LinkedIn Ads connector for Claude

Use Porter’s LinkedIn Ads connector for Claude to see cost per lead by campaign, job title and company, then pause or re-budget the campaigns you approve.

  • Rank campaigns by cost per lead in one table
  • See which seniorities and job functions spend without leads
  • Spot creatives that are wearing out, then pause them
  • Compare LinkedIn cost per lead with Meta Ads
Connect LinkedIn Ads to Claude free See the 3 steps
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ClaudePorter connected
Show Spent, Impressions, Clicks and Leads by Campaign Name for the last 7 full days, with CTR and cost per lead.
Porter / LinkedIn Ads / Trailgear Demo✓ 4 rows
Lead Gen – Ops Leaders has the best cost per lead at $48. Awareness – Video spent $1,240 with no leads.
Campaign NameSpentLeadsCost / lead
Lead Gen – Ops Leaders$1,82038$48
Retargeting – Site$96014$69
Webinar – Q4$1,41017$83
Awareness – Video$1,2400—
Demo data, Trailgear Demo account
226 LinkedIn Ads fields
01Setup

How to connect LinkedIn Ads to Claude

Porter’s LinkedIn Ads connector for Claude takes 3 steps, with no code and no LinkedIn developer app. Connect your ad accounts in Porter, add one MCP URL to Claude as a custom connector, then sign in and ask. Porter’s guide on how to connect LinkedIn Ads to Claude also has screenshots, the Claude Code setup and the CSV and Sheets routes. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard Claude uses to connect to tools such as Porter.

Before you start

  • You need a LinkedIn login with a role on the ad account, as well as a free Porter account and any Claude plan. Viewer is enough to read, while campaign changes need Campaign Manager or Account Manager.
  • Custom connectors work in Claude, Cowork and Claude Desktop on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Anthropic’s guide to custom connectors in Claude). Free allows one custom connector, while on Team an Owner adds it first. Porter’s guide also covers Claude Code.
  • Works in Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Cowork and Claude Code, with any Claude model, from Opus to Sonnet and Haiku.

  1. Step 1: Connect LinkedIn Ads in Porter

    Sign up free at Porter, pick LinkedIn Ads as the source and then sign in with LinkedIn. Tick every ad account Claude should read (accounts you don’t tick show as needing reconnection), then pick Claude as the destination.

  2. Step 2: Add the LinkedIn Ads connector to Claude

    Then open Claude’s connector settings, choose Add custom connector, paste this URL and select Add:

    MCP URL
    https://mcp.portermetrics.com/mcp

  3. Step 3: Ask Claude about LinkedIn Ads

    When Claude asks, sign in with your Porter account, approve access and paste this prompt:

    Prompt
    List my LinkedIn ad accounts and show Spent, Impressions, Clicks and Leads by Campaign Name for the last 7 full days. Calculate CTR and cost per lead yourself.

Guides and videos

app.portermetrics.com / create
Porter's Select accounts window for LinkedIn Ads with a demo account and the Connect button
First, in Porter, open LinkedIn Ads and select Connect.
LinkedIn sign-in screen you see when you connect LinkedIn Ads to Porter
Then, sign in to LinkedIn to authorize Porter.
Claude's Add custom connector window with the name Porter Metrics and Porter's MCP URL filled in
Then, in Claude, add a custom connector with Porter's MCP URL.
Porter's Application Access Request screen asking you to let Claude use the Porter MCP server
When Claude asks, sign in to Porter and select Allow Access.
Porter Metrics listed as a connected connector in Claude with its read-only tools
After that, Porter shows as connected, so you can ask your first question.
If you prefer video, watch the whole LinkedIn Ads to Claude setup (1:18, no sound).
Interactive walkthrough, so you can click along here
02Use cases and prompts

What you can ask Claude

Each use case comes with a prompt to copy, the fields it uses from the LinkedIn Ads fields Claude can read and who it’s for. The prompts have Claude work out CTR, CPC and cost per lead from raw counts, as Porter’s tests advise.

Can Claude show which campaigns bring leads at the lowest cost?

The problemOne campaign group fills the pipeline while another buys clicks that never become leads, and you line them up by hand.

What Claude doesClaude pulls Spent, Leads, Impressions and Clicks by campaign group and campaign, then works out cost per lead and CTR. It also flags every campaign whose cost per lead runs more than 20% above the account’s.

What you getYou move budget toward the campaigns that bring cheap leads, from one table instead of a weekly export.

Prompt
For the last 30 days, show Campaign Group Name, Campaign Name, Campaign Objective Type, Spent, Impressions, Clicks and Leads. Calculate CTR and cost per lead (Spent ÷ Leads) for each campaign and the account, then flag campaigns whose cost per lead is more than 20% above the account's.

For: B2B demand gen marketers · agencies (one row per client ad account with Account Name)

Fields used: Campaign Group NameCampaign NameCampaign Objective TypeSpentImpressionsClicksLeads

Can Claude tell you which job titles, seniorities and company sizes your LinkedIn ads reach?

The problemYou pay LinkedIn prices to reach decision-makers, but you suspect junior staff and students do most of the clicking.

What Claude doesClaude splits Spent, Impressions, Clicks and Leads into audience breakdowns, one dimension at a time per campaign. Then it flags segments that spend without bringing leads. LinkedIn’s audience numbers are approximate and skip small segments, so compare segments with each other rather than with the account total.

What you getYou can exclude the seniorities and job functions that spend without leads before they take another month of budget.

Prompt
For my lead generation campaigns in the last 30 days, show Campaign Name, Seniority, Spent, Impressions, Clicks and Leads. Calculate cost per lead per seniority and list seniorities with more than $500 Spent and 0 Leads.
Then ask
Prompt
Now run the same breakdown by Job Function, then by Company Size, as separate tables.

For: B2B demand gen marketers · agencies

Fields used: Campaign NameSeniorityJob FunctionCompany SizeSpentImpressionsClicksLeads

Can Claude show which target companies saw and clicked your LinkedIn ads?

The problemSales handed you a target account list, and now they want to know which of those companies actually saw the ads.

What Claude doesClaude lists companies by Impressions and Clicks per campaign. If you paste in your target account list, it marks the accounts with no impressions. LinkedIn’s company breakdown can also include companies you didn’t target, such as a member’s previous employer.

What you getSales gets a straight answer on account coverage, while you see which target companies need a different campaign.

Prompt
For campaign {Campaign Name} in the last 30 days, show Member Company Name, Impressions, Clicks and Spent. Compare it with this target account list: {paste list}. Which target companies had 0 impressions, and which clicked at least twice?

For: ABM marketers · B2B demand gen marketers · agencies

Fields used: Campaign NameMember Company NameImpressionsClicksSpent

Can Claude spot creatives that are wearing out?

The problemLinkedIn audiences are small, so the same decision-makers see your ad week after week until they stop clicking.

What Claude doesClaude pulls weekly Impressions and Clicks per creative, works out CTR, then flags creatives whose CTR fell two weeks in a row. It can also pause them.

What you getYou replace tired creatives before they push up the whole campaign’s cost per lead.

Prompt
For the last 8 weeks, by Week, Campaign Name, Creative Id and Creative Title, show Impressions, Clicks and Spent. Calculate weekly CTR and flag creatives whose CTR dropped more than 25% two weeks in a row.
Then ask
Prompt
Pause the flagged creatives after I confirm, and show me each one first.

For: paid social managers · agencies

Fields used: WeekCampaign NameCreative IdCreative TitleImpressionsClicksSpent
Action: creative_update (status)

Can Claude find where LinkedIn Lead Gen Form opens don't turn into leads?

The problemPlenty of people open your Lead Gen Form, but far fewer submit it, and you can’t tell which ad or form is losing them.

What Claude doesClaude divides Leads by One Click Lead Form Opens for each campaign and creative. Then it adds cost per lead and ranks the forms that lose the most people.

What you getYou know which form to shorten, or which ad promises something the form doesn’t, instead of guessing from total leads.

Prompt
For the last 30 days, by Campaign Name and Creative Title, show One Click Lead Form Opens, Leads and Spent. Calculate form completion rate (Leads ÷ One Click Lead Form Opens) and cost per lead, and list the 10 creatives with the lowest completion rate and at least 50 form opens.

For: B2B demand gen marketers · lead gen agencies

Fields used: Campaign NameCreative TitleOne Click Lead Form OpensLeadsSpent

Can Claude pace LinkedIn campaign budgets and change them?

The problemMid-month, a campaign group is already ahead of its budget, but nobody notices until the client asks.

What Claude doesClaude reads each campaign’s daily budget and Spent by day, then projects month-end spend from the last 7 days. It can also change a campaign’s daily budget.

What you getYou catch overspend while there’s still time to fix it, not when the invoice arrives.

Prompt
This month, by Date and Campaign Name, show Spent and Campaign Daily Budget Amount, plus Campaign Group Name and Campaign Group Total Budget Amount. Using the last 7 days' average Spent, which campaigns will overspend their group's total budget by month-end, and by how much?
Then ask
Prompt
Lower the daily budget of the campaign most likely to overspend so it lands on budget. Show me the new amount before you change it.

For: agencies · in-house B2B marketers

Fields used: DateCampaign NameCampaign Group NameSpentCampaign Daily Budget AmountCampaign Group Total Budget Amount
Action: campaign_update (daily budget)

Can Claude build a LinkedIn campaign from a brief?

The problemThe brief is approved, so now someone has to click through Campaign Manager setting seniorities, job functions and industries one by one.

What Claude doesClaude creates a campaign group, a Sponsored Content campaign with budget, schedule and targeting, as well as ads from your company page posts. You add Lead Gen Forms and new post content in Campaign Manager as usual.

What you getYou review a complete campaign instead of building it field by field.

Prompt
Create a draft campaign group 'Q1 CFO Benchmark' and a draft Sponsored Content campaign in it with a $150 daily budget starting {date}, targeting seniorities Director and VP, job function Finance, industries Software and Financial Services, United States. Add ads from my last 2 company page posts. Show me everything before you create it.

For: agencies · in-house B2B marketers

Actions: campaigngroup_create · campaign_create (targeting facets) · creative_create · read-back campaign_get · creative_list

Can Claude compare cost per lead with Meta Ads in one table?

The problemLeadership asks if LinkedIn’s pricier leads are worth it next to Meta, but the two platforms report in different shapes.

What Claude doesAdd the Meta Ads connector for Claude in Porter too, and Claude puts spend, leads and cost per lead side by side by platform and campaign. Each platform counts leads its own way, so compare cost per lead rather than totals.

What you getThe budget split between LinkedIn and Meta starts from one cost-per-lead table instead of two exports.

Prompt
Compare my LinkedIn Ads and Meta Ads accounts for the last 30 days: amount spent, leads and cost per lead by platform and campaign name. Which platform brings leads cheaper for the same offer?

For: marketing leads · agencies

Fields used: Porter blend fields amount_spentleadscampaign_nameaccount_nameper connector: SpentLeadsCampaign Name
03Why Porter

Why Porter for LinkedIn Ads in Claude

LinkedIn has no official LinkedIn Ads MCP server for Claude (checked October 2026), so Porter’s hosted MCP is how Claude reads and changes your campaigns. If you work in ChatGPT and only need performance reporting, LinkedIn’s own LinkedIn Ads app in ChatGPT fits, in beta, per OpenAI’s LinkedIn Ads plugin for ChatGPT page.

✓

One URL, nothing to host

Sign in with LinkedIn in Porter and paste one URL in Claude. A self-hosted server needs a LinkedIn app that passes LinkedIn’s Advertising API application review, plus hosting.

⊞

Changes only after you approve

Claude creates campaign groups, campaigns and ads as drafts, pauses or activates them and changes budgets, bids, schedules and targeting, each after you confirm.

⚙

226 ready-made fields

Claude gets 226 fields across campaigns, creatives, leads, conversions, video, Reach and job title, seniority and company breakdowns. Porter tests which fields return data, so every prompt here uses ones that do.

Aa

LinkedIn next to Meta and Google

Ask about LinkedIn Ads next to Meta Ads, Google Ads, GA4, HubSpot and 20+ more sources under the same field names, so a budget split starts from one table.

↻

Every ad account in one answer

One LinkedIn login brings in every ad account it has a role on, and Claude compares them with Account Name as a column.

✓

Tokens and API versions handled

Porter handles LinkedIn sign-in, 60-day tokens and LinkedIn’s monthly Marketing API versions, so your connection keeps working without upkeep.

⊞

Ten years of campaign history

LinkedIn keeps 10 years of performance data, and Porter reads all of it. Claude gets yearly totals back to 2016 on paid plans, so you can compare this year’s spend and leads with any past year.

⚙

Live dashboards, not only chat answers

Ask Claude for a dashboard and Porter’s AI dashboards publish it at its own link, synced automatically and ready to share. Official MCP servers answer inside the chat and stop there.

04Dashboard

Dashboard template

Start from a ready-made LinkedIn Ads template, or ask Claude to build a live one with AI dashboards.

AI dashboards

Build a live LinkedIn Ads dashboard from the chat

Describe the dashboard in one sentence and Porter builds it. A client-ready dashboard in minutes, with no chart dragging and no BI tool to learn. Ask Claude:

Prompt
Build a live LinkedIn Ads dashboard for my account with the last 30 days, the main KPIs and a weekly trend.
Live URLEach dashboard at its own link: no login, no app, no download
Auto-syncFresh LinkedIn Ads data, nobody re-exports each period
Scheduled deliveryEmail or PDF sends on a set day
White labelYour logo and branding for clients
Sharing permissionsView or edit access per person

Open the live LinkedIn Ads dashboard

Or start from a template

→LinkedIn Ads dashboard templates ↗Ready-made layouts for LinkedIn AdsDashboard templates for every source ↗Ads, social, SEO, ecommerce and CRMPorter's template gallery ↗Every Porter template in one place
05Pricing

Pricing

You can start free, since Porter’s LinkedIn Ads connector for Claude comes with every plan. Use the calculator for your number of accounts, or see Porter pricing for every plan.

What you get

  • Free plan: never expires, with unlimited connected accounts and the last 15 days of data in Claude (30 days in Data Studio and Sheets)
  • Reporting: from $12.50 per account a month billed annually, or $15 month to month for one account
  • Billing: each LinkedIn ad account counts as one account once it returns data, with volume discounts and no per-seat fee
  • Changes: 1 AI credit per completed change; failed tasks are free, and the Free plan includes 100 credits a month
  • Trial: 14 days of full access, no card

See full pricing and plans

Price calculator

$33.33/mo$6.67 per account

An account is one ad account, Stripe account, store, page or GA4 property. The Free plan never expires and has unlimited accounts, with the last 15 days of data in AI chats.

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06Data and actions

LinkedIn Ads data and actions in Claude

The LinkedIn Ads connector gives Claude 226 fields across ad accounts, campaign groups, campaigns, creatives, leads, conversions, video, engagement, Reach and audience breakdowns. It also gives Claude 18 actions to read, create, change and delete. If you need any label, look it up in the LinkedIn Ads fields list.

The 12 LinkedIn Ads fields Claude uses most

These 12 field groups answer most questions, so start with them.

FieldWhat it's for
Date · Weeklinkedin_ads_date · linkedin_ads_weekTrends by day or week
Account Namelinkedin_ads_accountNameComparing several ad accounts
Campaign Group Namelinkedin_ads_campaignGroupNameGroup budgets and programs
Campaign Namelinkedin_ads_campaignNameRanking campaigns
Campaign Objective Typelinkedin_ads_campaignObjectiveTypeLead generation vs brand awareness vs website visits
Creative Titlelinkedin_ads_creativeTitleComparing creatives and spotting wear-out
Impressions · Clickslinkedin_ads_impressions · linkedin_ads_clicksDelivery, and CTR calculated by Claude
Spentlinkedin_ads_costInLocalCurrencySpend in the account currency, the base of every cost-per figure
Leads · One Click Lead Form Openslinkedin_ads_oneClickLeads · linkedin_ads_oneClickLeadFormOpensCost per lead and form completion
Conversions · Post Click Conversionslinkedin_ads_externalWebsiteConversions · linkedin_ads_externalWebsitePostClickConversionsInsight Tag website results
Seniority · Job Function · Company Size · Member Company Namelinkedin_ads_memberSeniority · linkedin_ads_memberJobFunction · linkedin_ads_memberCompanySize · linkedin_ads_memberCompanyNameWho the ads reached, one breakdown at a time
Reachlinkedin_ads_approximateUniqueImpressionsUnique members reached, 92 days at most

Can Claude pause, edit or create LinkedIn Ads campaigns?

Yes. Claude creates campaign groups, campaigns and ads from existing posts, then pauses or activates all three. It also changes names, budgets, bids, schedules and targeting. To change an ad's text, Claude creates a new ad from a new post, while lead forms, Matched Audiences and conversion rules stay in Campaign Manager as usual.

How fresh is the data, and how far back?

Performance data reaches Claude in near real time, including today as a partial day. Audience breakdowns, however, arrive 12–24 hours later (LinkedIn's reporting retention and delays). LinkedIn keeps 10 years of performance data, compared to 2 years of audience data. Porter's free plan covers the last 15 days in Claude (30 days in Data Studio and Sheets), while paid plans have no history cap.

Product stats

WhatLinkedIn Ads connector
Fields226 across ad accounts, campaign groups, campaigns, creatives, leads, conversions, video, engagement, Reach and audience breakdowns
Actions18 to read, create, change and delete; new campaign groups, campaigns and ads start as drafts
FreshnessPerformance data in near real time, with today as a partial day; audience breakdowns 12–24 hours later
HistoryLinkedIn keeps 10 years of performance data (yearly totals tested back to 2016) and 2 years of audience data; no cap on paid plans; the last 15 days in Claude on the Free plan (30 days in Data Studio and Sheets)
ReachUp to 92 days per question, by day or month
Audience breakdownsOne per question, per campaign
AccessViewer reads reports; Campaign Manager or Account Manager changes campaigns and ads

See all 226 LinkedIn Ads fields

07Security

Is it safe?

Yes, with approvals: the LinkedIn Ads connector for Claude shows every change before Porter sends it. New campaign groups, campaigns and ads are created as drafts that don't serve or spend, while only drafts can be deleted. Porter signs in through LinkedIn's OAuth, then acts only with the role you already have on the ad account.

How you approve changes

Claude asks before every write, and you activate drafts from the top down: campaign group, then campaign, then ad. It lists each change first, such as a new daily budget or a paused creative, and waits for you to confirm. Deletes are permanent, so Claude asks before each one.

Porter enables each ad account for changes once, and until then LinkedIn refuses the change, so nothing in the account is modified.

What the connector needs from LinkedIn Ads

Porter needs a LinkedIn sign-in with a role on the ad account, because that role decides what Claude can change (LinkedIn ad account roles). Viewer reads reports. Creative Manager can change ads, while Campaign Manager or Account Manager can change campaigns and ads.

LinkedIn access lasts 60 days and renews for up to a year, then you sign in again (LinkedIn's 60-day access tokens).

08FAQ

FAQ

Before connecting, B2B marketers ask about other AI tools, several ad accounts, organic posts, Sponsored Messaging and conversions. The last three help when numbers don't match, a question fails or a change is blocked.

Does the LinkedIn Ads connector work in ChatGPT and Claude Code?

Yes, Porter uses the same MCP URL in Claude, Claude Code and ChatGPT, so one LinkedIn login serves all three. If you use ChatGPT, follow Porter's guide to connect LinkedIn Ads to ChatGPT. The Claude Code steps are in the tutorial linked from the setup section.

Can I connect several LinkedIn ad accounts, say as an agency?

Yes, because one LinkedIn login brings every ad account it has a role on into Porter. Then Claude compares them in one answer with Account Name as a column. Porter bills each ad account once it returns data, so an agency can start with a few clients and add more later.

Does the LinkedIn Ads connector include company page posts and followers?

Organic company page posts and followers come from Porter's LinkedIn Pages connector for Claude, while the LinkedIn Ads connector covers paid campaigns. Both connect the same way, so they share one chat and Claude puts organic and paid results side by side.

Can Claude read Sponsored Messaging (InMail) results?

Yes, Claude reads Sponsored Messaging results as Sends, Opens, Action Clicks and Ad Unit Clicks per campaign. Lead gen messages also add Lead Generation Mail Contact Info Shares, and Claude gets open rate by dividing Opens by Sends.

Can Claude read Insight Tag and Conversions API conversions?

Yes, Claude reads Conversions, Post Click Conversions, Post View Conversions and Conversion Value In Local Currency by campaign. Conversions by conversion name cover the last 4 months and come without Spent, so you check cost per conversion action in Campaign Manager as usual.

Troubleshooting

Why don't Claude's numbers match Campaign Manager?

Claude's numbers can differ from Campaign Manager because audience breakdowns are approximate in both tools and today is a partial day. Over ranges longer than 6 months, LinkedIn rounds old daily data to whole months (LinkedIn's rounding of long date ranges), so totals can include extra days. Spent uses the account currency, while Cost In Usd is separate.

Why did a LinkedIn Ads question fail in Claude?

Ask for one audience breakdown at a time per campaign, and the question goes through. LinkedIn refuses some query combinations, and Porter passes Claude a general error without the reason. The refused combinations are two audience breakdowns at once, an audience breakdown with creatives, Reach by week, and conversion names with campaigns or Spent.

Why can't Claude change my LinkedIn campaign?

Ask your ad account admin for the Campaign Manager or Account Manager role, then try again. Viewer only reads, and Creative Manager edits ads rather than campaigns. If the role is right, Porter hasn't enabled that ad account for changes yet, so LinkedIn answers "not configured to access the related advertiser account" without changing anything.

09Next

More Claude connectors

Porter connects many sources to Claude, and also sends LinkedIn Ads to more places than Claude. Browse all Claude connectors, then add your other ad platforms and CRM. You can also copy a dashboard, send the data to a warehouse, or use Porter's MCP server outside Claude.

→Google Ads connector for Claude→Microsoft Ads connector for Claude→HubSpot connector for Claude→Meta Ads connector for Claude→TikTok Ads connector for Claude

Not only Claude. Send LinkedIn Ads data anywhere

The same Porter account and connection also send LinkedIn Ads data to these destinations, at no extra cost.

→LinkedIn Ads to ChatGPT→LinkedIn Ads to Data Studio→LinkedIn Ads to Google Sheets→LinkedIn Ads connector for any AI tool (MCP)
Free LinkedIn Ads dashboard templatesSend LinkedIn Ads to BigQuery

Try the connector in Claude

When you use Porter's LinkedIn Ads connector for Claude, your first question about cost per lead, job titles or target companies is 3 steps away. Start with the step 3 prompt, then copy the use case prompt that matches the report your team needs this week.

Connect LinkedIn Ads to Claude free

Free forever plan · 14-day full trial · No card

B2B demand gen marketers: cost per lead by campaign, seniority and form in one chat, ready before the pipeline review.

Agencies: every client ad account answers the same prompt, while Account Name keeps them apart.

ABM marketers: your target account list checked against the companies that saw the ads, whenever sales asks.

About the author: Porter Metrics team. The team builds Porter's marketing data connectors and tests every prompt on this page.Last updated October 19, 2026

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