Ola Maps pricing: Local business search API, GET /places/v1/nearbysearch

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$0.00per 1,000 placesWe haven't run a Local business search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 89 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.04 per 1,000 places or less.Stadia Maps's $250 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.001. Stadia Maps charges for each page of results. We count 10 places on each page to get the $0.001 price.

Plan: Tier 1 · Up to 100K one of Ola Maps's 4 plans

Call: GET /places/v1/nearbysearch one of Ola Maps's 3 calls for this API

API: Local business search API one of Ola Maps's 2 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
3 of the 8 key fields we check. Address, Category, Coordinates.
Nothing to pay. You get 100,000 requests a month. You spend the requests on Ola Maps's other calls. This call is free for up to 100,000 pages a month.
One call. You send location to GET /places/v1/nearbysearch. You can also send types, language, radius, withCentroid, rankBy and limit. The call returns the businesses there.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Ola Maps: Local business search API alternatives

Ola Maps alternatives: every Local business search API plan compared

The table starts with Ola Maps's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Ola Maps's.

	Ola Maps, pay as you go, Tier 3 · 5M+, GET /places/v1/nearbysearch	Tencent Maps, CNY 70,000 yearly, Commercial licence, Premium (商业授权高级版), GET /ws/place/v1/search_by_polygon	2GIS, ₽63,400 monthly	TomTom, pay as you go, Pay as you grow, Tier 1, GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}	Mapbox, pay as you go, Introductory preview pricing, 500,001 - 1,000,000 requests, GET /search/searchbox/v1/category/{canonical_category_id}
$ per 1,000 places	$0.034	$0.029	$0.03	$0.034	$0.034
Completeness	38%	50%	75%	75%	75%
Billing	pay as you go	yearly	monthly	pay as you go	pay as you go
Pay	per call	CNY 70,000	₽63,400	per call	monthly
Enough for	as many as you pay for	50,000 pages a day	500,000 pages a month	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for
Freshness	unknown	unknown	1 day	unknown	unknown
Who can get it	anyone	enterprises and other organizations with enterprise certification, which does not take foreign companies, the licence is for use in a live app	legal entities and fully capable individuals, residents or non-residents	anyone not barred from receiving the Licensed Products under the laws of the United States or other countries	anyone 18 or older

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Address
Phone, not in the answer
Website, not in the answer
Category
Coordinates
Rating, not in the answer
Review count, not in the answer
Opening hours, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 places	$0.00
Per	page of 50
Billing	free

Charges
Most per search	50
Also pays for	nothing else

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Find POIs around a location by category—restaurants, hotels, and more for maps, travel, and local discovery.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	you may [...] ii. use the applicable SDKs, tools, and APIs for the sole purpose of developing Applications and integrating SDKs and APIs within your Applications in accordance with the rights and limitations described in the Commercial Terms, other applicable terms, and Documentation, [...] f) Sublicensing: You shall not sublicense and/or distribute Ola Products unless expressly permitted by Ola in the Commercial Terms or other applicable terms or separate written agreement between you and Ola. [...] 6. PROHIBITED USES a) You shall not engage in any of the following uses of the Ola products and/or Platform: [...] X. Modify Ola Content or provide Ola Content to another person or entity, XI. Use incorrect attribution of any information derived from the Platform, XII. Use outdated versions of the Platform or Ola Products, XIII. Make any derivative works based on or using Ola Products, reverse engineer, reverse compile, disassemble, or attempt to determine the source code of the Ola Products, XIV. Use Ola Products for: (i) benchmarking of third-party data sets, or (ii) a reference to create, enhance, or improve a product or service competitive to Ola, XV. Use Ola Products in connection with a machine learning or artificial intelligence (“AI”) system, including but not limited to, models used in connection with natural language processing, algorithm optimization and training, logical AI/inferencing, machine learning, deep learning, behavioral learning, artificial neural networks, machine perception and motion manipulation, predictive analytics, generative AI, and data extrapolation, XVI. Except as included in an Application, and as permitted in Your license grant from Ola, use Ola Products to create, develop, enhance, test, or evaluate a platform, product or solution regardless of whether such platform, product or solution contains reference to any Ola Products, [...] 2. Attribution Requirements a. Developer Attribution: You agree to prominently display attribution to Ola within any application or product that incorporates or uses the SDK, maps, API, or data. [...] Attribution must be to “Ola Maps”.

Plan
Pay	₹0
You get	100,000 requests a month
Enough for	100,000 pages a month

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	location. Optional: types, language, radius, withCentroid, rankBy, limit
Method	GET
Path	/places/v1/nearbysearch

About the plan
Plan	Tier 1 · Up to 100K
Who can get it	anyone

The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, reference, description, name, address, types, layer, distance, matched substrings, terms, latitude, longitude

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