# Crawio, free: Local business search API

> Search Google Maps and get the places back as clean JSON: name, rating, reviews, category, address, phone, website, opening state, coordinates and attributes.

Crawio's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 7 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
We haven't run Crawio through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 140 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/149-pack/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/free
- [Local business search API: the 18 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crawio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.crawio.com/plugin/google/maps/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crawio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://crawio.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#google-maps
- Sold by: Crawio (https://crawio.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 88%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape · Google Maps Reviews · Google Shopping

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Maps and get the places back as clean JSON: name, rating, reviews, category, address, phone, website, opening state, coordinates and attributes.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You decide which websites the Service accesses and what you do with the data. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use, including target selection, collected data and downstream use, complies with applicable laws and regulations, the target websites' terms where they apply to you, and data-protection rules (GDPR, CCPA, and similar). [...] You must not use the Service to: access content that is not publicly available (e.g. behind other people's credentials or paywalls you are not authorized to use), collect personal data for spam, surveillance, stalking, or discrimination, or knowingly collect data about children, engage in fraud, credential stuffing, denial-of-service, or any unlawful activity, probe, attack, overload, or circumvent the Service's own security, quotas, or billing, resell raw access to the Service without our written agreement.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: ll, start, pages, session, hl, gl
- Method: GET
- Path: /plugin/google/maps/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, query displayed, next start, request ID, credits used, result position, name, place ID, latitude, longitude, rating, review count, category, address, phone, website, open state, attributes

## Crawio's plans (8)

- [Crawio, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Crawio, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.024 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Crawio, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Crawio, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.016 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Crawio, $313 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/313-yearly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Crawio, $1,069 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/1069-yearly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Crawio, $2,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/2689-yearly/llms.txt): $0.014 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Crawio, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/contact-us/llms.txt): 88% complete, live

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

- `GET /plugin/google/maps/search`: [Crawio, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)

## Crawio's APIs (4)

- [Crawio: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawio: Local business reviews API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawio: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawio: Google Shopping search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)

## Crawio: Local business search API alternatives

- [Semscraper, top-up from €10,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-10000/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [FastAF, $799 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fastaf/799-pack/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Yelp, $229 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/229-monthly/llms.txt): $0.153 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 75% 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://crawio.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://crawio.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://crawio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://crawio.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing