🆚 LinkedIn vs. Pinterest

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 LinkedIn is five times more popular than Pinterest.
🌎 LinkedIn is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Pinterest is more popular in Wallis and Futuna.

Type

Social media platform

About

LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that enables professionals to network, search for jobs, share content, and engage with companies.

It offers professional profiles, company pages, job postings, and B2B marketing and recruiting tools for businesses. Premium members also gain access to LinkedIn Learning, an online education platform offering professional courses and skill development resources.

Pinterest is a social media platform for sharing and categorizing images in the form of pinboards.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

linkedin.com #9

pinterest.com #15

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Premium Career$29.99/month

Premium Business$59.99/month

Recruiter Lite$170/month

Recruiter$835/month

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The LinkedIn social media platform is 5 times more popular than Pinterest.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

LinkedIn is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Pinterest is more popular in Wallis and Futuna.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

India

Netherlands

Spain

Australia

Italy

Canada

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Job Boards category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Job Boards category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Job Boards category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Job Boards category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Job Boards category.

⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Bulgaria in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Lithuania in the Social Media category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

LinkedIn is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Pinterest is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, real estate, and recreation and hobbies sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Software/Hardware

Travel