Free public leaderboards across every niche and country.Real median prices by follower tier, what moves them, and the cost-per-engagement number that should decide your shortlist.Three creators quote you for the same LinkedIn post. One says $300. One says $1,400. One says $7,000. Nothing in any of those emails tells you which is fair.That is the whole problem with creator pricing. There is no rate card, so the first number usually gets accepted or refused on instinct. This page gives you the anchor instead, using what LinkedIn creators actually price at right now.We pulled a sample of 125 LinkedIn creator profiles from the Favikon index in September 2026, spread evenly across five follower bands, and read the estimated post price for each one. Here is the shape of it.Two things fall out of that immediately. The median LinkedIn post across the whole sample is $730, and 60% of creators price under $1,000. If you have been told that LinkedIn creator partnerships are a five-figure game, that is true for roughly one creator in ten.The second is where the price actually breaks. Between 50K and 500K followers, the median doubles. Between 500K and above, it nearly quintuples. Scale does not get expensive gradually. It gets expensive all at once, and it does it above half a million followers.A price on its own is meaningless. What matters is what the price buys, and on LinkedIn that gets counterintuitive fast, because engagement collapses as audiences grow.In a sample of 499 LinkedIn profiles across the same bands, the median engagement rate ran like this: 0.93% at 1K to 10K followers, 0.29% at 10K to 50K, 0.13% at 50K to 100K, 0.05% at 100K to 500K, and 0.02% above 500K. A big LinkedIn account is not a small account scaled up. It is a different object.Divide price by actual engagement and the picture reorders itself:Read that carefully, because it is not the story people expect. Cost per engagement is roughly flat from 1K all the way to 500K followers. The efficiency argument for micro creators is real but modest. What is not modest is the cliff above 500K: you pay around a 3x premium per engagement for the privilege of a big name.Sometimes that premium is worth it. A launch that needs a recognisable face is buying credibility, not engagement, and credibility has never been cheap. Just know that you are buying it, and say so out loud in the budget meeting.Follower count is where the conversation starts, not where it lands. On real transacted deals, four other variables move the number harder.You will see it in our numbers too: the gap between the 1K to 10K band and the 10K to 50K band is much smaller than the follower gap suggests, and individual nano creators regularly quote above micro creators.That looks broken until you see who those nano accounts are. Founders. CEOs. Heads of engineering at companies your buyer already respects. The audience is small, specific, and holds budget. You are not paying for reach. You are paying for a room.Put the quote next to the band median above and one of three things is true.If the engagement looks inflated, stop. Check whether the audience is real before you argue about the fee. Our engagement rate benchmark takes about a minute and answers that question first.And if the brand fit is wrong, that is a scope problem, not a price problem. No discount fixes the wrong audience.A calculator prices one creator at a time from public inputs. Once you are comparing twenty candidates, or once the creator's own media kit is the only source for their numbers, you need measured data rather than self-reported data. Favikon creator profiles replace the media kit with independently measured engagement, audience quality and authenticity scores, so the price you negotiate is anchored on numbers nobody had an incentive to round up.Figures above come from a September 2026 sample of the Favikon index: 125 LinkedIn profiles for pricing, 499 for engagement, 25 per follower band. Estimated prices are directional, not quoted rates.One prompt that returns a screened shortlist instead of a screen of results, and why verified never meant authentic.Lookalike search used as a diagnosis rather than an expansion, plus the move that uses your competitor's research for free.Add Favikon as an MCP server in Codex so the code you generate runs against a real creator index. Setup, first build, and the query mistakes agents make.MOOJITO SAS is a company registered in France. Our office is located in Paris. The AI Infrastructure for Influence.source