Far, far less. Search a company like "Airbnb", view employees, filter the results by geo, job title, whatever, and parse through the pages. Do this a few times with different companies and you get blocked. I don't do this often, certainly less than 20 times per month, and hit the paygate. Perhaps they have different limits for different accounts, but I have never, ever conducted hundreds of searches.

That's interesting. I know I'm well over 20 a month on searches like that. I'd wonder if they base it on other things (like connections). I did have a paid account in the past, but it's been a few years since I opted for the free one.

It’s possible they have an A/B test running to see if limiting searches increases Premium subscription conversion. You’re probably in the control bucket.