# Places Data API, free trial, GET /v1/places/search: Local business search API

> Search 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.

Places Data API's Free Trial plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Places Data API's docs list 7: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
We haven't run Places Data API through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) 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.](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 [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-search
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 50+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://placesdataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.placesdataapi.com/v1/places/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://placesdataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://placesdataapi.com/docs/places-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Places Data API (https://placesdataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: Nearby & 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 pitch: Search 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

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 12,000 credits
- Enough for: 2,400 results
- Expires: 60 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5 (30 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: lat, lng, zoom, limit, region, language, fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/places/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Places Data API's plans (9)

- [Places Data API, free trial, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $10 pack, $10 pay-as-you-go credit pack, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/10-pack-10-pay-as-you-go-credit-pack-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $50 pack, $50 pay-as-you-go credit pack, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/50-pack-50-pay-as-you-go-credit-pack-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.455 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $100 pack, $100 pay-as-you-go credit pack, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/100-pack-100-pay-as-you-go-credit-pack-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.417 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $500 pack, $500 pay-as-you-go credit pack, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/500-pack-500-pay-as-you-go-credit-pack-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $29 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/29-monthly-starter-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.414 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $79 monthly, Growth, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/79-monthly-growth-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.359 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $199 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/199-monthly-pro-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.284 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [Places Data API, $499 monthly, Business, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/499-monthly-business-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days

## Places Data API's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /v1/places/nearby`: [Places Data API, free trial, GET /v1/places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-nearby/llms.txt)
- `GET /v1/places/search`: [Places Data API, free trial, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt)

## Places Data API's APIs (3)

- [Places Data API: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/places-data-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Places Data API: local business reviews API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Places Data API: local business search API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt)

## Places Data API: local business search API alternatives

- [VIETMAP, pay as you go, 1 to 500,000 transactions a month, GET /api/search/v4](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/vietmap/pay-as-you-go-1-to-500000-transactions-a-month-get-api-search-v4/llms.txt): $0.195 per 1,000, 25% complete, 7 days
- [Yelp, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.199 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [x402serps, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /api/v1/places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/x402serps/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-api-v1-places/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 hour
- [Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/9-monthly-hobby-get-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 75% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://api.placesdataapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com/docs/places-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing