# Open Places API, free: Local business search API

> An open-data Google Places API alternative.

Open Places API's Free plan for the Local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. Open Places API's docs list 5 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates.
In [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
[SerpData's $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpdata/200-pack-growth-post-google-maps-search-places/llms.txt) 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](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 [CityBotMagic](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/citybotmagic/free-preview-get-api-v1-search-json/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://openplacesapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places`
- API key: with the plan, on https://openplacesapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://openplacesapi.com/docs/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Open Places API (https://openplacesapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: An open-data Google Places API alternative.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 10,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 10,000 pages a month
- Expires: at the monthly reset

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Concurrent: 8
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.76 s

## The call

- You send: lat, lon, one of q or category. Optional: radius_mi, mode, limit, offset, min_confidence, sort, layer_preset, layers
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/places

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Open Places API's plans (8)

- [Open Places API, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Open Places API, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Open Places API, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0098 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Open Places API, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.005 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Open Places API, $190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/190-yearly/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Open Places API, $490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0082 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Open Places API, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0042 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month
- [Open Places API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 63% complete, 1 month

## Open Places API's calls (1)

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

## Open Places API's APIs (1)

- [Open Places API: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/open-places-api/free/llms.txt)

## Open Places API: Local business search API alternatives

- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 0 to 5,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [SerpWiz, $90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpwiz/90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0056 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [2GIS, ₽250,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/250000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [Crawio, $2,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/2689-yearly/llms.txt): $0.014 per 1,000, 88% complete, live

## 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.

- https://openplacesapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/data-rights?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/docs/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/overture-places-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/places-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openplacesapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing