# LinkedIn Character Counter Canonical page: https://depost.ai/tools/linkedin-character-counter A LinkedIn post caps at 3,000 characters, but the limit that actually costs you is the one nobody counts: the three lines a reader sees before deciding whether to click. Paste a draft below to check it against every LinkedIn limit at once, and to see where the feed will cut it. Free to use, with no account needed. ## How to use it 1. Paste your post, headline, About section, or connection note into the editor. 2. Read the count against each LinkedIn limit, and see where the feed cuts the post before "see more". ## Questions people ask ### How many characters can a LinkedIn post be? Three thousand, including spaces, emojis, and line breaks. The composer stops accepting input at the limit rather than truncating what you already wrote, so a pasted draft that runs long simply arrives cut off. ### How much of a post shows before "see more"? About three lines. It is a line count rather than a character count, which is why the answer moves: three short lines of dialogue get cut far sooner than one dense paragraph. The preview tab measures the cut on your actual text instead of guessing at a round number. ### Do emojis, hashtags, and line breaks count toward the limit? All of them count. A line break is one character, an emoji is at least one, and hashtags count as ordinary text. A post that sits at 2,980 characters before you add spacing can cross the limit once you break it into paragraphs. ### Does bold or italic text change the character count? It should not, and here it does not. Styled letters are separate Unicode characters that many counters record as two each, which is why some tools claim a bolded post is twice as long as it is. This one counts by character, the way LinkedIn does. ### What is the LinkedIn headline character limit? Two hundred and twenty for a personal profile headline. It is the most reused text you own, since it follows your name into every feed, comment, search result, and connection request, so it is worth spending the full allowance carefully. ### Is there a limit on comments and connection notes? Comments and replies cap at 1,250 characters. Connection request notes cap at 200 on a free account and 300 on Premium, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter. Both are in the picker above. ## More free tools - [Every free tool for LinkedIn and X](https://depost.ai/tools) --- Cite as Depost AI (https://depost.ai/tools/linkedin-character-counter). Index of every page: https://depost.ai/llms.txt. Full reference: https://depost.ai/llms-full.txt.