# Autom, free: Company discovery API

> Search Google Maps via API and retrieve structured place results (address, website, phone).

Autom's company discovery API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Headquarters, Phones.
The cheapest of the 172 plans we rank by price is [ReefAPI, $450 quarterly, Enterprise quarterly, POST /google-maps/v1/place/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-google-maps-v1-place-nearby/llms.txt), at $0.005 per 1,000 companies. ReefAPI charges for each page of results. The $0.005 price is for pages of 200 companies each.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly/llms.txt) and [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/cached-company-discovery-apis/skrapp/349-monthly/llms.txt) are the best cached company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/free
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.autom.dev/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.autom.dev/v1/google/maps`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.autom.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.autom.dev/google-maps
- Sold by: Autom (https://www.autom.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Headquarters: ✓
- Phones: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Bing Search · Brave Images · Brave Search · Brave Videos · Google AI Mode · Google Images · Google Jobs · Google News · Google Search · Google Search Autocomplete · Google Search Light · Google Shopping · Google Videos

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Maps via API and retrieve structured place results (address, website, phone).

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "While you have unused credits, or an active paid period, you receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the service for your own activities, including inside a product you offer to your own users. [...] This licence does not let you resell API keys, or resell access to the service as a standalone product, unless we agree in writing." "Third-party material returned by the service remains subject to its owners' rights." "Use the service in accordance with the law and these terms." "Do not use the service to break the law, to infringe another person's rights, or to submit content you have no right to submit." "Do not distribute malware, attempt unauthorized access, access another customer's account, or interfere with the service." "Do not bypass a fee or a limit, or send traffic in order to overload the service." "Do not use the service for unlawful surveillance, harassment, or unsolicited contact that the law does not allow." "Do not use the service in breach of applicable sanctions, or as the sole control of a decision that could affect a person's health, safety, legal position, finances, or employment."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 pages

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling
- Median: 5.78 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: page, hl, gl, ll
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google/maps

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: professionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contract

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

data ID, address, website, phone

## Autom's plans (7)

- [Autom, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, live
- [Autom, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/50-pack/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [Autom, $375 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/375-pack/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [Autom, $1,250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/1250-pack/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [Autom, $3,750 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/3750-pack/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [Autom, $15,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/15000-pack/llms.txt): 15% complete, live
- [Autom, $30,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/30000-pack/llms.txt): 15% complete, live

## Autom's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/google/maps`: [Autom, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/free/llms.txt)

## Autom's APIs (3)

- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/bing/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/shopping](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-shopping/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/brave/images](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-brave-images/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/brave/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-brave-search/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/brave/videos](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-brave-videos/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/search/ai](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-search-ai/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/images](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-images/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-news/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-search/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/search/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-search-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/search/light](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-search-light/llms.txt)
- [Autom: SERP API pricing, 7 plans, GET /v1/google/videos](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/autom/free-free-get-v1-google-videos/llms.txt)
- [Autom: job postings API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/autom/free/llms.txt)
- [Autom: company discovery API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/autom/free/llms.txt)

## Autom: company discovery API alternatives

- [SerpKite, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [SerpBase, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/serpbase/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Findymail, free, Trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, Free, POST /indeed/v1/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/reefapi/free-free-post-indeed-v1-company-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [WebScrapingAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/webscrapingapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

- https://app.autom.dev/pricing
- https://docs.autom.dev/billing/plans-and-pricing
- https://docs.autom.dev/credits
- https://docs.autom.dev/global-parameters
- https://docs.autom.dev/google-maps
- https://www.autom.dev/
- https://www.autom.dev/pricing
- https://www.autom.dev/terms