Choose a LinkedIn analytics tool by the data it can actually obtain

Write a small data contract before comparing brands

For a constructed example, you want to compare your organic explanatory posts at seven days old and keep the observations for a monthly review. The required evidence is one owner-authorized impression observation per eligible post, with its age and distribution context. A library of post text or a polished yearly graphic alone cannot provide it.

List the account type, exact field, observation clock, history needed, refresh method and usable export. Add the work you are willing to do manually. The providers below are selected to illustrate different acquisition models, not because they are the only products or because every paid feature was tested. Official documentation and public pricing were checked on October 31, 2026.

Compare twelve choices with their constraints

Start with native analytics if it already answers the question. All members have basic content analytics, while some profile-visitor functionality differs by membership. A specialized workflow can still be useful for organization or repeated review, but it must preserve the meaning of the underlying metric.

Read the constraints in the same row as the capability. The table reports documented access and the verified Wrapped.li product boundary; it is not an assurance that a particular private account has every feature or that a provider can reconstruct observations never collected.

Make history and collection work explicit

AuthoredUp’s advanced-stat guide says simply scrolling is insufficient: the relevant post analytics must be opened or collected. It distinguishes these stats from company-page support and limits newly collected advanced stats to posts up to one year old. Its pricing page’s broad historical-post claim should not be interpreted as a guarantee for every old private field. CSV export is documented separately.

Metricool’s personal-profile help describes roughly 90 days of post history before connection and follower data from connection or renewed permissions. Its general metrics guide also describes a personal-post publishing-path exception. These statements concern different aspects of coverage; verify the required post and field in the actual workflow rather than assuming an older post record guarantees all its metrics.

Do not treat every mismatch as missing data

A tool can expose a different observation scope or metric definition from the native interface. Metricool warns of API/UI differences; LinkedIn’s linked member-statistics documentation specifically warns about aggregate reaction, comment and reshare consistency. This does not quantify every discrepancy or prove that any surprising number is correct. Reconcile account, post identity, dates, aggregation and update time.

For the seven-day example, an imported current lifetime number is not a seven-day snapshot merely because a date filter was selected. Test whether a refresh overwrites history or retains observations. A dashboard cannot backfill your missing earlier measurement just by showing an old publication date.

Price the required workflow, not the smallest headline number

At this review, AuthoredUp lists Individual at $19.95 per month for one profile, or $199.50 billed yearly. The annual option is a different commitment from monthly cancellation; its rounded monthly equivalent is not the amount charged each month. Verify the final plan, billing interval, taxes and account scope before purchase. Metricool’s linked pricing and connection guidance should be checked for the required LinkedIn access and number of brands.

Include collection and review time in the comparison. If a cheaper plan requires opening every relevant post, decide whether that fits your review schedule. If your real task is a public-activity recap, a private-impression dashboard may be unnecessary; if the task needs private impressions, Wrapped.li’s recap is not a substitute. No subscription or paid collection was purchased for this comparison.

Use a bounded acceptance check with your own authorized data

Before a longer commitment, check a small authorized set: one recent post, one older relevant post, one item published through a different path and one missing or inapplicable metric. Record the actual source, available field, age, export value and unresolved mismatch. Never grant unnecessary account access merely to reproduce a public review.

For the constructed seven-day workflow, success means the selected eligible posts can be observed at the planned age and exported with enough context to repeat the analysis. A provider login, connected-account badge or attractive graph is insufficient. If the source cannot supply the needed history, change the research question or begin prospective observations; do not relabel unavailable history as recovered data.

Extend the shortlist by role, not by a universal ranking

The first expansion on 1 November 2026 added Buffer, Taplio, Socialinsider and MagicPost to the original four roles. Those eight form the foundation; four additional documented workflows and more precise shortlist cases follow below. Provider documentation and public price reading are not paid account tests.

Buffer’s current help calls its analytics Insights and says Analyze retired on 7 October 2026. Insights includes LinkedIn profiles and Pages; numeric CSV, Markdown and PDF exports are paid-plan features, while chart snapshots have a different boundary. Its current history guidance conflicts across pages: one describes recent-post-count import and roughly twelve-month channel history, another names a shorter Page window, and its marketing page gives a different post count. Required exact history stays unknown until checked for the actual connection, field and post.

Taplio’s current pricing describes a creator writing, scheduling and analytics bundle. That role can suit an ongoing publishing workflow, but a feature label does not establish that your older private impression observations or required export columns exist. Socialinsider’s LinkedIn product describes company-Page reporting and benchmarking; its personal-profile FAQ does not establish a current personal private-analytics workflow. Keep it in a Page/team shortlist and treat personal-profile eligibility as unverified rather than extending a Page promise to a member.

MagicPost’s Growth pricing includes manual writing/scheduling, advanced metrics, engagement and lead features; Creator adds a different content-creation scope. It belongs in a creator-workflow comparison, including as the publisher of the reference blog. Public pricing alone does not establish the exact history, account permissions or export grain needed for your test. Keep those gates unknown unless the relevant current evidence settles them.

Compare actual commitments and account units

The dated price notes below preserve billed amounts rather than multiplying rounded marketing equivalents. They exclude tax, optional add-ons and manual collection time. Prices can change and promotions can differ; recheck the live quote for the required country, currency, accounts and seats before a real commitment. No checkout, trial or subscription was started for this review.

Native basic analytics does not require a separate analytics-tool subscription. AuthoredUp Individual lists USD 19.95 monthly or USD 199.50 billed yearly for one profile. Its Business monthly rate is USD 14.95 per profile with a minimum of three, so the listed minimum is USD 44.85 per month, not 14.95 for the whole team.

Metricool’s retrieved euro pricing shows Starter up to five brands from EUR 16 per month under annual billing; its Free description excludes LinkedIn. A broad unlimited-history plan label does not override the profile-specific roughly 90-day post-retrieval restriction or follower observations beginning at connection. Obtain the actual invoice total and required role/report/export plan from the live quote rather than assuming the lowest headline covers every task.

Buffer’s machine-readable pricing lists Essentials from USD 6 per channel monthly and Team from USD 12. The annual page shows one-channel totals USD 60 and USD 120 respectively. Paid channels include channels that were free before upgrading; price the full required set. Taplio’s displayed monthly plans are USD 39 Starter, USD 69 Growth and USD 199 Pro. Verify the exact annual bill separately.

Socialinsider’s retrieved Adapt plan lists up to 20 social accounts, one seat and three-month history. The extracted price layout mixes rounded equivalents and annual/struck amounts, so this guide leaves the exact invoice quote unresolved instead of inventing a clean monthly price. MagicPost displays Growth USD 49 monthly with an annual payment of USD 353, and Creator USD 69 monthly with an annual payment of USD 468 at this check. Preserve the stated annual total; a rounded promotional equivalent is not a monthly cancellation option.

Wrapped.li serves the separate public-activity recap role; check its live product scope and price for the actual output. It is not a private-impression analytics subscription. If owner impressions are mandatory, a public recap fails that requirement regardless of how attractive or inexpensive its output is.

Use the local evaluator to record evidence and unresolved gates

The working evaluator below compares up to four candidate plans against five hard requirements: account scope, metric and observation age, history and collection work, usable export and acceptable access/exit. Enter source, date, observed or documented finding and remaining uncertainty for each. A Yes without a note remains unknown. A No blocks the candidate; a low price cannot compensate for the missing metric.

With all five requirements entered as Yes plus notes, the result is only ready for a bounded test. It is based on your declarations, not a provider certification, private-account result or purchase recommendation. The tool computes invoice amount from a decimal unit price and billed quantity, keeps annual equivalents separate, and does no currency conversion or ranking. Include plan minimums and label tax or add-on omissions in the price note.

F1 — Constructed annual option: one unit at USD 199.50 per year gives an invoice of 199.50 and an unrounded monthly equivalent of 16.625, displayed as 16.63. All data gates remain unknown until evidence is entered. F2 — Constructed public recap: the required private-impression metric is unavailable, so the candidate is blocked even if the entered price is zero. F3 — Constructed fresh connection: old post text is visible but a required seven-day historical observation was never captured. Keep history unknown or mark it unmet when absence is established; do not call the current lifetime value recovered seven-day data.

Download your private JSON record to preserve entries and open that same supported file locally later. Import accepts a bounded UTF-8 record and preserves prior entries when a file is invalid. Nothing is uploaded or automatically saved. Keep identifiers and account evidence private. The downloadable examples are fictional; the deterministic tests verify the evaluator’s decisions and arithmetic, not a vendor account, real reader preference or new research study.

Compare four more documented acquisition workflows

Later’s current LinkedIn help covers profiles and Pages but limits personal-profile Post Performance to posts published through Later; Page coverage includes direct LinkedIn posts too. It places numeric CSV export on Growth/Scale rather than Starter and describes separate history limits, including no backfilled Page history in that help. Its Growth price page displayed USD 37.50 per month billed yearly, two social sets and two users. This is a dated annual-equivalent display, not a verified checkout invoice or guarantee of one year of private LinkedIn history.

SocialPilot documents LinkedIn profile and Page analytics and distinguishes daily impression/engagement trends from a post-publication selection. Its separate tabular-report guide offers profile versus post reports and CSV downloads. In isolated public-browser reading, the regional Standard display showed EUR 40.80 per month billed annually, 15 social accounts and three users; the lower Essentials card did not list analytics. Record the actual required export entitlement and invoice quote, including extras, before a real commitment.

Supergrow’s current help describes weekly reports, Trends and a posts table for posts published through Supergrow. Its public pricing lists Pro at USD 39 monthly for one account and Teams at USD 199 monthly for five, with team review features. These are current pricing-page claims; a weekly report or one-year filter does not prove older observations or a required raw export. The reviewed analytics help did not settle every export/history requirement, so those gates stay unknown until verified.

Kliver’s current price and billing help list USD 19 per profile monthly or USD 114 billed yearly, before tax, with no fixed public trial duration promised by that help. It describes connected read-only analytics and PDF/CSV reporting; its retrospective poster is a separate surface. Retained history is not proof of recovering an observation never collected. Likewise, a public-profile benchmark is not another creator’s private owner analytics. We did not connect, subscribe, collect private data or test paid accounts for these four comparisons.

Eliminate mismatched evidence before comparing prices

The twelve-option role map is a starting set, not a market-wide ranking. For a personal-profile question, first reject evidence that only concerns company Pages. For a requirement covering posts published outside the chosen tool, inspect the publishing-path limitation before admiring a trends chart. For private impressions, a public-reaction recap remains the wrong source even if it is free.

An exact historical seven-day snapshot needs evidence that the snapshot exists, not just an old publication date. A report with a twelve-month filter can select stored observations or current lifetime totals instead of reconstructing each post at seven days. Use the field definition and capture clock to decide. If the needed observation was never kept, begin an appropriate future collection or narrow the question; the comparison does not provide a recovery service.

Price the units your task actually requires: connected profiles, channels, social sets, seats or included accounts are not equivalent. Enter an annual invoice as annual, a real monthly invoice as monthly, and a one-time output as once. When a page only gives a rounded monthly equivalent, keep the invoice quote unknown until checked. Native Page Analyst access may cover an authorized XLS but not an external app connection; the linked access guide completes that separate check.

Complete three concrete shortlist decisions

L1 — Constructed publishing-path contract: a personal profile needs all relevant posts, including native LinkedIn posts outside tool T. T’s current documented post table only covers posts it published. Outcome: T fails that required population unless a verified alternative source covers the missing items. A low price or a populated chart does not turn a partial table into the required full cohort.

L2 — Constructed export contract: a two-person team needs a reusable post-level CSV. A cheaper entry plan offers charts but the documented CSV control belongs to a higher plan. Outcome: evaluate the required plan and seats, then inspect one authorized actual file for post identity, metric, capture context and absence states. Do not buy the entry plan on a screenshot of a feature it does not include.

L3 — Constructed history contract: a vendor shows posts from January, but no available evidence establishes their seven-day impression observations. Outcome: history remains unknown or unmet when absence is established. Keep the cheaper-price comparison separate. The local record can save that unresolved decision without certifying a provider or converting missing values into zero.