# Scale SERP, free: Company discovery API

> Scale SERP parses Google Local & Maps results (i.e. local business listings) when the search_type parameter is set to search_type=places.

Scale SERP's company discovery API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 3 of the 13 key fields we check: Description, Headquarters, Phones.
We rank 532 plans by price. [Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/coresignal/49-monthly-mini-post-v2-company-multi-source-search-es-dsl/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 companies.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly-starter-post-discover/llms.txt) and [Skrapp](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/skrapp/349-monthly/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/free
- [Best company discovery API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.scaleserp.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/places
- Sold by: Scale SERP (https://www.scaleserp.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 23%
- Description: ✓
- 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: Google Search · Google News · Google Images · Google Videos · Google Scholar · Google Autocomplete · Google Place Details · Google Map Place Details · Google Place Photos · Google Place Reviews · Google Place Products · Google Place Posts · Google Shopping · Google Product · Google Product Details · Google Product Reviews · Google Product Online Sellers · Google Product Specifications

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scale SERP parses Google Local & Maps results (i.e. local business listings) when the search_type parameter is set to search_type=places.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control. [...] You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 125 credits a month
- Enough for: 125 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q, search_type "places". Optional: location, location_auto, uule, google_domain, gl, hl, nfpr, page, max_page, device, mobile_type, tablet_type, include_html, skip_on_incident, hide_base64_images, cookie, include_fields, exclude_fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 47 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, monthly credits limit, monthly credits remaining, monthly credits reset at, top-up credits remaining, credits drawn from, search parameters, created at, processed at, time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, original query yields zero results, query displayed, result position, name, CID, knowledge graph machine ID, data ID, place ID, latitude, longitude, address, sponsored, extensions, rating, review count, category, categories, website, thumbnail URL, price range, price level, price description, description, phone, opening hours, review snippet, wheelchair accessible, snippet, web results link, pagination

## Scale SERP's plans (14)

- [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/29-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $83 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/83-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/199-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/599-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $1,699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/1699-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $4,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/4999-monthly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/276-yearly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $792 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/792-yearly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/1908-yearly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $5,748 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/5748-yearly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $16,308 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/16308-yearly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $47,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/47988-yearly/llms.txt): 23% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/contact-us/llms.txt): 23% complete, live

## Scale SERP's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search`: [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)

## Scale SERP's APIs (4)

- [Scale SERP: news API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company discovery API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-images/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Places](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-places/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-scholar/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-search/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-search-full/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Shopping](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-shopping/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Videos](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-videos/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Map Place Details](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-map-place-details/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Place Details](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-place-details/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Place Details, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-place-details-full/llms.txt)

## Scale SERP: company discovery API alternatives

- [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
- [SerpKite, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, live
- [Captapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/captapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Search1API, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/search1api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% 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 2026-10-29.

- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/results/google/places
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/common
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/places
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- https://trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
- https://www.scaleserp.com