ArcGIS pricing: Local business search API, GET /
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25% complete: 2 of the 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields
$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 one of ArcGIS's 2 plans
Call:
GET / one of ArcGIS's 2 callsAPI: Local business search API ArcGIS's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 8 key fields we check. Category, Coordinates.
- Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month, enough for 500 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
- One call. You send
xandytoGET /. You can also sendplaces/ near-point radius,categoryIds,searchText,pageSize,iconandoffset. The call returns the businesses there. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: You cannot permanently store places.. Use data: with conditions.
ArcGIS: Local business search API alternatives
ArcGIS alternatives: every Local business search API plan compared
The table starts with ArcGIS's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to ArcGIS's.
| ArcGIS, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, GET /places/near-point | Yandex Maps API, $3,575 yearly | Foursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls | Yelp, $643 monthly | Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 monthly events, POST /v1/places:searchNearby, Places API Nearby Search Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 places | $0.40 | $0.286 | $0.375 | $0.429 | $0.48 |
| Completeness | 25% | 75% | 88% | 88% | 38% |
| Billing | pay as you go | yearly | pay as you go | monthly | pay as you go |
| Pay | monthly | $3,575 | at a threshold | $643 | monthly |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 250,000 pages a year | as many as you pay for | 30,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | 1 day | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with an ArcGIS Location Platform account and a credit card on file (accounts are individual-use) | anyone with a Yandex ID | anyone with a Foursquare developer account | anyone with a Yelp user account and a business email | anyone with a Cloud Billing account |
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.
- developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/
- developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/get-started/
- developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/near-point-get/
- developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/service-data/
- developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/types/
- developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/within-extent-get/
- location.arcgis.com/help/account-management/
- location.arcgis.com/help/billing
- location.arcgis.com/help/licensing-and-attribution/
- location.arcgis.com/pricing
- esri.com/en-us/legal/terms/data-attributions
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Address, not in the answer
- 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 20 |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 200 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Bounding box search |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | The ArcGIS Places service is a location service hosted by Esri that can search for businesses and geographic locations around the world. It can find, locate, and discover detailed information about each place. There are many categories to choose from to use as search filters. |
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| Keep data | You cannot permanently store places. |
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| Use data | You can deploy commercial and revenue-generating applications with ArcGIS Location Platform. To remain compliant: Use access tokens generated from your ArcGIS Location Platform subscription for all ArcGIS location service requests. Follow the ArcGIS Location Platform agreement. Ensure all service calls are authenticated. [...] Attribution is required when your app uses Esri basemaps, data, or services. This includes: Keeping required "Powered by Esri" attribution. Displaying data source attribution when required. You cannot remove required Esri attribution while continuing to use Esri resources. [...] ArcGIS Location Platform accounts are individual-use accounts and should not be shared. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 500 requests a month |
| Enough for | 500 pages a month |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | x, y. Optional: radius, categoryIds, searchText, pageSize, icon, offset |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /places/near-point |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a free ArcGIS Location Platform account (accounts are individual-use) |
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold
place ID, name, categories, latitude, longitude, distance, icon URL, next page URL, previous page URL