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Updated on Jul 4, 2025

The Best LinkedIn Proxy Providers of 2025

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We benchmarked different proxy types for LinkedIn scraping and account management. A proxy alone won’t keep a LinkedIn account safe. Success comes from slow, human-like actions, one high-quality residential or mobile proxy per account, gradual warm-ups, and avoiding aggressive automation.

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Enterprise-scale data collection with city/ZIP/ASN targeting
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Low-cost pay-as-you-go residential plans
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Budget mix of proxy types for small teams
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Flexible pricing model, extras cost more
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City targeting with customizable service
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Enterprise-scale data collection with city/ZIP/ASN targeting
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Low-cost pay-as-you-go residential plans
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Budget mix of proxy types for small teams
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Flexible pricing model, extras cost more
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City targeting with customizable service

See top proxy providers tailored for LinkedIn usage:

Best proxy services for LinkedIn

Updated at 07-04-2025
VendorsPAYGStarting price (mo)*Traffic (GB) Free trial
Bright Data$4.2 $499138$5 for 30 days
ProxyEmpire$7 $40 7$1.97 (100 MB residential + 50 MB mobile data)
IPRoyal$6.25 $12 2
PrivateProxy$150N/A2 days
Proxy-Seller$3.5
$933 days for $1.99
Webshare$7 1

* Pricing is based on a residential proxy monthly subscription

Practical proxy selection tips for LinkedIn

  • Manual-like automation (≤ 100 LinkedIn activities per day): LinkedIn aggressively throttles invitations.1 Use a static residential IP per account. You can use proxies with automation tools, such as Linked Helper, or run them inside an anti-detect browser.
  • Heavy scraping: At this scale, LinkedIn begins to examine sessions, TLS fingerprints, and request cadence across events. For instance, after ~300 HTML requests, you can use rotating proxies to change the IP address and start fresh for a more human-like pacing.
  • Short-lived tasks (e.g., email extraction): Low-cost datacenter proxies are ideal. However, LinkedIn’s anti-abuse engine flags datacenter ASN ranges and blocks them. You can consider buying dedicated datacenter IPs.

Top 7 LinkedIn proxy services

Bright Data offers a purpose-built LinkedIn Proxy endpoint and a LinkedIn Scraper API, which expose ready-made routes for profiles, jobs, companies, and more.

Its 150 M-IP residential cloud and 7 M-IP 4G/5G mobile network let you stack granular filters, country, state, city, ZIP, ASN, even precise latitude/longitude or the exit node’s operating-system hash (Windows, macOS, Android), so you can combine, for example, city + ASN for a specific ISP inside one metro area.

Every zone supports both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, and concurrency is limited only by your plan’s allotted parallel connections (≈150 on Business tiers, higher on Enterprise), not by any hard cap in the proxy itself. Bright Data lets you switch any zone to a Pay-As-You-Go model with no monthly commitment.

ProxyEmpire offers 9 million residential proxies and 5 million 4G/5G mobile IPs sourced from 170 countries, enabling the management of multiple LinkedIn accounts. Their LinkedIn proxy servers are compatible with various anti-detect browsers.

Residential and mobile proxies provide targeting options by region, state, city, and ISP or mobile carrier. However, their static residential proxies and datacenter proxies are limited to country-level targeting.

IPRoyal sells residential and mobile proxies for social media automation with sticky and randomize rotation modes. Users can select country, state, or city. The IP rotation interval depends on the chosen plan.

With the 1-day plan, you can manually rotate your IP address every 6 minutes. 1-, 30-, 60-, and 90-day subscriptions are available for mobile and residential proxies.

PrivateProxy offers LinkedIn residential proxies that work seamlessly with anti-detect browsers such as GoLogin and Incognito. If you use in-house LinkedIn bots, their LinkedIn proxies can be integrated with these tools.

The proxy service provider supplies static and rotating residential proxies, with exit nodes available exclusively in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, and South Africa.

Proxy-Seller offers static datacenters, ISPs, mobile, and a rotating residential pool, all selectable via GET /proxy/list/{type}. Residential proxies let you encode country, city, ISP, or sticky session parameters directly in the username. At the same time, static products support both login-password and IP-whitelist authorization on the same order.

Sub-accounts isolate traffic limits and geo rules. Mobile-CRM endpoints provide hardware-level control of 4G/5G modems, and price calculators, along with reference data, enable you to script purchases without leaving your code.

Webshare’s social media proxy offering includes rotating residential, static residential, and data center options. Rotating Residential proxies are drawn from a large shared pool and rotate automatically with every request; you don’t need to refresh them manually.

Static Residential (ISP) proxies come in three flavours: premium (shared), private (shared with at most two users), and dedicated (exclusive to a single user).

For plans that provide a fixed proxy list (static residential or datacenter), you typically receive two full list refreshes per month. You can also replace individual IPs, up to 500 per month, if you purchase the 500-replacements add-on.

Benchmark-based recommendations

Collecting LinkedIn data

Does your company have a dedicated and experienced tech team that specializes in web scraping? If

  • Yes, we recommend using third-party datasets. Using datasets is the easiest option to obtain LinkedIn data. Other approaches are technically more challenging, considering the platform’s stringent anti-scraping measures. LinkedIn data providers, such as Bright Data, employ data collection experts and leverage various data collection techniques that adhere to LinkedIn’s terms of service, consistently providing validated data.
  • No, you can leverage proxy servers. However, LinkedIn is the most challenging social media platform to access using proxies, due to its strong security measures that aim to ensure only legitimate users can access the site.

We tried various proxies to access social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter (X). We were able to scrape data for a few pages before encountering CAPTCHAs. However, LinkedIn immediately flagged our IP when we first attempted to access it, regardless of the type of proxy (e.g., residential, mobile, ISP, and datacenter proxies) that we used.

Figure 1: Results of using proxy servers to access LinkedIn

Manage multiple LinkedIn accounts

While you can create multiple LinkedIn accounts with different emails, LinkedIn’s User Agreement allows only one personal account.2 Violating this policy may result in account suspension. However, companies and organizations can create multiple company pages.

Are you OK with LinkedIn banning the accounts you manage? If

  • Yes, see LinkedIn automation tools: These tools offer a no-code interface to program repetitive actions (e.g., connection requests) on LinkedIn. They replicate human behavior by varying the timing of connection requests and messages, which helps minimize the risk of being flagged by LinkedIn.
    • Some LinkedIn automation tools, such as Expandi, Skylead, and Linked Helper, also offer the option to use custom proxies.
    • Other LinkedIn automation tools, such as Meet Alfred, manage their own proxies.
    • The use of these LinkedIn automation tools violates LinkedIn’s Terms of Use.
  • No, we haven’t come across a reliable solution for you. Here are some of our experiments:
    • Using proxies with normal browsers would not help: Proxies don’t automatically adjust identifiable browser characteristics, such as user-agent strings, browser types, or operating systems, and other browser configurations remain unchanged. These attributes can still be utilized to identify users online.
    • Using proxies with antidetect browsers also did not work. These browsers permit adjustments to elements such as JavaScript objects and user agents. However, the platform initially demanded manual action, such as solving image puzzles and CAPTCHA. Despite solving the CAPTCHA, the outcome was the same; LinkedIn still restricted access to its platform.

Figure 2: Results of using anti-detect browsers to access LinkedIn

Although multiple LinkedIn account management is popular due to use cases such as outreach, it is not an easy task to achieve because LinkedIn’s strict policies against automation make it challenging. In all your LinkedIn-related work, it is essential to ensure that your activities, such as sending connection requests and messages, comply with LinkedIn’s terms of service.

FAQs about LinkedIn proxies

What is a LinkedIn proxy?

A LinkedIn proxy masks your actual IP address to manage multiple accounts, bypass geographic restrictions, or maintain privacy. LinkedIn proxies are helpful if you manage various LinkedIn profiles or want to appear to be browsing from a specific region.

Can LinkedIn detect proxies?

LinkedIn has several layers of anti-abuse defences; the platform cross-checks IP reputation, device fingerprints, behavioural patterns, and policy compliance.

Are proxies illegal in the US?

No, LinkedIn proxy usage is legal in the United States. You can use them for privacy, security, and business automation. Legal risks arise when you commit or conceal unlawful acts.

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Sedat is a technology and information security leader with experience in software development, web data collection and cybersecurity. Sedat:
- Has ⁠20 years of experience as a white-hat hacker and development guru, with extensive expertise in programming languages and server architectures.
- Is an advisor to C-level executives and board members of corporations with high-traffic and mission-critical technology operations like payment infrastructure.
- ⁠Has extensive business acumen alongside his technical expertise.
Gülbahar is an AIMultiple industry analyst focused on web data collection, applications of web data and application security.

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