# Mappls, free, Start for free, GET /search/places/nearby/json: Local business search API

> Nearby Places API enable users to search nearby POIs by searching for generic keywords used to describe a category of places or via the unique code assigned to that category

Mappls's Local business search API on its Start for free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Category.
Mappls limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
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/mappls/free-start-for-free-get-search-places-nearby-json
- Get it: https://about.mappls.com/api/search-and-geocoding?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://search.mappls.com/search/places/nearby/json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://about.mappls.com/api/search-and-geocoding?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://github.com/mappls-api/mappls-rest-apis/tree/main/mappls-maps-near-by-api-example?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Mappls (https://about.mappls.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: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Nearby Places API enable users to search nearby POIs by searching for generic keywords used to describe a category of places or via the unique code assigned to that category

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree that the Company gives you a personal, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the Products and Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Products and Services as provided by the Company, in the manner permitted by these terms. [...] you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any Application Content. Use of the Application Content for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited. [...] You agree that you will not: a.) Use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link or other similar automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm or methodology to access, acquire, copy or monitor the website or the Products and Services or any portion of it, without the Company's express written consent [...] e.) Users agree not to use or launch any automated system, including, without limitation, "robots," "spiders," "offline readers," etc., that accesses the website or Products and Services in a manner that sends more request messages to its servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: keywords, refLocation. Optional: page, region, radius, bounds, filter, sortBy, searchBy, pod
- Method: GET
- Path: /search/places/nearby/json

## About the plan

- Plan: Start for free
- Who can get it: anyone who creates a Mappls console account

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

name, address, place ID, place type, categories, distance, email, phone, landline phone, order index, total results, page count, total pages, page size

## Mappls's plans (2)

- [Mappls, free, Start for free, GET /search/places/nearby/json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mappls/free-start-for-free-get-search-places-nearby-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Mappls, contact us, GET /search/places/nearby/json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mappls/contact-us-get-search-places-nearby-json/llms.txt): 38% complete

## Mappls's calls (2)

- `GET /search/places/nearby/json`: [Mappls, free, Start for free, GET /search/places/nearby/json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mappls/free-start-for-free-get-search-places-nearby-json/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/places/textsearch/json`: [Mappls, free, Start for free, GET /search/places/textsearch/json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mappls/free-start-for-free-get-search-places-textsearch-json/llms.txt)

## Mappls's APIs (1)

- [Mappls: Local business search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /search/places/nearby/json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mappls/free-start-for-free-get-search-places-nearby-json/llms.txt)

## Mappls: Local business search API alternatives

- [Ola Maps, free, Tier 1 · Up to 100K, GET /places/v1/nearbysearch/advanced](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/ola-maps/free-tier-1-up-to-100k-get-places-v1-nearbysearch-advanced/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete
- [openrouteservice, free, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [MapQuest, free, MapQuestGO, 50,000 one-time free transactions, GET /search/v2/radius](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapquest/free-mapquestgo-50000-one-time-free-transactions-get-search-v2-radius/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [MapTiler, free, GET /geocoding/{queries}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maptiler/free-get-geocoding-queries-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Litescrape, free, 5 free calls](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/litescrape/free-5-free-calls/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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://about.mappls.com/about/terms-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://about.mappls.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://about.mappls.com/api/search-and-geocoding?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://github.com/mappls-api/mappls-rest-apis/tree/main/mappls-maps-near-by-api-example?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://github.com/mappls-api/mappls-rest-apis/tree/main/mappls-textsearch-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing