# Bolt Scraper, free, POST /api/v1/maps/search: Local business search API

> Programmatic API for Google Maps lead extraction. Query synchronously for instant search responses (~2-4s) or launch distributed cloud batch jobs with residential proxy rotation, website email crawl, mobile phone detection, and webhooks.

Bolt Scraper'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. Bolt Scraper's docs list all 8: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from Bolt Scraper scores 47.3 out of 100. Bolt Scraper ranks 5th of 63 providers.
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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) [mitbbs.ai's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.
[IBLead's $53 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/53-monthly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt) 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](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.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.
[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 [SphereScout](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-get-api-companies/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-search
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://boltscraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://boltscraper.com/api/v1/maps/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://boltscraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.boltscraper.com/?topic=maps-search&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Bolt Scraper (https://boltscraper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Create Scrape Job · Real-time Reviews Search · Create Reviews Job · Real-time Website Scrape · Create Website Job

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Programmatic API for Google Maps lead extraction. Query synchronously for instant search responses (~2-4s) or launch distributed cloud batch jobs with residential proxy rotation, website email crawl, mobile phone detection, and webhooks.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 results a month
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.21 s

## The call

- You send: keyword, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: page, hl
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/maps/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 53 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, status, search parameters, page number, results returned, total results, has more, keyword, name, address, street, neighborhood, city, postal code, municipality, state, country, phone, international phone, phone standard format, phone URI, phone line type, is mobile phone, phone country, website, clean website URL, domain, category, second category, categories, category IDs, claimed, rating, reviews URL, business status, open now, opening hours text, opening hours, latitude, longitude, coordinates, timezone, place ID, Google Maps URL, CID, Knowledge Graph machine ID, feature ID, Knowledge Graph URL, logo, main photo URL, photos URL, favicon URL, review count

## Bolt Scraper's plans (5)

- [Bolt Scraper, free, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/19-monthly-basic-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.38 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $49 monthly, Pro, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/49-monthly-pro-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.245 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $99 monthly, Business, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/99-monthly-business-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.165 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $199 monthly, Advanced, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/199-monthly-advanced-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Bolt Scraper's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /api/v1/maps/jobs`: [Bolt Scraper, free, POST /api/v1/maps/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-jobs/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/maps/search`: [Bolt Scraper, free, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt)

## Bolt Scraper's APIs (2)

- [Bolt Scraper Local business reviews API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/free/llms.txt)
- [Bolt Scraper Local business search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt)

## Bolt Scraper: local business search API alternatives

[Bolt Scraper alternatives: every local business search API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/bolt-scraper-alternatives.txt)

We list Bolt Scraper's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Bolt Scraper in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Bolt Scraper, $199 monthly, Advanced, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/199-monthly-advanced-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Local SEO Data, $19 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/serp/local-pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/local-seo-data/19-monthly-starter-post-v1-serp-local-pack/llms.txt): $0.127 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [GMapsScraper.io, $39 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/39-monthly-starter-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape/llms.txt): $0.13 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Roketfy, $269 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/roketfy/269-pack/llms.txt): $0.135 per 1,000, 25% complete, live
- [ScrapeIt, €449 monthly, Ultra, GET /api/v1/scrape/yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapeit/449-monthly-ultra-get-api-v1-scrape-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.135 per 1,000, 63% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://boltscraper.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/api/google-maps-scraper-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/api/google-maps-scraper-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.boltscraper.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing