# gankdat, free: Local business search API

> Every rated food business in the UK from the official FSA Food Hygiene Rating Scheme file — name, type, trading address and area, local authority, rating value and date, sub-scores, new-rating-pending flag. Stable FHRSID, refreshed daily.

gankdat's free plan for the Local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. gankdat's docs list 3 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Address, Coordinates, Rating.
We haven't run gankdat through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 301 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.45 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), [HERE](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt) and [CityBotMagic](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/citybotmagic/free-preview-get-api-v1-search-json/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://gankdat.com/v1/data/uk-food-hygiene`
- API key: with the plan, on https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://gankdat.com/stats/uk-food-hygiene?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: gankdat (https://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 614,907
- Also pays for: from the same budget: UK planning applications · UK procurement notices · UK contract awards (Contracts Finder) · UK sanctions designations · EU procurement notices (TED) · US federal exclusions (SAM.gov) · UK corporate insolvency notices · UK new company incorporations · UK licensed visa sponsors (Home Office) · Charities in England & Wales (Charity Commission) · Regulated care locations in England (CQC) · Schools and colleges in England (GIAS + Ofsted) · NHS organisations in England (ODS register) · UK trade mark applications published for opposition (Trade Marks Journal) · Licensed gambling operators in Great Britain (Gambling Commission register) · UK company lookup (Companies House) · US federal exclusions (SAM.gov) — changes since a date · UK food hygiene ratings (FSA) — changes since a date · UK licensed visa sponsors (Home Office) — changes since a date · Charities in England & Wales (Charity Commission) — changes since a date · Regulated care locations in England (CQC) — changes since a date · Schools and colleges in England (GIAS + Ofsted) — changes since a date · NHS organisations in England (ODS register) — changes since a date · UK trade mark applications published for opposition (Trade Marks Journal) — changes since a date · Licensed gambling operators in Great Britain (Gambling Commission register) — changes since a date

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Every rated food business in the UK from the official FSA Food Hygiene Rating Scheme file — name, type, trading address and area, local authority, rating value and date, sub-scores, new-rating-pending flag. Stable FHRSID, refreshed daily.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use API responses in your own products, analyses, and services, including commercially, subject to the dataset's source licence above. [...] uk-companies: Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish [...] uk-company-profiles: Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish [...] uk-food-hygiene: Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Food Standards Agency, rating artwork is not covered and is not served [...] You may not resell, mirror, or redistribute the API itself (i.e. offering our service, or wholesale access to it, as your product). Where a dataset runs Blind Mode, you may not use it to attempt to identify or profile individuals, alone or combined with other sources. [...] No unlawful use, and no use that disrupts, overloads, reverse-engineers, or circumvents the service's security, rate limits, or metering. No attempting to re-identify individuals from any data, alone or combined with other sources.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: business_name, business_type, postcode, outward_code, local_authority, local_authority_code, rating_value, scheme_type, rating_date_after, rating_date_before, hygiene_score_min, hygiene_score_max, structural_score_min, structural_score_max, confidence_score_min, confidence_score_max, new_rating_pending, page, per_page, q
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/data/uk-food-hygiene

## About the plan

- Plan: free
- Who can get it: anyone with an email address, for business and professional use

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

FHRS ID, business name, business type, address, postal code, postcode district, local authority, local authority code, rating value, scheme type, rating date, hygiene score, structural score, confidence score, new rating pending, latitude, longitude, total results, last refreshed at

## gankdat's plans (6)

- [gankdat, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/5-monthly/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £23 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/23-monthly/llms.txt): $0.061 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.053 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day
- [gankdat, £239 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/239-monthly/llms.txt): $0.032 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 day

## gankdat's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/data/uk-food-hygiene`: [gankdat, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- `GET /x402/data/uk-food-hygiene`: [gankdat, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## gankdat's APIs (4)

- [gankdat: business verification API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: company discovery API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: company enrichment API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)
- [gankdat: Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gankdat/free/llms.txt)

## gankdat: Local business search API alternatives

- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 88% complete, 12 hours
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [2GIS, ₽63,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/63400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [Semscraper, top-up from €5,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-5000/llms.txt): $0.032 per 1,000, 63% 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://gankdat.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/stats/uk-food-hygiene?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gankdat.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing