LinkedIn Sales Navigator Pricing 2026: Cost per Month and Year, Trial and Cheaper Options

LinkedIn Sales Navigator costs $119.99 per month for Core and $159.99 for Advanced when billed monthly. Annual billing brings that down to $89.99 and $149.99 per month ($1,079.88 and $1,799.88 per year). Advanced Plus has no public price and is quoted per team. In euros LinkedIn lists €120.99 and €148.21 per month, or €1,088.88 and €1,693.88 per year. Core and Advanced start with a free trial. All prices are per licence, excluding VAT, status 30 October 2026.

How much does Sales Navigator cost per month or per year?

LinkedIn sells three plans: Core for individual sellers, Advanced for sales teams and Advanced Plus for teams that sync with a supported CRM. Only Core and Advanced show a price on LinkedIn's compare-plans page. Advanced Plus is customised by team size, CRM integration and onboarding, and you request a demo to get the number. The page itself notes that prices are estimates, may exclude VAT and promotions, and can change.

Annual billing saves 25% on Core and 6% on Advanced (USD figures). Per month that is $89.99 for Core and $149.99 for Advanced, or €90.74 and €141.16. Third-party sites quote other numbers because they were written at different dates and for different regions, and a vendor analysis reports that LinkedIn repriced both plans earlier in 2026. Use the live LinkedIn page for the final figure.

What is included, and what costs extra?

The licence price covers the software, not the work you do with it. These are the points that change the real bill:

• One licence per user. Every person who searches needs their own seat. InMail credits on Core are not pooled across seats. Advanced licences can be bought online up to five; beyond that you talk to sales.
• InMail credits. LinkedIn's Help Center gives Sales Navigator users 50 InMail credits per month, unused credits roll over within a cap, and credits for answered InMails come back within 90 days. On Core billed annually that is $1,079.88 for 600 credits a year, or $1.80 per credit before any reply. The Help Center articles disagree on the exact reset day, so check yours.
• Search cap. A Sales Navigator search shows at most 2,500 results (100 pages of 25), according to third-party tests. Broad candidate searches have to be split into narrower ones.
• No sending engine. Sales Navigator finds people and lets you message them one by one. Sequences, follow-ups and email need a second tool or your own time. LinkedIn's terms restrict automation tools, so check the rules before you connect one.
• Advanced Plus. CRM sync with Salesforce, HubSpot or Microsoft Dynamics, plus onboarding, is what you pay the quote for.
• Taxes. VAT is added in most regions; EU businesses with a valid VAT ID are normally invoiced under reverse charge.
• What you lose on exit. Downgrading to a free account keeps your connections but removes saved lists, alerts and unused InMail credits.

Is there a free plan or a trial?

There is no permanent free plan, only the limited search of a normal LinkedIn account. Core and Advanced offer a free trial (third-party sources name 30 days; availability varies by plan and region). You qualify if you have no paid LinkedIn subscription and have not used a LinkedIn trial in the last 365 days. LinkedIn asks for a payment card, sends a reminder seven days before the trial ends, and bills you if you do not cancel. The page mentions no trial for Advanced Plus.

For comparison, Sprad's free plan is permanent: 100 credits per month (200 in the first month), no card, and web search is included. At two credits per displayed profile that is about 50 profiles a month.

What does it cost for 5 and for 15 seats?

Here is the arithmetic for a team, with the assumptions stated: list prices, one seat per person, 12 months, no discounts, no tax. Sprad is shown in USD list prices for comparison.

Two readings matter. First, monthly billing costs a third more than annual billing on Core (+33%), so a year-round need should not sit on a monthly plan. Second, at 15 seats you are past the five-licence online limit for Advanced, so expect a sales conversation and negotiate. Sprad's Recruiter Lite is comparable per seat to Core, and Sprad's CRM, career page and talent network cost nothing extra; deep search, company search and contact data run on credits.

Does Sales Navigator pay off for recruiting?

Sales Navigator is built around accounts and leads, not candidates. It is a good fit when a recruiter or agency researches target employers, finds hiring managers or does business development. It is a weaker fit as the main tool for candidate sourcing: there is no candidate pipeline, no email channel, the 50 monthly InMail credits cap your reach per seat, and lists and notes stay tied to one login. Our guide to LinkedIn Recruiter vs Sales Navigator for recruiting goes through the differences, and LinkedIn Recruiter pricing covers the recruiting-specific licences.

Typical mistakes when teams budget for it:

• Buying a seat for everybody. Often one or two people search and the rest only need the shared pipeline. Seats cost money; viewing a shared candidate list should not.
• Paying for Advanced Plus without a supported CRM. The quote mostly buys the CRM sync.
• Treating InMail as the outreach channel. 600 credits a year per seat is a ceiling, and it does nothing for follow-ups or email.
• Monthly billing for a permanent need. That alone adds a third to the Core price.
• Forgetting the trial. The card is charged unless you cancel before the end.

Cheaper and better ways to source

If the goal is candidates, compare tools by what they do after the search. Sprad has built recruiting software for seven years, starting with employee referrals and the matching of profiles to requirements, and the sourcing tool Atlas is now in daily use. Its design differs from a Sales Navigator seat in a few ways:

• Real AI checking of every profile. Atlas checks each profile against your requirements and gives a reason per requirement. If results appear instantly, that is almost always a keyword search. The quick search returns first results in about three seconds; the deep search takes a few minutes because far more AI runs per profile.
• LinkedIn and email in one inbox. Outreach runs on both channels, automated with follow-ups. InMails can be sent from Sprad using your own quota, with trainable AI templates and a pitch format. The system warns you when someone was already contacted, so colleagues do not write to the same person twice.
• One search across sources. LinkedIn, XING, GitHub and your own talent pool, from a database of more than 1 billion profiles.
• Your data stays yours. If you cancel, the talent network stays free and every view can be exported.
• Price. Start free, Recruiter Lite at €79 per seat and month, flexible credits. Compared with separate recruiter licences at LinkedIn and XING, costs are 30 to 80% lower, depending on what you run today.

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Sprad people search with per-requirement reasons, sprad.io/product/people-search, retrieved October 2026.

In the recruiting area of the open PeopleSearchBench, our own re-measurement puts Atlas at 73.5 of 100, converted to the published scale (Lessie 68.2, Juicebox 65.7 as published; see the note below). Sprad is the vendor of Atlas itself. In Sprad's own test (15 August 2026, three open roles, 218 profiles checked), 38% of Sprad's results matched the brief against 3% for LinkedIn's native search. Honest limits: no AI call notetaker, no placement reporting, no SMS (WhatsApp instead), and Atlas Recruiter costs more per seat than some seat tools. See also our LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives, the comparison of active sourcing tools, the people search and Sprad pricing.

Legal checks before you buy (EU, UK and US)

Sourcing from public profiles still triggers duties. Under Article 14 GDPR you must inform people whose data you did not collect from them, in general within one month. The EU AI Act lists AI systems used to filter or evaluate candidates as high-risk (Annex III), so ask every vendor how it supports your obligations. In New York City, Local Law 144 requires a bias audit and candidate notice for automated employment decision tools. The Irish regulator's €310 million fine against LinkedIn in October 2024 concerned advertising, not recruiting, but it shows how closely regulators read the lawful basis for profile data; see the Data Protection Commission's decision. Ask any vendor, including us, for hosting location and a data processing agreement.

FAQ

How much does LinkedIn Sales Navigator cost per month?

Core is $119.99 per month (€120.99) on monthly billing and $89.99 (€90.74) when billed annually. Advanced is $159.99 (€148.21) monthly and $149.99 (€141.16) annually. Status 30 October 2026, per licence, excluding VAT.

Is there a free trial?

Yes, for Core and Advanced, if you have no paid LinkedIn subscription and no LinkedIn trial in the past 365 days. A card is required.

What is the difference between Core and Advanced?

Core is aimed at individual sellers, Advanced at sales teams. Advanced adds team features and costs 33% more on monthly billing and 67% more on annual billing. LinkedIn's page does not make the per-plan feature split machine-readable, so confirm the details in the plan comparison before you decide.

How much is Advanced Plus?

There is no public price. LinkedIn quotes it by team size, CRM integration and onboarding.

Can recruiters use Sales Navigator instead of LinkedIn Recruiter?

For research on employers and hiring managers, yes. For daily candidate sourcing it lacks a candidate pipeline and email, and its 50 InMail credits per month limit outreach. See the full comparison.

What is a cheaper alternative for sourcing?

Sprad: free start, Recruiter Lite at €79 per seat and month, and CRM and talent network at no charge. Teams that stay on LinkedIn only can also look at LinkedIn Recruiter Lite.

Note on the benchmark: PeopleSearchBench (Recruiting), published by Lessie, October 2026. Other systems' scores as published in the benchmark; Atlas is our own re-measurement with the benchmark's open test procedure, converted to the published scale; not an official entry. The 15 August 2026 comparison is one documented test run. Price sources: LinkedIn's compare-plans page and Help Center (retrieved 30 October 2026), search-cap figures from third-party tests, Sprad pricing page (status 29 October 2026).