LinkedIn limits how many invitations you can send. It does not publish the figure, it is not the same for everyone and it changes over time, which explains why you find five different numbers in the first five searches.
The cap is weekly and does not roll over
What is consistently observed is a per-week limit, not per day. For an ordinary account it sits around a hundred invitations. On older, active accounts with a paid subscription it can approach two hundred. The exact number is not the point: the point is that the allowance does not carry over. What you do not send this week is not added to next week, it simply disappears.
From which follows an unintuitive operational conclusion: pausing for a week is not "going slower", it is permanently losing capacity. Hence a continuous, moderate rhythm rather than bursts.
Why your limit is not your colleague's
The allowance is dynamic and adjusts to how your account behaves. The factors that show up most are profile age, whether it is complete and has a photo, real activity such as posting, commenting and replying, whether you have a paid subscription and, above all, what share of your invitations gets accepted. If people accept, the margin widens. If they do not, it narrows.
Pending invites count and almost nobody checks
Invitations sent and unanswered keep counting as a signal. An account with hundreds of invitations pending for months is telling LinkedIn that it invites people who do not know it. Withdrawing those older than two or three weeks is free, is done from My Network then Manage, and is one of the few things that improves account health overnight.
What to do when you run out
- Write to your existing network. First-degree contacts spend no invitations and are the audience most likely to answer you.
- Use InMails if you have a subscription. Sales Navigator includes a monthly amount and they reach people who have not accepted you.
- Follow and engage. You can follow someone without inviting them and comment on their content: by the time the invitation arrives, you are not a stranger.
- Review your targeting. Running out of allowance with a 20 percent acceptance rate means you spent the week on the wrong people.
The underlying mistake
Treating the allowance as a target to be exhausted. The limit is not a quota to hit: it is the ceiling of a scarce resource. The useful question is not how to send more invitations, but who to spend the few you have on, because they do not come back.