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Proxycurl Shut Down. Here Are 6 Real Alternatives.

Proxycurl shut down in 2025 after LinkedIn filed a federal lawsuit alleging it operated fake accounts to scrape profiles. If your integration broke, here are 6 real alternatives compared on price, self-serve access, and what each is actually good for — including the official successor from Proxycurl's own team.

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Best Proxycurl Alternatives at a Glance
All 6, ranked and compared on price and self-serve access before the full breakdown below.
ToolStarting priceSelf-serveBest for
LinkFinder AI $49/mo Yes Flat-rate LinkedIn & contact data, no legacy schema to match
EnrichLayer ~$588/yr (~$49/mo) Yes Field-for-field migration from Proxycurl's exact endpoints
NinjaPear 12-month plans, up to $1,899/mo Contract required Company-customer intelligence (official Proxycurl-team successor)
Coresignal $49/mo Yes Firmographic & employee data at scale
People Data Labs Free, then ~$98/mo Yes Bulk person & company records for pipelines
ScrapIn $29/mo Yes Real-time LinkedIn profile/company/job scraping
The 6 Best Proxycurl Alternatives, Reviewed
What each tool actually does well, what it doesn't, and who it's really for.
1

LinkFinder AI — best overall replacement for LinkedIn & contact data

LinkFinder AI covers the core job most Proxycurl users had — LinkedIn profile enrichment, company data, email finder, and phone lookup — through a flat-rate REST API, without relying on scraping LinkedIn through fake or automated accounts.

Starting price: $49/mo (5,000 credits)Self-serve: YesBest for: Flat-rate API without Proxycurl's legal-risk pattern
Pros
  • Flat monthly pricing, no per-endpoint credit variance
  • Full REST API on every plan, incl. cheapest tier
  • GDPR-compliant, France-based
Cons
  • Not a field-for-field schema match to Proxycurl's old API — expect to remap fields
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EnrichLayer — closest drop-in match to Proxycurl's exact API

EnrichLayer launched after Proxycurl's shutdown with a near-identical endpoint structure and credit-based pricing model. It's widely described as a Proxycurl-style successor, though this hasn't been officially confirmed. If a byte-for-byte migration matters most, start here.

Starting price: ~$588/yr (~$49/mo, annual)Self-serve: YesBest for: Field-for-field Proxycurl API migration
Pros
  • Near-identical endpoint structure & response shape to old Proxycurl
  • Competitive raw per-credit cost at volume
Cons
  • Best pricing locked behind an annual commitment
  • Not officially confirmed to be run by Proxycurl's original team
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NinjaPear — Proxycurl's own team's next product (different focus)

NinjaPear is built by Nubela, the same team that built Proxycurl, and Nubela officially points former Proxycurl users toward it. But NinjaPear pivoted to company-customer intelligence — its Customer Listing endpoint, not individual profile lookup — so it only replaces a slice of what most developers used Proxycurl for.

Starting price: 12-month plans, up to $1,899/moSelf-serve: Contract requiredBest for: Company-customer intelligence, not profile lookup
Pros
  • Official successor from Proxycurl's original team
  • Genuinely distinctive Customer Listing capability
Cons
  • 12-month commitment required on all plans
  • Not built for individual profile or contact lookup
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4

Coresignal — best for large-scale firmographic & employee datasets

Coresignal focuses on company, employee, and job-posting data at scale, sourced from the public web, with transparent published pricing — a fit if your Proxycurl usage leaned toward company/employee data rather than one-off profile lookups.

Starting price: $49/moSelf-serve: YesBest for: Firmographic & employee data at scale
Pros
  • Transparent $49–$1,500/mo tiers
  • Large structured datasets (JSON/CSV/Parquet)
Cons
  • No verified emails or phone numbers built in
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5

People Data Labs — best for bulk person & company records

PDL sells structured person and company data by the record, with a large raw dataset aimed at teams building their own enrichment pipeline rather than doing one-off lookups through a UI.

Starting price: Free (100 lookups/mo), then ~$98/moSelf-serve: YesBest for: Bulk dataset access for pipelines
Pros
  • Free tier to start
  • Massive raw dataset scale (3B+ profiles)
Cons
  • Monthly, not real-time, data refresh
  • No self-serve UI for non-developers
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6

ScrapIn — best for real-time LinkedIn profile & company scraping

ScrapIn is a real-time LinkedIn data API returning structured profile, company, job, and post data — the closest match to what Proxycurl did for developers who want live scraping rather than a static dataset.

Starting price: $29/mo (1,000 credits)Self-serve: YesBest for: Real-time LinkedIn profile/company/job scraping
Pros
  • Real-time data, not a static dataset
  • Developer plan starts at $29/mo
Cons
  • Pricing jumps sharply at production scale ($299–$999/mo)
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Code examples
Copy and paste — works in any language or automation platform.
curl -X POST https://api.linkfinderai.com/linkedin_profile_to_linkedin_info \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example"}'
What actually happened to Proxycurl
The short version.

In January 2025, LinkedIn (via Microsoft) sued Proxycurl's parent company, Nubela, alleging it operated hundreds of thousands of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn profiles at scale. The case settled and Proxycurl wound down its service in mid-2025, notifying customers and scheduling their data for deletion. Nubela's own next product, NinjaPear, and a separate lookalike, EnrichLayer, both emerged afterward — see the full roundup above for how each compares to LinkFinder AI.

LinkFinder AI vs the Old Proxycurl API: Full Feature Comparison
For teams migrating a specific integration — how LinkFinder AI's API compares to what Proxycurl's API used to offer.
Feature
LinkFinder AI
Best Choice
Proxycurl (historical)
Status
Active, accepting new signups
Shut down mid-2025
Pricing model
Flat: 1 credit = 1 request
Variable credits per endpoint
Monthly starting price
$49/mo (5,000 credits)
Was ~$49-$99/mo (historical)
LinkedIn profile lookup
(was core feature)
Company data enrichment
Email & phone finder
API on cheapest plan
Sourcing method
No fake/automated LinkedIn accounts
Fake-account scraping (per lawsuit)
Legal risk to your integration
Not built on that pattern
Shut down over it
Frequently asked questions
Is Proxycurl still operating?
No. Proxycurl shut down in mid-2025 after LinkedIn filed a federal lawsuit in January 2025 alleging it operated large numbers of fake accounts to scrape profiles at scale. The case settled and the service was wound down, with customer data scheduled for deletion.
What's the closest replacement to Proxycurl's exact API?
EnrichLayer launched after Proxycurl's shutdown with a very similar endpoint structure and credit-based pricing, and is widely described as a Proxycurl-style successor (though this hasn't been officially confirmed). If you need the closest possible drop-in replacement, it's worth evaluating directly. LinkFinder AI takes a different approach — flat monthly pricing and a single REST endpoint — rather than mirroring Proxycurl's exact API shape.
Does LinkFinder AI cover the same data as Proxycurl did?
LinkFinder AI covers LinkedIn profile enrichment, company data, email finder, and phone lookup, with batch CSV processing and JSON/Excel/CSV export. It won't be a field-for-field match to Proxycurl's old schema, so plan to check your specific data needs against our API documentation before migrating.
How much does LinkFinder AI cost?
Plans start at $49/month for 5,000 credits, up to $149/month for 50,000 credits, with pay-as-you-go packs from $25 that never expire. New accounts get free credits with no credit card required.
Is migrating from a Proxycurl-based integration difficult?
Both are REST APIs that accept JSON, so the integration pattern is familiar even though the exact endpoints differ. You'll need to update endpoint URLs and response field names in your code, but the overall request/response shape (send an identifier, get back structured JSON) stays the same. Full details are in our API documentation.
Is NinjaPear the official Proxycurl successor?
NinjaPear is built by Nubela, the same team that built Proxycurl, and Nubela officially points former Proxycurl users toward it. But NinjaPear pivoted to company-customer intelligence rather than individual profile lookup, so it only replaces a slice of what most developers used Proxycurl for. See the full NinjaPear comparison above.
How did you pick these 6 Proxycurl alternatives?
We included the tools that come up repeatedly for people migrating off Proxycurl: the official successor from Proxycurl's own team (NinjaPear), the closest API-shape clone (EnrichLayer), a real-time LinkedIn scraper (ScrapIn), two dataset-focused APIs (Coresignal, People Data Labs), and LinkFinder AI. We publish real starting prices and known limitations for each, including ones that don't favor LinkFinder AI.
Isn't this list biased since LinkFinder AI made it?
We're upfront that LinkFinder AI is our product and it's ranked first. That said, every entry lists real pricing and honest tradeoffs, including for LinkFinder AI (not a field-for-field schema match to Proxycurl's old API). If your priority is an exact drop-in replacement, EnrichLayer or ScrapIn may fit better, and we say so.

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