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LinkedIn connection request limit calculator

Type what you have sent in the last seven days and what is still pending, and see what you have left this week, the daily pace that stays under the limit, and how many weeks your target takes at your acceptance rate. LinkedIn publishes no weekly number, so the allowance is yours to set; every rule beside the numbers is quoted from LinkedIn Help.

Your numbers

LinkedIn does not publish it. 100 is the working figure; lower it if your account has hit the wall sooner.

Every invitation counts, with or without a note.

My Network, Manage, Sent shows the list.

Workdays, usually.

Over the coming weeks.

Your own, from Sent versus accepted. Start at 30 if you do not know.

Left this week

100

of 100

Steady daily pace

20

a day, 5 days a week

Weeks to your target

7

about 30 accepted a week

This week 0 of 100

What LinkedIn itself says, from LinkedIn Help (checked September 2026):

  • The weekly invitation limit applies to every account, free and Premium, and the restriction typically lasts one week. Withdrawing pending invitations does not lift it.
  • Too many invitations left ignored or pending can restrict an account on their own, for up to a month. After you withdraw an invitation you cannot resend it to the same person for up to three weeks.
  • Free accounts can add a personal note to three invitations a month, up to 200 characters each. Premium has no cap on notes.
  • The one published hard number: 30,000 first-degree connections, after which Follow becomes the default on your profile.

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What LinkedIn says, and what it does not

LinkedIn’s help pages are specific about the shape of the limit and silent about its size. A weekly invitation limit applies to every account, free and Premium alike. Reaching it restricts sending for about a week, and withdrawing pending invitations does not shorten that. A separate restriction, lasting up to a month, applies to accounts whose invitations pile up ignored or get marked as spam. The one hard number published is 30,000 connections in total.

The number everyone quotes, 100 a week, is what people observe rather than what LinkedIn states, so the calculator treats it as an input. If your account has hit the message at 80, put in 80; some newer accounts report less. What the arithmetic then gives you is a pace, and the pace is the point: twenty a day on five days reads like a person, a hundred on Monday morning reads like a tool.

The limit that actually bites is acceptance

A hundred invitations a week at 30% acceptance is 30 new connections; at 50% it is 50, from the same hundred. No pacing trick matches that, and it is the number you control. Send to people who have a reason to know who you are, spend the three free notes a month on the ones who matter, and make the profile the request arrives from answer the question “who is this” before they click. The connection request generator writes the note, and the outreach ROI calculator shows what each point of acceptance is worth further down the funnel.

Depost AI works the other side of the same problem: it keeps you visible to the people you want to reach, with replies drafted in your voice when they post, so that by the time the request arrives your name is one they have seen.

Questions

What is the LinkedIn connection request limit per week?
LinkedIn does not publish a number. Its help pages say a weekly invitation limit exists for every account, free and Premium, that reaching it restricts sending for about a week, and that withdrawing invitations does not lift the restriction. The figure outreach teams plan around is 100 a week, which is the calculator’s default; if your account has been stopped sooner, put in the number where it happened.
When does the weekly invitation limit reset?
LinkedIn describes the restriction as lasting about a week from when you hit it and names no reset day, so treat it as a rolling seven days rather than a Monday reset. The “sent in the last 7 days” figure is the one that matters, and the calculator spreads what is left over your sending days.
How many connection requests should I send per day?
Your weekly allowance divided by the days you send, which at 100 a week over five days is 20. LinkedIn’s help pages name sending many invitations in a short time as a trigger for restrictions, so a steady daily pace is safer than a Monday burst, and it looks like a person rather than a script, which is the other thing LinkedIn watches for.
Do pending invitations count against me?
Yes, in LinkedIn’s own words: an account with many invitations ignored, left pending, or marked as spam can be restricted, and that restriction can last up to a month. Withdraw the ones that have sat for a few weeks. You will not be able to resend to those people for up to three weeks, which costs nothing, since they were not accepting.
How many connection requests can I send with a note?
On a free account, three a month, each up to 200 characters, according to LinkedIn Help as of September 2026. Premium accounts have no cap on notes. Every other request goes without one, so the profile it arrives from does the talking, and the three notes should go to the people who matter most.
Is there a limit on total connections?
Yes, and it is the one number LinkedIn publishes: 30,000 first-degree connections. At the limit, Follow becomes the default button on your profile and you cannot send or accept new invitations without removing some. Followers have no limit.
Does the calculator send anything to LinkedIn?
No. It is arithmetic on the numbers you type, done in your browser, saved there so they are back when you return. Nothing connects to your account.

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