LinkedIn character counter
Type or paste your post and watch the count live — including the number that actually matters: the "see more" fold. Plus every LinkedIn character limit for 2026 in one table. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
● free · no login · runs in your browser
How to use it
- Paste your draft (or write directly in the counter). Nothing you type leaves your browser.
- Watch the four counts update live. The fold stats tell you whether your hook survives the …see more cut on desktop and mobile.
- Edit until your strongest line sits fully above the fold, then copy the post out.
Every LinkedIn character limit (2026)
The complete table — bookmark this page; we keep it current.
| Where | Limit | What actually matters |
|---|---|---|
| Post | 3,000 | Only ~210 chars show before "see more" on desktop, ~140 on mobile. The fold is the real limit. |
| Post — "see more" fold | ~210 desktop / ~140 mobile | Unofficial and UI-dependent. Put the hook inside the first 140 to be safe everywhere. |
| Comment | 1,250 | Best comments are 25–40 words. Nobody reads a 1,250-character comment. |
| Headline | 220 | Search results truncate around 60–70 chars — front-load the part that sells you. |
| About (summary) | 2,600 | Only ~4 lines show before "see more". Treat the first 3 lines as a landing-page headline. |
| First name / Last name | 20 / 40 | — |
| Article headline | 100 | — |
| Article body | 110,000 | Articles are indexed by search engines and AI — long-form is the point here. |
| Connection request message | 300 (200 on mobile app) | Shorter converts better; one specific sentence beats three generic ones. |
| Direct message (InMail body) | 8,000 (InMail: 2,000) | InMail subject line: 200. |
| Poll question / options | 140 / 30 per option | Options truncate fast — keep them under ~25 chars. |
| Company page tagline | 120 | — |
| Company page description | 2,000 | First ~156 chars double as the meta description in Google. |
| Custom profile URL | 3–100 after /in/ | — |
Fold values are unofficial: LinkedIn doesn't document them and adjusts the UI over time. Everything else reflects LinkedIn's enforced limits as of July 2026.
The fold is the real character limit
Writers obsess over the 3,000-character ceiling, but almost no one hits it. The number that decides a post's fate is ~210: the characters LinkedIn shows before …see more. Readers decide there whether your post exists. That's why this counter treats the fold as a first-class stat instead of burying it in a footnote.
Two practical rules fall out of this. First, your opening line has to work amputated — read your first 140 characters alone and ask if anyone would click. Second, never spend the fold on throat-clearing ("I've been thinking a lot lately…") — it's the most expensive real estate you have. Our hook generator exists for exactly this problem.
Drafting LinkedIn content with Claude Code or another agent? Install the reference skill — it carries this entire limits table plus the fold rules, so your agent checks lengths without leaving the terminal:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill linkedin-character-limitsPart of the liftli-ai/skills collection — browse all 28 skills, one per tool on this site. For the full pipeline (voice extraction, strategy memory, publishing), connect the Liftli MCP.