# LurkAPI, free: Local business search API

> Businesses and places matching a Google Maps search, with address, phone, website, rating, hours and coordinates.

LurkAPI's Local business search API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 7 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Opening hours.
In [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from LurkAPI scores 44.4 out of 100. LurkAPI ranks 4th of 16 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 129 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.096 per 1,000 places or less.
[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.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [TomTom](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/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/lurkapi/free
- [Local business search API: 16 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/maps/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/maps-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: LurkAPI (https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 88%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 87 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Businesses and places matching a Google Maps search, with address, phone, website, rating, hours and coordinates.

## Data

- Freshness: 12 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.53 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: location, lat, lng, zoom, page, language
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google/maps/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, CID, feature ID, name, Google Maps URL, categories, address, street, city, state, postal code, country code, neighborhood, plus code, latitude, longitude, phone, international phone, website, rating, reviews, opening hours, timezone, description, main photo URL, permanently closed, temporarily closed, next page

## LurkAPI's plans (4)

- [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 12 hours
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $0.045 per 1,000, 88% complete, 12 hours
- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 88% complete, 12 hours
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 88% complete, 12 hours

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

- `GET /v1/google/maps/search`: [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt)

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## LurkAPI: Local business search API alternatives

- [SerpWiz, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpwiz/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0075 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [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
- [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
- [Semscraper, top-up from €10,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-10000/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 63% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/maps-search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/docs/linkedin/profile.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lurkapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing