Mapbox pricing: Local business search API, GET / search/ searchbox/ v1/ forward
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- Free, Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requestsIntroductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests$0.00 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 50,001 - 500,000 requestsIntroductory preview pricing, 50,001 - 500,000 requests$0.10 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 500,001 - 1,000,000 requestsIntroductory preview pricing, 500,001 - 1,000,000 requests$0.085 per 1,000
- Pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 requestsIntroductory preview pricing, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 requests$0.07 per 1,000
- Contact us, Introductory preview pricing, 5,000,001+ requestsIntroductory preview pricing, 5,000,001+ requests
GET / search/ searchbox/ v1/ forward one of Mapbox's 2 callsGET /Free, Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests$0.00 per 1,000search/ searchbox/ v1/ category/ {canonical_ category_ id} GET /Free, Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests$0.00 per 1,000search/ searchbox/ v1/ forward
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 7 of the 8 key fields we check. Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Opening hours.
- Nothing to pay. You get 50,000 requests a month, enough for 50,000 pages.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. The call returns the businesses there.search/ searchbox/ v1/ forward - Who can get it: anyone 18 or older. Keep data: only available for temporary use. Use data: with conditions.
Mapbox: Local business search API alternatives
Mapbox alternatives: every Local business search API plan compared
The table starts with Mapbox's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Mapbox's.
| Mapbox, pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/forward | Azure Maps, pay as you go, Gen2 <500K, GET /search/poi/category/{format} | Amap, CNY 50,000 yearly, 技术服务许可 基础版, GET /v5/place/polygon | 2GIS, ₽30,000 monthly | Yandex Maps API, $225,000 yearly | |
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| $ per 1,000 places | $0.07 | $0.045 | $0.05 | $0.072 | $0.09 |
| Completeness | 88% | 75% | 75% | 75% | 75% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay as you go | yearly | monthly | yearly |
| Pay | monthly | monthly | CNY 50,000 | ₽30,000 | $225,000 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 500,000 pages a month | 100,000 pages a month | 50,000,000 pages a year |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | unknown | 1 day | 1 day |
| Who can get it | anyone 18 or older | anyone with an Azure Maps account | legal entities and organisations that buy Amap's technical service licence, which commercial use of the service needs | legal entities and fully capable individuals, residents or non-residents | anyone with a Yandex ID |
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.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Address
- Phone
- Website
- Category
- Coordinates
- Rating
- Review count, not in the answer
- Opening hours
| $ per 1,000 places | $0.00 |
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| Per | page of 10 |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 10 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Category search · Reverse lookup |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| 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. |
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| Keep data | only available for temporary use |
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| 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. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 50,000 requests a month |
| Enough for | 50,000 pages a month |
| Per second | 10 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q. Optional: language, limit, proximity, near, bbox, radius, country, types, poi_category, poi_category_exclusions, show_closed_pois, open_now, minimum_rating, price_levels, exclude_fields, rank_strategy, sar_type, route, route_geometry, time_deviation, auto_complete, eta_type, navigation_profile, origin |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /search/searchbox/v1/forward |
| Plan | Introductory preview pricing, up to 50,000 requests |
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| Who can get it | anyone 18 or older |
The 37 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, rating