# CSV2GEO, free, GET /places: Local business search API

> Search for places by name, type, or free-text query. Get rich results with business names, categories, addresses, and coordinates.

CSV2GEO'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. CSV2GEO's docs list 5: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from CSV2GEO scores 41.9 out of 100. CSV2GEO ranks 29th of 71 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 501 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.245 or less per 1,000 places. [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/csv2geo/free-get-places
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://csv2geo.com/pricing/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://csv2geo.com/api/v1/places`
- API key: with the plan, on https://csv2geo.com/pricing/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://csv2geo.com/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#tag/places/GET/places
- Sold by: CSV2GEO (https://csv2geo.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 56 other CSV2GEO calls

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search for places by name, type, or free-text query. Get rich results with business names, categories, addresses, and coordinates.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms 4: "Caching: You may cache geocoding results for your own use. However, you may not redistribute cached data or create a competing service using our data." Terms 8: "Customers who have paid for Services may use geocoding results for any lawful purpose. Results are provided for your use and may not be redistributed as a standalone data product." Terms 6: "You agree to use our Services only for lawful purposes. You may not: [...] Resell or redistribute our Services without authorization, Use the Services to build a competing product [...]"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 20 credits a day
- Enough for: 20 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: category, country, filter, limit, lang, include
- Method: GET
- Path: /places

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, name, latitude, longitude, category, categories, confidence, address, city, state, postal code, country, phone, website, brand, operating status, other names, elevation, version, timestamp, credits used, credits remaining

## CSV2GEO's plans (13)

- [CSV2GEO, free, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/free-get-places/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $54 monthly, API 10, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/54-monthly-api-10-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0036 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $104 monthly, API 25, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/104-monthly-api-25-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0028 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $174 monthly, API 50, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/174-monthly-api-50-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $294 monthly, API 100, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/294-monthly-api-100-get-places/llms.txt): $0.002 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $604 monthly, API 250, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/604-monthly-api-250-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0016 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $540 yearly, API 10 (yearly), GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/540-yearly-api-10-yearly-get-places/llms.txt): $0.003 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $1,040 yearly, API 25 (yearly), GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/1040-yearly-api-25-yearly-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0023 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $1,740 yearly, API 50 (yearly), GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/1740-yearly-api-50-yearly-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0019 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $2,940 yearly, API 100 (yearly), GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/2940-yearly-api-100-yearly-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0016 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $6,040 yearly, API 250 (yearly), GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/6040-yearly-api-250-yearly-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $10,260 yearly, Enterprise hosted, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/10260-yearly-enterprise-hosted-get-places/llms.txt): no limit, 63% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $24,995 yearly, On-Premise (Docker), GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/24995-yearly-on-premise-docker-get-places/llms.txt): no limit, 63% complete

## CSV2GEO's calls (2)

- `GET /places/nearby`: [CSV2GEO, free, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/free-get-places-nearby/llms.txt)
- `GET /places`: [CSV2GEO, free, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/free-get-places/llms.txt)

## CSV2GEO's APIs (1)

- [CSV2GEO Local business search API pricing, 13 plans, GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/free-get-places/llms.txt)

## CSV2GEO: local business search API alternatives

[CSV2GEO alternatives: every local business search API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/csv2geo-alternatives.txt)

We list CSV2GEO's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to CSV2GEO in price per 1,000 places.

- [CSV2GEO, $6,040 yearly, API 250 (yearly), GET /places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/6040-yearly-api-250-yearly-get-places/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Stadia Maps, $80 monthly, Standard, GET /geocoding/v2/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/80-monthly-standard-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.0011 per 1,000, 13% complete
- [LocationIQ, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [ThinAir, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days
- [Unmap, $19 monthly, indie, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/19-monthly-indie-get-places-nearby/llms.txt): $0.0015 per 1,000, 38% complete

## 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://csv2geo.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://csv2geo.com/api-collections/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://csv2geo.com/api/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://csv2geo.com/api/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://csv2geo.com/pricing/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://csv2geo.com/pricing/enterprise?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://csv2geo.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing