How much is LinkedIn Premium in 2026? Every plan, priced and compared

Almost every page that answers how much is LinkedIn Premium gives you one number, and almost every one of them gives you a different number. That is not sloppiness. LinkedIn runs several price grids at the same time, in several currencies, and the figure on your invoice depends on when you subscribed and from which country. This guide gives you the observed ranges instead of a single false precision, then does the part nobody does: the cost per message actually sent, and the exact steps to cancel.

How much is LinkedIn Premium in 2026: the short answer

LinkedIn Premium for individuals runs from about $30 to $90 per month depending on the plan. Career sits at the bottom of that range, Business in the middle, All-in-One at the top. Annual billing cuts the monthly figure by roughly 30 to 50 percent. Prices below were observed in August 2026 and exclude local tax.

One caveat before you budget anything: these are list prices in US dollars. In euros the same plans have been observed between 29,74 and 59,99 per month for Career and Business, with annual billing bringing Career close to 15 euros per month. Open your own account page before you commit, because your grid may not be the one quoted anywhere on the web.

How much is LinkedIn Premium Career, plan by plan

Premium Career is the entry plan, observed between $29.99 and $39.99 per month, or roughly $180 to $240 for a full year paid upfront. It includes 5 InMail messages per month, a 365 day view of who looked at your profile, applicant ranking on job posts, and the LinkedIn Learning catalogue.

The plan is built for one job: getting hired. If you are reading this to decide whether Premium helps you sell rather than get hired, Career is the wrong door. Its search filters are the same ones a free account gets, and its 5 monthly InMails run out in the first week of any real outreach effort.

Career is genuinely good at one underrated thing: the extended view of who visited your profile. That list is a warm signal, and it pairs well with knowing how to read a profile properly. If you want to turn those visitors into a workable list, our guide to finding a LinkedIn profile URL covers how to get from a name on a screen to a stable identifier you can store.

How much is LinkedIn Premium Business and All-in-One

Premium Business is observed between $59.99 and $69.99 per month, or about $405 to $576 per year. It raises InMails to 15 per month, unlocks unlimited people search, and adds company-level insights such as headcount trends. Premium All-in-One, the newer bundle, sits around $84.99 to $89.99 per month and folds a Premium Company Page into the same subscription, with 30 InMails.

Business is the plan most founders and freelancers end up on, and the jump from Career is real: unlimited search alone changes what you can do in an afternoon. It is also where the sticker shock starts, because $69.99 per month is $840 per year for one seat, and a seat is not a team.

Reading a company page well is half of what Business buys you. If your workflow involves matching people to the right employer at scale, the sister guides on extracting the company from a LinkedIn profile and on pulling a prospect job title show what that data looks like once it is out of the interface and in a spreadsheet.

Why two people pay two different prices for the same plan

This is the single reason the web contradicts itself on LinkedIn pricing, and no comparison article we read explains it. LinkedIn raised its rates and did not migrate everybody at once. Long-standing subscribers are frequently grandfathered on the older grid, while a new sign-up today sees the higher one. That is how $29.99 and $39.99 can both be true for Premium Career in the same month.

Three other things move your number:

• Country and tax. Displayed prices are pre-tax in the United States and often tax-inclusive in Europe, so the same plan looks more expensive in euros for reasons that have nothing to do with LinkedIn.
• Promotional pricing. LinkedIn regularly offers a discounted first period. It is a real discount, and it is not permanent.
• Purchase channel. Subscribing through an app store can produce a different amount and a different cancellation path than subscribing on the desktop site.

Practical consequence: never budget from an article, including this one. Treat published figures as a range for comparison, and read your actual amount in your subscription settings.

Monthly or annual billing: where the discount really sits

Annual billing is the largest lever on the price, and it is not uniform across plans. On Career the annual commitment has been observed to halve the effective monthly rate. On Business the saving is smaller, closer to a third. On Sales Navigator it is around a quarter.

The trap is obvious once stated: an annual plan is a twelve month bet on a tool whose value is seasonal for most people. A job search lasts three months. A prospecting sprint lasts six weeks. Paying monthly during an active period and stopping costs less than an annual plan you forget to use in month seven.

How much is LinkedIn Premium per InMail sent

Here is the number no pricing page prints. Divide the monthly cost by the InMails included and you get the real unit price of the one thing Premium sells that a free account cannot do: message a stranger.

Eight dollars per message is a lot when a typical InMail acceptance rate sits in the low tens of percent. Run the arithmetic on your own plan and billing cycle with the calculator below before you renew.

Two details soften the maths slightly. Unanswered InMails are credited back when the recipient replies within the window LinkedIn defines, and unused credits roll over up to a cap. But they are forfeited entirely the moment your subscription lapses, which matters a lot in the cancellation section further down.

LinkedIn Premium is not Sales Navigator, and the price gap shows it

Half the confusion around LinkedIn pricing comes from lumping these together. They are separate products with separate grids, and buying the wrong one is the most expensive mistake in this article.

