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Open Places API pricing: Local business search API

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63% complete: 5 of the 8 fields on our checklistSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesIn our Local business search API benchmark, the best plan from Open Places API scores 31.8 out of 100. Open Places API ranks 19th of 34 providers.This plan is free. We rank 301 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.45 per 1,000 places or less. See the best free local business search API plan.SerpData's $200 pack 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.LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan covers any number of places. LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpData's $200 pack.LocationIQ, HERE and CityBotMagic are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Open Places API plan for that many places. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Open Places API's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/places Open Places API's only call
API: Local business search API Open Places API's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get places from Open Places API's database.
  • 5 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 requests a month, enough for 10,000 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire at the monthly reset.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/places. You send lat, lon and one of q or category. You can also send radius_mi, mode, limit, offset, min_confidence, sort, layer_preset and layers. The call returns the businesses there.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Open Places API: Local business search API alternatives

Open Places API alternatives: every Local business search API provider ranked

The table starts with Open Places API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Open Places API's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

Open Places API, $2,490 yearlyHERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 0 to 5,000 requests a monthSerpWiz, $90 yearly2GIS, ₽250,000 monthlyCrawio, $2,689 yearly
$ per 1,000 places$0.0042$0.00$0.0056$0.012$0.014
Completeness63%75%100%75%88%
Billingyearlypay as you goyearlymonthlyyearly
Pay$2,490monthly$90₽250,000$2,689
Enough for1,000,000 pages a month5,000 pages a month800,000 pages a year5,000,000 pages a month800,000 pages a month
Freshness1 month24 hours1 hour1 daylive
Who can get itanyone who gives accurate account information and is not barred from using the service under applicable lawanyone who provides payment information, but for the Asset Management, UBI/Telematics and Optimization use casesanyone at least 18, or the age of majority where they live, with a verified email addresslegal entities and fully capable individuals, residents or non-residentsanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. openplacesapi.com
  2. openplacesapi.com/data-rights
  3. openplacesapi.com/docs/errors
  4. openplacesapi.com/docs/reference
  5. openplacesapi.com/openapi.yaml
  6. openplacesapi.com/overture-places-api
  7. openplacesapi.com/places-api
  8. openplacesapi.com/pricing
  9. openplacesapi.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Address
  • Phone
  • Website
  • 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
Perpage of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search1,000
Also pays fornothing else
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAn open-data Google Places API alternative.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not use the service to: violate law, infringe rights, or process data you are not allowed to process, attack, overload, probe, or bypass limits on Open Places API systems, resell the service as a standalone API without written permission, submit malicious code, deceptive records, or abusive account-layer content, use API keys in browsers, mobile apps, public repositories, or other places where secrets are exposed. [...] Yes. Open Places API results are built from permissively licensed open Overture Places data, so you can cache and store returned place data in your product. [...] Yes, subject to the underlying open-data licenses and attribution requirements. Overture Places records use permissive source licenses such as CDLA-Permissive 2.0, Apache 2.0, and CC0 depending on source.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 requests a month
Enough for10,000 pages a month
Expiresat the monthly reset
Rate limit
Per second2
Concurrent8
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.76 s
The call
You sendlat, lon, one of q or category. Optional: radius_mi, mode, limit, offset, min_confidence, sort, layer_preset, layers
MethodGET
Path/v1/places
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who gives accurate account information and is not barred from using the service under applicable law
The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, name, latitude, longitude, distance, category, categories, category hierarchy, address, street, city, state, ZIP code, country code, phone, website, confidence, operating status, match type, request ID, data source name, data release, data releases, next offset, interpreted category, warnings

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