# Hatchloop, free: Local business search API

> Find real businesses near a place, nearest first. Data comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL): community-mapped, so coverage varies and we have not verified any listing, phone, website and hours appear only when mapped.

Hatchloop's Free (no key) plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Hatchloop's docs list 4: Phone, Website, Category, Opening hours.
Hatchloop limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We haven't run Hatchloop through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 501 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.245 or less per 1,000 places. This plan and 23 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 501 plans. [272 local business search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) [mitbbs.ai's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.
[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 [SphereScout](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-get-api-companies/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hatchloop/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://hatchloop.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://hatchloop.dev/ops/find_business`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://hatchloop.dev/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Hatchloop (https://hatchloop.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: verify_business · get_status · get_outcome · preview_cost · self_test · check_booking_link · check_compliance · lookup_us_contracts · check_quota · verify_company_record · screen_sanctions · map_trade_restriction

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find real businesses near a place, nearest first. Data comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL): community-mapped, so coverage varies and we have not verified any listing, phone, website and hours appear only when mapped.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Data: OpenStreetMap (ODbL, (c) OSM contributors), phone, website, hours only when mapped. [...] Do not use as a bulk directory or scraping surface: results are capped at 20, fresh lookups are rate limited per caller, and the public OpenStreetMap servers behind this are a shared free service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", location.zip_or_city. Optional: vertical, location.radius_miles, capability, price_band.max_usd, max_results, city, region
- Method: POST
- Path: /ops/find_business

## About the plan

- Plan: Free (no key)
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, with no key or account

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, categories, distance, place ID, data source name, attribution, license, website, opening hours, phone

## Hatchloop's plans (1)

- [Hatchloop, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hatchloop/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## Hatchloop's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /ops/find_business`: [Hatchloop, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hatchloop/free/llms.txt)

## Hatchloop's APIs (2)

- [Hatchloop Local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hatchloop/free/llms.txt)
- [Hatchloop Business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/hatchloop/free-no-key/llms.txt)

## Hatchloop: local business search API alternatives

[Hatchloop alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/hatchloop-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Serpbit, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, free, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, free, GET /v1/search, Maps](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-maps/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% 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/basilalshukaili/agentbroker?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://hatchloop.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://hatchloop.dev/.well-known/openai-tools.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://hatchloop.dev/agent-broker/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://hatchloop.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://hatchloop.dev/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://hatchloop.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://hatchloop.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing