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LinkedIn accounts & safety

Safety limits: daily caps, weekly caps and pending invitations

What each limit does, the Safe and Standard presets, and how accounts protect themselves.

Updated 2 min read

Why limits matter

LinkedIn watches how fast an account acts. Accounts that send like a robot get warnings, then restrictions. Every account in Outember has its own limits, checked before anything is queued, so no campaign can push it over.

LinkedIn restricts automation in its User Agreement. Limits lower the risk; they can't remove it. Read the terms.

The presets

Daily and weekly limits for each preset
LimitSafe (default)StandardHighest allowed
Connection requests a day2035100
Connection requests a week100150200
Messages a day4080150
Profile visits a day6090150
Follows, likes and endorsements a day4070150
InMails a day102550
Pending invitations400500700

Use Standard only for older accounts that already send every day and get a good acceptance rate. Custom lets you set each number, up to the highest allowed.

Change them in LinkedIn accounts → the account's Limits & hours.

Caps that vary each day

Each day, an account uses between 80% and 100% of its limits, a different share every day, so its activity never looks machine-regular. The account card shows today's share.

Pending invitations

Invitations nobody answered count toward LinkedIn's limit on pending invitations and pull your acceptance rate down. When an account reaches its pending limit, new invites pause until some are accepted or withdrawn.

  • Withdraw old invitations on the account: choose an age (7 to 365 days); they're withdrawn oldest first, in the background, up to 30 a day.
  • Withdraw old invitations automatically: once a day, in working hours, invitations still waiting after the number of days you choose (14 to 90) are withdrawn.
  • LinkedIn won't let you invite the same person again for about three weeks after a withdrawal.

Automatic protection

  • Acceptance guard: once 30 or more invites are old enough to judge, invites slow to 75% if fewer than 25% were accepted, and to half speed below 15%.
  • Auto-pause: if LinkedIn shows a warning or pushes back, the account pauses itself, tells you why on its card, and resumes later.
  • Working hours and gaps: nothing runs outside the account's hours, and there's a random pause between actions. Working hours.

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