# OpenVerbs, pay as you go: Local business search API

> Google Business Profile and Google Maps local business search API: find businesses within a radius of a coordinate, filtered by category and/or name. Returns ranked businesses with name, category, star rating and review count, address, phone, website domain, place_id/CID and coordinates.

OpenVerbs's x402 per call plan for the local business search API costs $0.30 per 1,000 places. OpenVerbs's docs list 7 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
We haven't run OpenVerbs through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 317 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.45 or less per 1,000 places. This plan costs less per 1,000 places than 55% of the 317 plans.
[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. [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.
[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 [Foursquare](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-500-calls/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://places.openverbs.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://places.openverbs.com/v1/business-search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://places.openverbs.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: OpenVerbs (https://openverbs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 88%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.30
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google Business Profile and Google Maps local business search API: find businesses within a radius of a coordinate, filtered by category and/or name. Returns ranked businesses with name, category, star rating and review count, address, phone, website domain, place_id/CID and coordinates.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: locationCoordinate. Optional: categories, query, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/business-search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base (x402 or MPP)

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, results returned, result position, name, category, rating, review count, address, phone, domain, website, place ID, CID, latitude, longitude, claimed

## OpenVerbs's plans (1)

- [OpenVerbs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 88% complete

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

- `POST /v1/business-search`: [OpenVerbs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## OpenVerbs's APIs (9)

- [OpenVerbs: Amazon product API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: Amazon search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: Google Shopping search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: company hierarchy API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-hierarchy-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/czechia](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-czechia/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/finland](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-finland/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/france](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-france/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/latvia](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-latvia/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/norway](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-norway/llms.txt)
- [OpenVerbs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /v1/poland](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/openverbs/pay-as-you-go-x402-per-call-post-v1-poland/llms.txt)

## OpenVerbs: local business search API alternatives

- [MapsData, $297 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mapsdata/297-monthly/llms.txt): $0.297 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Bazhuayu (Octoparse China), top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/data-apps/WW_Yang/google-maps-leads/runs](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bazhuayu-octoparse-china/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-data-apps-ww-yang-google-maps-leads-runs/llms.txt): $0.299 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Foursquare, pay as you go, 100,001 to 500,000 calls, GET /places/search, Place Search (Premium fields)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-100001-to-500000-calls-get-places-search-place-search-premium-fields/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 88% complete
- [GeoGridAPI, €120 pack, Scale, POST /v1/grids](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geogridapi/120-pack-scale-post-v1-grids/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 25% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://openverbs.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://openverbs.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://places.openverbs.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://places.openverbs.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing