📏 LinkedIn and PhantomBuster limits: safe daily guidelines (and how to stay under the radar)

First things first: LinkedIn’s caps vary by account health, age, and activity. The safest path is to start low, space actions out, and ramp gradually. If you hit warnings, pause and lower volumes.

Core limits to respect

Connection requests

Plan around ~100 invites/week for most Free/Premium accounts. A good daily pacing is ~20 per working day, spread across several launches. Sales Navigator users sometimes see 150–200/week.

Profile visits/enrichment

With our LinkedIn Profile Visitor, you'll be able to visit a profile and extract all its details : keep it to ~80 profiles/day on standard LinkedIn; up to ~150/day on Sales Navigator.
If you enable email discovery, process about half (e.g., ~40/day) because it opens extra pages.

Now, if your objective is to enrich a profile and collect more data (such as the previous work experiences, education, profile summary...etc) the best would be to use LinkedIn Profile Scraper where you can process a maximum of 1500 profiles per day.
On Sales Navigator, you can use Sales Navigator Profile Scraper and process a maximum of 150 profiles per day.

Extractions on LinkedIn and Sales Navigator

You should target not to exceed 1000 profiles per day with LinkedIn Search Export, and 2500 profiles per day with Sales Navigator Search Export.
~150 profiles/day is a safe upper bound; split across multiple launches during business hours. 

Follow (LinkedIn Auto Follow)

Aim for ~80/day on standard accounts. Premium and Sales Nav users can go up to ~150/day (split across multiple spaced launches).

Direct messages (LinkedIn Message Sender)

Keep to ~80/day on standard accounts. Premium and Sales Nav profiles up to ~150/day (again, multiple launches, not one burst).

Likes (LinkedIn Auto Liker)

Start around ~100/day on newer/less active accounts, ~150/day on warmed accounts, and only push higher (up to ~400/day) on Premium and Sales Nav setups with excellent hygiene and spacing.

Comments (LinkedIn Auto Commenter)

Cap at ~80/day (keep comments meaningful; avoid repeating templates).

Best tips with automations and actions on LinkedIn

- Scheduling that mimics humans
- Space launches: run every 2–4 hours instead of back-to-back.
- Business hours: send and extract during your normal workday.
- Split big jobs: rather than one heavy run, do several light runs.

Warm-up & safety rules

New or recently reactivated accounts should run well below the caps and ramp over 1–2 weeks.

Divide limits across phantoms: if multiple LinkedIn automations run the same day, share the daily allowance between them.

If you see “too many requests” or invite caps, stop for the day, resume lower.

A simple “safe” daily plan (example)

Invites: ~15-20/day (keeps you ≈100/week). 
Profile visits/extractions: ~80/day (or ~150/day with Sales Nav). If using email discovery, ~40/day.

Everything else (likes/comments/follows/messages): keep conservative, split across 2–4 launches, then nudge up as you prove stability.

Here's a video on the topic of LinkedIn rate limits if you want to explore it further.

And if you have any question feel free to comment or reach out to Nathan Guillaumin on LinkedIn.