# BusinessMCP, top-up from $10: Local business search API

> Find local businesses by category (dentist, plumber, law firm, restaurant …) in a city, region or country, from the place-listing half of our store (Overture, OpenStreetMap, Google Maps crawls): name, website domain, phone, address, city and category.

BusinessMCP's Prepaid balance plan for the local business search API costs $15.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. BusinessMCP's docs list 3: Address, Phone, Category.
We haven't run BusinessMCP through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 501 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.245 or less per 1,000 places. This plan costs less per 1,000 places than 6% of the 501 plans. BusinessMCP has no free local business search API plan. [272 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/businessmcp/top-up-from-10
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://businessmcp.com/data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://businessmcp.com/api/hub/v1/companies/local`
- API key: with the plan, on https://businessmcp.com/data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://businessmcp.com/api/hub/v1/tools/local_business_lookup.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: BusinessMCP (https://businessmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-12

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $15.00
- Per: result
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 42 other BusinessMCP calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find local businesses by category (dentist, plumber, law firm, restaurant …) in a city, region or country, from the place-listing half of our store (Overture, OpenStreetMap, Google Maps crawls): name, website domain, phone, address, city and category.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not copy, scrape or resell the data you receive as a dataset or a service that competes with ours. Using results inside your own product and workflows is what the Hub is for. Do not use any result to discriminate unlawfully against anyone, or to decide anyone’s eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or any other purpose covered by the US Fair Credit Reporting Act. Do not contact, or keep contacting, anyone who has opted out, with us or with you. Do not probe, overload or try to get around rate limits, caps, key scopes or the controls on any tool, and keep your keys secret. [...] Use people records only for the purpose you declared, and only for a legitimate business-to-business purpose.

## Plan

- Pay: $10
- You get: $10
- Enough for: about 666 results
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: category. Optional: city, region, country, has_phone, limit, exclude_domains
- Method: POST
- Path: /companies/local

## About the plan

- Plan: Prepaid balance
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

domain, name, phone, address, city, category, source, returned

## BusinessMCP's plans (1)

- [BusinessMCP, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $15.00 per 1,000, 38% complete

## BusinessMCP's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /companies/local`: [BusinessMCP, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)

## BusinessMCP's APIs (13)

- [BusinessMCP Company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/businessmcp/free/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/businessmcp/free/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Company funding API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-funding-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Similar companies API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Phone finder API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP People enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/email-finder](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-email-finder/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Email finder API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/linkedin-to-email](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-linkedin-to-email/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Reverse email lookup API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/email-to-linkedin](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-email-to-linkedin/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP Reverse email lookup API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/reverse-email](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-reverse-email/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, GET /ip/{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-get-ip-ip/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, POST /tools/fp.ip.lookup/call](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-tools-fp-ip-lookup-call/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP People search API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/org-chart](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-org-chart/llms.txt)
- [BusinessMCP People search API pricing, 1 plan, POST /people/search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/businessmcp/top-up-from-10-prepaid-balance-post-people-search/llms.txt)

## BusinessMCP: local business search API alternatives

[BusinessMCP alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/businessmcp-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

- [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
- [PreyReach, $29 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/preyreach/29-pack/llms.txt): $14.50 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Lead Radar, €39.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lead-radar/39-90-pack/llms.txt): $14.966 per 1,000, 63% 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

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-12.

- https://businessmcp.com/api/hub/v1/tools/local_business_lookup.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://businessmcp.com/data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://businessmcp.com/docs/hub?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://businessmcp.com/terms/hub?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing