REACHIUM-PUBLISHED DATA

LINKEDIN OUTREACH STATISTICS 2026

The Linked Insider Benchmark: a citable index of LinkedIn outreach numbers built on real platform data, not recycled blog stats. Every figure carries its sample size and a stable anchor link. Window: January 2025 to August 2026.

Last updated 2026-10-23

441,965

outreach sequences analyzed

180,155

matured connection requests

48,836

accepted connections

The outreach funnel

How a LinkedIn connection request converts, end to end, in Reachium's matured cohort: the 180,155 requests past the 30-day maturity cutoff, drawn from 441,965 outreach sequences run on the verified API.

27.11%#

Connection acceptance rate

Accepted connections divided by matured connection requests sent: 48,836 of 180,155.

180,155 matured connection requestsSYNTHESIS
27.55%#

Reply rate (of accepted)

Replies divided by accepted connections: 13,456 of 48,836.

48,836 accepted connectionsSYNTHESIS
7.47%#

Reply rate (of all sent)

Replies divided by all matured connection requests sent: 13,456 of 180,155. Derived from the published funnel counts in Reachium's August 2026 snapshot.

180,155 matured connection requestsANALYSIS
1.99%#

Meetings booked (of accepted)

Meetings booked divided by accepted connections: 973 of 48,836.

48,836 accepted connectionsSYNTHESIS

Reply rates over time

The direction of travel matters as much as the level. At matched maturity, acceptance rose slightly from 2025 to 2026 while the reply rate fell hard.

32.19% to 21.98%#

Reply rate trend

Reply rate of accepted connections at matched maturity: 32.19% in 2025 (101,191 sent) vs 21.98% in 2026 (78,964 matured sent). Acceptance moved the other way, from 26.33% to 28.11%. Excluding the unstable opening months of 2025, the reply gap narrows from 10.21 to 8.09 points and survives.

180,155 matured connection requestsSYNTHESIS

Account safety

The failure-mode record across the dataset, stated the way the data pack states it: as a qualitative record, with no account counts attached.

None observed#

Permanent account suspensions

No client account suspension appears in Reachium's data to date. The worst failure mode observed is a temporary, recoverable rate limit rather than a permanent ban; accounts are calibrated to roughly 25 invites a day. The data pack states this qualitatively, so no count is attached.

Reachium dataset, January 2025 to August 2026SYNTHESIS

The volume tax

The novel headline finding: acceptance rate by an account's average daily connection-invite volume, measured across the full matured cohort. More volume did not mean more accepts. Acceptance peaked in the 10 to 19 per day band, and the under-10 band is the worst, not the best. A real sending day averages 22.42 invites (median 25), 75.51% of active days run at 25 or more invites, and LinkedIn caps sending at roughly 25 a day.

32.01%#

Peak acceptance rate

Reached by accounts sending 10 to 19 invites a day, the highest of any volume band. Sending more lowered the rate.

16,789 matured connection requestsSYNTHESIS
Avg invites / dayAcceptanceReply (of accepted)Sample
Under 10 / daylowest acceptance22.77%23.66%2,042 requests
10-19 / daypeak32.01%27.50%16,789 requests
20-29 / day89.55% of matured requests26.65%27.60%161,324 requests

Methodology

Republished from Reachium's published aggregate analysis of production data on its verified-API platform (August 2026 snapshot, window January 2025 to August 2026; rates are computed over the matured cohort of 180,155 connection requests). Reachium is the data source; Linked Insider, which shares ownership with Reachium, attributes and republishes it. Figures tagged SYNTHESIS are Reachium's published measurements, republished with attribution; ANALYSIS figures are derivations Linked Insider computed from those published figures. For the full breakdown, read the flagship benchmark study or browse the research hub.

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Linked Insider. (2026). The Linked Insider Benchmark: LinkedIn Outreach Statistics 2026. https://linkedinsider.blog/linkedin-outreach-statistics-2026

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