro-rated.
One month of Premium or Sales Navigator, once per account. Run your list-building inside the trial window and export what you need before it converts to a paid month.
The commonest overspend on this page is not the billing period, it is one tier too high. $69.99 Premium Business instead of $119.99 Sales Navigator saves $600 a year, and is the correct answer for anyone who is not building target lists. Check against Premium vs Sales Navigator.
On a prepaid annual term a dormant Sales Navigator seat is $1,079.88 spent for nothing, and LinkedIn refunds none of it. Audit usage before the renewal date — the seat arithmetic is on Sales Navigator team pricing.
US list prices in USD, excluding tax. LinkedIn bills in local currency in most markets and the converted figure is rarely a straight exchange-rate conversion, so treat this as the US baseline and confirm in your own billing page before committing to an annual term. A seat is rarely held for twelve months and then dropped, so run your own seat count through the one, two and three-year totals before you commit to a term, or price a subscription against a ready account in the rent-vs-subscribe calculator.
The questions people actually ask
How much does LinkedIn cost?
LinkedIn itself is free. The paid plans in 2026 run from $39.99/month for Premium Career up to $170/month for Recruiter Lite, with Sales Navigator Advanced at $159.99/month and Recruiter Corporate quoted individually. Paying annually cuts the effective monthly price on every self-serve plan — Premium Career drops to $19.99/month and Sales Navigator Core to $89.99/month. These are US list prices in USD excluding tax; Premium was last checked on 10 September 2026, Sales Navigator on 12 September 2026 and Recruiter on 10 September 2026.
What is the cheapest LinkedIn paid plan?
Premium Career at $39.99/month, or $239.88 for a year prepaid, which works out to $19.99/month. It is the only paid tier under $40, and it already includes the full LinkedIn Learning library, so buying Learning separately at the same $39.99 almost never makes sense.
Is Sales Navigator worth it over Premium Business?
Only if you search. Premium Business gives you 15 InMails and unlimited profile browsing for $69.99/month. Sales Navigator Core adds the lead and account search filters, saved lead lists, alerts and 50 InMails for $119.99/month. If your work is prospecting at volume the extra $50 pays for itself; if you mainly need to message people you already found, Business is the cheaper answer.
Does LinkedIn have a free trial?
Usually, but not on terms LinkedIn commits to. Its own help page says only that "trial length may vary based on region or promotional terms" and that "not all members qualify" — one month is the common case rather than a guarantee. What is fixed: a payment method is required, the trial converts to a paid plan automatically unless you cancel first, and cancelling starts a twelve-month cooldown before you are eligible again.
Is LinkedIn cheaper if I pay annually?
Substantially. Premium Career is $479.88 if you pay month by month for a year versus $239.88 prepaid. Sales Navigator Core is $1,439.88 month by month versus $1,079.88 prepaid. The trade is that the annual plan locks the seat for twelve months and LinkedIn does not pro-rate cancellations.
Do LinkedIn plans include the account itself?
No. Every plan is a subscription attached to a LinkedIn profile you already own and have already warmed up. If what you actually need is more identities rather than more features, the subscription price is the wrong number to be comparing, because no tier of any LinkedIn plan includes a second profile.
How much is LinkedIn Premium in my country?
LinkedIn sets a separate price for each market rather than converting the US one, and adds VAT or GST on top — 20% VAT in the United Kingdom, 18% GST in India and 10% GST in Australia, per LinkedIn’s own tax table as read on 18 September 2026. This site does not print local-currency prices, because it cannot read a purchase flow in another market. The US list price — Premium Career at $39.99 a month, checked 10 September 2026 — is the baseline; the figure for your country is on LinkedIn’s payment screen before you confirm, and the rate for every country LinkedIn names is on the pricing-by-country page.
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