# Osint, free: Local business search API

> Searches Google Maps for the name as typed and as a username ("John Smith" and "johnsmith"), merged by place ID: name, address, phone, coordinates, description when shown, and the Maps link.

Osint's Free account plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Osint's docs list 3: Address, Phone, Coordinates.
We haven't run Osint through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 342 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.397 or less per 1,000 places. [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. [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/osint/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://osint.foundation/api/v1/google-maps`
- API key: with the plan, on https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://osint.foundation/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Osint (https://osint.foundation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Searches Google Maps for the name as typed and as a username ("John Smith" and "johnsmith"), merged by place ID: name, address, phone, coordinates, description when shown, and the Maps link.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use the service only for lawful purposes, such as security research, fraud prevention, due diligence, journalism, investigations and checking your own exposure [...] You must not use the service, or anything it returns, to: stalk, harass, threaten, dox or intimidate anyone, [...] make decisions about a person’s employment, housing, credit or insurance, or discriminate against anyone, commit or facilitate fraud, identity theft or any other crime, resell or republish raw results as a competing dataset or service without our written permission, get around rate limits, credit metering or account restrictions, scrape the website instead of using the API, or repeatedly send input the service cannot process, attack, probe or overload the service or its infrastructure.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 credits a day
- Enough for: 3 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: near
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google-maps

## About the plan

- Plan: Free account
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified account

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, phone, latitude, longitude, description, Maps link

## Osint's plans (7)

- [Osint, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Osint, $4.20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/4-20-pack/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [Osint, $29.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/29-99-pack/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [Osint, $99.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/99-99-pack/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [Osint, $699 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/699-pack/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [Osint, $1,999 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/1999-pack/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [Osint, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/google-maps`: [Osint, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)

## Osint's APIs (13)

- [Osint: Facebook page API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: GitHub profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Instagram profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: business verification API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: domain WHOIS API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: IP company lookup API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: local business search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: phone validation API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: reverse email lookup API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Snapchat profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/snapchat-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: Telegram channel API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)
- [Osint: TikTok profile API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/osint/free/llms.txt)

## Osint: local business search API alternatives

- [CrustAPI, free, GET /v1/search, Maps](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-maps/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [G Maps Extractor, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-extractor/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Hubertino, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hubertino/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% 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://osint.foundation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://osint.foundation/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing