Amazon Location Service pricing: Local business search API, POST /
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$0.00per 1,000 placesWe 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 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.
Plan: Free Tier one of Amazon Location Service's 3 plans
- Free tierFree Tier$0.00 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, On-demandOn-demand$0.005 per 1,000
- Contact us, Volume discountVolume discount
Call:
POST /, SearchText one of Amazon Location Service's 4 callsPOST /, SearchNearbyFree tier$0.00 per 1,000v2/ search-nearby POST /, SearchTextFree tier$0.00 per 1,000v2/ search-text POST /, SearchNearby (Stored)Pay as you go, On-demand$0.04 per 1,000v2/ search-nearby POST /, SearchText (Stored)Pay as you go, On-demand$0.04 per 1,000v2/ search-text
API: Local business search API Amazon Location Service's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 3 of the 8 key fields we check. Address, Category, Coordinates.
- Nothing to pay. You get 20,000 requests a month, enough for 20,000 pages. Calls keep working once your requests run out.
- One call. You call
POST /. You send one ofv2/ search-text QueryTextorQueryId, one ofBiasPosition,Filter.BoundingBoxorFilter.Circle. The call returns the businesses there. - Who can get it: anyone with an AWS account, for the first three months of usage. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Amazon Location Service: Local business search API alternatives
Amazon Location Service alternatives: every Local business search API plan compared
The table starts with Amazon Location Service's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Amazon Location Service's.
| Amazon Location Service, pay as you go, On-demand, POST /v2/search-text, SearchText | LocationIQ, $100 monthly | Geoapify, $299 monthly | MapTiler, $30 monthly, Flex, GET /geocoding/{queries}.json | Geocode Earth, $500 monthly, Advanced, GET /v1/autocomplete | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 places | $0.005 | $0.0027 | $0.005 | $0.006 | $0.0063 |
| Completeness | 75% | 38% | 38% | 38% | 25% |
| Billing | pay as you go | monthly | monthly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | monthly | $100 | $299 | $30 | $500 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 25,000 pages a day | 2,000,000 results a day | 500,000 pages a month | 2,000,000 pages a month |
| Who can get it | anyone with an AWS account | anyone | anyone of age and legally competent | anyone with a MapTiler Cloud account | anyone with an account, for apps provided directly to end users |
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.
- aws.amazon.com/location/
- aws.amazon.com/location/faqs/
- aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/
- aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/location.html
- docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/APIReference/API_geoplaces_SearchText.html
- docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguide/places-pricing.html
- pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonLocationService/current/us-east-1/index.json
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Address
- Phone, not in the answer
- Website, not in the answer
- Category
- Coordinates
- Rating, not in the answer
- Review count, not in the answer
- Opening hours, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 places | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 100 |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Geocode · ReverseGeocode · SearchNearby · GetPlace |
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| $ per 1,000 places | $0.005 |
|---|---|
| Units cap | soft |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Quickly search, display, and filter places, businesses, and locations based on proximity, category, and name. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 20,000 requests a month |
| Enough for | 20,000 pages a month |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | one of QueryText or QueryId, one of BiasPosition, Filter.BoundingBox or Filter.Circle. Optional: AdditionalFeatures, Filter.IncludeCountries, IntendedUse, Language, MaxResults, NextToken, PoliticalView, TravelMode |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v2/search-text |
| Plan | Free Tier |
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| 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