LinkedIn Character Counter

LinkedIn character limits by field

A LinkedIn post can hold up to 3,000 characters, from your profile or from a Company Page. A headline holds 220 characters and the About section 2,600, while LinkedIn publishes no limit for a comment on a post. The counter checks the post, headline and About section against these limits and shows a comment's length without one; the table also lists the other limits LinkedIn's pages and courses state:

Limits checked on 16 October 2026; if LinkedIn changes one, what LinkedIn accepts when you post is what applies. The 3,000-character limit comes from LinkedIn's Help Center article on sharing posts, which suggests an article for anything longer. Company Page admins post through the same share box, and LinkedIn documents no separate limit for Company Pages.

LinkedIn's Help Center gives no number for the headline or the About section, but its Talent Blog does: 220 characters for the headline (February 2025) and 2,600 for the About section (April 2024). The poll limits are in LinkedIn's polls FAQ, and the invitation limit is on its page about personalized invitations; an older Help Center page gives Premium members 300 characters for that note. The 2,000 characters for a Company Page's overview are in LinkedIn Learning's course Growing Your Business with LinkedIn Pages (September 2023).

For comments in groups, LinkedIn's limits table says 1,250 characters and its how-to page says 1,000, and it gives 3,000 for a post in a group. A comment under 1,000 characters fits every figure LinkedIn publishes for comments.

Do spaces, emoji and links count toward LinkedIn's character limit?

In this counter, everything you type counts, but LinkedIn doesn't document how it counts emoji, links, @mentions or hashtags toward the 3,000. So the counter counts strictly: 1 for each letter, digit, space and line break, and 2 for most emoji; some count 1, and an emoji with a skin tone or a flag usually counts 4. Here, links, @mentions and hashtags count at their full length as you type them. It counts each character the same way Scripe's post editor does, and everything is counted in your browser: your text is never sent or stored.

If LinkedIn counts an emoji as 1, you have a little more room than the counter shows. Bold or italic letters made with the LinkedIn text formatter are special Unicode characters, and each one counts 2 or more here.

This counter is Scripe's, not LinkedIn's: it follows the limits LinkedIn publishes in its Help Center and on its Talent Blog.

For X, Instagram, Threads and other networks, the social media character counter counts the same text by each network's own rules.

How long should a LinkedIn post be?

If you have something to say, write 300 words or more. In Scripe's LinkedIn Trend Report 2026, posts of 300 words or more earned 1.15× their author's usual engagement in 2026, and posts under 80 words earned 0.76×. The report compares each post with the same author's usual post, the median of their previous 20. It covers 3.26 million public posts by about 385,000 English- and German-writing authors from 2024 to 2026. These are associations, not a promise of what a post will earn.

Don't pad a post to reach that length. In the same report, posts of 300 words or more written in an educational tone earned less than their author's usual post. The report reads tone only as a direction, so this shows which way the effect goes, not how large it is. In English, 300 words is about 1,800 characters, well inside the 3,000, and the counter shows your word count under the character count as you type.

What to do when a post is over 3,000 characters

Cut what repeats, move sources into the first comment, or publish the text as an article. LinkedIn won't take a longer post: its Posts API, the interface that scheduling apps use, refuses one with the error FIELD_LENGTH_TOO_LONG. Under “Where it gets cut”, the counter strikes through everything past the limit, so you see which lines don't fit. Three ways to make the post fit:

1. Cut the closing lines that repeat what the opening already said.
2. Shorten lists to the points the reader needs, and move sources or extra links into the first comment.
3. If the text needs the room, publish it as an article instead, which LinkedIn limits to 125,000 characters.

LinkedIn doesn't publish how much of a post shows before “… more”, so the counter marks only the hard limit. The LinkedIn post preview shows roughly where the feed cuts your opening.

How do you keep line breaks when you paste into LinkedIn?

LinkedIn's composer drops a line that is completely empty when you paste a post, so paragraphs can run together into one block; we found this in October 2026. Copy your post with “Copy text”: it puts one invisible character, a blank Braille pattern (U+2800), on every empty line between paragraphs, so LinkedIn keeps the empty lines.

Each of those invisible characters adds one to the length LinkedIn sees. If your post is close to 3,000, leave one spare character for every empty line. Pasted into a document or an email, those lines hold the same invisible character.

Plan your team's LinkedIn posts in one place

A counter checks one post. A team that posts every week also needs colleagues to approve drafts before they go out, and one calendar for all its profiles. Scripe's post editor counts your post against the same 3,000 characters as you write; hover over the count and it shows how posts of each length performed against their author's usual post.

Scripe is a social media management platform for B2B teams and agencies, built LinkedIn-first. Today it publishes to LinkedIn. See how the content calendar and approvals work.