These are our limits, not LinkedIn’s. LinkedIn’s own caps sit above them and are neither published nor stable — see How Limits Work for how the two relate.
How Smart Limits work
Example. If it’s Wednesday at 2 PM, Edges looks at the trailing 24 hours. If the quota for an action is spent, async and schedule work for that action is postponed; by 3 PM some of it has aged out and the work resumes. Identity A reaching its connection-request limit does not stop Identity A from extracting profiles, and does not affect Identity B at all.
Edges counts only the actions performed through the platform. Activity done by hand on LinkedIn, or through another tool, is invisible to us and still counts against the account with LinkedIn.
New identities start lower
A newly connected identity does not receive its full allowance immediately — it builds up over the first days. This is the most common reason a limit is reached earlier than the tables below suggest.Identity Ramp-Up
How capacity grows, how to check where an identity currently sits, and how to lift it.
Quotas
Quotas by window
Each number is the cap for one rolling window, per identity. It applies to a LinkedIn account without a paid subscription. LinkedIn Premium and Sales Navigator are named in the cell when their cap differs. On a Sales Navigator limit, 0 is the cap for an account without Sales Navigator. InMail’s long window is 31 days, in the Per 24 hours column. In Per minute / 15 min, one number is the per-minute cap. Two numbers are the per-minute cap, then the per-15-minute cap.
* These quotas are tuned per platform configuration and can differ from the value shown. Get Identity Limits always returns the number that actually applies.
Every window is its own cap. A shorter window stops a burst while the 24-hour quota still has room. A blank cell means that window has no separate cap.
Which limits each action consumes
Several actions draw on more than one limit, and hitting any one of them stops the action. 33 documented actions consume no per-action quota at all — they remain subject to the identity-wide caps and to LinkedIn itself.Profile enrichment is served by several internal paths, each metered separately. The ceiling that applies to a given identity at a given moment is the one Get Identity Limits returns — not the table above.
Identity-wide throughput
Separate from the per-action quotas above, each identity also has a ceiling across all actions combined:
See How Limits Work for how this relates to the other systems. Ramp-up does not change these caps.
Checking an identity’s real numbers
The tables above show full capacity. The Get Identity Limits endpoint returns what actually applies to one identity right now — ramp-up and any custom configuration included.When every identity is exhausted
Withidentity_mode=auto, Edges spreads work across the identities available for the action. If all of them have reached their limit for that action, the run is postponed rather than failed:
identity_mode=managed and let Edges supply the capacity, or wait for postponed_until.
Avoiding LinkedIn restrictions
Smart Limits protect the account from volume. Two things outside our control matter just as much.Don’t run other automation alongside Edges
Many tools handle IP addresses poorly. Running several at once means LinkedIn sees the same account acting from different places, which is one of the strongest signals it has for flagging automation. If a client’s account is restricted, this is the first thing to check.Keep the timezone honest
Thetimezone on an Edges identity provisions a proxy IP in that country. If it doesn’t match where the person actually logs into LinkedIn — including their VPN, when they use one — LinkedIn sees an account logging in from two countries. Either match the timezone to the VPN, or have them disconnect the VPN for LinkedIn.
When a limit is reached
Every limit rejection carries a label saying which window was exhausted, so you can wait the right amount of time rather than backing off blindly.Which limit was hit
Every label, its origin, and the right retry for each.
Recover a blocked run
Picking work back up after a run stopped.
Related
How Limits Work
The five systems, and which ones you have to plan around.
Get Identity Limits
The effective numbers for one identity.
Live Mode Safety
Pacing live calls, which the quotas alone won’t do for you.