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LinkedIn caps your connection request note at 200 characters on free accounts and 300 on Premium / Sales Navigator. Type below to see how much room you have left — emoji and unicode counted the way LinkedIn counts them.
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When you send a connection request on LinkedIn, you can attach a short note. Free accounts are capped at 200 characters; LinkedIn Premium, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter all extend that to 300. The counter above goes up to 300 — but if you're on a free account, anything past 200 will be cut off when you hit Send.
There's also a separate, harder limit: LinkedIn now restricts free accounts to a small number of personalized invitations per month. Most users get five with a note attached; after that, requests have to go out without a note (no character limit, but no message either). Premium subscribers don't hit this cap.
What works in 200 characters: a single sentence on why you want to connect, plus a hook that's specific to the recipient. Skip the boilerplate ("I came across your profile and...") — LinkedIn users see hundreds of those a year. The personalized note is the entire point.
| Field | Limit |
|---|---|
| Connection request note (free) | 200 |
| Connection request note (Premium) | 300 |
| InMail subject | 200 |
| InMail body | 1,900 |
| Direct message | 8,000 |
| Group message | 8,000 |
Limits are current as of 2026. LinkedIn periodically tweaks free-tier invite caps — the 200/300-character limit on the note itself has been stable for years.
200 characters on free LinkedIn accounts and 300 characters on Premium, Recruiter, and Sales Navigator. The counter above shows both — it lets you go up to 300 but flags the 200 cutoff in the table so you can write within whichever limit matches your plan.
Because you're on a free LinkedIn account. The 300-character limit only applies to paid plans (Premium / Sales Navigator / Recruiter). On Basic, LinkedIn silently truncates anything past 200 characters when the request is sent.
No — LinkedIn counts each emoji as a single character, even multi-codepoint ones like 👨👩👧. The counter above counts the same way.
Yes. Each line break (Enter / Return) is one character. With only 200 characters to work with on a free account, line breaks are usually wasted space.
Yes — and it's separate from the character limit. LinkedIn now caps free accounts at roughly five personalized invitations per month (the exact number drifts a bit). After that, you can still send requests, but they go out without a note. Premium and Sales Navigator users don't have this cap.
Yes. Direct messages between connections allow up to 8,000 characters. The 200/300-character limit only applies to the note attached to the initial connection request.
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