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LinkedIn Ads cost calculator

LinkedIn is the dearest ad platform per click and the only one that targets by job title and company. Whether it pays depends on how much a customer is worth. Set your audience, budget and deal size to see the clicks, leads, meetings and pipeline a budget should buy.

Cost per click and per lead
Meetings and pipeline to expect
Whether it pays for your deal size

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Where leads come in

Monthly budget

Leads that become meetings

Meetings you win

Average deal size

LinkedIn Ads, UK

£2,000 should buy about 13–43 leads at £46–£150 each, and 3–10 meetings.

£6.50–£12.00Cost per click

£46–£150Cost per lead

13–43Leads a month

3–10Meetings a month

307Clicks
43Leads
10Meetings
2Deals

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How much does a lead cost on LinkedIn Ads in the UK?

Two things set the price: how senior the people are and where the click goes. Senior audiences cost more per click, and a click to a website turns into a lead far less often than a click to LinkedIn's own form, which arrives filled in from the person's profile.

The table shows the typical UK figures the calculator uses for an audience that is not niche. A narrow audience, such as one industry in one region, adds about a quarter.

Typical UK LinkedIn Ads costs by audience
Audience	Cost per click	Cost per lead (lead form)	Cost per lead (website)
Broad professional audience	£3.50–£7	£25–£88	£70–£350
Managers	£5–£9	£36–£113	£100–£450
Directors	£6.50–£12	£46–£150	£130–£600
C-suite and owners	£8–£16	£57–£200	£160–£800

Typical UK ranges for 2026 used by the calculator, for audiences that are not niche; add about 25% for a niche one. Not quotes.

Is LinkedIn advertising worth it for B2B?

It pays when one customer is worth enough to cover the cost of reaching them. Put £2,000 into a lead form aimed at directors, assume a quarter of leads take a meeting and one meeting in five becomes a £10,000 deal, and the calculator expects roughly 0.6–2 wins: £6,000–£20,000 of business.

Sell something worth £500 and the same sums rarely work. Google search ads, where people already look for what you sell, or direct outreach then usually cost less per customer.

How do you set up a LinkedIn Ads campaign that brings leads?

Start with a tight audience: job function, seniority, company size and location. LinkedIn needs at least 300 members to run a campaign, but a very small audience is expensive and sees the same ad too often.

Use a lead form with three or four fields, an offer worth giving an email for, and a call back the same day. Form leads are easy to give, so they cool quickly.

Target by job function and seniority, not only by title.
Exclude your existing customers and competitors.
Offer something specific: a guide, a benchmark or an audit.
Keep the form short and follow up within hours.
Install the LinkedIn Insight Tag to count website conversions.

Common mistakes with LinkedIn Ads

A common one is leaving Audience Expansion switched on, which lets LinkedIn show ads to people outside the audience you chose. Another is spending too little to learn: at £8 a day a campaign may buy only one or two clicks a day.

The third is judging on cost per lead alone. A £40 lead who never answers is dearer than a £150 lead who books a meeting, so follow leads through to meetings and pipeline in your CRM.

How the tool works

Pick who you target: job seniority and how niche the audience is.
Pick a lead form on LinkedIn or traffic to your website.
Set a budget and what a customer is worth.
See leads, cost per lead, meetings and pipeline, and whether it pays.

How Scale Oxford helps

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We build the audience from your best customers' job titles, companies and sizes, and write the ads and lead forms. We follow every lead through to meetings, so you judge LinkedIn on pipeline rather than clicks.

We build and test audiences by job function, seniority and company size.
We set up lead forms, the Insight Tag and the link into your CRM.
We report cost per meeting and pipeline each month, not only cost per lead.

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Questions people ask

How much does LinkedIn advertising cost in the UK?

A click usually costs £3.50–£7 for a broad audience and £8–£16 for the most senior decision makers, about a quarter more for a narrow niche. A lead from a LinkedIn lead form typically costs £25–£88 for a broad audience and £57–£200 for the C-suite.

What is the minimum budget for LinkedIn Ads?

LinkedIn requires a minimum of about £8 a day per campaign. To learn anything in a month, most B2B businesses need £1,000–£3,000.

Is LinkedIn worth it for small businesses?

When one customer is worth several thousand pounds or more, often yes. For low-value sales, the cost per lead is usually too high and Google or Meta work better.

Lead form or website?

LinkedIn's own lead forms usually convert two to four times better than sending people to a website, but the leads are colder. Call them back quickly.

What is a good cost per lead on LinkedIn?

For a UK lead form aimed at managers or directors, £36–£150 a lead is typical. Whether that is good depends on what a customer is worth: if one lead in twenty becomes a £10,000 deal, you can pay up to £500 a lead and break even.

How long does LinkedIn advertising take to work?

Expect two to four weeks to find which audience and ad work, and longer to see deals, because B2B sales take months. Judge the first month on leads and meetings booked, and the first quarter on pipeline.

Should I pay per click or per thousand impressions on LinkedIn?

Paying per click is safer while you test, because you pay only when someone shows interest. Paying per thousand impressions can cost less per click once an ad has a strong click rate. LinkedIn's automated bidding is simpler but gives you less control over the price.

Which LinkedIn ad format is best for leads?

Single-image or document ads with a lead form are the simplest start. Document ads let people preview a guide and give their details to read the rest. Message ads land in the inbox but can feel intrusive, and LinkedIn limits how often one person receives them.

How do I measure what LinkedIn Ads bring in?

Install the LinkedIn Insight Tag on your website and set up conversions for form sends and bookings. Then pass each lead into your CRM with its source, so you can see which campaign each meeting and deal started from.

Are LinkedIn Ads better than LinkedIn outreach?

They suit different jobs. Ads reach many people at once and catch those ready to act, typically at £25–£200 a lead from a lead form. Outreach from a person's own profile costs time rather than ad spend and starts real conversations, which suits small, high-value markets.

Can I target specific companies with LinkedIn Ads?

Yes. You can upload a list of company names or website addresses and combine it with job function and seniority. This suits businesses that sell to a known list of target firms.