Best LinkedIn Ads MCP servers (2026): is there an official one, and what can each do?

What is a LinkedIn Ads MCP server?

It is a connector that lets an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT use your LinkedIn Campaign Manager account through the Model Context Protocol. The assistant calls tools to pull a report, list campaigns and, on some servers, create or edit them. Every one we found runs on LinkedIn's Marketing API.⁴⁷ Servers that read LinkedIn profiles or post updates are a different kind of tool and never touch an ad account.³

Is there an official LinkedIn Ads MCP server?

We found none. The closest thing is a LinkedIn Ads beta plugin inside ChatGPT. OpenAI's listing says "It provides read-only access to ad set performance to help you understand results."¹ Our tools could not load openai.com, so that quote comes from search excerpts of the listing. InsightfulPipe describes it the same way, as "a read-only beta app that works only inside ChatGPT".²

Five vendors say LinkedIn has not published an MCP server. Markifact writes: "As of July 13, 2026, LinkedIn has not published an official Ads MCP server."⁴ PaidSync says it checked LinkedIn's Marketing API documentation and change log in September 2026 and found none listed.⁷ AdPlug, Ryze AI and InsightfulPipe say the same.⁸⁵⁶ We did not search linkedin.com or LinkedIn's help center for an announcement, so we only say we found none.

How did we compare them?

We read each vendor's own pages, docs, pricing and code on 2026-10-31, and we did not test any server against a live LinkedIn account. Repository dates come from GitHub's API. Counts are the vendors' own unless we say otherwise. Prices are in US dollars as published that day, and NP means not published. When a vendor's pages disagree, we give both.

Two vendors here publish their own best-of lists for this topic, and each puts its author first. InsightfulPipe calls itself "the best LinkedIn Ads MCP server in 2026".² AdPlug's list opens with AdPlug and is written by the person who built it and the danielpopamd server.³ Hopkin is read-only, so it does not suit everyone, and we say where a rival does more.

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Which LinkedIn Ads MCP server should you pick?

Pick by two questions: should the assistant be able to change your account, and will you run something yourself? The table is our judgment from the facts below.

What does LinkedIn itself require?

To call the Marketing API yourself, you need a LinkedIn Page, a developer app and approval for the Advertising API product. LinkedIn's quick start lists the steps: create a LinkedIn Page, create a developer application, apply to the API under the app's Products tab, and complete the access form.¹⁰

• Every app starts in the Development tier, which "supports read-only access for unlimited ad accounts and edit capabilities for up to five (5) Ad Accounts". Standard tier allows edits on unlimited ad accounts, and you request it through a support ticket.⁹ The upgrade asks for "a video demonstrating how your platform creates, edits, or optimizes LinkedIn campaigns", and LinkedIn "reserves the right to review applications and select partners at its discretion".¹⁰⁹ In the Development tier you also map each ad account to your app by hand.¹¹
• LinkedIn describes r_ads as "Retrieve your advertising accounts." and r_ads_reporting as "Retrieve reporting for your advertising accounts." rw_ads is "Manage and read an authenticated member's ad accounts". It only works on ad accounts where the member is a billing admin, account manager, campaign manager or creative manager.⁹ LinkedIn's campaign guide says "Marketing APIs require the rw_ads scope."¹¹
• LinkedIn's notice says Marketing Version 202511 "will be sunset on November 16, 2026". A self-hosted server pinned to an older version may stop working, so check which version it sends.¹²

Hosted servers we read say they hold LinkedIn API access for you. Pipeboard, Markifact, PaidSync, Ryze AI and InsightfulPipe all say you do not need your own developer app.²⁴⁴⁷⁵⁶

Which open-source LinkedIn Ads MCP servers can you run yourself?

Two are current. mharnett's server only reads, danielpopamd's can write, and both need your own LinkedIn developer app.¹⁹²¹ The danielpopamd author also builds the hosted AdPlug; the README introduces AdPlug with "From the same author".²¹

We left out three servers that other lists still name. AdPlug's guide says Radiate B2B has shut down, a 19-tool Campaign Manager server was deleted from GitHub, and the npm package linkedin-ads-mcp is an AdKit stub.³ We did not check these ourselves.

Which hosted servers can create LinkedIn campaigns, and what do they cost?

Nine hosted servers can write to LinkedIn Ads, which Hopkin cannot. The table lists them alphabetically, without a ranking, with prices as published on 2026-10-31, monthly unless stated.

Which LinkedIn Ads MCP options are read-only?

Four, by their own documentation. Prices are as published on 2026-10-31.

• Hopkin, our product. Its manifest marks every tool that reads ad data as read-only, and no tool creates, edits or deletes a campaign group, campaign or creative.¹³
• LinkedIn's beta plugin in ChatGPT reads ad set performance, per OpenAI's listing as excerpted in search.¹
• Kiin says "Kiin can only read your LinkedIn Ads data. It can't change campaigns, budgets, bids or targeting." Its reports cover demographics, ad fatigue, lead gen forms, company engagement and CRM-influenced pipeline. The free plan covers one connected account. Kiin Intelligence is $99 per connected account a month with a 14-day trial, and Agency is $249 a month for three accounts plus $59 for each extra.¹⁷
• mharnett's README says "The LinkedIn Ads MCP currently ships with read-only tools only."¹⁹

Can a reporting platform serve as a LinkedIn Ads MCP?

Yes, but check before you assume it only reads. Two of these can now change LinkedIn campaigns, and Zapier can edit audiences. Prices are as published on 2026-10-31.

• Windsor.ai lists 12 LinkedIn Ads write actions. They include pausing and enabling campaign groups, campaigns and creatives, setting budgets and schedules, renaming campaigns, creating a creative and setting campaign targeting.³⁹ The writes run through the Windsor MCP server, and we found no Windsor-side approval step for them in its docs.⁴⁰ Forever Free covers one data source after a 30-day trial. Basic is $23 a month, or $19 billed annually, and every plan includes the Windsor MCP. Whether the free plan includes writes is NP.⁴¹
• Supermetrics added campaign management in early access, LinkedIn Ads included. Writes stay off until you grant them per ad account. You then pick one of four approval modes, one of which is "No human approval", and new campaigns are created paused.⁴² The feature is free with an existing subscription during early access. Starter is from $55 a month, or $44 billed yearly.⁴²⁴³
• Zapier MCP has one LinkedIn Ads read, Create Report. Its other actions add or remove contacts and companies in audiences, create an audience or send a raw API request, and you choose which ones to expose.⁴⁴ Free is 100 tasks a month and Professional starts at $19.99. One MCP tool call uses two tasks.⁴⁵⁴⁴

Do the vendors' pages agree with each other?

Not always. On 2026-10-31 we found these disagreements, either within one vendor's pages or between a vendor and a rival's list.

• Markifact's LinkedIn page says "Markifact holds every account change until someone approves it." Its MCP docs say "the AI client is instructed to describe exactly what will change and ask for your confirmation first", and that a new server can use all operations and all accounts by default.⁴²⁶ The page also says the tool set does not create a Lead Gen Form, while the docs list a Create Lead Form operation that makes a draft form.⁴²⁷
• AdKit's LinkedIn page says every change "lands as a draft you approve before LinkedIn sees it". Its access-levels doc says "New projects start on Draft + Publish, so an agent can finish a job without you opening the dashboard", and that a misread request "can go live with real spend behind it".²⁹³⁰
• PaidSync's LinkedIn page prices yearly Pro at "$75 a month billed yearly" in one place and "$999 billed yearly for 600" tasks in another.⁷
• Adspirer's integration page says 28 LinkedIn tools. Its GitHub README says 54.³²³⁴
• Kiin's landing page says "100% FREE" and "Free forever in Phase 1". Its main site lists paid plans from $99 per account a month.¹⁸¹⁷
• Synter's pricing says "Synter does not charge a percentage of your ad spend." AdPlug's list describes Synter's Solo plan as "$20/mo plus 3% of managed spend".³⁷³
• mharnett's README opens with "full read/write support" and later says the server "currently ships with read-only tools only".¹⁹
• The danielpopamd README lists rw_ads among its scopes, but its troubleshooting section names only r_ads and r_ads_reporting. LinkedIn says Marketing APIs need rw_ads.²¹¹¹

We have not tested these servers, so none of this shows that any of them is unsafe. Read the docs and the tool list before you trust a headline.

Where does the approval check live for each option?

It depends on the vendor, and for some we found no approval step at all. This matrix is our reading of their pages.

Where does Hopkin fit?

Hopkin is our product, a hosted MCP server that connects LinkedIn Ads and other ad platforms to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants. On LinkedIn it only reads.¹⁶¹⁴¹³ In the tool manifest we read (commit 407783f), every tool that reads ad data is marked read-only. A few tools are not: billing status, which can return a checkout link; tracking and untracking a competitor, which change Hopkin's own tracking list and never touch a LinkedIn ad account; the tools that manage Hopkin's own connection records (set default, share, unshare, rename and revoke); and developer feedback.¹³ None of them creates, edits or deletes a campaign group, campaign or creative. Hopkin is read-only for now; write tools will come soon, and we have no date to give.

Hopkin connects through each platform's official sign-in and never sees your passwords. It stores access tokens encrypted.¹⁶ Our getting-started docs cover setup for each AI client.⁴⁶

What can you ask it about one LinkedIn ad account?

You can ask about spend and leads, results by campaign or creative, audience breakdowns, change history, targeting, ad copy, competitors' ads and bid ranges. The table names the Hopkin tool for each. We built it from our tool manifest and left out outputs and numbers, because we will not make up account data.¹³

LinkedIn exposes no ad-library API, so Hopkin serves competitors' ads from its own scraped corpus. linkedin_ads_track_competitor needs no LinkedIn connection, takes an organization ID or an exact name, and looks up a new advertiser live in about 20-40 seconds.¹³

On LinkedIn, Hopkin does not create or edit campaigns, build audiences or create lead forms. Its manifest has no tool for any of them.¹³

Starter is $100 a month with 1,500 credits, Pro is $250 with 8,000, and Enterprise is set up by request. Every plan has every feature and unlimited seats. A report costs 5 credits, syncing an ad account costs 100 credits a month, and tracking a competitor costs 200 credits a month. Extra credits are $0.015 each. Starter and Pro begin with a 30-day trial of 1,000 credits and no credit card (read 2026-10-31).¹⁵

Our view: Hopkin fits if your LinkedIn questions are about reporting, audiences and competitors, you want the answers in Claude or ChatGPT next to your Google and Meta numbers, and you want the assistant unable to change the account. If you want the assistant to launch or edit campaigns, use one of the hosted servers with writes above, because Hopkin does not do that.

What should you check before connecting any of them?

Start with the tool list and where it asks for approval. This checklist is ours, and no standard backs it; the longer version is in our read-only ads MCP guide,⁴⁷ and the step-by-step checks, including r_ads versus rw_ads, are in how to verify an ads MCP server is really read-only.

1. Read the tool list. Look for verbs that change things: create, update, pause, archive, delete.
2. Find out where confirmation happens: on the vendor's server, in your AI client, or nowhere. Our reading is that if your client approves tool calls automatically, a client-side check may never show you a prompt.
3. Connect with the lowest LinkedIn role that does the job. LinkedIn grants rw_ads only on accounts where the member is a billing admin, account manager, campaign manager or creative manager, and Ryze AI says Viewer is enough for its reads.⁹⁵ We suggest a read-level role whenever the server only needs to read.
4. Ask who holds the LinkedIn API access. A hosted server holds it for you. A self-hosted one needs your own developer app, LinkedIn Page and Advertising API approval.¹⁰
5. If you self-host, check the API version. Marketing Version 202511 is sunset on November 16, 2026.¹²
6. Test on a throwaway account first. Ask it to pause a test campaign, then check Campaign Manager.