# Montjoy Places, free: Local business search API

> Montjoy Places offers predictable, developer-friendly access to core POI data — with built-in customization and governance — at a fraction of the complexity and cost of traditional Places APIs.

Montjoy Places' Free plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Montjoy Places' docs list 5: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates.
We haven't run Montjoy Places through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 492 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.25 or less per 1,000 places. [269 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/montjoy-places/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://montjoyplaces.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.montjoyplaces.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://montjoyplaces.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://montjoyplaces.com/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Montjoy Places (https://montjoyplaces.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 200
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: Create a custom place · Create/update override for a global place · from the same budget: Get a global or address-derived place by id

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Montjoy Places offers predictable, developer-friendly access to core POI data — with built-in customization and governance — at a fraction of the complexity and cost of traditional Places APIs.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to: Abuse or excessively overload the service, Attempt to bypass usage limits, Use the service for unlawful or harmful purposes, Interfere with service operation or security. Attribution required.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 20,000 requests a month
- Enough for: about 6,666 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: lat, lon, radiusMeters, limit, excludeCategoryMatch, forceTypeahead, customOnly, onlyCustom, isAddress, groupId
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 48 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, name, latitude, longitude, distance, categories, category IDs, address, city, region, postcode, country, website, phone, email, tags, metadata, record source, custom place ID, tenant ID, app ID, group ID, owner user ID, owner type, created at, updated at, query, results returned, resolved mode, resolved reason, resolved prefix, resolved category, resolved group ID, resolved custom only, resolved locality, resolved address query, resolved address place ID, formatted address, geocode provider, geocode cache hit, address radius, address candidates, address candidates filtered, center latitude, center longitude, center source, center kind, center label

## Montjoy Places' plans (5)

- [Montjoy Places, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Montjoy Places, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0071 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Montjoy Places, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0047 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Montjoy Places, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0037 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [Montjoy Places, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/contact-us/llms.txt): 63% complete, stored

## Montjoy Places' calls (1)

- `GET /v1/search`: [Montjoy Places, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/free/llms.txt)

## Montjoy Places' APIs (1)

- [Montjoy Places Local business search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/free/llms.txt)

## Montjoy Places: local business search API alternatives

[Montjoy Places alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/montjoy-places-alternatives.txt)

We list Montjoy Places' cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Montjoy Places in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives stored data.

- [Montjoy Places, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/montjoy-places/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0037 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [IBLead, $539 monthly, Enterprise, GET /businesses](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/539-monthly-enterprise-get-businesses/llms.txt): $0.00052 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [BestTime, $2,999 monthly, Pro Venues, 100,000 venues, GET /api/v1/venues/filter](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/2999-monthly-pro-venues-100000-venues-get-api-v1-venues-filter/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [BRONTIR, €350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brontir/350-monthly/llms.txt): $0.023 per 1,000, 88% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## 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://montjoyplaces.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://montjoyplaces.com/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://montjoyplaces.com/features?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://montjoyplaces.com/migration/foursquare?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://montjoyplaces.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://montjoyplaces.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://montjoyplaces.com/pricing/request-weighting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://montjoyplaces.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing