How much does LinkedIn cost?

LinkedIn publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $59.99/month for Premium Business. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does LinkedIn have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers profile, networking, job search. Paying starts at $29.99/month for Premium Career.

What is the difference between Free and Premium Career on LinkedIn?

Premium Career costs $29.99/month against Free, and adds inmail, see who viewed, applicant insights.

Is the Premium Business plan on LinkedIn worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited search, business insights, learning courses. It costs $59.99/month against $29.99/month for Premium Career. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which dating tools can I use without paying?

7 of the 8 dating tools listed alongside LinkedIn have a free tier: Lunchclub, Muzz, Geneva, Happn, Facebook Dating.

Does LinkedIn charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these LinkedIn prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare LinkedIn against before paying?

The closest dating tools in this directory are Lunchclub, Muzz, Geneva, Happn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with LinkedIn covering price, platforms and features.

Dating · pricing

LinkedIn pricing

LinkedIn publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, LinkedIn pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

LinkedIn plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

LinkedIn pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier
Premium Career	$29.99/month	3	+$29.99/month, 3 more features
Premium Business	$59.99/month	3	+$30.000000000000004/month, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers profile, networking, job search.

Premium Career

$29.99/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

InMail
See Who Viewed
Applicant Insights

Premium Business

$59.99/month

Over Premium Career, this tier adds:

Unlimited Search
Business Insights
Learning Courses

Where LinkedIn stops being free

Free, Free

Profile
Networking
Job Search

Premium Career, $29.99/month

The first thing you pay for:

InMail
See Who Viewed
Applicant Insights

What the product covers

The full LinkedIn feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Professional Profiles
Job Search
InMail
LinkedIn Learning
Company Pages
LinkedIn Groups

Integrations

Microsoft 365
Salesforce

Platform

Ios support
Android support
Web support

People bring LinkedIn in for job seekers finding employment opportunities across various industries, recruiters posting positions to reach millions of candidates, professionals developing skills through thousands of courses, networking with industry peers to maintain professional relationships, staying informed on industry trends via curated content. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to LinkedIn are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Dating

Too few dating tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

LinkedIn entry price against other Dating tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
LinkedIn (this page)	Free	freemium	-
Lunchclub	Free	freemium	-	vs LinkedIn
Muzz	Free, then $14.99/month	-	-	vs LinkedIn
Geneva	Free	free	-	vs LinkedIn
Happn	Free, then $29.99/month	-	-	vs LinkedIn
Facebook Dating	Free	freemium	-	vs LinkedIn
Match.com	$35.99/month	subscription	-	vs LinkedIn

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the LinkedIn badges page.

Before you pay for LinkedIn

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $59.99/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

LinkedIn runs on ios, android, web, and is published by Microsoft Corporation of Sunnyvale, California. The full record is on the LinkedIn review, and the rest of the category is under best dating tools.

LinkedIn pricing on the vendor's own site