Search for the best sites to buy a LinkedIn account and the first page is almost entirely articles, not shops — and five of the six round-ups ranking on 19 September 2026 were published by companies that sell software rather than accounts. This one is published by a company that sells accounts: a different conflict of interest, not the absence of one. So the criteria come before the list, and our own row is filled in with the same five answers as everybody else’s.
Who wrote this, and what we sell
500accs is a shop where you buy LinkedIn accounts outright: one payment, the account becomes yours, nothing recurs. We are also the buyer on the other side — the stock comes from people who sell us a profile they built and stopped using. Our pricing runs $200 to $500 per account by age and network size, on one page, the same number for everybody.
So we are row one below, and every reason to distrust row one applies. The defence is method, not a disclaimer: the five checks were written before the table was filled in, any reader can run them on any vendor here including us, and one of them we only half pass. Everything said below about another vendor was read on that vendor’s own site on 19 September 2026 — and where a page would not load for us, the table says so instead of guessing.
The five checks, and why these five
Most comparison tables here grade on trust signals — review counts, years online, support response time. Real enough, and not what decides whether the account is still standing in a month. These five are.
- 1. Does it publish the account’s age, connection count and country before you pay? If the listing does not say, the answer is almost always that there is nothing to say: a profile registered by software last week has an age of zero and a network of zero, which is why the cheap shops publish email type and IP country instead.
- 2. Does anything change hands beyond a username and password? A credentials handover is not a purchase, it is a login you are hoping nobody kept a copy of. What makes it a purchase is control of every reset path — the recovery mailbox and the master password both moving to you. This is the check with the widest spread between vendors, which is why how a LinkedIn account is actually transferred is worth reading before you shortlist anybody.
- 3. What happens when LinkedIn asks the account to prove who it belongs to? Sooner or later a prompt appears asking for a government ID matching the profile name. Either a document exists that matches, or the account is over. No amount of warm-up or careful sending changes that, and no vendor can produce the document afterwards.
- 4. Does the vendor also buy accounts? A shop that only sells explains where its stock came from with adjectives. A shop that buys has a checkable answer, and a standing reason to care what a used account is worth — the same reason it cares whether the one it sold you survived.
- 5. Are the replacement terms written down, with a period attached? "Guaranteed" with no window is not a term. A stated window is one, even a short one, because it says exactly how much risk the vendor keeps and how much is being handed to you.
The table
The last column is "what this is good at", not a ranking. A one-dollar account and a $500 account are not competing for the same buyer, and a list that pretends they are is useless to both.
| Site | What it is | Published per account | What changes hands | Published price | Good at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500accs (us) | Shop, and buyer | Age, connections, country, role, screenshot | Account, recovery mailbox, master password, passport scan, proxy | $200–$500, once | One to a handful of accounts that have to survive an ID check |
| Z2U | Marketplace of individual sellers | Age band, connections, country, premium status, email access | Whatever the individual seller sends | ~$1.10–$329.98 | Breadth — 639 LinkedIn listings the day we counted |
| PlayerUp | Marketplace with a middleman service | Returned HTTP 403 to us on 19 September 2026 — not graded | Unverified | ||
| AccsMarket | Bulk shop, software-registered stock | Email type, profile fill, gender, 2FA/SMS, registration IP country, stock count | Credentials, and cookies on some lines | ~$0.17–$3.70 | Volume, where losing most of them is the plan |
| MirrorProfiles | Rental, not a sale | 500+ connections, three months of activity, dedicated IP | Access while you pay; the account stays theirs | 100€/month EU, $150/month US, per account | Short campaigns where you want the vendor carrying recovery |
| PowerIn | Shop, and publisher of a 13-vendor round-up | Not published on the round-up page | Not stated on the round-up page | Third-party figures only | Being honest that it runs both halves |
| Waalaxy, Dripify, SalesRobot, GoLogin, Hidemyacc | Software vendors publishing lists | They do not sell accounts — see below | Reference, with an interest | ||
The marketplaces, where the seller is a stranger
Z2U is the one to understand properly, because it beats us at the thing we are worst at: it listed 639 LinkedIn accounts the day we counted, against our seventeen. Its listing format is better than most shops manage — an age band running from "less than a month" to "more than six years", a connection count, a country, premium status, whether email access is included — with prices from about $1.10 to $329.98. Sellers must verify their identity before listing, and there is a dispute process.
Z2U also says, on its own pages, that it holds no rights to what is sold and that the content and authorisation of the product are the seller’s responsibility. That sentence is the whole difference. The counterparty is an individual, the dispute window closes within days of delivery, and a LinkedIn identity challenge usually arrives weeks or months later — by which time there is no dispute left to open and nobody who can produce a document in the profile’s name. The payment protection is real. It protects the payment, which is not the thing that fails.
PlayerUp ranks on this query and on the sell-side query, which makes it the closest structural competitor to a two-sided shop like this one. We could not grade it: its LinkedIn category returned HTTP 403 to our request on 19 September 2026, and we will not describe a competitor’s terms from somebody else’s article. The row stays "unverified".
The shops, and where the one-dollar floor comes from
AccsMarket explains the bottom of this market better than any commentary does. Its LinkedIn catalogue is built almost entirely from software-registered accounts, and its filters say exactly what is being sold: email type, how full the profile is, gender, whether 2FA or SMS verification was done, the country the registration IP sat in, units in stock. Per-account prices ran from roughly $0.17 to $3.70, and listings carry a "48h" badge.
Notice what is not in that list: age and connections. Not hidden — absent, because a batch registered last month has neither. That is a coherent product for exactly one buyer: somebody running volume who expects to lose most of what they bought and has priced it in. If that is you, the bulk shops are the right answer and the rest of this is not for you. If it is not, the arithmetic is in why cheap LinkedIn accounts die in a week.
What no dollar shop sells is aged LinkedIn accounts with a connection graph a real person built, because that cannot be manufactured on demand — somebody had to register the profile years ago and use it. That is the entire reason there is a three-figure end of this market.
MirrorProfiles belongs on the list with an asterisk, because it is not a sale. It publishes 100€ per account per month for European accounts and $150 per account per month for US accounts, with three months of manual activity behind each profile, 500+ connections, a dedicated IP and replacement inside 24 hours. For a three-month campaign that may well beat buying. For anything still running next year, a monthly fee with no end is the expensive option, and the vendor keeps the asset.
The software vendors whose lists you are reading
Five of the six articles above this one in the results sell software. Waalaxy’s "Buy LinkedIn Accounts in 2026: Best Sites, Costs & Risks" names fifteen vendors and states in the same article that the practice violates LinkedIn’s terms and can lead to restrictions, bans or permanent loss of access — while selling automation as the compliant alternative. SalesRobot does it more bluntly: three providers recommended, alongside the statement that LinkedIn’s Terms of Service strictly prohibit buying, selling or transferring accounts.
Dripify’s "12 Best Sites to Buy LinkedIn Accounts" lists twelve vendors with price ranges and does not mention LinkedIn’s terms at all; its only caution is about getting scammed. GoLogin and Hidemyacc sell antidetect browsers: GoLogin lists nineteen vendors and spends its advice on giving each profile a separate IP, and Hidemyacc’s "Top 15 sites to buy LinkedIn accounts safely in 2026" compresses the whole spread into fresh accounts from around $10 and aged, verified ones above $100.
Those are real links, because a round-up that refuses to point at the pages holding the search is an advert rather than a reference. But the ranking lists in this market are written by companies whose product runs on whatever account you end up with, and who have no stake in whether it is alive in March. PowerIn is the exception: a thirteen-vendor round-up on its blog, and its own shop selling the same product — the double role we have, and more honest for being visible.
Our row, with the losses in it
Graded on the same five checks, in order.
- Published per listing: pass. Age, connection band, country, role and a screenshot, before payment.
- What changes hands: pass. Recovery mailbox and master password both move to you, with a dedicated ISP residential proxy matched to the account’s country and a pre-configured browser profile.
- The identity challenge: pass, and it is the reason for the price. The scan of the NFC-read passport belonging to the person on the profile is handed over at delivery, so the ID prompt is something you answer yourself rather than something you ask us to answer.
- Also a buyer: pass — see below.
- Replacement terms: partial. 48 hours, written down. Shorter than it sounds: it covers the account arriving restricted because of us, not the account being restricted in week three because of what was sent from it.
Where we lose, plainly. Breadth: seventeen published listings across nine countries, against 639 on one marketplace. Some country and role combinations are simply not on the shelf the day you ask. And there is no public review history to read — no years of marketplace feedback, no third-party rating page — which on a first purchase is a real thing to weigh, and is the argument for buying one account before buying three.
And on price we are now the top of this table, not the middle of it. $500 for a three-to-ten-year account with 500+ connections is more than the dearest LinkedIn listing Z2U had up the day we counted, and well over a hundred times the top of AccsMarket’s catalogue. That is worth explaining rather than explaining away. The gap is not margin, it is three things the cheaper rows leave out: the account was bought from the person who registered it, and they had to be paid enough to give up a profile they had used for years; the passport answering for it belongs to that person and was read off the chip before the listing went up; and the registration date is the one property in this market that nobody can manufacture, only buy. A cheaper listing in the same age band is cheaper because at least one of those three is missing — which is exactly what checks two and three are for. Run them, and if a cheaper vendor answers the same way in writing, buy from the cheaper vendor.
The one line nobody else on this list can write
We buy accounts as well as sell them, from the people who built them — checkable in one click, which is the only reason it is worth stating. You can sell your LinkedIn account to us: three facts about it, an answer in two days, a figure or a clear no, and no password needed to get one.
Two things follow that matter to a buyer rather than to a seller. "Where did this stock come from" is answered with a form and a price rather than with adjectives. And a shop that pays for used accounts has to hold a view on what a used account is worth — which is the number you could sell yours back into in two years. Rented access has no resale value at any point, by construction.
When none of this is right for you
Three cases where the honest answer is somewhere other than here.
You need an account for one quarter. Buy nothing. A monthly fee that ends when the campaign ends beats a purchase you will not use again, and you should rent LinkedIn accounts instead — outzeach.com, linked there, is run by the same people as this site, which is a disclosure rather than a recommendation. MirrorProfiles is the other option and is not connected to us at all.
You need fifty accounts tomorrow. We cannot, and would rather say so than take the order. Seventeen listings is seventeen listings, and the bulk shops above exist for exactly that demand, at a price that assumes attrition.
You do not want an account anybody else has used. Then the used market is the wrong market, and what you want is LinkedIn accounts built to order: registered new on a verified person, styled to your brand, grown for three to six months, then handed over. It starts at ten accounts at $450 each. Slower and dearer than everything in the table, and the only route with no previous owner at all.
Still choosing? Run the five checks yourself on any two vendors here. The one that answers all five in writing, before payment, is the one to start with — whether or not that turns out to be us.