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.
| Tool | Starting price | Self-serve | Best 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"}'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.
Flat monthly pricing, a full REST API on every plan, and free credits to test your migration first.
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