# Amazon Location Service, free tier, POST /v2/search-nearby: Local business search API

> Quickly search, display, and filter places, businesses, and locations based on proximity, category, and name.

Amazon Location Service's Local business search API on its Free Tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Category, Coordinates.
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/amazon-location-service/free-tier-post-v2-search-nearby
- Get it: https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://places.geo.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v2/search-nearby`, SearchNearby
- API key: with the plan, on https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/APIReference/API_geoplaces_SearchNearby.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Amazon Location Service (https://aws.amazon.com/location/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Geocode · ReverseGeocode · SearchText · GetPlace

## Overage

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.005
- Units cap: soft

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Quickly search, display, and filter places, businesses, and locations based on proximity, category, and name.

## Data

- Keep data: Core results can't be stored permanently, Advanced results can be cached but not stored for long-term use, with intendedUse = Stored you can store the Places results indefinitely
- Use data: For Geolocation Providers other than Open Data, you may not: a. Scrape, systematically collect, duplicate, store, or cache the data provided to you from Amazon Location Service [...] including for the purpose of avoiding use of Amazon Location Service, except that you may store or cache: [...] (ii) geocoding and reverse-geocoding results [...] when you indicate the result will be stored in the API parameter, or (iii) any Location Data to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, b. Use Location Data to create or offer a product or service with features that are similar to the services of the Geolocation Providers, where such product or service does not contain substantial, independent value and features beyond the services of the Geolocation Providers, c. Incorporate Amazon Location Service, including any Location Data, into any integrated in-vehicle infotainment system, any systems for autonomous control of the vehicle, or any real-time dynamic routing or route optimization applications installed on in-vehicle hardware, d. Use, incorporate, modify, distribute, provide access to, or combine any Location Data in a manner that would subject the Location Data to open-source or open-database license terms that require any part of the Location Data to be disclosed to third parties, licensed to third parties for the purpose of making derivative works, or redistributed to third parties at no charge, e. Use Location Data to develop paper maps or an atlas (digital or otherwise) for purposes of sale or distribution to others, f. Place your company name or marks, or any third-party advertisements, on or in the Location Data (e.g., on a map display). You may not use Amazon Location Service for any hazardous, unsafe, or illegal activities [...]. You must pass through attribution for Location Data that you make available to others via your application or its product documentation.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 20,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 20,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: QueryPosition. Optional: AdditionalFeatures, Filter.BoundingBox, Filter.ExcludeBusinessChains, Filter.ExcludeCategories, Filter.ExcludeFoodTypes, Filter.IncludeBusinessChains, Filter.IncludeCategories, Filter.IncludeCountries, Filter.IncludeFoodTypes, IntendedUse, Language, MaxResults, NextToken, PoliticalView, QueryRadius
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/search-nearby

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Tier
- Who can get it: anyone with an AWS account, for the first three months of usage

## The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

next page token, pricing bucket, place ID, place type, name, address, house number, house number corrected, block, subblock, building, street, street components, district, subdistrict, city, postal code, county, county code, state, state code, country, country code, intersection, secondary address components, latitude, longitude, categories, business chains, food types, distance, map view, place attributes, political view

## Amazon Location Service's plans (3)

- [Amazon Location Service, free tier, POST /v2/search-nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/free-tier-post-v2-search-nearby/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Amazon Location Service, pay as you go, On-demand, POST /v2/search-nearby, SearchNearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Amazon Location Service, contact us, Volume discount, POST /v2/search-nearby, SearchNearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/contact-us-volume-discount-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby/llms.txt): 75% complete

## Amazon Location Service's calls (4)

- `POST /v2/search-nearby`, SearchNearby: [Amazon Location Service, free tier, POST /v2/search-nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/free-tier-post-v2-search-nearby/llms.txt)
- `POST /v2/search-text`, SearchText: [Amazon Location Service, free tier, POST /v2/search-text](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/free-tier-post-v2-search-text/llms.txt)
- `POST /v2/search-nearby`, SearchNearby (Stored): [Amazon Location Service, pay as you go, On-demand, POST /v2/search-nearby, SearchNearby (Stored)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby-stored/llms.txt)
- `POST /v2/search-text`, SearchText (Stored): [Amazon Location Service, pay as you go, On-demand, POST /v2/search-text, SearchText (Stored)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-text-searchtext-stored/llms.txt)

## Amazon Location Service's APIs (1)

- [Amazon Location Service: Local business search API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v2/search-nearby, SearchNearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/free-tier-post-v2-search-nearby/llms.txt)

## Amazon Location Service: Local business search API alternatives

- [LocationIQ, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0027 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geoapify, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [MapTiler, $30 monthly, Flex, GET /geocoding/{queries}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/30-monthly-flex-get-geocoding-queries-json/llms.txt): $0.006 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geocode Earth, $500 monthly, Advanced, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/500-monthly-advanced-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.0063 per 1,000, 25% complete

## 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://aws.amazon.com/location/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://aws.amazon.com/location/faqs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/location.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/APIReference/API_geoplaces_SearchNearby.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/places-pricing.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonLocationService/current/us-east-1/index.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing