# ByCrawl, $9 monthly: Local business search API

> Search Google Maps for places matching a query.

ByCrawl's Local business search API on its Lite plan. It returns 5 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating.
We haven't run ByCrawl through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan costs $9 a month. We rank 129 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.096 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), [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) 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/bycrawl/9-monthly
- [Local business search API: 16 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.bycrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.bycrawl.com/gmaps/places/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.bycrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/gmaps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#get-gmapsplacessearch--2-credits
- Sold by: ByCrawl (https://bycrawl.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓

## Price

- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $9

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 90 other calls

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Maps for places matching a query.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree that you will: Comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including data protection, privacy, and intellectual property laws in your jurisdiction and the jurisdictions of the people whose data you process, Honor the terms of service of any third-party platform whose data you access through the Service, [...] All materials on the ByCrawl website and dashboard — including [...] the structure of API responses — are owned by or licensed to Signalsurf, Inc. [...] You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, publicly display, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any portion of the website or its materials without our prior written permission. [...] You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right, Collect, store, or process personal data in violation of applicable privacy laws, Harass, defame, dox, stalk, or harm any individual or group, Build profiles for unlawful discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics, Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or otherwise derive the source code of the Service, Circumvent rate limits, credit limits, billing controls, or access restrictions, Resell, sublicense, or redistribute raw API responses as a substitute for the Service, Use the Service to develop a competing product or service, Introduce malicious code, perform denial-of-service attacks, or otherwise interfere with the integrity or performance of the Service

## Plan

- Pay: $9
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: language
- Method: GET
- Path: /gmaps/places/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Lite
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, category, address, website, rating, description, latitude, longitude, place ID, photo count, total results

## ByCrawl's plans (4)

- [ByCrawl, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [ByCrawl, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bycrawl/29-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [ByCrawl, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bycrawl/79-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [ByCrawl, $159 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bycrawl/159-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete

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

- `GET /gmaps/places/search`: [ByCrawl, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)

## ByCrawl's APIs (33)

- [ByCrawl: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, GET /web/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly-lite-get-web-search/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, GET /google/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly-lite-get-google-search/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Facebook Marketplace listing API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-listing-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Facebook Marketplace search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-marketplace-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Facebook page API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Facebook post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Local business search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: news API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Google Shopping search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Hacker News comment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Instagram post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Instagram profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: company open jobs API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Reddit post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Reddit profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Threads post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-post-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Threads profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/threads-profile-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: TikTok profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: TikTok video API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: Trustpilot review API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/trustpilot-review-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: X post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: X profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: video search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: YouTube channel API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 4 plans, GET /linkedin/companies/{companyId}/employees](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly-lite-get-linkedin-companies-companyid-employees/llms.txt)
- [ByCrawl: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 4 plans, GET /linkedin/users/search](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/bycrawl/9-monthly-lite-get-linkedin-users-search/llms.txt)

## ByCrawl: Local business search API alternatives

- [Factori, $300 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/poi/by-address](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/300-monthly-starter-post-v1-poi-by-address/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored
- [Local Falcon, $199 monthly, On-Demand API, POST /v1/search/](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/local-falcon/199-monthly-on-demand-api-post-v1-search/llms.txt): 63% complete, live
- [MapQuest, $119 monthly, Basic, GET /search/v2/radius](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapquest/119-monthly-basic-get-search-v2-radius/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Scrapeak, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapeak/99-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Zenserp, $49.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/zenserp/49-99-monthly/llms.txt): 0% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/gmaps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/linkedin?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/error-codes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/en/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.bycrawl.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing