# DataBlue, free: Local business search API

> Search Google Maps for businesses, places, and points of interest, or look up one place by place_id, CID, or data reference.

DataBlue's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. DataBlue's docs list all 8 fields on our checklist: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run DataBlue through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 264 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.40 per 1,000 places or less. [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.
[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), [CityBotMagic](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/citybotmagic/free-preview-get-api-v1-search-json/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/datablue/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.datablue.dev/v1/data/google/maps`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.datablue.dev/google-maps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: DataBlue (https://www.datablue.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 43 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Maps for businesses, places, and points of interest, or look up one place by place_id, CID, or data reference.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Services to: Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, and data-protection laws, Collect, store, or process personal data in a manner that violates applicable law or the rights of data subjects, Send spam, malware, or unsolicited communications, or facilitate fraud, phishing, or deceptive practices, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our systems, or probe, scan, or test their vulnerability without authorization, Resell, sublicense, or expose the raw Services as a competing API without our written permission, Exceed rate limits, circumvent usage metering, or place an unreasonable load on the infrastructure, or Use the Services to build profiles for unlawful surveillance, discrimination, or harassment. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your specific use of the data you obtain through the Services complies with the laws, regulations, and terms that apply to you and to the sources you target.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 47 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of query, coordinates, place_id, cid or data, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: radius, zoom, type, keyword, min_rating, open_now, price_level, sort_by, num_results, language, country
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/data/google/maps

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, query, search type, total results, time taken, result position, name, place ID, feature ID, CID, address, latitude, longitude, Google Maps URL, website, phone, rating, review count, price range, price level, category, types, open state, open now, opening hours, description, main photo URL

## DataBlue's plans (12)

- [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $1.522 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $0.688 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.608 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.546 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/699-monthly/llms.txt): $0.506 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $319 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/319-yearly/llms.txt): $1.396 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $649 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/649-yearly/llms.txt): $0.631 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $1,639 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/1639-yearly/llms.txt): $0.557 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $3,289 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/3289-yearly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $7,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/7689-yearly/llms.txt): $0.464 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [DataBlue, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/data/google/maps`: [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)

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## DataBlue: Local business search API alternatives

- [Yelp, $643 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/643-monthly/llms.txt): $0.429 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [GeoGridAPI, €60 pack, Growth, POST /v1/grids](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geogridapi/60-pack-growth-post-v1-grids/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 25% complete, live
- [Hubertino, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hubertino/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.472 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Google Maps Lead Finder, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-lead-finder/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.495 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 2026-11-07.

- https://docs.datablue.dev/google-maps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datablue.dev/plans-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datablue.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing