The Sales Navigator search limit caps how many leads or accounts you can view on a search results page. LinkedIn states it on its help page about the search results limit: one figure for lead searches and a lower one for account searches, each spread over a set number of pages. The box above quotes both, with the day we checked. LinkedIn gives one reason for the cap: it keeps your 1st-degree connections accurate.
How to read the limits
The lead and account figures are the answer most people come for. Each shows LinkedIn's value, a line on what its page says, and a link to that page.
The saved leads figure is a different cap. It counts how many leads one list holds and how many your account can save in total, and it is easy to mistake for the search limit.
Search answers often blend this cap with invitation limits and profile view limits, which are separate caps on separate pages. LinkedIn publishes no weekly or daily invitation number at all. The LinkedIn invitation limit covers what it does say.
What you can keep from a search
The results of a search stay in LinkedIn, because LinkedIn offers no CSV or Excel export of Sales Navigator leads. Sales Navigator to Excel quotes its help page word for word.
What you can carry is the search itself. Paste the address of a lead or account search into the reader and it lists each filter with its values, marked included or excluded, plus any keywords. The link is read in your browser tab and never sent anywhere.
Say a teammate sends you a link labelled as heads of sales. Paste it in before you trust the label: the reader shows which seniority levels were picked and whether an industry was left out.
What to do next
If the job behind the question is a list of people to write to, Oneprofile's people search is a separate search with filters of its own. The match count updates as you add filters, counting costs nothing, and work emails arrive with the people you save. Finding the right people with filters shows how it works.