# Omniscrape, free: Local business search API

> Search Google Maps for places matching a query.

Omniscrape'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. Omniscrape's docs list 5: Address, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating.
We haven't run Omniscrape 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/omniscrape/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://omniscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.omniscrape.dev/gmaps/places/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://omniscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.omniscrape.dev/en/docs/api-reference/gmaps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#get-gmapsplacessearch--2-credits
- Sold by: Omniscrape (https://omniscrape.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 96 other Omniscrape calls

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Maps for places matching a query.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law or the terms of any third-party platform whose data is being retrieved. Collect personal data for surveillance, harassment, doxxing, unsolicited marketing, or any unlawful profiling. Resell raw API responses as a competing scraping product without a written commercial agreement. Probe, scan, overload, or otherwise interfere with the availability or integrity of the Service. [...] Use of data retrieved through the Service must comply with the applicable third-party platform's terms of service and any relevant law in your jurisdiction.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 50 pages

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: language
- Method: GET
- Path: /gmaps/places/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract in their jurisdiction

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, name, category, address, website, rating, description, latitude, longitude, place ID, photo count, total results

## Omniscrape's plans (6)

- [Omniscrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/omniscrape/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Omniscrape, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/omniscrape/9-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [Omniscrape, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/omniscrape/29-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [Omniscrape, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/omniscrape/79-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [Omniscrape, $159 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/omniscrape/159-monthly/llms.txt): 63% complete
- [Omniscrape, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/omniscrape/contact-us/llms.txt): 63% complete

## Omniscrape's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /gmaps/places/search`: [Omniscrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/omniscrape/free/llms.txt)

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## Omniscrape: local business search API alternatives

[Omniscrape alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/omniscrape-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places.

- [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
- [SphereScout, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [openrouteservice, free, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% 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://omniscrape.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://omniscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.omniscrape.dev/en/docs/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.omniscrape.dev/en/docs/api-reference/gmaps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.omniscrape.dev/en/docs/limitations?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.omniscrape.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing