# mitbbs.ai, free: Local business search API

> Search 4,389+ NYC Chinese business listings by keyword or category (Chinese).

mitbbs.ai's Free plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. mitbbs.ai's docs list 3: Address, Phone, Category.
mitbbs.ai limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), this plan scores 57.0 out of 100. mitbbs.ai ranks 21st of 51 providers.
We rank 426 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.396 or less per 1,000 places. This plan and 20 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 426 plans. [See the best free local business search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
[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 [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 50+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mitbbs.ai/app.php/pages/licensing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://mitbbs.ai/yellowpages.php`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://mitbbs.ai/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: mitbbs.ai (https://mitbbs.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 57.0
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 7
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 100

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search 4,389+ NYC Chinese business listings by keyword or category (Chinese).

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Free, no license needed: search-engine indexing, AI answers and citations using headlines and short excerpts with attribution to "mitbbs.ai" and a link to the original article, our free data APIs and MCP within published rate limits (see llms.txt). License required: bulk retrieval of full article text, model training or fine-tuning, redistribution, sublicensing, or inclusion in commercial datasets or products, systematic mirroring of our news or forum corpus. [...] Rights note: licensing covers content mitbbs.ai owns or is permitted to license (first-party and original content). Aggregated third-party articles remain subject to their original publishers' rights, every API item carries rights metadata — please honor it.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.00 s

## The call

- You send: format "json". Optional: q, cat, limit, p
- Method: GET
- Path: /yellowpages.php

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

listing ID, name, category, phone, address, total results, total listings, page number, results per page, attribution source name, attribution source URL, data as of, rights basis, canonical URL, rights note

## mitbbs.ai's plans (1)

- [mitbbs.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete

## mitbbs.ai's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /yellowpages.php`: [mitbbs.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt)

## mitbbs.ai's APIs (2)

- [mitbbs.ai: local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt)
- [mitbbs.ai: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt)

## mitbbs.ai: local business search API alternatives

- [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [openrouteservice, free, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [PontoFato, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pontofato/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 13% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://mitbbs.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/.well-known/mcp.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/agents.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/app.php/pages/licensing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://mitbbs.ai/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing