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Places Data API pricing: local business search API, GET /v1/places/search

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88% complete: 7 of the 8 fields on our checklistSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesWe haven't run Places Data API through our local business search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 426 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.396 or less per 1,000 places. 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. Amazon Location Service's pay-as-you-go plan costs the least for 10,000 places a month: $0.05.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 ScrapeField are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Places Data API plan for that many places. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free Trial one of Places Data API's 9 plans
Call: GET /v1/places/search one of Places Data API's 2 calls for this API
API: Local business search API one of Places Data API's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 30 days old. You get places from Places Data API's database.
  • 7 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 12,000 credits, enough for 2,400 results. Unused credits expire after 60 days.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/places/search. You can also send lat, lng, zoom, limit, region, language and fresh. The call returns the businesses there.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Places Data API: local business search API alternatives

Places Data API alternatives: other local business search API providers by price

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

Places Data API, $499 monthly, Business, GET /v1/places/searchVIETMAP, pay as you go, 1 to 500,000 transactions a month, GET /api/search/v4Yelp, $299 monthlyx402serps, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /api/v1/placesPullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /yelp/search
$ per 1,000 places$0.20$0.195$0.199$0.20$0.20
Completeness88%25%88%75%75%
Billingmonthlypay as you gomonthlypay as you gomonthly
Pay$499per call$299per call$9
Enough for2,500,000 results a monthas many as you pay for30,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for45,000 results a month
Freshness30 days7 dayslive1 hourlive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over who can enter into a binding contract, outside sanctioned countries and regionsanyoneanyone with a Yelp user account and a business emailanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. api.placesdataapi.com/openapi.json
  2. placesdataapi.com
  3. placesdataapi.com/docs/places-search
  4. placesdataapi.com/pricing
  5. placesdataapi.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
  • Review count
  • Opening hours, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forNearby & Bounding-Box Search API for Google Maps · Place Details & Business Profile API for Google Maps · Customer Reviews & Replies API for Google Maps · Storefront & Place Photos API for Google Maps · Website Email & Contact Enrichment API for Google Maps · Place & Address Autocomplete API for Google Maps · Reverse Geocoding API for Google Maps (Lat/Lng)
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch Google Maps local businesses by natural-language query (e.g., 'coffee shops in SoHo, New York' or 'emergency plumbers in Austin, TX'). Returns structured business profiles including place_id, cid, phone number, website domain, rating, review count, opening hours, price level, and GPS coordinates.
Data
Freshness30 days
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use PlacesData API, or data obtained through it, to: harass, defraud, or send unlawful unsolicited bulk communications, try to obtain non-public data, get around our access controls or rate limits, or use someone else’s API key, disrupt, overload, probe or reverse-engineer our systems, break any law, or infringe anyone else’s rights. [...] The service may not be used from, or for the benefit of anyone in, countries and regions under comprehensive sanctions, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. [...] Respect anti-spam and data protection laws when contacting businesses using publicly published emails or phone numbers.
Plan
Pay$0
You get12,000 credits
Enough for2,400 results
Expires60 days
Rate limit
Per second0.5 (30 a minute)
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: lat, lng, zoom, limit, region, language, fresh
MethodGET
Path/v1/places/search
About the plan
PlanFree Trial
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over who can enter into a binding contract, outside sanctioned countries and regions, and whose sign-up passes its automated abuse checks
The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, status, place ID, Google ID, CID, name, category, categories, rating, review count, price level, phone, E.164 phone, website, domain, address, street, city, state, postal code, country code, plus code, latitude, longitude, business status, claimed, Google Maps URL, credits used, credits remaining, results returned, has more, next cursor, cached

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