# Radar, contact us: Local business search API

> Use the places search API to search for places near a location, filtered by chain (e.g., mcdonalds) or category (e.g., airport). Use cases for this endpoint include nearby search.

Radar's Local business search API on its Premium Maps plan. It costs $0.02 per 1,000 places. It returns 2 of the 8 key fields we check: Category, Coordinates.
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 costs less per 1,000 places than 68% of the 89 plans.
[Stadia Maps's $250 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.001. Stadia Maps charges for each page of results. We count 10 places on each page to get the $0.001 price.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/radar/contact-us
- Get it: https://radar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.radar.io/v1/search/places`
- API key: with the plan, on https://radar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.radar.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#search-places
- Sold by: Radar (https://radar.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.02
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: contact

## Charges

- Most per search: 100

## In their words

- Their pitch: Use the places search API to search for places near a location, filtered by chain (e.g., mcdonalds) or category (e.g., airport). Use cases for this endpoint include nearby search.

## Data

- Keep data: 30 days
- Use data: Radar grants Licensee a limited, worldwide, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive license to use Radar's software development kit ("SDK") and Radar's other APIs and web services [...] within Licensee's applications and websites (collectively the "Licensee Properties") solely for Licensee's internal business use in order to collect, analyze, and act on location data collected and generated by the Licensee Properties and/or the Services. [...] Absent express written consent from Radar, Licensee will not use the Services in connection with any Licensee Properties that constitute or promote illegal gambling, adult media (i.e., pornography), pirated content, tobacco products (including without limitation e-cigarettes), firearms or ammunition, or any other product that is illegal in the jurisdiction in or into which it is sold or promoted, [...] Licensee represents and warrants that it shall use the Services in Licensee Properties only where there is a clear benefit to End Users, Licensee will only use the Services in connection with Licensee Properties that it owns and operates, and shall not sell, transfer, license, sublicense, give, rent, loan, lease, or otherwise make the Services or their components available to any third party without Radar's prior express written consent, Licensee shall not (i) use the Services to develop or test other geofencing, geocoding, autocomplete, or place search APIs, (ii) use Radar's geocoding, autocomplete, or place search APIs to develop a database of addresses or points of interest, or (iii) pre-fetch, cache, index, or store any address or point of interest data from Radar's geocoding, autocomplete, or place search APIs for more than thirty (30) days, Licensee shall not (i) alter, hide, obscure, or remove any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights notice contained in the Services, (ii) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise translate or derive the source code for the Services, or attempt to do so, (iii) use the Services to create any software or service containing any malicious or harmful code, (iv) use the Services to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or misappropriate any system or data, (v) use the Services in violation of any applicable law or regulation, or (vi) use the Services in any manner that is harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable, [...] Licensee shall display all attribution that Radar provides through the Services (including branding, logos, and copyright and trademark notices). [...]

## Rate limit

- Per second: 50

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: near, one of categories or chains. Optional: iataCode, chainMetadata[key], radius, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search/places

## About the plan

- Plan: Premium Maps
- Who can get it: Consumer and Logistics entities and organizations, for their business and professional purposes

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, categories, latitude, longitude, chain name, chain slug, chain external ID, chain metadata

## Radar's plans (1)

- [Radar, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/radar/contact-us/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 25% complete

## Radar's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/search/places`: [Radar, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/radar/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Radar's APIs (1)

- [Radar: Local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/radar/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Radar: Local business search API alternatives

- [Stadia Maps, $250 monthly, Professional, GET /geocoding/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Tencent Maps, CNY 50,000 yearly, Commercial licence, Basic (商业授权 基础版), GET /ws/place/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/cny-50000-yearly-commercial-licence-basic-get-ws-place-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [D7 Lead Finder, $89.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/d7-lead-finder/89-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 200,001 to 1,000,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-200001-to-1000000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours

## 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://docs.radar.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.radar.com/geofencing/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.radar.com/maps/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://radar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://radar.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing