# Manifold, free: Local business search API

> The places Google Maps shows for a search in an area, in Maps' order.

Manifold'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. Manifold's docs list 5: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Rating.
We haven't run Manifold through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 342 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.397 or less per 1,000 places. [See the best free local business search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
[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. [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.
[LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/leadswift/24-99-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places. LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpData's $200 pack.
[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 [Foursquare](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-500-calls/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://mcp.manifoldmcp.com/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/maps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#maps_search_places
- Sold by: Manifold (https://www.manifoldmcp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Rating: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 24 hours
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 111 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The places Google Maps shows for a search in an area, in Maps' order.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: [7.3] You may use the results the Service returns for your internal business purposes, including in reports and materials you produce for your own clients, subject to Section 5. [...] [5.1] You must use the Service lawfully, and only in ways that a reasonable person would consider fair to us, to our data providers and to the people whose data the Service returns. In particular, you must not: (a) use the Service to send unsolicited messages, or to build or enrich lists of people for unsolicited marketing, in breach of the UK GDPR, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, the CAN-SPAM Act, or any other law that applies to you or to the people you contact, (b) resell, sublicense, redistribute or publicly release the data the Service returns as a dataset or database, or use the Service to build a product whose purpose is to make that data available to others, (c) use the data to discriminate unlawfully, to stalk, harass or intimidate anyone, or for any purpose that is harmful, deceptive or unlawful, (d) use the Service to determine a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or any similar benefit, or for any purpose regulated by consumer reporting or credit reference laws, (g) reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Service, or use it to build a competing service, (i) use the Service in breach of the terms of a platform, website or data provider, where those terms apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 pages a month
- Expires: at the monthly reset, not rolled over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Concurrent: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "maps_search_places", params.arguments.keyword. Optional: params.arguments.location, params.arguments.latitude, params.arguments.longitude, params.arguments.zoom, params.arguments.language, params.arguments.depth
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone using it for business, aged 18 or over, no card needed

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

rank, place ID, CID, name, category, address, phone, website, domain, rating, reviews count, claimed, status, Maps URL

## Manifold's plans (7)

- [Manifold, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 63% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.193 per 1,000, 63% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.163 per 1,000, 63% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.158 per 1,000, 63% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.124 per 1,000, 63% complete, 24 hours
- [Manifold, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/contact-us/llms.txt): 63% complete, 24 hours

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

- `POST /mcp`: [Manifold, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/manifold/free/llms.txt)

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## Manifold: local business search API alternatives

- [ScrapeField, $39 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt): $0.117 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [2GIS, ₽15,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/15000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.119 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [FastAF, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fastaf/10-pack/llms.txt): $0.125 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Yandex Maps API, $65,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yandex-maps-api/65000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.13 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/authentication.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/plans.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/tools/maps.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/linkedin.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.manifoldmcp.com/terms.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing