# GMapsScraper.io, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape: Local business search API

> Scrape Google Maps business data — names, emails, phones, websites, ratings, reviews.

GMapsScraper.io's Free plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. GMapsScraper.io's docs list all 8: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run GMapsScraper.io through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 426 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.396 or less per 1,000 places. [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. [Amazon Location Service's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 places a month: $0.05.
[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 [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/gmapsscraper-io/free-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 50+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gmapsscraper.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://gmapsscraper.io/api/v1/scrape`, Standard scrape
- API key: with the plan, on https://gmapsscraper.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://gmapsscraper.io/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: GMapsScraper.io (https://gmapsscraper.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## 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: 20
- Also pays for: Enrich · from the same budget: Area Search

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scrape Google Maps business data — names, emails, phones, websites, ratings, reviews.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: GMaps Scraper is designed for legitimate business purposes: Sales prospecting and lead generation, Market research and competitor analysis, Building targeted marketing lists, Real estate and local business research. You agree NOT to: Use extracted data for spam or harassment, Violate data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), Resell raw data extracted from GMaps Scraper, Attempt to overload or damage our Service, Share your account credentials with others. [...] The data you extract belongs to you, but you may not: Reverse engineer our extraction technology, Copy or resell GMaps Scraper as your own service, Remove or modify any copyright notices

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 5 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 10

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: keywords. Optional: email, zoom, radius, lang, max_time, lat, lon, proxy_url, area
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, name, address, phone, email, website, rating, review count, category, latitude, longitude, Google Maps URL, opening hours, resolved location, credits remaining

## GMapsScraper.io's plans (4)

- [GMapsScraper.io, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/free-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [GMapsScraper.io, $39 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/39-monthly-starter-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape/llms.txt): $0.13 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [GMapsScraper.io, $99 monthly, Pro Monthly, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/99-monthly-pro-monthly-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape/llms.txt): $0.066 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [GMapsScraper.io, $588 yearly, Advanced Yearly, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/588-yearly-advanced-yearly-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## GMapsScraper.io's calls (2)

- `POST /api/v1/scrape`, Area Search: [GMapsScraper.io, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Area Search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/free-post-api-v1-scrape-area-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/scrape`, Standard scrape: [GMapsScraper.io, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/free-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape/llms.txt)

## GMapsScraper.io's APIs (1)

- [GMapsScraper.io: local business search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /api/v1/scrape, Standard scrape](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/free-post-api-v1-scrape-standard-scrape/llms.txt)

## GMapsScraper.io: local business search API alternatives

- [Crawio, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.024 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Semscraper, top-up from €1,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-1000/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [ScrapeIt, €449 monthly, Ultra, GET /api/v1/scrape/yellowpages/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapeit/449-monthly-ultra-get-api-v1-scrape-yellowpages-search/llms.txt): $0.034 per 1,000, 50% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://github.com/gmapsscraper/gmapsscraper-python?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapsscraper.io/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapsscraper.io/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapsscraper.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://gmapsscraper.io/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing