# Bacotto, free: Local business search API

> bacotto is a B2B sales-list tool for Japan with both a REST API and an authenticated MCP server. AI assistants and agents can generate contact-rich sales lists programmatically — address, phone, email, website, Instagram, LINE and Google Maps URL.

Bacotto'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. Bacotto's docs list 4: Address, Phone, Rating, Review count.
We haven't run Bacotto through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 374 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.45 or less per 1,000 places. [See the best free local business search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
[SerpData's $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpdata/200-pack-growth-post-google-maps-search-places/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.0004. SerpData charges for each page of results. We count 200 places on each page to get the $0.0004 price. [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.
[LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/leadswift/24-99-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places. LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpData's $200 pack.
[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 [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bacotto.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://bacotto.com/api/v1/lists`
- API key: with the plan, on https://bacotto.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://bacotto.com/blog/eigyo-list-api-mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Bacotto (https://bacotto.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: the same calendar month
- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: bacotto is a B2B sales-list tool for Japan with both a REST API and an authenticated MCP server. AI assistants and agents can generate contact-rich sales lists programmatically — address, phone, email, website, Instagram, LINE and Google Maps URL.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 利用者は当サービスの利用にあたり、以下の行為を行ってはなりません。 法令または公序良俗に違反する行為 [...] 取得した情報を用いた特定電子メール法・個人情報保護法その他の関連法令に違反するメール送信 (オプトイン未取得の大量配信、配信停止導線の不備、虚偽の送信者表示等) [...] 取得したコンテンツの第三者への転売・再販・有償譲渡 [...] 利用者は、当サービスを通じて取得した情報の利用にあたり、特定電子メール法、個人情報保護法、特定商取引法、不正競争防止法その他のすべての関連法令を遵守する責任を負います。

## Plan

- Pay: ¥0
- You get: 20 results a month
- Enough for: 20 results a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: industry, area. Optional: limit, order "small"
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/lists

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone: a person or a company that accepts the terms (under 18 with a guardian's consent)

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, phone, rating, review count, query, results returned

## Bacotto's plans (6)

- [Bacotto, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Bacotto, ¥2,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/2000-pack/llms.txt): $25.313 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Bacotto, ¥1,980 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/1980-monthly/llms.txt): $20.883 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Bacotto, ¥9,800 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/9800-monthly/llms.txt): $17.719 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Bacotto, ¥29,800 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/29800-monthly/llms.txt): $15.715 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Bacotto, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/contact-us/llms.txt): $12.631 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored

## Bacotto's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v1/lists`: [Bacotto, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/free/llms.txt)

## Bacotto's APIs (1)

- [Bacotto: local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bacotto/free/llms.txt)

## Bacotto: local business search API alternatives

- [Local Leads API, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/v1/prospects](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/local-leads-api/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-v1-prospects/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [BestTime, $99 monthly, Pro Usage, GET /api/v1/venues/filter](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/99-monthly-pro-usage-get-api-v1-venues-filter/llms.txt): $9.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [PreyReach, $400 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/preyreach/400-pack/llms.txt): $12.50 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $1,717.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/1717-20-yearly/llms.txt): $14.31 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored

## 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://bacotto.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://bacotto.com/blog/eigyo-list-api-mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://bacotto.com/en/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://bacotto.com/legal/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://bacotto.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://bacotto.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://bacotto.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing