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BirdSift Local business search API pricing

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38% complete: 3 of the 8 fields on our checklistSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesWe haven't run BirdSift through our local business search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 492 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.25 or less per 1,000 places. 269 local business search API plans on our price sheet are free. mitbbs.ai's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.IBLead's $53 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places, with no charge per call. You get as many places as IBLead's rate limit allows. Amazon Location Service's pay-as-you-go plan costs the least for 10,000 places a month: $0.05.Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.LocationIQ, HERE and SphereScout are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest BirdSift plan for that many places. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of BirdSift's 4 plans
Call: POST /v1/searches BirdSift's only call
API: Local business search API BirdSift's only API

About this item

  • Live. BirdSift searches the map when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Address, Website, Category.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10 credits, enough for 10 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/searches. You send queries[].location, queries[].category and max_results. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the businesses there.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

BirdSift: local business search API alternatives

BirdSift alternatives: other local business search API providers by price

The table starts with BirdSift's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to BirdSift's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

BirdSift, $199 packTechForce Agents, pay as you goBestTime, $96 monthly, Pro Venues, 50 venues, POST /api/v1/venues/searchNoseForLeads, $199 packOutreachPilot, $3,984 yearly
$ per 1,000 places$99.50$50.00$96.00$99.50$110.667
Completeness38%63%38%0%50%
Billingpay firstpay as you gomonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$199per call$96$199$3,984
Enough for2,000 resultsas many as you pay for50 pages a month2,000 results3,000 results a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API keya human (accounts registered by "bots" or other automated methods are not permitted), with a legal full name and a valid email address for a paid subscriptionanyone who signs upbusinesses only: entrepreneurs and professional B2B users, not consumers

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. birdsift.com
  2. birdsift.com/developers
  3. birdsift.com/docs/api
  4. birdsift.com/docs/api.md
  5. birdsift.com/openapi.json
  6. birdsift.com/pricing
  7. birdsift.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Address
  • Phone, not in the answer
  • Website
  • Category
  • Coordinates, not in the answer
  • Rating, not in the answer
  • Review count, not in the answer
  • Opening hours, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freeno limit
Most per search25
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Draft outreach email for a saved lead
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchDescribe a trade and a city. BirdSift searches Google Places and flags businesses with no real website, or one that needs a redo.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use of, the Service by anyone else. You will not scrape, resell, or redistribute data obtained through the Service in bulk, attempt to bypass credit limits, reverse-engineer the Service, or use it in a manner that violates Google's Places Platform Terms of Service or any other third-party provider terms we rely on. [...] You are responsible for complying with applicable laws (including anti-spam and data protection laws) when contacting businesses using leads found through the Service.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10 credits
Enough for10 results
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendqueries[].location, queries[].category, max_results, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: filters.min_rating, filters.no_website, filters.not_mobile_friendly, filters.outdated_website, filters.stale_content
MethodPOST
Path/v1/searches
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, lead ID, name, category, address, website, email, outreach status, added at, has website, mobile friendly, outdated website, credits used, has more

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