A Cheaper Coresignal Alternative for LinkedIn Jobs and Company Data (2026 Pricing)
Coresignal's cheapest plan is $49 a month for 2,500 credits, and a company record costs 20 of them. What LinkedIn jobs and company data cost on every Coresignal plan, where LinkFetch is cheaper, and where it isn't. Prices checked October 11, 2026.
TL;DR. Coresignal sells data by the record: a job post costs 1 credit and a company or employee record costs 20, with monthly plans from $49 (2,500 credits) to $5,000 (10 million). At the top of that range it's cheap per record. For a few hundred companies or a few thousand jobs a month it isn't: the $49 plan buys at most 125 company records, and on monthly billing unused credits expire every month below the $1,500 plan. LinkFetch charges a flat credit per request, sells credits in one-off packs from $19 that last 12 months, and is cheaper for LinkedIn company records on every Coresignal plan up to $1,500 a month and for job lists without descriptions. Coresignal is cheaper for full job records from its $1,000 plan up, and has far more history, sources and employee data. Every Coresignal price below comes from its own pricing page and docs, checked on October 11, 2026.
How Coresignal pricing works
Coresignal has two products: Database APIs, paid with credits, and Datasets, sold as bulk files.
On the APIs, basic search is free and returns the IDs of matching records and a total count. You pay when you collect or enrich a record, and only for successful calls. The docs list the cost per record:
| Record | Credits |
|---|---|
| Job post | 1 |
| Company record | 20 |
| Employee record | 20 |
| Employee or company post | 1 |
| Historical headcount | 10 |
| Search preview, up to 20 results (Pro and up) | 20 |
Credits come in plans:
| Plan | Price a month | Credits a month | Per credit | Rollover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini | $49 | 2,500 | $0.0196 | None |
| Starter | $199 | 12,000 | $0.0166 | None |
| Pro | $499 | 35,000 | $0.0143 | None |
| Growth | $1,000 | 150,000 | $0.0067 | None |
| Premium | $1,500 | 1,000,000 | $0.0015 | 3 months |
| Scale | $3,000 | 4,000,000 | $0.00075 | 3 months |
| Elite | $5,000 | 10,000,000 | $0.0005 | 3 months |
Rollover is as listed in Coresignal's pricing docs; one plan card on the pricing page shows rollover for Growth, but the comparison table and the docs don't. Yearly billing takes 10% off from Starter up, paid upfront, with every credit arriving on day one and valid for 12 months. Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time. A 7-day trial gives 2,000 credits, once per company email domain.
Datasets have no public price list. The pricing page says they start from $1,000, are paid monthly on a yearly contract, and that the final price depends on the contract length, record count and other factors. Proxyway's April 2026 review called the model "mostly opaque and sales-based".
Why Coresignal feels expensive
The per-credit price falls 39 times from the $49 plan to the $5,000 plan. So what you actually pay depends almost entirely on how much you commit to, and two things make it hard on smaller teams:
- Company records cost 20 credits. The $49 plan buys 125 company records a month. Researching 300 companies a month means the $199 plan.
- On monthly billing, credits expire every month below Premium. A quiet month on Mini, Starter, Pro or Growth is money lost. Rollover starts at $1,500 a month, and even then it's three months. Yearly billing fixes this, but means paying for the year upfront.
That's normal for a data vendor this size. Coresignal is built for teams that pull millions of records a month, and at that scale its prices are low. The gap is for everyone else.
What the same work costs on LinkFetch
LinkFetch is narrower than Coresignal: LinkedIn job posts and the companies behind them, collected from LinkedIn's public pages. It prices each request rather than each record. Through the REST API a jobs search costs 1 credit and returns up to 50 jobs; through the MCP server it returns up to 20. Credits come in one-off packs, with no monthly plan:
| Pack | Price | Per credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 credits | $19 | $0.019 |
| 5,000 credits | $79 | $0.0158 |
| 20,000 credits | $189 | $0.00945 |
Credits are valid for 12 months, and every account starts with 500 free credits.
The records aren't identical, so compare them carefully. A LinkFetch company record holds what the company's public LinkedIn page shows: industry, size, staff count, followers, founding year, headquarters, locations, specialties, website and recent jobs. Coresignal's company records combine several sources and carry far more fields. A LinkFetch jobs search returns the job list (title, company, location, posting date, seniority, employment type, salary and applicant count) without the description; a job with its full description costs 1 credit per job, the same unit Coresignal charges.
| Coresignal plan | 1 company record | 1,000 jobs, full records |
|---|---|---|
| Mini ($49) | $0.39 | $19.60 |
| Starter ($199) | $0.33 | $16.58 |
| Pro ($499) | $0.29 | $14.26 |
| Growth ($1,000) | $0.13 | $6.67 |
| Premium ($1,500) | $0.03 | $1.50 |
| Scale ($3,000) | $0.015 | $0.75 |
| Elite ($5,000) | $0.01 | $0.50 |
On LinkFetch, at $0.00945 to $0.019 a credit depending on the pack:
- One company record is 1 credit: $0.00945 to $0.019. That's cheaper than every Coresignal plan up to Premium whichever pack you buy, 20 to 40 times cheaper than Mini and 1.5 to 3 times cheaper than Premium. On Scale and Elite only the 20,000-credit pack keeps up.
