# Brave Search API, free: Local business search API

> Find geographic places — businesses, landmarks, and points of interest — from our index of over 200 million locations worldwide

Brave Search API's Search (free monthly credits) plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Brave Search API's docs list 2: Address, Category.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from Brave Search API scores 35.7 out of 100. Brave Search API ranks 28th of 48 providers.
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/brave-search-api/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/local/place_search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/place_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Brave Search API (https://brave.com/search/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Address: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Web search · LLM Context · News search · Video search · Image search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find geographic places — businesses, landmarks, and points of interest — from our index of over 200 million locations worldwide

## Data

- Keep data: nothing stored, cached or put in a database, in whole or in part, but the transient storage an application needs, storing results needs a plan that includes storage rights, asked of searchapi-support@brave.com, nothing kept after the agreement ends
- Use data: "a limited, worldwide, revocable (as provided in this Agreement), non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-assignable, non-sublicensable license during the Term to (i) use the API and Documentation solely to develop, test, and integrate the API with, the Customer Applications, (ii) use the Search Results with the Customer Applications, and (iii) use and display the Provider’s Marks solely as provided herein." [...] "Customer shall not use the API, Search Results, Documentation or Provider’s Marks for any purposes beyond the scope of the license granted in this Agreement and the restrictions in this Section. Customer shall not and shall not permit End Users or others to: (i) store, cache, or create a database of Search Results, in whole or in part, other than transient storage required for operation of Customer Applications or related software, service or systems, (ii) create derivative works of the API, Documentation or Search Results, (iii) rent, lease, lend, sell, distribute, publish, sublicense, assign, transfer, or otherwise make available the API or Documentation to any third party, in whole or in part, (iv) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to any software component of, the API, in whole or in part, (v) circumvent or bypass rate limits or service limits through any method, including by creating multiple accounts, (vi) remove any proprietary notices from the API or Documentation, (vii) use the API or Search Results in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable law, rule or regulation, (viii) use the API or Documentation in any manner that harms the Provider, including without limitation, Provider’s products, services, systems, infrastructure, brand, or goodwill, (ix) combine or integrate the API with any software, services, systems, technology or materials not authorized by Provider, other than Customer Applications, (x) use the API in Customer Applications to replicate or attempt to replace the functionality of the API, or circumvent use of the API, (xi) attempt to obfuscate or conceal Customer’s identity or the identity of the Customer Applications when requesting authorization to use the API, (xii) redistribute, resell, or sublicense the Search Results, (xiii) use the Search Results to create, evaluate, train, re-train, fine-tune, benchmark or otherwise improve artificial intelligence models or services offered by Customer or third parties, (xiv) upon expiration or termination of this Agreement, continue any further use of the API or Documentation or retain Documentation or Search Results in Customer’s possession and control, or (xv) use the API in connection with any spyware, adware, or other malicious programs or code, counterfeit goods, items subject to US embargo, unsolicited mass distribution of email, multi-level marketing, hate materials, hacking, surveillance, interception, or descrambling equipment, libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, or otherwise offensive content, stolen products, and items used for theft, hazardous material, or any illegal activities." [...] "Customer hereby grants Provider a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable through multiple levels, royalty-free and fully paid, license during the Term to use Search Query Data for purposes of use with the API, providing the Search Results, and otherwise performing hereunder."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5 a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month
- Expires: month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.52 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: q, latitude, longitude, location, radius, count, country, search_lang, ui_lang, units, safesearch, spellcheck, geoloc, api-version, cache-control, user-agent
- Method: GET
- Path: /res/v1/local/place_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Search (free monthly credits)
- Who can get it: anyone with a credit card: it is checked with a $0 or $1 hold, refunded, and the prepay amount can be left at $0

## The 62 fields the plan's answer can hold

response type, original query, altered query, spellcheck off, strict safesearch warning, place type, place ID, place name, place URL, place provider URL, place description, place language, place family friendly, place source is local, place source is local and global, place page age, place page fetched date, place content fetched timestamp, place source profile, place coordinates, place zoom level, place thumbnail, place thumbnail original, place address, place street address, place city, place region, place postal code, place country, place address type, place opening hours today, place opening hours by day, place email, place phone, place price range, place rating, place best rating, place review count, place rating source, place rating from Tripadvisor, place distance, place distance units, place external profiles, place reviews, place pictures, place action, place cuisines, place categories, place icon category, place timezone, place timezone offset, place web mentions, city results, country results, region results, neighborhood results, address results, street results, result ordering, search center coordinates, search center name, search center country

## Brave Search API's plans (3)

- [Brave Search API, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Brave Search API, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brave-search-api/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Brave Search API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brave-search-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 25% complete

## Brave Search API's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /res/v1/local/place_search`: [Brave Search API, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)

## Brave Search API's APIs (6)

- [Brave Search API: image search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: local business search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: search autocomplete API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: video search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: web search API pricing, 3 plans, GET /res/v1/llm/context](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free-search-free-monthly-credits-get-res-v1-llm-context/llms.txt)
- [Brave Search API: web search API pricing, 3 plans, GET /res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/brave-search-api/free/llms.txt)

## Brave Search API: local business search API alternatives

- [Azure Maps, pay as you go, Gen2 <500K, GET /search/poi/category/{format}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/azure-maps/pay-as-you-go-gen2-500k-get-search-poi-category-format/llms.txt): $0.045 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Amap, CNY 50,000 yearly, Technical service licence, Basic, GET /v5/place/polygon](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amap/cny-50000-yearly-get-v5-place-polygon/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [ScrapeIt, €449 monthly, Ultra, GET /api/v1/scrape/google/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapeit/449-monthly-ultra-get-api-v1-scrape-google-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.051 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 2026-11-10.

- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/place_search/index.html.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/api-reference/web/search/get?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/guides/rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/help-feedback?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/resources/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/place-search/index.html.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://brave.com/search/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing