# openrouteservice, free, Standard: Local business search API

> The openpoiservice is a stand-alone service from HeiGIT that returns points of interest in the area surrounding a geometry.

openrouteservice's Local business search API on its Standard plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 5 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Website, Category, Coordinates, Opening hours.
We haven't run a Local business search API benchmark yet.
Half of the 89 plans we rank by price cost $0.04 per 1,000 places or less. This plan and 3 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 89 plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard
- Get it: https://account.heigit.org/info/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.openrouteservice.org/pois`
- API key: with the plan, on https://account.heigit.org/info/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://giscience.github.io/openrouteservice/api-reference/endpoints/poi/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: openrouteservice (https://openrouteservice.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: Directions V2: 2,000 a day, 40 a minute · Export V2: 100 a day, 5 a minute · Isochrones V2: 500 a day, 20 a minute · Matrix V2: 500 a day, 40 a minute · Snap V2: 2,000 a day, 100 a minute · Elevation: 2,000 a day, 40 a minute · Geocoding: 3,000 a day, 100 a minute · Optimization: 500 a day, 40 a minute

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The openpoiservice is a stand-alone service from HeiGIT that returns points of interest in the area surrounding a geometry.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not use the Services for any unlawful purpose. Your use of the Services must comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage or overburden the Services or interfere with any other party’s use of the Services. You may not engage in other unacceptable use of the Services, which includes: Disseminating material that is abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar, threatening, or malicious, Aiding or implementing practices violating basic human rights or civil liberties, Disseminating or storing material that infringes the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right of any person, Creating a false identity or otherwise attempting to mislead others as to the identity or origin of any communication, Exporting, re-exporting, or permitting downloading of any content in violation of any export or import law, regulation, or restriction of the European Union and its agencies or authorities, or without all required approvals, licenses, or exemptions, Interfering with or attempting to gain unauthorized access to any computer network, Transmitting viruses, trojan horses, or any other malicious code or program, Engaging in any other activity deemed by HeiGIT to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of these Terms, Transmit personal data (apart from the data required by the HeiGIT account management). For any OpenStreetMap data you obtain through our services, you have to comply with the Terms of Use by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, especially but not limited to the “Additional limitations on use of personal data” [...]. When using services provided by HeiGIT make sure to have the proper attribution in your API implementation, site, or other properties (either displayed in the map image itself or elsewhere). [...] Any person is permitted one single account for all HeiGIT APIs and services. [...] If you repeatedly exceed the limits, your access to the API will be temporarily blocked and we reserve the right to disable and/or remove your account without prior notice.

## Plan

- Pay: €0
- You get: 500 requests a day
- Enough for: 500 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 500
- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", request "pois", at least one of geometry.bbox or geometry.geojson. Optional: geometry.buffer, filters.category_group_ids, filters.category_ids, filters.name, filters.wheelchair, filters.smoking, filters.fee, limit, sortby
- Method: POST
- Path: /pois

## About the plan

- Plan: Standard
- Who can get it: anyone with a HeiGIT account

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

name, address, latitude, longitude, categories, category group, detail features, website, opening hours, distance, OSM type, OSM ID

## openrouteservice's plans (2)

- [openrouteservice, free, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored
- [openrouteservice, free, Collaborative](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-collaborative/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, stored

## openrouteservice's calls (1)

- `POST /pois`: [openrouteservice, free, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard/llms.txt)

## openrouteservice's APIs (1)

- [openrouteservice: Local business search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openrouteservice/free-standard/llms.txt)

## openrouteservice: Local business search API alternatives

- [Outscraper, free tier, GET /google-maps-directory](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/outscraper/free-tier-get-google-maps-directory/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Pullbay, free, GET /google-maps/place/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/free-get-google-maps-place-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Datafiniti, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datafiniti/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Factori, free, POST /v1/poi/by-address](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/factori/free-post-v1-poi-by-address/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://account.heigit.org/info/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://account.heigit.org/info/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://giscience.github.io/openrouteservice/api-reference/endpoints/poi/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://github.com/GIScience/openpoiservice?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GIScience/openpoiservice/main/openpoiservice/server/api/pois_post.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing