# Mapricot, free: Local business search API

> GET /places/v1/nearby lists businesses and landmarks around a coordinate, nearest first. Filter by category to find a kind of place.

Mapricot's Free every 30 days plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Mapricot's docs list 6: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Opening hours.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from Mapricot scores 45.4 out of 100. Mapricot ranks 28th of 71 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 501 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.245 or less per 1,000 places. [272 local business search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) [mitbbs.ai's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.
[IBLead's $53 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/53-monthly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places, with no charge per call. You get as many places as IBLead's rate limit allows. [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.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.
[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 [SphereScout](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-get-api-companies/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapricot/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mapricot.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.mapricot.com/places/v1/nearby`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mapricot.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://mapricot.com/docs/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#list-places-around-a-point
- Sold by: Mapricot (https://mapricot.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Find an address · Search a list of addresses · Suggest as people type · Find the address at a point · Look up a saved place · Get a route · Optimize the order of stops · Get an isochrone · Look up an address

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: GET /places/v1/nearby lists businesses and landmarks around a coordinate, nearest first. Filter by category to find a kind of place.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms, Acceptable use: "You may not: Resell or redistribute raw access to the Services, such as by passing our API through to others as your own API, or use the Services to build a competing location API or dataset. Bulk-download map tiles or responses, or scrape the Services to copy our data, rather than using them in your app as needed. Get around the Services' limits, such as the map tile fair use limit, the limit on requests in progress at once, or the free allowance, including by creating extra accounts. Use IP geolocation to identify, track, or locate a person. Its results are the approximate location of a network, never of a device, an address, or a person. Use routing or other results where a wrong answer could cause injury or death, such as dispatching emergency services, without checking them another way. Interfere with or disrupt the Services, probe or test their security without our permission, or circumvent their security features. Access other people's accounts or data, or mislead us or others, including by impersonating someone. Send malware, or use the Services in a way that breaks any law or regulation. Harass, threaten, or abuse others, including Mapricot's staff." Data, results, and attribution: "You may store the results you get and show them in your app, for as long as you like, as long as you follow those licenses. In particular, if your app shows results to people, give the attribution those licenses require [...]. IP geolocation results need a credit to DB-IP with a link to its site and the CC BY 4.0 license."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 250,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 250,000 pages a month
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.02 s

## The call

- You send: lat, lon. Optional: category, radius, limit, lang
- Method: GET
- Path: /places/v1/nearby

## About the plan

- Plan: Free every 30 days
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and a person, with a sign-in by email, no credit card

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, type, name, label, house number, street, postal code, city, region, region code, country, country code, latitude, longitude, category, distance, phone, website, social URL, brand, opening hours, data source, attribution

## Mapricot's plans (2)

- [Mapricot, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapricot/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Mapricot, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapricot/25-pack/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 75% complete

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

- `GET /places/v1/nearby`: [Mapricot, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapricot/free/llms.txt)

## Mapricot's APIs (2)

- [Mapricot IP geolocation API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/mapricot/free/llms.txt)
- [Mapricot Local business search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapricot/free/llms.txt)

## Mapricot: local business search API alternatives

[Mapricot alternatives: every local business search API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/mapricot-alternatives.txt)

We list Mapricot's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Mapricot in price per 1,000 places.

- [Mapricot, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapricot/25-pack/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Geoapify, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geoapify/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Open Places API, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Crawlora, $199 monthly, Business, GET /apple-maps/category-search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawlora/199-monthly-business-get-apple-maps-category-search/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Amazon Location Service, pay as you go, On-demand, POST /v2/search-nearby, SearchNearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/amazon-location-service/pay-as-you-go-on-demand-post-v2-search-nearby-searchnearby/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 75% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://api.mapricot.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapricot.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapricot.com/docs/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapricot.com/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapricot.com/docs/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapricot.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapricot.com/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapricot.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing