# MapsData, free: Local business search API

> The Google Maps scraper for leads with emails. Pick a business type and a place, and get every matching business with its phone, website, rating and emails, ready for outreach.

MapsData's Local business search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. MapsData's docs list 7 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run MapsData through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 239 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.365 per 1,000 places or less.
[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.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt) and [TomTom](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/free
- [Local business search API: the 19 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mapsdata.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://mapsdata.ai/api/v1/jobs`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mapsdata.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://mapsdata.ai/api-scrapes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: MapsData (https://mapsdata.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 88%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Google Maps scraper for leads with emails. Pick a business type and a place, and get every matching business with its phone, website, rating and emails, ready for outreach.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The lead lists you generate are yours to use under these terms. [...] you agree to: Follow marketing law wherever your recipients are, including CAN-SPAM in the United States, CASL in Canada [...], and the GDPR and PECR in the EU and UK. Follow calling and texting law, including the TCPA, do-not-call registries and consent rules for automated calls and texts. Identify yourself and honour opt-outs promptly, and give people any privacy notice the law requires from you. Use lead data only for business-to-business purposes. Do not use it to decide anyone's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or housing, or for any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar laws. Not use it to harass, stalk, discriminate against or deceive anyone, or to send unlawful or misleading content. Not resell or publish lead lists as a standalone dataset. You may use them for your own business, or on behalf of a client for that client's outreach. Treat review text as research only. [...] Do not resell or share access to the service itself.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 results
- Enough for: 500 results, once
- Expires: end of the 7-day trial

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: query, total_limit, one of states or cities[].city with cities[].state. Optional: country, limit_basis, max_emails_per_company, min_reviews, max_reviews, list_name, client_id, include_variants, dry_run
- Method: POST
- Path: /jobs

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: a new customer, one free trial per person or organization, card required

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, name, phone, email, website, domain, address, city, state, postal code, rating, review count, categories, business status, claimed, opening hours, Google Maps URL

## MapsData's plans (9)

- [MapsData, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.33 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, $297 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/297-monthly/llms.txt): $0.297 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, $180 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/180-yearly/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, $468 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/468-yearly/llms.txt): $0.78 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, $948 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/948-yearly/llms.txt): $0.263 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [MapsData, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/contact-us/llms.txt): 88% complete, 30 days

## MapsData's calls (1)

- `POST /jobs`: [MapsData, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/free/llms.txt)

## MapsData's APIs (1)

- [MapsData: Local business search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/free/llms.txt)

## MapsData: Local business search API alternatives

- [BestTime, $540 monthly, Pro Usage, POST /api/v1/venues/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/540-monthly-pro-usage-post-api-v1-venues-search/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [GeoGridAPI, €400 pack, Enterprise, POST /v1/grids](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geogridapi/400-pack-enterprise-post-v1-grids/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 25% complete, live
- [G Maps Extractor, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-extractor/799-monthly/llms.txt): $0.266 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Hubertino, $69 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hubertino/69-monthly/llms.txt): $0.276 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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://mapsdata.ai/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/api-errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/api-lifecycle?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/api-scrapes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/google-maps-lead-data-fields?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mapsdata.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing