# HERE, free: Local business search API

> Discover addresses, Places/POIs, EV charge points, truck-specific attributes and 3rd party data like Tripadvisor, all updated daily and searchable even on specific routes.

HERE's Local business search API on its Limited Plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Opening hours.
You get up to 30,000 calls a month.
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/here/free
- Get it: https://www.here.com/get-started/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://discover.search.hereapi.com/v1/discover`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.here.com/get-started/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/reference/get_discover?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: HERE (https://www.here.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 199

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Discover addresses, Places/POIs, EV charge points, truck-specific attributes and 3rd party data like Tripadvisor, all updated daily and searchable even on specific routes.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: 30 days
- Use data: 6.4 You may not: a) Use non-HERE datasets with HERE Content or Results in Applications that are made available to End-Users or third parties (as allowed by your license in these Terms). Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to compliance with Section 6.4 b. below and your license to HERE Materials for use in Applications, you may (i) layer Your Content and third-party content with HERE Content or Results for display purposes, and (ii) combine Your Content and third-party content with HERE Content or Results for the purpose of delivering derived location responses, such as a route or search result, provided, in both cases (i) and (ii), that the origin of the HERE Content and non-HERE content can be distinguished and correct attribution can be provided. The HERE Content of Japan may only be used with Your Content and third-party content for point of interest (PoI), visual content or dynamic content incl. traffic. b) Expose HERE Materials to any open source software, open content, open database licenses or other resembling terms where such licenses or terms would (i) cause the disclosure or distribution of the HERE Materials (or any part thereof), (ii) grant any licenses to any derivative works of any HERE Materials (or any part thereof), (iii) cause redistribution of the HERE Materials (or any part thereof) at no charge, as a condition for use, modification or distribution of such other material, or (iv) otherwise restrict or impact the licensing or other use of the HERE Materials (or any part thereof), c) Modify HERE Content and/or Results, d) Extract sales lead information, category-specific business listings, or mailing or marketing lists, e) Make any derivative works based on or using HERE Materials, reverse engineer, reverse compile, disassemble, or attempt to determine the source code of the HERE Materials, f) Use HERE Materials in connection with a machine learning or artificial intelligence (“AI”) system, including but not limited to, models used in connection with natural language processing, algorithm optimization and training, logical AI/inferencing, machine learning, deep learning, behavioral learning, artificial neural networks, machine perception and motion manipulation, predictive analytics, generative AI, and data extrapolation, g) Use HERE Materials for: (i) benchmarking of third-party data sets, or (ii) a reference to create, enhance, or improve a product or service competitive to HERE, h) Provide Results and/or HERE Content to another person or entity, i) Except as included in an Application, and as permitted in Your license grant from HERE, use HERE Materials to create, develop, enhance, test, or evaluate a platform, product or solution regardless of whether such platform, product or solution contains reference to any HERE Materials, j) Cache or store outside of the Platform any Results that include anything from the use of HERE Content or Location Services for more than 30 days, except HERE Positioning services which cannot be cached or stored outside the Platform for more than 24 hours, unless Results are used solely for your internal testing, evaluation, or record retention for audit and legal compliance purposes, k) Cache or store any Results from HERE Content and Location Services for Japan (with the exception of Geocoding and Search as described in context of these services) for more than 24 hours, unless Results are generated using an Asset Subscription Plan or a Monthly Active User (MAU) HERE Navigate SDK Subscription Plan and are stored on a smartphone (or tablet that is diverting smartphone services), in which case Results can be cached or stored for a maximum of 30 days, l) Create any Results that contain unenhanced or unmodified HERE Content or scaling one Request to serve multiple End Users, m) Use incorrect attribution of any information derived from the Platform, n) Modify in any manner the annotation data (including but not limited to island names and sea names) and national boundary lines in Japan content included in HERE Content, or o) Use outdated versions of the Platform or HERE Materials.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 30,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q, one of at, in=circle or in=bbox. Optional: in, mobilityMode, ranking, route, with, evStation, fuelStation, lang, limit, offset, politicalView, show
- Method: GET
- Path: /discover

## About the plan

- Plan: Limited Plan
- Who can get it: anyone without payment information, but for the Asset Management, UBI/Telematics and Optimization use cases

## The 52 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, place ID, result type, ontology ID, political view, address, house number, street, block, subblock, district, subdistrict, city, postal city, county, county code, state, state code, country, country code, ZIP code, building, unit, latitude, longitude, access points, drive through, distance, excursion distance, map view, categories, chains, supplier references, food types, house number fallback, phone, mobile phone, toll-free phone, fax, website, email, opening hours, open now, time zone, UTC offset, phonemes, street info, access restrictions, offset, next offset, results returned, limit

## HERE's plans (6)

- [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 0 to 5,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 5,001 to 200,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-5001-to-200000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.026 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 200,001 to 1,000,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-200001-to-1000000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [HERE, contact us, Base plan, 1,000,001+ requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/contact-us-base-plan-1000001-requests-a-month/llms.txt): 75% complete, 24 hours
- [HERE, contact us, Enterprise plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/contact-us-enterprise-plan/llms.txt): 75% complete, 24 hours

## HERE's calls (1)

- `GET /discover`: [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt)

## HERE's APIs (1)

- [HERE: Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt)

## HERE: Local business search API alternatives

- [2GIS, ₽138,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/138400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [Yandex Maps API, $225,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yandex-maps-api/225000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [Yelp, $229 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/229-monthly/llms.txt): $0.153 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 75% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/reference/get_discover.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://legal.here.com/en-gb/terms/here-platform-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.here.com/get-started/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.here.com/get-started/pricing/base-plan-restrictions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.here.com/get-started/pricing/limited-plan-restrictions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.here.com/get-started/pricing/rps-limits-excluded-use-cases?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing