Sales Navigator has no export button. What that costs you.

Search for sales navigator export and the first organic result is LinkedIn, saying it cannot be done. Directly above it and directly below it, PhantomBuster and navwise.ai are paying to say it can.

Both are accurate. LinkedIn does not ship an export. Extensions do the job anyway. What the page you are on right now does not tell you is what the second option costs, and LinkedIn documents that too, in a different article of the same help centre.

What LinkedIn's help centre says

The page is titled "Export account and lead information from Sales Navigator" and it opens with this:

"LinkedIn currently doesn't offer the option to export account and lead information from Sales Navigator into a CSV or XLS file. However, alternative solutions are available if you're using the Sales Navigator Advanced Plus plan."

Read on 6 September 2026. No tier is excluded from that first sentence. Core, Advanced and Advanced Plus all have no export.

The page then names exactly three alternatives, and all three require Advanced Plus: CRM Sync with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics and HubSpot; Embedded Profiles, which puts Sales Navigator information inside your CRM interface; and creating a lead record in your CRM from a Sales Navigator lead page.

One point of confusion worth clearing before you go looking. Sales Navigator does accept a CSV, for bulk account uploads. That is data going in. Nothing in the help centre describes data coming out as a file.

CRM Sync is a sync, and it is one tier up

The three alternatives are worth taking seriously only if you have the plan they need, and a lot of pages on this subject place CRM Sync one tier lower than LinkedIn does.

LinkedIn's page on account types is unambiguous:

"Sales Navigator Advanced - Team collaboration without CRM sync, including shared lists, Buyer Intent, and Smart Links."

"Sales Navigator Advanced Plus - Full CRM sync and embedded workflows across Sales Navigator and supported CRMs."

Advanced excludes it by name. Advanced Plus is the only tier that has it, and it is also the only tier LinkedIn does not price in public: on its own plan comparison page, Core and Advanced each carry a link to view pricing and Advanced Plus carries the words "Request demo for pricing." If you are on Core or Advanced, the alternatives section of that help page is not addressed to you.

There is also a difference between a sync and a file. CRM Sync writes lead and account records into Salesforce, Dynamics or HubSpot and keeps them current. If what you wanted was a spreadsheet to hand to a freelancer or load into a sequencing tool, a bidirectional CRM integration is a different object. We covered the wider tier question in Premium vs Sales Navigator, and what each tier does and does not raise in Sales Navigator limits, plan by plan.

What a saved list actually holds

If the export is out, the saved list is the thing you are actually working with, and LinkedIn does publish its size:

"You can save up to 1,000 leads in each list and 10,000 total leads."

That is one thousand per list, ten thousand across the account. Several pages ranking on this query report ten thousand as a per-list figure, which would be ten times the real ceiling on a single list. Take the number from LinkedIn's page.

The practical consequence is that a target market of more than ten thousand people cannot live inside Sales Navigator at all, whatever tool you point at it. That is a reason to narrow the list before you build it rather than after.

The extensions, and what they charge

So people install an extension. Here is what the six most commonly named ones cost, from each vendor's own pricing page, read 6 September 2026.

The prices are the easy part of the decision. The rest of it is on a LinkedIn page most of these tools do not link to.

What LinkedIn says about browser extensions

Two documents, both LinkedIn's own.

The User Agreement, section 8.2, lists what you agree not to do. One item names the category directly:

"Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (such as crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape or copy the Services, including profiles and other data from the Services"

"Browser plugins and add-ons" is not an inference from a general anti-scraping clause. It is the clause.

The second document is the Sales Navigator help page on usage, limitations and restrictions. It explains that features of your subscription may be temporarily restricted if LinkedIn detects unusual activity, then lists three things to do about it. The third is:

"Remove browser extensions that may be scraping profile data or causing a high number of profile views."

Its "Related tasks" link goes to a step-by-step guide for uninstalling extensions in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

The same page states what a restriction looks like when it happens:

"Temporary restrictions are generally lifted automatically after a 24-hour period. If your account is restricted for more than 24 hours or you believe that you have received this restriction in error, please contact us and we are happy to provide additional guidance."

So the position, stated by LinkedIn in its own help centre rather than inferred from anything: there is no export, the tool that performs one is prohibited by the User Agreement, and installing one is the third item on the list of things to undo when your account stops working.

Two vendors, two outcomes

The risk is not only to your account. It is also to the tool you standardised on.

Wiza's own help centre carries a warning banner on its Sales Navigator article, headed "LinkedIn export update," which reads: "Direct exports from LinkedIn Sales Navigator are no longer available." The page states you can no longer use the Wiza Chrome extension to export a Sales Navigator search, and points users at a different Wiza product instead. That is a paying customer's workflow ending on someone else's decision.

Proxycurl went further. On 4 July 2025 the company published a post titled "Goodbye Proxycurl" that opens: "In January earlier this year (2025), LinkedIn filed a lawsuit against Proxycurl. Today, we are shutting Proxycurl down." The post gives the reason plainly, noting that under the American Rule "even if we were to win the lawsuit, we would not be able to claim legal fees," against a company that "has more or less an unlimited war chest."

Neither of those is a prediction about your extension. Both are answers to the question of how stable this layer is, and both were announced on the vendor's own site rather than to customers individually. Before paying for any of these annually, open the vendor's help centre and look at the Sales Navigator article specifically. Wiza's deprecation is sitting at the top of its own page in plain sight.

What to do instead

Work the list where it lives. A saved list of a thousand named people inside Sales Navigator is usable for outreach without ever becoming a file, and the ten-thousand ceiling is above what one person can work in a year.

Sync it, if the plan allows. CRM Sync on Advanced Plus is the route LinkedIn offers and supports. It costs a tier nobody publishes a price for, and it delivers records into a CRM rather than a spreadsheet, so price it against what you would otherwise pay a tool plus what an account restriction would cost you.

Take the export LinkedIn does give you. Your own first-degree connections can be exported officially, by you, from the data-download page, which is a different mechanism with a different set of rules. We walk through it in how to export your LinkedIn connections.

Or start somewhere that ships a file. If the reason you wanted the export was to get names into a sequencing tool, the comparison you are actually making is between Sales Navigator and a data product that exports by design, which is the subject of Sales Navigator vs Apollo.

Sources in this article were read on 6 September 2026: LinkedIn's Sales Navigator help articles on exporting account and lead information, account types, saving leads, and usage limitations and restrictions, plus LinkedIn's own plan comparison page and its User Agreement. Every LinkedIn page named here is closed to automated fetching, so each was opened and read in a browser rather than through a cache or a third-party reproduction. Also read: each tool vendor's own pricing page; Wiza's own help centre; and the Proxycurl shutdown post of 4 July 2025. Where LinkedIn publishes no figure, this article says so instead of borrowing one.