The best LinkedIn MCP server depends on the job. To post from Claude, ChatGPT or another agent, pick one that signs in through LinkedIn's official API: Flaghand, Postiv, Zapier MCP, Composio or TryPost. To read profiles, jobs and messages, the open-source servers such as stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server drive your own logged-in browser instead. LinkedIn's User Agreement forbids that, and LinkedIn says accounts that do it risk being restricted or shut down.
Checked on October 28, 2026, from each product's own pages and LinkedIn's terms, linked under Sources. Prices and features change, so check those pages before you choose.
The short answer
- You want posts drafted for you to check first: Flaghand, where every post waits for your passkey, or TryPost and Postiv once you set approvers up.
- Your agent should post on its own, alongside other apps: Zapier MCP, which has a free plan.
- You're building an agent product with many LinkedIn actions: Composio, which also has a free plan.
- You need a company page: Postiv, Zapier MCP, Composio or TryPost. Flaghand posts to personal profiles only.
- You need LinkedIn data (profiles, jobs, your inbox): stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server or Linked API, if you accept the account risk below, or Apify's profile scraper, which needs no LinkedIn login of yours.
LinkedIn's own connectors don't post to your feed: LinkedIn Hiring Pro in Claude posts one free job listing, and LinkedIn's plugin in ChatGPT looks up professionals.
Servers built for posting
| Posts to | How it signs in to LinkedIn | A person approves each post? | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flaghand | Your personal profile, and X | LinkedIn's official API | Always, by the owner's passkey | $19 a month or $190 a year; see current free-start terms at /pricing |
| Postiv | Your profile or a company page | LinkedIn's official API | Only if the profile has approvers set up | 7-day trial; Creator Pro $99 a month, or $594 a year |
| Zapier MCP | Your profile (Create Share Update) or a company page | OAuth | No Zapier step; your AI app asks before the first tool run | Free: 100 tasks a month, 2 per call; Professional from $19.99 a month, billed yearly |
| Composio | Your profile or an organization; also deletes posts and comments | Composio's own LinkedIn app, by OAuth | No; Composio suggests asking for one in your prompt | Free Hobby plan; Pro $29 a month |
| TryPost | Your profile and company pages you run | LinkedIn's official API (w_member_social) |
For members set to need approval | Free to self-host; Cloud $19 a month or $190 a year |
| Taplio | Queues posts on your Taplio account | Your Taplio account, with LinkedIn connected there | Taplio says nothing reaches LinkedIn until you let Claude schedule or publish | Plans from $39 a month, or $384 a year; the connector needs a plan with API access |
Flaghand drafts, checks and asks. Its agents' tokens can't approve, schedule or post, so the post waits until you approve the exact text, media, account and time with your passkey. It also drafts X posts and threads. It posts only to personal profiles and reads nothing from LinkedIn: no profiles, feed, messages, comments or analytics. It has no free plan.
Postiv is built for LinkedIn: drafting, scheduling, comments and analytics, on profiles and company pages, with no direct messages, connection requests, job search or profile lookups. Its schedule action queues a post rather than publishing at once. Review workflows aren't included on Creator Pro. Postiv's pricing page is running a price test, so you may see other prices.
Zapier MCP gives your agent three LinkedIn actions (a profile update, a company update and a raw API request) next to thousands of other apps. Each tool call uses two tasks, so the free plan's 100 tasks are about 50 calls a month.
Composio lists 25 LinkedIn tools, from creating and deleting posts to comments and page statistics, and hands you an MCP URL per session. Its free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls a month.
TryPost is an open-source scheduler (AGPL-3.0) whose MCP server has 81 tools, with approvals for members who need them. Its hosted MCP needs a paid Cloud plan.
Taplio is a listed connector in Claude's directory that drafts, queues and reads your analytics back. More in Flaghand vs Taplio.
Servers that drive a browser or scrape
| What it does | How it signs in to LinkedIn | Posts? | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server | Reads profiles, companies, jobs, your feed and inbox; sends messages and connection requests | Your own browser session, or cookies it imports from your browser | No | Free, open source (Apache-2.0) |
| eliasbiondo/linkedin-mcp-server | Searches people, companies and jobs and reads their profiles | A browser it controls, which you log in to | No | Free, open source (MIT) |
| Linked API | Searches leads, sends messages and connection requests, reads profiles and Sales Navigator; also posts | A cloud browser it runs, which you log in to | Yes | 7-day trial; $69 per seat a month, or $49 billed yearly |
| Cadenza | Outreach in your voice; also posts and comments | Your LinkedIn account through Unipile | Yes | €29 a month or €290 a year; its open-source base is free |
| Apify LinkedIn MCP | Profile data, including emails and phone numbers | No LinkedIn login of yours; your Apify account | No | $10 per 1,000 results; free plan with $5 of credit, Starter $19 a month |
stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server is the most-starred LinkedIn MCP server on GitHub, with 4,033 stars. It asks for confirmation before sending a message. Its own FAQ says: "LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits automated access, and accounts using automated tools can be restricted or banned."
Apify runs a community profile scraper behind an MCP URL. Its free plan caps runs at 10 profiles and doesn't run through the API.
What LinkedIn's terms say
LinkedIn's User Agreement (section 8.2) asks members not to use "software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services", not to "use bots or other unauthorized automated methods" to send messages or create posts, and not to use another's account by "copying cookies". LinkedIn's help says members who use such tools "risk having their accounts restricted or shut down."
LinkedIn's sanctioned route for an app to post as you is its Share on LinkedIn product, whose w_member_social scope
is "required to create a LinkedIn post on behalf of the authenticated member". You grant it on LinkedIn's own consent
screen, and you can remove the app in LinkedIn's settings. A server that posts this way never holds your password or
cookies.
Questions
Is there an official LinkedIn MCP server? Not one for your posts. LinkedIn's own connectors are narrow: LinkedIn Hiring Pro in Claude posts one free job listing, and LinkedIn's plugin in ChatGPT looks up professionals.
Is there a LinkedIn MCP for Claude? Yes. Flaghand, Postiv, Zapier MCP, TryPost and Cadenza document setup in Claude, and Taplio is in Claude's directory. Connect LinkedIn and X to Claude walks through Flaghand's.
Can a LinkedIn MCP server get my account banned? The ones that drive your browser or reuse your cookies do what LinkedIn's User Agreement forbids, and LinkedIn says it may restrict or shut down those accounts. Posting through LinkedIn's official API is the route LinkedIn offers apps.
Which ones can post to a company page? Postiv, Zapier MCP, Composio and TryPost. Flaghand can't.
Is there a free LinkedIn MCP server? For posting: Zapier MCP's free plan (about 50 calls a month), Composio's Hobby plan, or TryPost on your own server. The open-source browser servers are free but don't post, and they carry the account risk above.
Set Flaghand up in your app
Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini. The LinkedIn MCP server has the details, the X MCP server and the X API and MCP servers, compared covers X, and Flaghand compared sets it beside other schedulers and posting APIs.
Sources
All read on October 28, 2026.
- LinkedIn: User Agreement, prohibited software and extensions, Share on LinkedIn, LinkedIn Hiring Pro for Claude, LinkedIn plugin for ChatGPT
- Postiv: LinkedIn MCP, pricing
- Zapier: LinkedIn MCP, MCP usage, pricing
- Composio: LinkedIn toolkit, pricing
- TryPost: LinkedIn, AI and MCP, pricing
- Taplio: Claude connector, pricing
- stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server, eliasbiondo/linkedin-mcp-server
- Linked API: MCP tools, safety, pricing
- Cadenza: home and pricing, privacy
- Apify: LinkedIn MCP server, profile scraper, pricing
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