# Datafiniti, free: Local business search API

> Datafiniti Business Data gives your team a practical way to find, evaluate, and use detailed information about businesses across industries.

Datafiniti's Local business search API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Opening hours.
We haven't run a Local business search API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 89 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.04 per 1,000 places or less.
[Stadia Maps's $250 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.001. Stadia Maps charges for each page of results. We count 10 places on each page to get the $0.001 price.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/free
- Get it: https://www.datafiniti.co/data/business-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.datafiniti.co/v4/businesses/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.datafiniti.co/data/business-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.datafiniti.co/reference/businesses?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Datafiniti (https://www.datafiniti.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Datafiniti Business Data gives your team a practical way to find, evaluate, and use detailed information about businesses across industries.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: until the agreement ends: "Upon any expiration or termination of this Agreement [...] you shall immediately delete all Datafiniti Data from your systems and certify as to the same to reasonable satisfaction of Datafiniti."
- Use data: [...] you may reproduce, distribute, modify, and manipulate or build upon Datafiniti Data, subject to all conditions and disclaimers in these Terms of Use. In some cases, the use of certain Datafiniti Data may be subject to a additional conditions, (e.g., third-party licenses), it is your responsibility to honor such agreements [...] 3. Prohibited Uses By using the Site or Services, you agree to not: Resell, redistribute or sublicensing Datafiniti Data without any significant modifications or without any separate agreement with Datafiniti. Take any action that interferes or may interfere, based on our sole discretion, with operations of the Site or Services. Place an unreasonable load on Datafiniti infrastructure. Circumvent security features used to prevent or restrict access to or use the Site or Services. Create user accounts by automated means. Impersonate any person or entity. Use the Site or Services for any illegal purpose. Decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any part of the Service. Publicly display images available through accessing image URLs within Datafiniti’s property data. [...] 7. API Usage [...] Datafiniti may at its sole discretion restrict and limit access to API calls. You agree to abide by these limitations. You agree not to use methods (such as using multiple IP addresses) to get around these limitations.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 results
- Expires: 2 weeks

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: num_records, format, sort, view, view[].name, view[].alias, view[].flatten, download, auto_trace, fuzzy_match, only_traceable
- Method: POST
- Path: /businesses/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: legal entities capable of entering contracts, and individuals who are either 18 years old or have legal parental or guardian consent (terms of use, "1. Acceptance of Terms")

## The 51 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, city, state, ZIP code, country, latitude, longitude, geolocation, neighborhood, phone, email, fax, website, domain, Facebook URL, Twitter handle, category, primary category, SIC code, year incorporated, year opened, opening hours, closed, languages spoken, payment type, products or services, employee count minimum, employee count maximum, revenue minimum, revenue maximum, revenue currency, people, description, feature, key, date added, date updated, number of rooms, room, cuisines, menu page URL, menu, price range minimum, price range maximum, price range currency, review, claimed, image URL, source URL, total results

## Datafiniti's plans (10)

- [Datafiniti, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/59-monthly/llms.txt): $59.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $159 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/159-monthly/llms.txt): $15.90 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/499-monthly/llms.txt): $4.99 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $1,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/1999-monthly/llms.txt): $1.999 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $637.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/637-20-yearly/llms.txt): $53.10 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [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
- [Datafiniti, $5,389.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/5389-20-yearly/llms.txt): $4.491 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $21,589.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/21589-20-yearly/llms.txt): $1.799 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Datafiniti, $30,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/30000-yearly/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored

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

- `POST /businesses/search`: [Datafiniti, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/free/llms.txt)

## Datafiniti's APIs (2)

- [Datafiniti: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/free/llms.txt)
- [Datafiniti: people search API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/datafiniti/free/llms.txt)

## Datafiniti: Local business search API alternatives

- [Factori, free, POST /v1/poi/by-address](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-address/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [openrouteservice, free, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Foursquare, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://api.datafiniti.co/v4/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datafiniti.co/docs/business-data-schema.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datafiniti.co/docs/business-pagination.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datafiniti.co/docs/how-credits-work-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datafiniti.co/reference/businesses?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datafiniti.co/reference/search-and-downloads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datafiniti.co/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datafiniti.co/data/business-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datafiniti.co/data/people-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datafiniti.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing