# AntsData, free: Local business search API

> The Google Maps search interface under the Web Access product line returns a structured POI list based on location words, which is suitable for SERP data access scenarios.

AntsData's Free plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. AntsData's docs list all 8: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run AntsData through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 492 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.25 or less per 1,000 places. [269 local business search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) [mitbbs.ai's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.
[IBLead's $53 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/53-monthly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places, with no charge per call. You get as many places as IBLead's rate limit allows. [Amazon Location Service's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 places a month: $0.05.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [HERE](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt) and [SphereScout](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-get-api-companies/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://antsdata.com/en/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.antsdata.com/v1/serp/google/maps`
- API key: with the plan, on https://antsdata.com/en/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/google-serp-api/google-maps-discover-by-query/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AntsData (https://antsdata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 74 other AntsData calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Google Maps search interface under the Web Access product line returns a structured POI list based on location words, which is suitable for SERP data access scenarios.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Unless separately agreed, we do not grant you rights to use outputs in ways that violate applicable law, third-party rights, platform terms, privacy obligations, or intellectual property restrictions. [...] You may not resell, sublicense, redistribute, expose, or provide AntsData services, APIs, account balance, API keys, credentials, outputs, or datasets to third parties except as expressly permitted by AntsData in writing. [...] build a competing service using AntsData without written permission, resell AntsData outputs in a way that violates our Terms, third-party rights, or applicable law, or use AntsData to create or enhance datasets, products, or services that violate platform terms, privacy rights, or intellectual property rights. [...] You may not use AntsData outputs to develop, train, operate, or deploy AI systems in ways that violate applicable law, third-party rights, platform restrictions, our Terms of Service, or this Policy. [...] You may not use AntsData to access, collect, extract, monitor, or process non-public, private, restricted, confidential, or unauthorized data. [...] You may not use AntsData to collect, infer, process, enrich, or distribute sensitive, regulated, or protected data unless you have a valid lawful basis, all required authorizations, and AntsData has expressly agreed where required. This may include: health, medical, biometric, genetic, or disability information, precise location data, financial account data, payment card data, credit information, or government identification numbers, children’s data, race, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, union membership, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics, criminal-record data or allegations, private communications, private social media content, private account data, or other non-public personal information.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: 5,000 pages

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, gl. Optional: lat, lng, zoom_level, hl, openNow, minRating
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/serp/google/maps

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone legally able to enter into the Terms, for business and professional use

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, name, address, rating, review count, price level, categories, latitude, longitude, phone, website, opening hours, description, reviews, main photo URL, next page token

## AntsData's plans (6)

- [AntsData, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AntsData, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/top-up/llms.txt): 100% complete
- [AntsData, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/50-pack/llms.txt): 100% complete
- [AntsData, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/100-pack/llms.txt): 100% complete
- [AntsData, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/250-pack/llms.txt): 100% complete
- [AntsData, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete

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

- `POST /v1/serp/google/maps`: [AntsData, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)

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- [AntsData Amazon product API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
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- [AntsData Google Ads Transparency API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ad-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData SERP API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData News API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData Google Shopping search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData LinkedIn company post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData LinkedIn company data API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData LinkedIn profile API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)
- [AntsData LinkedIn job search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/antsdata/free/llms.txt)

## AntsData: local business search API alternatives

[AntsData alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/antsdata-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

- [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [SphereScout, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [mitbbs.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [AgentWeb, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/agentweb/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://antsdata.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/acceptable-use-policy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/auth-errors/api-conventions/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/faqs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/google-serp-api/google-maps-discover-by-query/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/scraping-academy/linkedin-scraper/linkedin-profiles-collect-by-url/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://antsdata.com/en/terms-of-service/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing