# Azure Maps, free, Gen2 Free, GET /search/nearby/{format}: Local business search API

> Use to search for points of interest near a specific location. The Get Search Nearby API is an HTTP GET request most useful for retrieving POI results around a specific location. This endpoint will only return POI results, and does not take in a search query parameter.

Azure Maps's Local business search API on its Gen2 Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 5 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, 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/azure-maps/free-gen2-free-get-search-nearby-format
- Get it: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-maps/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://atlas.microsoft.com/search/nearby/{format}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-maps/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/search/get-search-nearby?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Azure Maps (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-maps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 2,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get Search POI · Get Search POI Category · Batch Search · Geocode Autocomplete

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use to search for points of interest near a specific location. The Get Search Nearby API is an HTTP GET request most useful for retrieving POI results around a specific location. This endpoint will only return POI results, and does not take in a search query parameter.

## Data

- Keep data: the validity period indicated in returned headers or 6 months, whichever is shorter
- Use data: Customer may not use Azure Maps, or any part thereof (1) to enable turn-by-turn navigation functionality in any Customer Solution or use within an automatic or autonomous vehicle control, or (2) with a vehicle’s dashboard, or a device connected to a vehicles dashboard, systems, or sensors, except that the device may be connected to the vehicle power source for charging purposes. Customer may not use Azure Maps or any part thereof to create a competing database or service, or a derived database populated wholly or partially with Customer’s content and/or content supplied or created by any third party. Customer will not use the content delivered by the Azure Maps in combination with any other third-party database, except that Customer may layer onto the content a type of content not already included within Azure Maps (such as Customer's proprietary content) or which Microsoft separately licenses to Customer. When using content licensed under or subject to an open-source license, Customer may not combine the use of Azure Maps, or any part thereof, in a way that potentially compromises copyright protection. Customer will not modify or create a derivative work based on Azure Maps, or any part thereof, unless expressly permitted to do so under these terms. Microsoft may, in its sole discretion, limit the rate at which Azure Maps, or any portion thereof, may be called. Customer may not cache or store results delivered by the Azure Maps API for the purpose of scaling such Results (as defined below) to serve multiple users, or to circumvent any functionality in Azure Maps, including but not limited to (i) map data tiles, or (ii) information on the calculation of a path between two (2) or more points (“Route”) information (collectively the “Results”). Caching and storing Results and locations (latitude and longitude pair) or addresses that have been returned from a call to Azure Maps (“Geocode”/ ”Reverse Geocode”) are permitted where the purpose of caching is to reduce latency times of the Customer Solution. Results may not be stored for longer than: (i) the validity period indicated in returned headers, or (ii) 6 months, whichever is shorter. However, Customer may store Geocodes as long as Customer maintains an active Azure account. Customer may not display any Results, and/or Azure Maps Weather service results, solely as described in these Terms, on any third-party content or geographical map database. Use of content displaying the TomTom copyright notice must be in accordance with restrictions set forth in the TomTom Licensing Third Party Product Terms and EULA (https://tomtom.com/product-attributions/). Azure Maps may include content that is subject to the Open Data Commons Open Database License ("ODbL"), available at https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ or a successor site. Customer’s use of such content is subject to the terms of the ODbL, including the License and Community Guidelines available at https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines, as well as these terms. [...] Customers may not remove, obscure, mask or change any logo and/or copyright notice placed on or automatically generated by Azure Maps. Customer must display in a conspicuous manner within Customer Solution any Microsoft or third-party attribution provided by Microsoft. In addition, customers using the Azure Maps Render services must use the "Get Map Attribution” API to obtain the copyright attribution text and display it in their Customer Solution.

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 500

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: lat, lon, format, api-version "1.0". Optional: limit, ofs, categorySet, countrySet, radius, language, extendedPostalCodesFor, brandSet, connectorSet, view
- Method: GET
- Path: /search/nearby/{format}

## About the plan

- Plan: Gen2 Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an Azure Maps account

## The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, street number, street name, neighborhood, municipality subdivision, municipality, local name, county, tertiary subdivision, state, state name, ZIP code, extended ZIP code, country, country code, country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), latitude, longitude, viewport, entry points, distance, place ID, data source info, phone, website, brands, categories, category IDs, classification code, classification names, total results

## Azure Maps's plans (3)

- [Azure Maps, free, Gen2 Free, GET /search/nearby/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/free-gen2-free-get-search-nearby-format/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Azure Maps, pay as you go, Gen2 <500K, GET /search/nearby/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/pay-as-you-go-gen2-500k-get-search-nearby-format/llms.txt): $0.045 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Azure Maps, contact us, Gen2 500K+, GET /search/nearby/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/contact-us-gen2-500k-get-search-nearby-format/llms.txt): 63% complete

## Azure Maps's calls (3)

- `GET /search/nearby/{format}`: [Azure Maps, free, Gen2 Free, GET /search/nearby/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/free-gen2-free-get-search-nearby-format/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/poi/{format}`: [Azure Maps, free, Gen2 Free, GET /search/poi/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/free-gen2-free-get-search-poi-format/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/poi/category/{format}`: [Azure Maps, free, Gen2 Free, GET /search/poi/category/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/free-gen2-free-get-search-poi-category-format/llms.txt)

## Azure Maps's APIs (1)

- [Azure Maps: Local business search API pricing, 3 plans, GET /search/nearby/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/free-gen2-free-get-search-nearby-format/llms.txt)

## Azure Maps: Local business search API alternatives

- [Mapbox, pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 50,001 - 500,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/pay-as-you-go-introductory-preview-pricing-50001-500000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [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): $0.04 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Stadia Maps, $20 monthly, Starter, GET /geocoding/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/20-monthly-starter-get-geocoding-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Amap, CNY 50,000 yearly, 技术服务许可 基础版, GET /v5/place/around](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amap/cny-50000-yearly-get-v5-place-around/llms.txt): $0.05 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 2026-11-04.

- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-maps/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-maps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/azure-maps-qps-rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/understanding-azure-maps-transactions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/search/get-search-nearby?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName%20eq%20%27Azure%20Maps%27%20and%20armRegionName%20eq%20%27eastus%27&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftAzure/MCA?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing