# Mapbox, free, Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}: Local business search API

> The Mapbox Search Box API adds interactive location search to connected cars, micro-mobility services, delivery apps, and more. Search Box API supports interactive location search or stand-alone queries to search addresses, places, and points of interest.

Mapbox's Local business search API on its "Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests" 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.
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/mapbox/free-introductory-preview-pricing-up-to-50000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id
- Get it: https://www.mapbox.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.mapbox.com/search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.mapbox.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.mapbox.com/api/search/search-box/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#retrieve-pois-by-category
- Sold by: Mapbox (https://www.mapbox.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 25
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Text search · Reverse lookup

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Mapbox Search Box API adds interactive location search to connected cars, micro-mobility services, delivery apps, and more. Search Box API supports interactive location search or stand-alone queries to search addresses, places, and points of interest.

## Data

- Keep data: only available for temporary use
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license and right to (i) incorporate the Services in Licensed Applications (as defined in the Product Terms), and (ii) make the Services as incorporated in Licensed Applications available to End Users (as defined in the Product Terms). Your right in (i) above includes the right to access and use the Services in a Licensed Application for non-production use (i.e., used solely for your internal development, evaluation, testing and demonstration and not in the course of any business operation, process or analysis) as long as your Licensed Application is not related to vehicle usage. [...] If your Licensed Application is related to business intelligence or analytics, sales performance management, cloud database management systems, or real estate, you must purchase a separate commercial license under an active order before accessing or using Services in your Licensed Application for any production use. [...] You may not allow your End Users or other third parties to use the Services in any way that would be a violation of these Terms if done by you, and you agree to take reasonable efforts to prevent such use. [...] You may not take any action that improperly decreases the fees that you owe us (e.g., create multiple accounts for the purpose of not exceeding the monthly free usage credits). The Mapbox Terms of Service state that all data returned by the Search Box API endpoints is only available for temporary use. If your use case requires storing position data, contact Mapbox sales.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 50,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: canonical_category_id. Optional: language, limit, proximity, near, bbox, radius, country, types, poi_category_exclusions, show_closed_pois, exclude_fields, sar_type, route, route_geometry, time_deviation, eta_type, navigation_profile, origin
- Method: GET
- Path: /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}

## About the plan

- Plan: Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or older

## The 36 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, preferred name, local name, place ID, feature type, address, full address, formatted place, house number, street, neighborhood, locality, district, city, state, state code, ZIP code, country, country code, latitude, longitude, coordinate accuracy, routable points, bounding box, language, icon, categories, category IDs, brand, brand ID, external IDs, phone, website, opening hours, operational status, distance

## Mapbox's plans (5)

- [Mapbox, free, Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/free-introductory-preview-pricing-up-to-50000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Mapbox, pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 50,001 - 500,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/pay-as-you-go-introductory-preview-pricing-50001-500000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Mapbox, pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 500,001 - 1,000,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/pay-as-you-go-introductory-preview-pricing-500001-1000000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt): $0.034 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Mapbox, pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/pay-as-you-go-introductory-preview-pricing-1000001-5000000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt): $0.028 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Mapbox, contact us, Introductory preview pricing, 5,000,001+ requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/contact-us-introductory-preview-pricing-5000001-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt): 75% complete

## Mapbox's calls (2)

- `GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}`: [Mapbox, free, Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/free-introductory-preview-pricing-up-to-50000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/searchbox/v1/forward`: [Mapbox, free, Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/forward](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/free-introductory-preview-pricing-up-to-50000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-forward/llms.txt)

## Mapbox's APIs (1)

- [Mapbox: Local business search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapbox/free-introductory-preview-pricing-up-to-50000-requests-get-search-searchbox-v1-category-canonical-category-id/llms.txt)

## Mapbox: Local business search API alternatives

- [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
- [TomTom, pay as you go, Pay as you grow, Tier 2, GET /search/2/poiSearch/{query}.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-2-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/llms.txt): $0.027 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Tencent Maps, CNY 70,000 yearly, Commercial licence, Premium (商业授权 高级版), GET /ws/place/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/cny-70000-yearly-commercial-licence-premium-get-ws-place-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.029 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [2GIS, ₽63,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/63400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 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 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.mapbox.com/accounts/guides/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.mapbox.com/api/search/search-box/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.mapbox.com/legal/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.mapbox.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing