# IBLead, free, GET /businesses: Local business search API

> Same data as the dashboard: 45M+ businesses in 45 countries. Count first at 0 credits, then export as CSV or JSON.

IBLead'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. IBLead's docs list 5: Address, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
You get 200 credits. You spend the credits on IBLead's other calls. This call is free for up to 5,184,000 pages a month.
We haven't run IBLead through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 492 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.25 or less per 1,000 places. [269 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.
[IBLead's $53 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/53-monthly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places, with no charge per call. You get as many places as IBLead's rate limit allows. [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.
[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/iblead/free-get-businesses
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://iblead.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://app.iblead.com/api/v1/businesses`
- API key: with the plan, on https://iblead.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://iblead.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#get-businesses
- Sold by: IBLead (https://iblead.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 200
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Unlock businesses · Export businesses

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Same data as the dashboard: 45M+ businesses in 45 countries. Count first at 0 credits, then export as CSV or JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Usage must remain reasonable: Exports are subject to daily and monthly quotas defined by your plan [...] Automated usage (bots, scripts, scraping our platform) is strictly prohibited [...] Systematic resale or redistribution of exported data is prohibited [...] Any attempt to circumvent technical limitations constitutes a violation of these Terms [...] Exported data may be used freely within your professional activities, subject to compliance with applicable regulations (including GDPR).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 credits
- Enough for: 5,184,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: category, subcategory, country, countries, cities, postal_codes, min_rating, max_rating, min_reviews, max_reviews, has_website, has_phone, has_email, has_facebook, has_instagram, has_linkedin, has_youtube, has_twitter, has_tiktok, has_siret, has_claimed, phone_type, ape_codes, bbox_wkt, include_reviews, limit, offset, only_unlocked
- Method: GET
- Path: /businesses

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account (a valid email address and password)

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

ID, name, category, categories, unlocked, claimed, last seen date, rating, review count, address, postal code, city, country code, Google Maps URL, latitude, longitude, place ID, CID, business status, total results

## IBLead's plans (9)

- [IBLead, free, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/free-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, $53 monthly, Starter, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/53-monthly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.000051 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, $107 monthly, Pro, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/107-monthly-pro-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.0001 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, $215 monthly, Business, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/215-monthly-business-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.00021 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, $539 monthly, Enterprise, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/539-monthly-enterprise-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.00052 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, €396 yearly, Starter, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/396-yearly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.000036 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, €801 yearly, Pro, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/801-yearly-pro-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.000072 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, €1,611 yearly, Business, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/1611-yearly-business-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.00015 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, €4,041 yearly, Enterprise, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/4041-yearly-enterprise-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.00037 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored

## IBLead's calls (2)

- `POST /export`: [IBLead, free, POST /export](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/free-post-export/llms.txt)
- `GET /businesses`: [IBLead, free, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/free-get-businesses/llms.txt)

## IBLead's APIs (1)

- [IBLead Local business search API pricing, 9 plans, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/free-get-businesses/llms.txt)

## IBLead: local business search API alternatives

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

We list IBLead's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to IBLead in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives stored data.

- [IBLead, €396 yearly, Starter, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/396-yearly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.000036 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Montjoy Places, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0037 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [BestTime, $2,999 monthly, Pro Venues, 100,000 venues, GET /api/v1/venues/filter](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/2999-monthly-pro-venues-100000-venues-get-api-v1-venues-filter/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [BRONTIR, €350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brontir/350-monthly/llms.txt): $0.023 per 1,000, 88% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-11.

- https://iblead.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://iblead.com/en/automation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://iblead.com/en/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://iblead.com/en/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://iblead.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://iblead.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://iblead.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing