# Factori, free, POST /v1/poi/by-location: Local business search API

> Connect to 200M+ verified locations with our global POI data API

Factori's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Category, Coordinates, Rating, 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/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-location
- Get it: https://docs.factori.ai/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.factori.ai/v1/poi/by-location`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.factori.ai/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.factori.ai/reference/by-location?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Factori (https://factori.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Connect to 200M+ verified locations with our global POI data API

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Services for your internal business purposes. [...] Unless explicitly permitted in writing: you may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, or publish Data Products, and you may not provide Data Products to third parties (including affiliates or contractors) except as expressly authorized. [...] You agree not to, and not to permit others to: Attempt to re-identify individuals from aggregated or de-identified data. Use the Services or Data Products for unlawful surveillance, tracking, or harassment. Combine Data Products with other data in a way that attempts to reveal identity or sensitive traits in a prohibited manner. Use Data Products to target or profile individuals in ways that violate anti-discrimination laws. Use Data Products to infer or exploit sensitive attributes (e.g., health status, religion, sexual orientation) unless explicitly permitted under a specific product agreement and lawful. [...] Unless expressly authorized in writing, you may not use the Services or Data Products to make or support eligibility decisions, including for credit, employment, housing, insurance eligibility, or similar decisions. [...] Reverse engineer, scrape, or attempt to extract underlying source datasets. Bypass access controls, rate limits, or authentication. Introduce malware or attempt to disrupt the Services. Use the Services in violation of applicable sanctions/export controls. Misrepresent your identity or affiliation. Use the Services to compete with Factori by creating a substantially similar product using Data Products, except as permitted in an Order Form.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 3.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: location.latitude, location.longitude, location.radius, page_no. Optional: filters.categories, filters.place_topics, sorting.order_by, sorting.sort_order
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/poi/by-location

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: business and enterprise users

## The 52 fields the plan's answer can hold

POI ID, name, description, category, category ID, full address, address, city, state, ZIP code, country code, latitude, longitude, additional categories, phone, URL, domain, rating, price level, rating distribution, is claimed, photo URL, attributes, brand name, brand ID, status, total photos, popular times, place topics, people also search, work hours, local business links, contact info, reviews count, NAICS code, NAICS code description, SIC code, SIC code description, shape type, shape polygon, geometry location type, geometry viewport northeast latitude, geometry viewport northeast longitude, geometry viewport southwest latitude, geometry viewport southwest longitude, geometry location latitude, geometry location longitude, building ID, calculated geohash 8, building type, building name, total results

## Factori's plans (8)

- [Factori, free, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, $300 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/300-monthly-starter-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, $1,000 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/1000-monthly-growth-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, $1,500 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/1500-monthly-scale-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, $2,000 monthly, Plus, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/2000-monthly-plus-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, $2,200 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/2200-monthly-pro-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, $2,500 monthly, Business, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/2500-monthly-business-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt): 75% complete, stored

## Factori's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/poi/by-address`: [Factori, free, POST /v1/poi/by-address](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-address/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/poi/by-attributes`: [Factori, free, POST /v1/poi/by-attributes](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-attributes/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/poi/by-location`: [Factori, free, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt)

## Factori's APIs (3)

- [Factori: people search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/factori/free/llms.txt)
- [Factori: people enrichment API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/factori/free/llms.txt)
- [Factori: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/poi/by-location](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-location/llms.txt)

## Factori: Local business search API alternatives

- [Datafiniti, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/free/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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/api-usage-limits-1?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/errors-status-codes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/input-parameter?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/output-parameters-1?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/platform-featuers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/poi-data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/docs/poi-data-api-data-schema?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.factori.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://factori.ai/glossary/api_credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://factori.ai/terms-of-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing