# Discava, free: Local business search API

> REST API with structured business data, scoring, categories and geodata. No API key needed, 500 requests/hour for free. Perfect as a data source for AI agents, chatbots and recommendation systems.

Discava'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. Discava's docs list 2: Address, Category.
Discava limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We ran Discava in [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt). We didn't score any Discava plan.
This plan is free. We rank 342 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.397 or less per 1,000 places. [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. [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.
[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), [HERE](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt) and [Foursquare](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-500-calls/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/discava/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://discava.ai/en/for-developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://discava.ai/api/v1/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://discava.ai/en/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Discava (https://discava.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Address: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: /api/v1/business/:id · /api/v1/feedback · /api/v1/ranking · /api/v1/suggest · /api/v1/categories · /api/v1/countries · /api/v1/health

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: REST API with structured business data, scoring, categories and geodata. No API key needed, 500 requests/hour for free. Perfect as a data source for AI agents, chatbots and recommendation systems.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.14
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.52 s

## The call

- You send: country. Optional: q, city, category, limit, page, min_confidence, lang, lat, lon
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

business ID, name, slug, category, category label, parent category, parent category label, city, country, logo URL, available details, confidence score, demand score, relevance score, total results

## Discava's plans (2)

- [Discava, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/discava/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Discava, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/discava/contact-us/llms.txt): 25% complete

## Discava's calls (1)

- `GET /api/v1/search`: [Discava, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/discava/free/llms.txt)

## Discava's APIs (1)

- [Discava: local business search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/discava/free/llms.txt)

## Discava: local business search API alternatives

- [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Foursquare, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CityBotMagic, free preview, GET /api/v1/us/{state}/{city}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/citybotmagic/free-preview-get-api-v1-us-state-city-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://discava.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://discava.ai/en/contact?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://discava.ai/en/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://discava.ai/en/for-developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://discava.ai/en/legal/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing