# G Maps Crawl, free: Local business search API

> One search. Up to 20 businesses. Receive structured JSON in the same response, with no job polling or webhook setup.

G Maps Crawl's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns all 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
In [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from G Maps Crawl scores 28.6 out of 100. G Maps Crawl ranks 10th of 16 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 129 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.096 per 1,000 places or less.
[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.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [TomTom](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/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/g-maps-crawl/free
- [Local business search API: 16 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gmapscrawl.com/pricing?tab=api&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://gmapscrawl.com/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://gmapscrawl.com/pricing?tab=api&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.gmapscrawl.com/api-reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: G Maps Crawl (https://gmapscrawl.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## 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 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One search. Up to 20 businesses. Receive structured JSON in the same response, with no job polling or webhook setup.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and in compliance with applicable privacy, marketing, intellectual-property, database, consumer-protection, and platform rules. You may not use the Service to: violate another person's rights or a source platform's applicable restrictions, collect or infer sensitive personal information, target children, or facilitate discrimination, determine eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another consequential decision, harass, stalk, threaten, deceive, spam, or perform unlawful surveillance, distribute malware, probe systems, bypass rate limits or quotas, or interfere with the Service, resell access credentials, disguise request origin, or use multiple identities to evade controls, or submit content or instructions that you lack authority to process.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 20 requests a month
- Enough for: 20 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 59.86 s

## The call

- You send: q, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: page, ll, hl, gl, extra, Idempotency-Key header
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 43 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, CID, feature ID, Knowledge Graph machine ID, name, description, category, categories, business status, verified, owner ID, owner title, owner profile URL, address, street, neighborhood, city, state, postal code, country code, latitude, longitude, plus code, time zone, phone, website, email, LinkedIn URL, Facebook URL, Instagram URL, rating, review count, reviews, photos, main photo URL, reviews URL, Google Maps URL, opening hours, price range, about, fetched at, search parameters, request ID

## G Maps Crawl's plans (9)

- [G Maps Crawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $65 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/65-monthly/llms.txt): $0.65 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $115 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/115-monthly/llms.txt): $0.575 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $365 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/365-monthly/llms.txt): $0.365 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/799-monthly/llms.txt): $0.266 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $1,499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/1499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.214 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $2,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/2999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.187 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, stored

## G Maps Crawl's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v1/search`: [G Maps Crawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/free/llms.txt)

## G Maps Crawl's APIs (1)

- [G Maps Crawl: Local business search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/free/llms.txt)

## G Maps Crawl: Local business search API alternatives

- [Pullbay, $49 monthly, Builder, GET /yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/49-monthly-builder-get-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.18 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [x402serps, $5 pack, 5,500 credits, POST /api/v1/places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/x402serps/5-pack-5500-credits-post-api-v1-places/llms.txt): $0.182 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 hour
- [G Maps Extractor, $2,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-extractor/2999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.187 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [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

## 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://docs.gmapscrawl.com/api-reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapscrawl.com/docs/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapscrawl.com/google-maps-scraper-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapscrawl.com/guides/understand-business-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapscrawl.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapscrawl.com/pricing?tab=api&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing