12 Best LinkedIn Scraping Tools for Recruiters in 2026, Compared

PhantomBuster is the most versatile scraper in this list because it covers the whole sourcing job, not one export: it pulls Sales Navigator searches, company employee lists, the people who liked or commented on a post, and full profile details, then chains those steps into scheduled workflows. Start costs $69 a month for 5 automation slots, 20 execution hours and 500 email credits, and every plan includes unlimited users and API access.

The catch is the metering. Execution hours, slots and credits are three separate limits, and a heavy month burns through all three at once — Grow at $159 a month quadruples the execution time for about twice the price. Buy PhantomBuster when one tool must do scraping, enrichment and scheduling; buy Evaboot when the only job is exporting Sales Navigator searches.

Evaboot does one job and does it well: it sits on top of LinkedIn Sales Navigator as a Chrome extension, adds an export button to your search results, and turns them into an email-ready list. The pricing is a single plan with everything included — you only pick the credit volume. The $9 plan covers 100 credits a month, and $29 covers 400, with each exported lead costing 1 credit and each email found costing 1 more.

The real price is higher than $9, because Evaboot cannot run without Sales Navigator, which costs roughly $80 to $100 a month on its own. For a recruiter who already pays for Sales Navigator, that is no extra cost at all, and Evaboot is the cheapest way to get clean exports with emails. Without Sales Navigator, start with PhantomBuster or Linked Helper instead.

TexAu is a growth automation platform with more than 180 automations, and its LinkedIn set covers profile extraction, Sales Navigator searches, connection requests and messaging. Solo costs $79 a month for 2,500 credits a month — about 500 enriched leads — with waterfall enrichment across 12 sources, AI lead scoring and lead search all drawing from the same credit pool. Yearly billing saves about 17%.

The credit model is both the strength and the trap. Pay-on-match means a failed lookup costs nothing, which is fair, but a successful lookup on a poor-fit candidate still spends credits, so a sloppy search burns the monthly allowance fast. Buy TexAu when one tool must scrape, enrich and score; buy PhantomBuster when you want execution hours instead of a credit meter.

Linked Helper is the budget pick for a solo recruiter: Standard costs $15 a month per LinkedIn account and includes sequences, CSV export of leads, reply-stop automation and a built-in CRM with tags, notes and a pipeline view. It sells licences for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months instead of an auto-renewing subscription, and a 12-month licence drops Standard to $8.25 a month.

The limits are per-account and per-machine. One licence covers one LinkedIn account, so a team pays per recruiter, and the desktop app keeps data on your own computer unless you pay for the cloud version at $29.90 a month. Buy Linked Helper when one recruiter needs cheap, full-featured automation; buy Dux-Soup when the team needs cloud execution and CRM sync.

Dux-Soup is one of the longest-running LinkedIn automation tools, and in 2026 it relaunched as STACKED, powered by Dux-Soup. The entry plan is STACKED local at $55 a month per seat, or $41.25 a month billed annually, and it includes unlimited concurrent campaigns, AI personalization, campaign statistics, a lead dashboard and native CRM integrations. STACKED cloud costs $99 a month and keeps campaigns running without your computer on.

The rebrand matters for the price: the old Pro plan at $14.99 a month no longer exists, so old reviews quoting it are stale. The drip campaigns are the reason to pick it — unlimited sequences with up to 12 actions each, plus prospect deduplication across the team. Buy Dux-Soup for campaigns and CRM sync; buy Linked Helper when $15 a month is the budget.

Octoparse is a general web scraper with a point-and-click builder, which makes it the pick when LinkedIn is only one of several sources — job boards, directories and company sites can all feed the same pipeline. Standard costs $83 a month billed monthly, or $69 a month billed annually, for 100 tasks, up to 3 concurrent cloud runs, scheduling, IP rotation, CAPTCHA solving and unlimited export. The free plan covers 10 tasks on local runs forever.

The add-ons are the hidden cost. Proxy use bills at $3 per gigabyte and CAPTCHA solving at $1 to $1.50 per 1,000 on top of the plan, so a heavy LinkedIn job costs more than the card price. Buy Octoparse when the team scrapes many sites and wants no code; buy PhantomBuster when LinkedIn is the only source.

