# Geoapify, free: Local business search API

> The Places API helps to query places, amenities, and points of interest using more than 400 categories. We use the OpenStreetMap as the data source. Cache/store results with no limits.

Geoapify's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Category, Coordinates.
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/geoapify/free
- Get it: https://www.geoapify.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.geoapify.com/v2/places`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.geoapify.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://apidocs.geoapify.com/docs/places/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Geoapify (https://www.geoapify.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Map Tile · Static Maps API · Marker Icon API · Geocoding API · Reverse Geocoding API · Address Autocomplete API · Routing API · Map Matching API · Route Matrix API · Route Planner API · Isoline API · Place Details API · Postcode API · Boundaries API · IP Geolocation API

## Overage

- Units cap: soft

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Places API helps to query places, amenities, and points of interest using more than 400 categories. We use the OpenStreetMap as the data source. Cache/store results with no limits.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: When using the Services, you must always provide OpenStreetMap attribution. Geoapify attribution is mandatory when using Free subscription plan. [...] You may not use the Service in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Service or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Service. You agree not to take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by Geoapify in its sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Geoapify's (or its third-party providers') infrastructure. You agree not to interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activities conducted on the Service. You agree not to bypass or attempt to bypass any measures Geoapify may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service (or other accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to the Service). You agree not to bypass or attempt to bypass any measures Geoapify uses to measure usage and billing. Specifically, distributing API requests among multiple accounts and/or projects to fit into lower pricing plans is prohibited.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3,000 credits a day
- Enough for: 60,000 results a day

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: categories, filter or bias. Optional: conditions, limit, offset, lang, name
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/places

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone of age and legally competent

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, address line 1, address line 2, street, house number, neighborhood, suburb, city, municipality, county, state, ZIP code, country, country code, latitude, longitude, categories, detail features, distance, place ID, data source name, attribution, license, data source URL

## Geoapify's plans (7)

- [Geoapify, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geoapify, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/59-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0098 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geoapify, $109 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/109-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0073 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geoapify, $179 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/179-monthly/llms.txt): $0.006 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geoapify, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geoapify, $609 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/609-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0041 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Geoapify, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete

## Geoapify's calls (1)

- `GET /v2/places`: [Geoapify, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/free/llms.txt)

## Geoapify's APIs (1)

- [Geoapify: Local business search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/free/llms.txt)

## Geoapify: Local business search API alternatives

- [Stadia Maps, $20 monthly, Starter, GET /geocoding/v2/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/20-monthly-starter-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.002 per 1,000, 13% complete
- [LocationIQ, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0027 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Amazon Location Service, pay as you go, On-demand, POST /v2/search-nearby, SearchNearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [MapTiler, $30 monthly, Flex, GET /geocoding/{queries}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/30-monthly-flex-get-geocoding-queries-json/llms.txt): $0.006 per 1,000, 38% 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://apidocs.geoapify.com/docs/places/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.geoapify.com/how-to-avoid-429-too-many-requests-with-api-rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.geoapify.com/places-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.geoapify.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.geoapify.com/pricing-details?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.geoapify.com/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing