# LocationIQ, free: Local business search API > The Nearby API returns nearby places around a specified location. Results can include points of interest such as cafes, hospitals, and airports, as well as place-level features such as cities, depending on the requested tag. LocationIQ's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Category, 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/locationiq/free - Get it: https://locationiq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - Request: `GET https://us1.locationiq.com/v1/nearby` - API key: with the plan, on https://locationiq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - Its API docs: https://docs.locationiq.com/docs/nearby-poi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - Sold by: LocationIQ (https://locationiq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing) - Checked: 2026-11-04 ## In the answer - Completeness: 38% - Address: ✓ - Category: ✓ - Coordinates: ✓ ## Price - $ per 1,000 places: $0.00 - Per: page of 50 - Billing: free ## Charges - Most per search: 50 - Also pays for: from the same budget: Search / Forward Geocoding · Structured Geocoding · Postal Code Search · Reverse Geocoding API · Autocomplete API · Lookup · Timezone API · Directions API · Optimize API · Matrix API · Map Matching API · Nearest API · Static Maps · Maps ## Overage - Units cap: hard ## Not found - $ per 1,000: $0.00 ## In their words - Their pitch: The Nearby API returns nearby places around a specified location. Results can include points of interest such as cafes, hospitals, and airports, as well as place-level features such as cities, depending on the requested tag. ## Data - Keep data: no limit - Use data: Subject to your ("Licensee") full compliance with all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, LocationIQ grants Licensee a non-exclusive, revocable, nonsublicensable, nontransferable license to use the LocationIQ application program interface and other materials provided by LocationIQ (collectively, "API") to develop, reproduce, display and distribute applications, websites and/or services (collectively "Applications") that interoperate with the Service. Licensee may not use the API for any other purpose without LocationIQ' prior written consent. [...] You will not, and will not attempt to, misuse the Service to do the following things: collect any request-response pairs from the Service other than for temporary caching, without the express written permission of LocationIQ. If you have a free account, you can cache request-response pairs from the Service for upto 48 hours. If you are a customer, you can cache request-response pairs for as long as you're a customer. You can store response data forever. We do not allow server-side caching of Map Tiles. mine or attempt to mine the data maintained by LocationIQ for the Service, alter, modify, or reverse engineer (including for the purpose of reverse engineering, disassemble, decompile, determine the source code or protocols, or trace the execution of) the Service, allow a competitor of LocationIQ to have access to the Service or to have the benefit of any other right of Licensee under this Agreement, unless otherwise agreed to by LocationIQ in writing, make any representations or statements of any kind in respect of LocationIQ or the Service that are to its best knowledge untrue, inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, not consistent with the Service or otherwise contrary to the interests of LocationIQ, or otherwise in breach of this Agreement, probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network, breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures, access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Service, shared areas of the Service you have not been invited to, or LocationIQ (or our service providers') computer systems, interfere with or disrupt any user, host, or network, for example by sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing any part of the Services, plant malware or otherwise use the Services to distribute malware, access or search the Services by any means other than our publicly supported interfaces (for example, "scraping"), send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information, including "spoofing" or "phishing", impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, violate the law in any way, or to violate the privacy of others, or to defame others. [...] The Licensee agrees that it shall not use or permit other entities who have not entered written license arrangements with LocationIQ to use the Service for any purpose of creating, improving or otherwise assisting in the development of a system which performs or may perform functions similar to, or competitive with, the Service. [...] You can use our free plan in commercial projects if you spread the love by adding a prominent link back to us on your website or app in this format: Search by LocationIQ.com ## Plan - Pay: $0 - You get: 5,000 requests a day - Enough for: 5,000 pages a day ## Rate limit - Per day: 5,000 - Per second: 1 ## Speed - Answer: in the call ## The call - You send: lat, lon. Optional: tag, radius, limit, dedupe - Method: GET - Path: /v1/nearby ## About the plan - Plan: Free - Who can get it: anyone ## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold name, address, house number, street, neighborhood, suburb, city, county, state, state code, ZIP code, country, country code, latitude, longitude, categories, distance, place ID, license, OSM type, OSM ID, bounding box ## LocationIQ's plans (10) - [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0027 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0022 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $950 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/950-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00063 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0022 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $2,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/2000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0018 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $5,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/5000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0011 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, $9,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/9500-yearly/llms.txt): $0.00053 per 1,000, 38% complete - [LocationIQ, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete ## LocationIQ's calls (1) - `GET /v1/nearby`: [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt) ## LocationIQ's APIs (1) - [LocationIQ: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt) ## LocationIQ: Local business search API alternatives - [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 - [Foursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 500 calls](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-500-calls/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete - [Stadia Maps, $250 monthly, Professional, GET /geocoding/v2/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.001 per 1,000, 13% complete - [Geoapify, $609 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/609-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0041 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://docs.locationiq.com/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - https://docs.locationiq.com/docs/nearby-poi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - https://docs.locationiq.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - https://locationiq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - https://locationiq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing - https://locationiq.com/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing