# BestTime, free test, POST /api/v1/venues/search: Local business search API

> Find and add venues worldwide with natural-language queries like “McDonald’s in Manhattan” or “Brunch places in Paris”.

BestTime's Local business search API on its Free test plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. BestTime's docs list 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Coordinates, Opening hours.
We haven't run BestTime through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 239 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.365 per 1,000 places or less.
[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.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt) and [TomTom](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/free-test-post-api-v1-venues-search
- [Local business search API: the 19 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://besttime.app/subscription/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://besttime.app/api/v1/venues/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://besttime.app/subscription/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://documentation.besttime.app/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#venue-search
- Sold by: BestTime (https://besttime.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 60
- Also pays for: from the same budget: New foot-traffic forecast · Live foot-traffic data · Query week · Query week raw · Query weekoverview · Query day · Query day raw · Query hour · Query hour raw · Query now · Query now raw · Query peak hours · Query busy hours · Query quiet hours · Query surge hours · Query filtered venues (Radar) · Query all venues · Venues Update

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find and add venues worldwide with natural-language queries like “McDonald’s in Manhattan” or “Brunch places in Paris”.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You are permitted to use data retrieved from the Service's API within your commercial applications, products, or services where the data is presented to end-users as part of a functional user interface (a "Derivative Work"). However, you are expressly prohibited from redistributing, reselling, sublicensing, or otherwise making the raw or analyzed data from the Service available for profit as a standalone product or on a data marketplace. [...] If your use case involves the redistribution or resale of our data, you must obtain prior written permission from the Company. [...] You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service without the express written permission of the Company.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.083
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: num, format, opened, collection_id, lat, lng, radius, live
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/venues/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free test
- Who can get it: a human (accounts registered by "bots" or other automated methods are not permitted)

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, latitude, longitude, venue ID, hourly foot traffic, peak foot traffic, average foot traffic, day rank, opening hours, total results, bounding box

## BestTime's plans (14)

- [BestTime, free test, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/free-test-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $29 monthly, Basic Usage, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/29-monthly-basic-usage-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $66 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/66-monthly/llms.txt): $33.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [BestTime, $96 monthly, Pro Venues, 50 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/96-monthly-pro-venues-50-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $96.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $119 monthly, Pro Venues, 100 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/119-monthly-pro-venues-100-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $59.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $149 monthly, Pro Venues, 500 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/149-monthly-pro-venues-500-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $14.90 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $249 monthly, Pro Venues, 1,000 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/249-monthly-pro-venues-1000-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $12.45 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $399 monthly, Pro Venues, 5,000 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/399-monthly-pro-venues-5000-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $9.975 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $999 monthly, Pro Venues, 20,000 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/999-monthly-pro-venues-20000-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $9.99 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $2,999 monthly, Pro Venues, 100,000 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/2999-monthly-pro-venues-100000-venues-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $14.995 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $99 monthly, Pro Usage, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/99-monthly-pro-usage-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $2.25 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $0 monthly, Pro Usage, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/0-monthly-pro-usage-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, $540 monthly, Pro Usage, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/540-monthly-pro-usage-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [BestTime, contact us, Enterprise, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/contact-us-enterprise-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): 38% complete, live

## BestTime's calls (2)

- `GET /api/v1/venues/filter`: [BestTime, free test, GET /api/v1/venues/filter](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/free-test-get-api-v1-venues-filter/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/venues/search`: [BestTime, free test, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/free-test-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt)

## BestTime's APIs (1)

- [BestTime: Local business search API pricing, 14 plans, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/free-test-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt)

## BestTime: Local business search API alternatives

- [FastAF, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fastaf/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [GeoGridAPI, €400 pack, Enterprise, POST /v1/grids](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geogridapi/400-pack-enterprise-post-v1-grids/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 25% complete, live
- [G Maps Extractor, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-extractor/799-monthly/llms.txt): $0.266 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Hubertino, $69 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hubertino/69-monthly/llms.txt): $0.276 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://besttime.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://besttime.app/subscription/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://besttime.app/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://documentation.besttime.app/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing