# Maps Harvest, free: Local business search API

> Get Google Maps business listings from your own code: names, phone numbers, websites, addresses, ratings and hours. Three calls start a job, poll it and download the results, and there is nothing to host or maintain.

Maps Harvest's Free plan for the Local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. Maps Harvest's docs list 6 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Address, Phone, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
In [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from Maps Harvest scores 16.4 out of 100. Maps Harvest ranks 34th of 34 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 301 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.45 per 1,000 places or less. [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.
[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 [CityBotMagic](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/citybotmagic/free-preview-get-api-v1-search-json/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.mapsharvest.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mapsharvest.com/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.mapsharvest.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.mapsharvest.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Maps Harvest (https://www.mapsharvest.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get Google Maps business listings from your own code: names, phone numbers, websites, addresses, ratings and hours. Three calls start a job, poll it and download the results, and there is nothing to host or maintain.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree that you will not, and will not allow anyone else to: (a) use the Service or Results in violation of any applicable law, regulation or third-party right, including data protection, privacy, anti-spam, telemarketing, consumer protection and anti-discrimination laws, (b) send unsolicited communications with Results in breach of laws such as the GDPR and UK GDPR, the ePrivacy rules and PECR, CAN-SPAM, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Telemarketing Sales Rule (including Do-Not-Call rules), state telemarketing laws, Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, Australia's Spam Act and Do Not Call Register Act, or any equivalent law, (c) use Results to harass, threaten, stalk, defame or discriminate against anyone, to determine eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or any other purpose regulated by the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar laws, or to contact any person for non-business purposes, (d) resell, sublicense, publish, redistribute or otherwise make Results available to third parties as a database, list, data product or lead-selling service, or use Results to build or enrich a competing database or service (you may use Results for your own business, and share them with your employees, contractors and clients for the specific engagement they relate to), (e) use automated means to access the Service other than through our documented API and Local Worker, scrape or harvest content from mapsharvest.com, or probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Service, (f) circumvent, disable or interfere with usage limits, credit accounting, field-tier limits, rate limits, security or access controls, or create multiple accounts to obtain additional free credits, trials, referral credits or commissions, (g) copy, modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or create derivative works of the Service or its software, except to the extent applicable law permits despite this restriction, (h) use the Service to develop, train or operate a product or service that competes with Maps Harvest, (i) upload malicious code, overload or disrupt the Service, or use it in a way that could damage our systems, our reputation or our relationships with third parties, (j) misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or use the Service on behalf of a person or organisation that is prohibited from using it, or (k) use the Service from, or for the benefit of anyone in, a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions, or if you are on a sanctions or restricted-party list.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits
- Enough for: 50 results, once

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook
- Median: 18.48 s

## The call

- You send: query, states. Optional: country, cities, max_results_per_city, max_total_results, preset, fields, category_filter, related_categories, min_rating, min_reviews, max_reviews, require_website, exclude_website, require_phone, exclude_phone, webhook_url, webhook_trigger, webhook_fields, campaign_id, name, resume_job_id
- Method: POST
- Path: /scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over who can form a binding contract, and is not in, or acting for anyone in, a country or on a list subject to comprehensive sanctions

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, name, category, phone, address, city, state, latitude, longitude, rating, review count, Google Maps URL, fetched at

## Maps Harvest's plans (8)

- [Maps Harvest, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Maps Harvest, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/19-monthly/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 88% complete
- [Maps Harvest, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/49-monthly/llms.txt): $9.80 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Maps Harvest, $129 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/129-monthly/llms.txt): $6.45 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Maps Harvest, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/250-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Maps Harvest, $190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/190-yearly/llms.txt): $15.833 per 1,000, 88% complete
- [Maps Harvest, $490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/490-yearly/llms.txt): $8.167 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Maps Harvest, $1,290 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/1290-yearly/llms.txt): $5.375 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Maps Harvest's calls (1)

- `POST /scrape`: [Maps Harvest, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/free/llms.txt)

## Maps Harvest's APIs (1)

- [Maps Harvest: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/maps-harvest/free/llms.txt)

## Maps Harvest: Local business search API alternatives

- [RestoSignals, $4 pack, 1,000 leads, GET /v1/openings/latest](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/restosignals/4-pack-1000-leads-get-v1-openings-latest/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Datafiniti, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/499-monthly/llms.txt): $4.99 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Outscraper, pay as you go, Medium Tier, GET /bing-maps](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/outscraper/pay-as-you-go-medium-tier-get-bing-maps/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Lyre Leads, $39 monthly, Growth, POST /api/v1/searches](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lyre-leads/39-monthly-growth-post-api-v1-searches/llms.txt): $5.20 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Evascrape, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/evascrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 88% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://www.mapsharvest.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.mapsharvest.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.mapsharvest.com/google-maps-scraper-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.mapsharvest.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.mapsharvest.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing