# 2GIS, free: Local business search API

> A tool for searching and displaying detailed information about any organization. Direct and reverse geocoding, suggestions, and error correction are supported. Integrate smart search into your CRM system, online store, or mobile app.

2GIS's Local business search API on its Demo key plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run a Local business search API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 89 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.04 per 1,000 places or less.
[Stadia Maps's $250 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.001. Stadia Maps charges for each page of results. We count 10 places on each page to get the $0.001 price.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/free
- Get it: https://docs.2gis.com/en/platform-manager/subscription/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://catalog.api.2gis.com/3.0/items`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.2gis.com/en/platform-manager/subscription/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.2gis.com/en/api/search/places/reference/3.0/items?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: 2GIS (https://dev.2gis.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Address: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: /3.0/items/byid · /3.0/items/byservicing

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A tool for searching and displaying detailed information about any organization. Direct and reverse geocoding, suggestions, and error correction are supported. Integrate smart search into your CRM system, online store, or mobile app.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: Кэширование Продуктов не предусмотрено. [...] Пользователю запрещается извлекать, сохранять полученные по настоящему Договору Продукты и информацию из них
- Use data: The User has no right, by its own efforts or with the assistance of third parties, to: [...] Create software or reference products and / or services using 2GIS Software/Online Services and text, cartographic and information materials included in or retrieved (extracted) from the databases of 2GIS Software/Online Services as well as other Intellectual Property specified in paragraph 2.1 of this Agreement. [...] Provide access to 2GIS Online Services for commercial purposes, including by transmitting data obtained from 2GIS Online Services by any means, including with the use of frames and other programming methods and means intended for receipt of data from 2GIS Online Services and representation thereof on websites of third parties, unless otherwise provided by a separate agreement with the Rightholder. [...] copying, reproduction, processing, distribution, placement for free access (publication) on the Internet, use in mass media and/or commercial use of cartographic and reference materials, either directly extracted from databases contained in 2GIS Software/Online Services or received by copying data processing results with use of 2GIS Software/Online Services, as well as products derivative of such materials (with additions, reductions and other modifications) is hereby PROHIBITED except for cases expressly authorized by this License. [API license offer, in Russian:] Пользователю запрещается извлекать, сохранять полученные по настоящему Договору Продукты и информацию из них, а также осуществлять их последующее использование, обработку, модификацию и распространение способами, не предусмотренными настоящим Договором. Кэширование Продуктов не предусмотрено. [...] Всякий показ (доведение до всеобщего сведения) Продукта в Приложении Пользователя должен сопровождаться ссылкой на Правообладателя, включающей текст «2ГИС» и ассоциированную с ним гипертекстовую ссылку «http://dev.2gis.ru». [...] [Platform Manager agreement, demo keys:] The use of the Service under the provisions of this Agreement for informational (non-commercial) purposes shall be allowed to the User at no cost.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests
- Enough for: 1,000 pages, once
- Expires: one month after the key is created

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, locale, type, fields, search_type, search_is_query_text_complete, search_nearby, search_input_method, search_territory_of_interest, sort, location, lon, lat, point, radius, district_id, building_id, place_id, city_id, subway, point1, point2, polygon, viewpoint1, viewpoint2, region_id, page, page_size, rubric_id, org_id, brand_id, has_photos, has_rating, has_reviews, has_site, work_time, opened_after_date, has_itin, has_trade_license
- Method: GET
- Path: /3.0/items

## About the plan

- Plan: Demo key
- Who can get it: anyone with a Platform Manager account, once: a test key valid one month, for non-commercial use

## The 35 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, place ID, result type, name, name components, address, full address, address components, postal code, address comment, building name, city alias, administrative areas, categories, brand, organization, opening hours, special hours, description, flags, attributes, latitude, longitude, geometry, rating, review count, date created, date updated, distance, time zone, UTC offset, region ID, segment ID, data source info, routing available

## 2GIS's plans (12)

- [2GIS, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽6,700 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/6700-monthly/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽15,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/15000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.119 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽20,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/20000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.096 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽30,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/30000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.072 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽46,700 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/46700-monthly/llms.txt): $0.037 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽63,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/63400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽79,200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/79200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽100,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/100000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.024 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽138,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/138400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽183,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/183400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [2GIS, ₽250,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/250000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day

## 2GIS's calls (1)

- `GET /3.0/items`: [2GIS, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/free/llms.txt)

## 2GIS's APIs (1)

- [2GIS: Local business search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/free/llms.txt)

## 2GIS: Local business search API alternatives

- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 200,001 to 1,000,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-200001-to-1000000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Yandex Maps API, $225,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yandex-maps-api/225000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [Yelp, $229 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/229-monthly/llms.txt): $0.153 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 75% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://dev.2gis.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.2gis.com/en/api/search/places/examples/results?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.2gis.com/en/api/search/places/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.2gis.com/en/api/search/places/reference/3.0/items?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.2gis.com/en/api/search/places/troubleshooting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.2gis.com/en/platform-manager/subscription/keys?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.2gis.com/en/platform-manager/subscription/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://law.2gis.ru/en/licensing-agreement/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://law.2gis.ru/en/platform-manager?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://law.2gis.ru/offer-license-agreement-webapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing