LinkedIn invitation limits: how many connection requests you can safely send per week

You click Connect and LinkedIn says: "You've reached the weekly invitation limit." Nothing is wrong with your account. You just can't send more invitations until some of this week's budget frees up.

We built the limits Kerux applies to every LinkedIn account, so we've spent a lot of time on this number. Here is what we know, and what we'd do in your place.

How many invitations LinkedIn allows

LinkedIn doesn't publish the number. Tools that run thousands of accounts report a weekly cap somewhere between 100 and 200 invitations, and it has moved over the years. A few things are consistent in those reports:

• It's counted over the last 7 days, not Monday to Sunday. Room frees up as older invitations fall out of the window.
• Premium and Sales Navigator don't raise it. They give you InMail credits, which are a separate budget.
• Sending them all at once is what stands out. 100 invitations in one morning looks nothing like 15 a day during working hours.

What we send by default, and why it's lower

Kerux starts every account below the low end of that range, on purpose:

Action	Per day	Per week
Invitations	15	80
Messages	40	no weekly cap
Profile visits	50	no weekly cap
Follows, likes, endorsements	30 each	no weekly cap

On top of the table:

1. No day uses more than 40% of the week. Even with budget left, a single day can't send more than 32 of the 80.
2. Working hours only, in the timezone of each campaign.
3. A random pause between actions, 45 to 180 seconds by default.

We'd rather an account send 80 invitations every week for a year than 200 for three weeks and then get a verification screen.

New or newly connected accounts

A LinkedIn account less than 30 days old starts at 5 invitations a day and 40 a week.

An older account you just connected to a tool also needs a warm-up, because its pattern is about to change. Ours starts at 25% of the limits and adds 10% a week. It takes about two months to reach 100%.

When to send more, and when to send less

Look at your acceptance rate over at least 20 invitations:

• Under 25%: cut invitations in half this week. People are ignoring them, and that's what gets accounts restricted. Change who you're inviting before you change the note.
• Over 35% after 30 days of steady sending: going up to 150 a week is reasonable.

If you need more volume than one account can give, add the accounts of the real people on your team (each one has its own limit), or reach the same people by email as well. Tools that promise to get around LinkedIn's limits put every account you own at risk.

How Kerux applies this

Kerux enforces these numbers on every account, for every campaign, teammate and API call. Warm-up is on by default, invitations are halved by themselves when acceptance drops below 25%, and the weekly limit can go up to 150 after 30 good days. When an account runs out for the day, its leads wait with the reason shown and continue the next day. The settings are in each account's page: Limits and warm-up.