Lusha is a contact database with a browser extension, not a scraper: you open a LinkedIn profile and reveal a verified email for 1 credit or a phone number for 5 credits, all from the same pool. Starter costs $49.90 a month billed monthly, or $37.45 a month billed annually, for 1 seat and 400 credits a month, with bulk CSV enrichment and an AI prospecting assistant included. The free plan covers 40 credits a month.

The credit math decides the value. Four hundred credits a month is 400 emails, but only 80 phone numbers if every credit goes to phones, and annual credits reset to zero at renewal. Buy Lusha when verified contact details are the bottleneck; buy RocketReach when the budget is $69 a month and email-only lookup is enough.

Juicebox is built around PeopleGPT, a natural-language search engine that reads a job description in plain English and searches 800 million profiles across more than 30 data sources. Starter costs $119 a month per seat billed monthly, or $99 a month billed annually, and includes unlimited searches, 500 contact credits and 500 export credits a month, unlimited projects and email outreach with AI templates.

The trade-off is the seat model and the integration wall. Every recruiter is another $119 a month, and ATS and CRM integrations only come with the custom Business plan, so a team that lives in its ATS will pay for the top tier. Buy Juicebox when Boolean search is the bottleneck; buy SeekOut when the roles are technical and the budget is bigger.

SeekOut is an AI talent search platform, not a LinkedIn scraper: it searches more than a billion profiles from GitHub, patents, academic papers and the open web, with 30-plus filters for skills, experience and diversity. Recruit Core is the only self-serve plan at $179 a month billed monthly, or $149 a month billed annually, and it includes 3 seats sharing 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports a month.

The jump above Core is the shock. Team plans are custom-priced per seat, and buyer data puts the median SeekOut contract near $20,000 a year, so Core is the whole self-serve story. Buy SeekOut when the hire is technical or hard to find and LinkedIn alone is not enough; buy Juicebox when the budget is $119 a month and plain-language search is the need.

HireEZ, formerly Hiretual, relaunched in August 2026 as an agent-native sourcing platform, and it now publishes exactly one price: Solo at $494 a month for a single recruiter seat on annual billing, or $549 a month month to month. It searches more than a billion profiles, ranks candidates with AI, finds contact details and runs drip campaigns, with more than 40 native ATS connections including Workday, Greenhouse and Lever.

Everything above Solo is a sales conversation, and buyer data puts the median HireEZ contract near $13,000 a year. The old $169 and $199 per-seat tiers that still appear in third-party roundups no longer exist on the vendor's pricing page. Buy HireEZ when one enterprise seat must replace several tools; buy SeekOut when $179 a month is the ceiling.

RocketReach is a contact database you search yourself: type a name or open a LinkedIn profile, and it returns a verified email, with phone numbers on the higher plans. Essentials costs $39 a month per seat billed monthly for 100 lookups and 100 exports a month, email only. Annual billing drops it to $19 a month and switches lookups to unlimited, with 1,200 exports a year.

The monthly plan is the expensive way to buy it, because the same $39 buys only 100 lookups while the annual plan gives unlimited lookups for $19 a month. The free plan covers 5 lookups a month with no exports, which is enough to test data quality on your own candidates. Buy RocketReach for quick email lookups; buy Lusha when bulk enrichment matters more.

Clay is a data orchestration platform that looks like a spreadsheet: a candidate list becomes a table, and each column runs a lookup, an enrichment or an AI step through 75-plus data providers. Launch costs $185 a month billed monthly, or $167 a month billed annually, for about 2,500 data credits and 15,000 actions a month, with unlimited users and a free plan of 100 data credits and 500 actions.

The March 2026 rebuild changed the deal for new customers: the old Starter plan at $149 a month is retired, Launch at $185 is the new entry point, and usage now runs on two meters — data credits and actions — instead of one. Buy Clay when enrichment needs a waterfall across many providers; buy TexAu when a single credit pool and a lower entry price matter more.