# Geocode Earth, free trial, GET /v1/autocomplete: Local business search API

> Search for places by name. Nobody searches for a cafe by its street number. Venues, landmarks, parks and transit stops are searchable by name, so your users can type what they actually call a place.

Geocode Earth's Local business search API on its Free Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 2 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, 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/geocode-earth/free-trial-get-v1-autocomplete
- Get it: https://geocode.earth?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.geocode.earth/v1/autocomplete`
- API key: with the plan, on https://geocode.earth?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/autocomplete?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Geocode Earth (https://geocode.earth?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Address: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 40
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 40
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search API · Structured Geocoding API · Reverse Geocoding API · Place API · Geometry API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search for places by name. Nobody searches for a cafe by its street number. Venues, landmarks, parks and transit stops are searchable by name, so your users can type what they actually call a place.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: License: [...] use and access the Services for your use and only as part of Your Apps (defined below) which are provided directly to end users, and not for resale or for redistribution or use in conjunction with, or as part of, the products or services of others [...] Restrictions: In consideration of the license granted to you, you agree not to, or permit any third party to: (i) copy, reproduce, modify, damage, frame, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or create derivative works of all or part of the Services except as expressly authorized in this Agreement, (ii) with, modify, circumvent, disrupt, disable or interfere with the Services, (iii) use the Services for illegal purposes, or in a manner which violates or infringes upon the intellectual property rights or other rights of any other party, or that may result in civil or criminal liability, (iv) use the Services or in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Services or interfere in any way with the use or enjoyment of the Services by others [...], or (v) sell, rent, lease, sublicense, distribute, redistribute, syndicate, create derivative works of, assign or otherwise transfer or provide access to, in whole or in part, the Services to any third party other than use by end users of Your Apps (“Users”) solely as a feature of Your Apps. [...] IN NO EVENT WILL YOU USE, OR ALLOW THE USE OF, THE SERVICES TO (I) CREATE, SUPPORT, IMPROVE OR ENHANCE (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) OR OFFER A SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR PRODUCT OR SERVICE, OR (II) IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANY HIGH RISK ACTIVITY WHERE THE USE OR FAILURE OF THE SERVICES COULD LEAD TO DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. [...] You agree to include "© Geocode Earth" in any visual aspects and depictions of Your Apps and to use commercially reasonable efforts to include such attribution in any non-visual versions of Your Apps [...] We require that you provide attribution to Geocode Earth in your application. [...] The OpenStreetMap project requires attribution whenever data from OSM may be displayed to an end user.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: text, layers "venue". Optional: focus.point.lat, focus.point.lon, boundary.rect.min_lat, boundary.rect.min_lon, boundary.rect.max_lat, boundary.rect.max_lon, boundary.circle.lat, boundary.circle.lon, boundary.circle.radius, boundary.country, boundary.gid, size, lang
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/autocomplete

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: anyone, no credit card required

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, house number, street, neighborhood, city, county, state, state code, ZIP code, country, country code, latitude, longitude, distance, place ID, data source name, OSM type, OSM ID, bounding box

## Geocode Earth's plans (5)

- [Geocode Earth, free trial, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/free-trial-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Geocode Earth, $100 monthly, Lite, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/100-monthly-lite-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Geocode Earth, $200 monthly, Basic, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/200-monthly-basic-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Geocode Earth, $500 monthly, Advanced, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/500-monthly-advanced-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.0063 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Geocode Earth, contact us, Custom, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/contact-us-custom-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt): 25% complete

## Geocode Earth's calls (2)

- `GET /v1/autocomplete`: [Geocode Earth, free trial, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/free-trial-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/search`: [Geocode Earth, free trial, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/free-trial-get-v1-search/llms.txt)

## Geocode Earth's APIs (1)

- [Geocode Earth: Local business search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /v1/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geocode-earth/free-trial-get-v1-autocomplete/llms.txt)

## Geocode Earth: Local business search API alternatives

- [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-text, SearchText](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-text-searchtext/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [MapTiler, $30 monthly, Flex, GET /geocoding/{query}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/30-monthly-flex-get-geocoding-query-json/llms.txt): $0.006 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

## 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://geocode.earth?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/alternatives/google-maps/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/autocomplete?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/docs/forward/customization?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/docs/intro/rate_limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/docs/reference/data_layers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/docs/reference/data_sources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/docs/reference/response_format?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/docs/reference/status_codes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/features/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/guidelines?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geocode.earth/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing