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Lulo: LinkedIn Caps Connection Requests at 150 Per Week For All Tiers

Gabe Lulo · Connect With People Liking Your Competitors' Posts Every Day · Oct 17, 2025 · at 29:19

Gabe Lulo, CEO of sales development agency Alleyoop, outlines LinkedIn platform limits while discussing outbound prospecting strategy with Sean Weisbrot.

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“You can right now connect with a 150 people a week on LinkedIn period. I don't care how much you pay LinkedIn. I don't care how much you sign up for, whether it's recruiter or, you know navigator, like you only can connect with a 150 people a week.”

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The claim, plainly

LinkedIn limits all users to sending a maximum of 150 connection requests per week, regardless of paid subscriptions like Recruiter or Sales Navigator.

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Assessment

The claim bundles two core assertions: (1) that LinkedIn enforces rolling weekly connection request limits that paid subscriptions (such as Sales Navigator or Recruiter) do not eliminate, and (2) that this limit is a universal, hard cap of exactly 150 connection requests per week for all users. The first assertion is accurate: official LinkedIn documentation and empirical industry testing confirm that weekly invitation limits apply across account tiers and that paid subscriptions grant InMail quotas rather than unlimited or unrestricted connection requests. However, the second assertion is inaccurate: LinkedIn does not publish or enforce a static platform-wide limit of 150 per week. Instead, platform testing (from Waalaxy, Linked Helper, Expandi, PhantomBuster, and others) reveals dynamic weekly caps governed by account age, Social Selling Index (SSI), and acceptance rates, typically ranging between 100 and 200 to 250 requests per week for mature or paid accounts, and significantly lower (15 to 100) for newer or restricted accounts.

LinkedIn official documentation ('Invitation limit reached') states weekly invitation limits are enforced dynamically to prevent spam, customer support cannot lift them, and paid tiers provide InMails rather than higher direct connection limits.
Outreach testing platforms (Waalaxy, Linked Helper, Evaboot) confirm weekly limits apply across standard and paid tiers, but vary between roughly 100 and 200-250 requests per week based on account reputation rather than a flat 150-request limit.
Multiple sales automation benchmarks (PhantomBuster, Expandi, Skrapp.io) observe that high-trust and Sales Navigator accounts can safely send up to 200-250 connection requests per week on rolling 7-day windows.

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[1] contentin.io [2] zen-mode.io [3] linkedapi.io [4] pipecorn.com [5] evaboot.com [6] waalaxy.com [7] linkedhelper.com [8] linkedhelper.com

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