- 1,000 jobs as a list, without descriptions, is 20 REST searches: $0.19 to $0.38. Coresignal has no list-only record, so if the fields above are all you need, this is cheaper than any Coresignal plan. If you only need IDs or counts, Coresignal's free search is cheaper still.
- 1,000 jobs with full descriptions is 1,020 credits (20 searches plus 1,000 jobs): $9.64 to $19.38. Coresignal wins from Growth up, and on Starter or Pro too unless you buy the 20,000-credit pack.
Three common jobs, priced for a year
- Research 300 companies a month. That's 6,000 Coresignal credits a month, which needs the $199 Starter plan: $2,388 a year, or $2,149 paid yearly. On LinkFetch it's 3,600 credits a year, one $79 pack, as long as the companies have posted jobs on LinkedIn since April 2026, which is what LinkFetch's roughly 560,000 company records cover.
- Track 20,000 new LinkedIn jobs a month for hiring signals. Collecting 20,000 job records a month on Coresignal needs the $499 Pro plan: $5,988 a year, or $5,389 paid yearly. On LinkFetch, 400 REST searches a month of 50 jobs each is 4,800 credits a year, about one $79 pack. You get the job list, not the descriptions; a description is 1 more credit for each job you care about.
- Pull full descriptions for a million jobs a month. Coresignal's $1,500 Premium plan covers it. Through LinkFetch's API the same volume would cost several times more, so ask about the dataset files, or use Coresignal.
Bulk files
Neither company publishes a file price. Coresignal datasets start from $1,000, paid monthly on a yearly contract, delivered as JSON or CSV with historical data available. The LinkFetch LinkedIn jobs dataset holds 8.4 million public LinkedIn jobs since April 2026, as one Parquet or CSV file per day, sold as the full history, a daily feed, or both. You write in for a quote based on how much history and how many days you need, and you can leave an email to download a free 1,000-job sample with the same columns first.
Where Coresignal is the better choice
Pick Coresignal over LinkFetch if you need:
- History. Coresignal's job data goes back to August 2020 and holds 482 million+ posts. LinkFetch started collecting in April 2026 and has about 8.4 million. For scale, see how many jobs are posted on LinkedIn each day.
- More than LinkedIn. Coresignal combines 15+ sources, including Indeed and Glassdoor. LinkFetch covers LinkedIn only.
- Employee data in bulk. Coresignal sells 907 million employee records. LinkFetch doesn't sell a profile database; people data only comes through a LinkedIn account you connect yourself, and stays private to you. If you're weighing profile data, read up on GDPR and LinkedIn data APIs first.
- Large volumes of full records. From Growth up, Coresignal's price per full job post beats LinkFetch's.
- More companies and richer company records. Coresignal has 70 million company records from several sources. LinkFetch has about 560,000: the companies that posted jobs on LinkedIn.
- Free search and counts. Coresignal's basic search returns matching IDs and totals without spending credits.
Where LinkFetch is the better choice
- You need LinkedIn jobs and companies, not everything. You pay for the slice you use.
- Your volume is small or uneven. Packs from $19 last 12 months, with nothing to renew, so a quiet month costs nothing.
- You need LinkedIn company records or job lists. 1 credit per company and 1 credit per 50 jobs over REST.
- You work in Claude or Cursor. The same data is available through an MCP server, and LinkFetch can also work your own LinkedIn account: posts, people and messages, within published safety limits.
There's a full side-by-side table in LinkFetch vs Coresignal, and our overview of how LinkedIn data APIs price their calls puts both pricing models next to the rest of the market.
FAQ
Is there a free alternative to Coresignal?
Neither is free at volume, but both let you try for free. Coresignal has a 7-day trial with 2,000 credits. LinkFetch gives 500 free credits on signup with no card, enough for 500 company records or up to 25,000 job list rows over REST, and a free 1,000-job sample file.
How much does Coresignal cost per month?
From $49 a month for 2,500 credits to $5,000 a month for 10 million, as of October 11, 2026. A job record costs 1 credit and a company or employee record 20, so the $49 plan covers 2,500 jobs or 125 companies a month.
Do Coresignal credits roll over?
On monthly billing, only on Premium ($1,500 a month) and above, for three months. On Mini, Starter, Pro and Growth, unused credits expire at the end of each month. Yearly plans give all credits upfront, valid for 12 months.
Is LinkFetch's data the same as Coresignal's?
No. LinkFetch collects LinkedIn job posts and company pages from LinkedIn's public, logged-out pages, starting April 2026. Coresignal combines many sources over more years. For LinkedIn jobs specifically, compare the columns in the free LinkFetch sample with what you use today.
Does LinkFetch have an API like Coresignal's?
Yes: a REST API and an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other AI apps, paid from the same credits. Jobs and company data need no LinkedIn account. See the data overview for every price per request.