Employbl vs LinkedIn
The professional network: profiles, connections, messaging, a job board, and recruiting and advertising products for companies. Employbl is the live dataset of tech companies: funding, investors, tech stack and the roles each company is running on its own careers page, on one record. Everything below about LinkedIn is quoted from their own pages, with the date we read them.
- Companies
- 30K+
- Live roles · ATS-read
- 100K+
- Funding rounds
- 75K+
Start with what LinkedIn does well.
- Reach. More than 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories, by their own count.
- The network itself: who you know at a company, who worked there, and a direct message to any of them.
- A job board with employer-posted roles plus recruiter outreach, in the same place as your profile.
“Welcome to LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with more than 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.”
“The mission of LinkedIn is simple: connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.”
“Today, LinkedIn leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales and recruitment solutions”
Sources: about.linkedin.com
Side by side.
- What the record is about
- LinkedIn
People. "The world's largest professional network with more than 1 billion members" (about.linkedin.com, read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
Companies. 30,000+ tech companies with funding history, investors, headcount, tech stack and live roles. Employbl holds no people profiles and no contacts.
- Job listings
- LinkedIn
Employer-posted roles on the LinkedIn job board. The about page does not describe how listings are sourced (read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
100,000+ roles read from each company's own applicant tracking system, kept only while the company keeps them.
- Funding and investors on the job page
- LinkedIn
Not mentioned on the about page (read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
75,000+ funding rounds, three in four naming their investors, on the job page and the company page.
- Who pays
- LinkedIn
"Revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales and recruitment solutions" (about.linkedin.com, read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
Companies pay for their page in their own brand. Candidates never pay, there is no premium candidate tier, and the free account never expires.
- Recruiters and messaging
- LinkedIn
Core to the business: "recruitment solutions" is one of the three revenue lines named (about.linkedin.com, read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
None. Nobody can search for you or message you on Employbl.
- Take the data with you
- LinkedIn
Not described on the about page (read 2026-10-19).
- Employbl
REST API with CSV output, a public MCP server for Claude and other assistants, and free dataset downloads, all on the free account.
30,000+ tech companies, 100,000+ live roles read from each company's own applicant tracking system, and 75,000+ funding rounds, three in four naming their investors, on one record: the funding history, the investors, and the tech stack sit on the job page itself.
Which should you use?
Choose LinkedIn for the network: the people at a company, a warm introduction, a recruiter's message, and the largest job board on earth.
Choose Employbl for the company: whether it is really hiring on its own careers page, who funded it and when, and what it builds with, before you spend an application or a coffee on it.
The free account never expires and takes no card: every company, every live role, saved-search email alerts, the map, the AI assistant, and free MCP and REST API keys at 5,000 calls a day. Candidates never pay. Companies pay for one thing, their page in their own brand.
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Frequently asked.
- Is Employbl a LinkedIn alternative?
- Not for networking. LinkedIn is a network of more than 1 billion people; Employbl is a dataset of 30,000+ tech companies with no people profiles. Use Employbl to research the company and LinkedIn to reach the people in it.
- Does Employbl have a premium tier for candidates?
- No. The free account never expires and includes everything a candidate can use: search, alerts, the map, the AI assistant and free API keys at 5,000 calls a day. Companies pay only for their page in their own brand.
- Where do Employbl's job listings come from?
- From each company's own applicant tracking system, read every night. A role is removed when the company removes it, so a listing is one the company is running on its own careers page right now.
- Can I use Employbl from an AI assistant?
- Yes. Employbl runs a public MCP server and a REST API that returns JSON or CSV, both free at 5,000 calls a day, so Claude or any other client can query today's companies, roles and funding rounds.
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