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How many LinkedIn messages can you send per day?
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By the Bingle team · Published 26 October 2026 · Researched from the sources listed below, drafted with AI help and checked against those sources
Short answer
How many LinkedIn messages can you send per day?
LinkedIn doesn't publish a daily number for messages to your 1st-degree connections; its help centre only says it limits how many messages a member can send in a certain time period. The fixed numbers it does publish are monthly InMail credits (5 on Premium Career, 15 on Premium Business, 50 on Sales Navigator) and 50 message requests a day for a group admin writing to members of their group they aren't connected to. Bingle keeps each connected LinkedIn account inside daily limits, starts a newly connected account lower and spaces messages through your working hours.
How we researched this
We read LinkedIn's help centre pages on messaging, InMail, Open Profile, groups and restrictions on 25 October 2026 and quote them below; where two LinkedIn pages disagree we show both. What Bingle does comes from its user guide. We didn't try to find LinkedIn's limit by sending messages until an account got restricted.
What LinkedIn publishes for each kind of message
LinkedIn sorts messages by who you are writing to, and the rules change with each kind. Only two of them come with a number LinkedIn has written down.
| Kind of message | Who you can reach | LinkedIn's published limit | LinkedIn page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Message to a connection | Your 1st-degree connections, free on any account | None given. "We limit how many messages a member can send in a certain time period" | Send messages on LinkedIn |
| InMail | Members you aren't connected to, unless they've turned InMail off | Monthly credits that depend on your paid plan (next section) | InMail message credits and renewal process |
| Open Profile message | Premium members who have switched Open Profile on | None given. Free accounts get "a limited number" each month | Manage your Open Profile settings |
| Message request in a group | Members of a group you belong to | None given for members. A group admin can send 50 a day to members they aren't connected to | General limits for LinkedIn groups |
| Message request to a coworker | Your current coworkers | None given. LinkedIn "may limit your ability to send messages to members you are not connected to" | Send, receive, and manage message requests |
So for the message most people mean, a note to someone who already accepted your invitation, there is no figure to quote. The help page that says LinkedIn limits messages over "a certain time period" was last updated about 11 months before we read it, and it doesn't say whether that period is a day, a week or something else. You also can't message anyone who has blocked you.
Plenty of websites print a daily or weekly message number anyway. We looked for one with LinkedIn's backing and found none: the figures we found came from outreach software companies and personal blog posts, and none pointed to a LinkedIn page, so we don't repeat them here. If you see one quoted as LinkedIn's rule, ask which LinkedIn page it came from.
InMail credits by plan
InMail is the one message type with hard numbers, because it runs on credits. These are the monthly allowances and the most you can bank, from LinkedIn's credits page, its InMail FAQ and its Sales Navigator page, all read on 25 October 2026.
| Plan | Credits a month | Most you can hold | When they renew |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free (Basic) | 0. You need Premium to send InMail | None | Not applicable |
| Premium Career | 5 | 15 | First day of your billing cycle |
| Premium Business | 15 | 45 | First day of your billing cycle |
| Premium All-in-One | 30 | 90 | Listed on the InMail FAQ and LinkedIn's plan comparison page; the credits page leaves this plan out |
| Sales Navigator Core, Advanced and Advanced Plus | 50 (the same on every edition) | 150 | First day of each month, UTC, whatever your billing date |
| Recruiter Lite | 30 | 120 | First day of your billing cycle |
A few rules sit under those numbers. You get a credit back for every InMail that is accepted, declined or answered within 90 days of sending, and LinkedIn counts a quick reply as an answer. One left pending earns nothing back. You can't buy extra credits on any plan, credits drop to zero if you cancel, and Premium credits don't work inside Sales Navigator or Recruiter. An InMail can carry a subject of up to 200 characters and a body of up to 2,000.
The products differ on follow-ups. LinkedIn's Premium page says you can't send a second InMail to someone until they answer the first. Its Sales Navigator page says a second InMail to the same person before they reply costs another credit. Both pages say LinkedIn sends the recipient an automatic reminder within three days.
On expiry, LinkedIn's InMail FAQ says credits expire after 90 days, and its Sales Navigator page says unused credits carry over to the next month but must be used within 90 days. For readers here, Sales Navigator's UTC renewal lands at 11 am on the 1st in Sydney and Melbourne while daylight saving runs, 10 am in Brisbane, 1 pm in Auckland and 8 am in Singapore.
Work the Sales Navigator number through and it is small. Fifty credits over a month of about 21 working days is two or three InMails a day, plus whatever comes back from people who answer. InMail suits a handful of people you can't reach any other way. It won't carry daily outreach on its own.
Open Profile, group and coworker messages
Three routes let you write to someone you aren't connected to without spending a credit. Each has a catch, and LinkedIn puts an unstated limit on all of them.
| How it works | What LinkedIn says about limits |
|---|---|
| Open Profile | |
| A Premium member switches Open Profile on, and anyone can then message them free from the Message button on their profile. Showing the Premium badge and accepting Open Profile messages are separate settings | LinkedIn limits the number of Open Profile messages you can send in a given time period. Free accounts can send only a limited number a month |
| Group message request | |
| From the group's member list, click Message next to a name. The person accepts or declines, and you aren't told if they decline. Attachments can't go in a message request | No number for ordinary members. Admins: 50 new message requests a day to members they aren't connected to. You can be in up to 100 groups |
| Coworker message request | |
| Compose a message to a current coworker. It arrives as a request they can accept | No number. LinkedIn may limit messages to members you aren't connected to |
None of these is a back door for volume. Open Profile only reaches Premium members who chose to accept it, and a Premium member can turn Open Profile messages off in Settings & Privacy, under Who can reach you. Group requests only reach people in groups you joined, and LinkedIn's group page caps how many groups you can be in and how many join requests can sit pending at once (20).
What makes LinkedIn warn or restrict an account
With no number to stay under, what matters is the behaviour LinkedIn says it watches. These are the triggers its help pages describe, in its words or close to them.
| What it says can happen | LinkedIn page |
|---|---|
| High volumes of messages, comments or posts in a short period | |
| It may limit the visibility of your content or restrict the account. A temporary restriction lifts at the time on the notice; repeated ones can become permanent | High volume of content shared |
| Recipients reporting your messages | |
| LinkedIn may review the conversation and warn or suspend the author. The person reporting isn't named to you | Recognize and report spam, inappropriate, and abusive content |
| Messages that are untargeted, irrelevant, obviously unwanted or gratuitously repetitive | |
| LinkedIn counts these as spam under its Professional Community Policies | Professional Community Policies |
| Likely harmful content, found by models the recipient can switch on | |
| From a stranger, the message goes straight to the recipient's spam folder; from someone they've talked to before, it sits behind a warning | Harmful message detection |
| An unusually large number of page views | |
| You may be blocked from viewing more pages. LinkedIn suggests waiting 24 hours | Restricted action message |
Two lines on those pages matter for sales messages. On the harmful message page, LinkedIn lists "the intention to move conversations off LinkedIn" among the things those optional models look for. We read that as a reason to keep calendar links and email addresses out of a first message to a stranger, though LinkedIn doesn't say a link alone gets a message flagged. And reports carry weight: LinkedIn's spam page says a report on a conversation can lead to the sender being warned or suspended.
Connection requests have their own limit, separate from messages. LinkedIn's invitation pages say a restriction typically lasts about a week and can be triggered by invitations that are ignored or left pending. Our LinkedIn connection request limit post covers that in full, including how to withdraw old invites.
How Bingle paces the messages it sends
Bingle sends from your own LinkedIn account, and its user guide describes how it paces that account. It doesn't publish a per-day message number; Settings > LinkedIn shows today's use for your account and when the count resets.
| What Bingle does (from its user guide) |
|---|
| An account you just connected |
| Starts with lower daily limits and ramps up over its first couple of weeks |
| Through the day |
| Spaces actions out through the day instead of sending in bursts, inside the working hours and timezone you set as the sender. A sequence can also have its own send window |
| A daily limit is reached |
| Waits for the reset, which happens once a day. Sources that run out of today's LinkedIn allowance carry on after it, and nothing is lost |
| LinkedIn pushes back |
| Everything pauses for a day |
| Someone replies |
| Any reply stops the sequence. You can also set it to stop for the whole company on any reply, and to skip people who are already 1st-degree connections |
| A message is drafted |
| It waits in the Approval queue for you to approve, edit or regenerate, unless you turn review off for that sequence |
| You'd rather send by hand |
| Switch off Send LinkedIn steps automatically and each message lands in Today's sends to copy, send on LinkedIn and mark as sent |
The approval step matters for message limits more than it first looks. Every draft you read before it goes is one you can cut if it's generic, and generic, repetitive messages are exactly what LinkedIn's spam policy names. Our post on LinkedIn tools that let you approve each AI message goes through how that review works in practice. Before you approve a batch, the free LinkedIn message checker flags lines that read like a template.
Bingle's user guide covers LinkedIn messages and connection requests. It doesn't describe sending InMail or Open Profile messages, so plan any InMail around your own LinkedIn plan's credits from the table above.
Bingle is 7 days free with no card, then US$49 a month on Starter for one LinkedIn account, US$79 on Growth, or US$149 on Agency for up to three accounts; an extra account is US$29 a month on any plan. The pricing page has the full list. If you're starting from a fresh profile, our guide to warming up a new LinkedIn account covers the weeks before any of this, and readers in Australia can check what the Spam Act means for LinkedIn messages in our Australian outreach guide.
Questions
Is there a daily limit on LinkedIn messages to connections?
LinkedIn says it limits how many messages a member can send in a certain time period, but it doesn't publish the number or the length of that period. Messages to 1st-degree connections are free on every account.
Do unused InMail credits roll over?
Yes, up to a cap: 15 on Premium Career, 45 on Premium Business, 150 on Sales Navigator and 120 on Recruiter Lite. LinkedIn's FAQ says credits expire after 90 days, and its Sales Navigator page says carried-over credits must be used within 90 days.
Do you get an InMail credit back if someone replies?
Yes. LinkedIn credits back every InMail that is accepted, declined or answered within 90 days, quick replies included. An InMail still pending gets nothing back.
Can I message someone on LinkedIn without connecting?
Yes, four ways: InMail on a paid plan, a free Open Profile message to a Premium member who allows it, a message request to someone in a group you share, or a message request to a current coworker. LinkedIn limits all of these without publishing a number.
Does LinkedIn Premium let you send more messages?
Premium adds monthly InMail credits, starting at 5 on Premium Career. LinkedIn's help pages don't say Premium raises the limit on messages to your connections.
How long does a LinkedIn messaging restriction last?
LinkedIn says a temporary restriction lifts at the time shown on the notice, and repeated restrictions can become permanent. If you're blocked from viewing pages, it suggests waiting 24 hours.
Sources
- LinkedIn Help, Send messages on LinkedIn. read 25 Oct 2026; page shows last updated 11 months ago
- LinkedIn Help, Send messages to connections on LinkedIn Messaging. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 3 weeks ago
- LinkedIn Help, InMail message credits and renewal process. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 3 months ago
- LinkedIn Help, InMail Messages FAQ. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 2 months ago
- LinkedIn Help, Understand InMail credits in Sales Navigator. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 11 months ago
- LinkedIn Help, InMail Messages. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 3 weeks ago
- LinkedIn Help, Send an InMail Message. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 6 months ago
- LinkedIn Help, Difference between free LinkedIn and LinkedIn Premium accounts. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 3 weeks ago
- LinkedIn Help, Manage your Open Profile settings as a Premium subscriber. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 1 year ago
- LinkedIn Help, Send an Open Profile message on LinkedIn. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 1 year ago
- LinkedIn Help, Manage the types of messages you receive. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 4 weeks ago
- LinkedIn Help, General limits for LinkedIn groups. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 1 year ago
- LinkedIn Help, Send, receive, and manage message requests. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 2 years ago
- LinkedIn Help, High volume of content shared. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 1 year ago
- LinkedIn Help, Recognize and report spam, inappropriate, and abusive content. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 3 months ago
- LinkedIn Help, Harmful message detection. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 8 months ago
- LinkedIn Help, Restricted Action Message. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 4 years ago
- LinkedIn, Professional Community Policies. read 25 Oct 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Types of restrictions for sending invitations. read 25 Oct 2026; last updated 11 months ago
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