Rule of thumb: Premium is a profile upgrade, Sales Navigator is a prospecting workspace. If you are building repeatable target lists, Premium will frustrate you at any tier and Sales Navigator is the honest answer. We break its own grid down separately in our guide to LinkedIn Sales Navigator pricing, including the per-seat maths for teams.

What a LinkedIn Premium subscription does not include at any price

This is where a prospecting budget quietly leaks. Premium buys visibility, unlimited search and a monthly ration of InMails. It does not buy the three things an outbound motion actually runs on, and no tier changes that.

• No verified email address. LinkedIn shows a contact email only when a member has chosen to expose it, which is a small minority.
• No phone number. Same logic, even rarer.
• No bulk export. There is no supported way to take a search result out of Premium as a usable list of rows.

None of this is a flaw in LinkedIn. It is a social network protecting its members, and it is right to. It simply means the budget line for Premium and the budget line for contact data are two different lines, and pretending otherwise is how teams end up paying $840 a year and still copying names by hand.

Derrick covers that second line from a Google Sheets sidebar. You paste LinkedIn profile URLs into a column and enrich them in place: Enrich Leads returns the full professional profile at 1 credit per profile and is available on the free plan, while Email Finder at 5 credits per email and Phone Finder at 150 credits per phone are paid features that only charge when a result is actually found. The same workflow runs on 40 rows or on 10,000, and there is an API and an MCP server if you would rather drive it from your own stack.

How to cancel LinkedIn Premium, step by step

Cancelling takes under a minute once you know where the setting hides. LinkedIn does not offer cancellation inside the iOS app, which is the single most common reason people believe they are trapped. Use a desktop browser and the path below.

On desktop:

1. Click the Me icon at the top of your homepage.
2. Select Premium features.
3. Click Manage subscription under Plan Details.
4. Click Purchases in the left pane.
5. Select your active subscription, then Cancel subscription.
6. Click Confirm cancel.

In the Android app: tap your profile photo, then Premium features, then Manage your subscription, then Cancel subscription. If you subscribed through Google Play, you can also cancel from the Play Store itself. If you subscribed on iOS through the mobile web, LinkedIn processes the payment and you must cancel from the desktop site.

Three rules decide whether this actually saves you money:

• Cancel at least one day before your billing date. Cancelling on the day does not stop the next charge.
• You keep Premium until the cycle ends. Cancelling is not switching off, so there is no reason to wait.
• Accumulated InMail credits are lost when the plan expires and cannot be credited back. Spend them before the end date.

Cancelling a free trial: the two traps worth knowing

The free trial is one month for eligible members, and cancelling it behaves differently from cancelling a paid plan. Ending a trial early removes your Premium access immediately rather than at the end of the period, so there is no benefit to cancelling on day two if you intend to use the features.

The second trap is eligibility. Once you have redeemed a trial, you are generally ineligible for another for at least twelve months. And if you cancel a subscription bought at a promotional rate, that discounted price is gone: resubscribing later happens at standard pricing.

Practical sequence: start the trial when you have an actual reason to use it, put a reminder one day before the renewal date, spend the InMails, then cancel from the desktop site on the reminder day.

Where a prospecting budget goes further than a badge

Take the Premium Business figure, $69.99 per month. Spent on LinkedIn it buys 15 InMails, unlimited search and a badge. Spent on data it buys a workable list you own, on channels that do not throttle you.

That is not an argument against LinkedIn. LinkedIn is where the identity data lives and there is no substitute for it: a profile URL is the most reliable key you can build a B2B record around, which is exactly why it is worth learning to tell a valid LinkedIn URL from a broken one before you store thousands of them. The argument is about sequencing. Use LinkedIn to identify who matters, then move that identity into a system where you can enrich it, dedupe it and contact it repeatably.

In practice a lot of teams end up on the free LinkedIn account plus a data layer, and only buy Premium during a specific push. That is usually the cheapest correct answer.

Key takeaways on LinkedIn Premium pricing

• Premium Career runs about $29.99 to $39.99 per month, Business about $59.99 to $69.99, All-in-One about $84.99 to $89.99, observed August 2026 and excluding local tax.
• Two grids coexist, so a long-standing subscriber and a new one legitimately pay different amounts for the same plan. Check your own account.
• Annual billing saves close to half on Career and roughly a third on Business, at the cost of a twelve month commitment.
• Per InMail, you are paying about $8.00 on Career and about $4.67 on Business. That is the number worth deciding on.
• Premium is not Sales Navigator. If you need lead lists and alerts, no Premium tier will do.
• No Premium tier includes a verified email, a phone number or a bulk export.
• Cancel on desktop, at least one day before renewal, and spend your InMail credits first because they are forfeited.

If the answer to how much is LinkedIn Premium turns out to be more than the outcome justifies, the fix is rarely a cheaper tier. It is putting the contact data layer where it belongs, next to LinkedIn rather than inside it.