# ArcGIS, free, GET /places/near-point: Local business search API

> 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.

ArcGIS's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 2 of the 8 key fields we check: 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/arcgis/free-get-places-near-point
- Get it: https://location.arcgis.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://places-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/places-service/v1/places/near-point`
- API key: with the plan, on https://location.arcgis.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/near-point-get/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ArcGIS (https://location.arcgis.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Bounding box search

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Keep data: You cannot permanently store places.
- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 pages a month

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: x, y. Optional: radius, categoryIds, searchText, pageSize, icon, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /places/near-point

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- 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

## ArcGIS's plans (2)

- [ArcGIS, free, GET /places/near-point](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/arcgis/free-get-places-near-point/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [ArcGIS, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, GET /places/near-point](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/arcgis/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-get-places-near-point/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 25% complete

## ArcGIS's calls (2)

- `GET /places/within-extent`: [ArcGIS, free, GET /places/within-extent](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/arcgis/free-get-places-within-extent/llms.txt)
- `GET /places/near-point`: [ArcGIS, free, GET /places/near-point](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/arcgis/free-get-places-near-point/llms.txt)

## ArcGIS's APIs (1)

- [ArcGIS: Local business search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /places/near-point](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/arcgis/free-get-places-near-point/llms.txt)

## ArcGIS: Local business search API alternatives

- [Yandex Maps API, $3,575 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yandex-maps-api/3575-yearly/llms.txt): $0.286 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [Foursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-100000-calls/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 88% complete
- [Yelp, $643 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/643-monthly/llms.txt): $0.429 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 monthly events, POST /v1/places:searchNearby, Places API Nearby Search Pro](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-1000001-5000000-monthly-events-post-v1-places-searchnearby-places-api-nearby-search-pro/llms.txt): $0.48 per 1,000, 38% 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://developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/get-started/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/near-point-get/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/service-data/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/types/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/places/within-extent-get/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://location.arcgis.com/help/account-management/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://location.arcgis.com/help/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://location.arcgis.com/help/licensing-and-attribution/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://location.arcgis.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.esri.com/en-us/legal/terms/data-attributions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing