# Scrape.land, free: Local business search API

> Local businesses of one kind in one place, as rows: name, address, website, phone, email and opening hours. A lead list without writing a scraper.

Scrape.land's Free plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Scrape.land's docs list 6: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Opening hours.
We haven't run Scrape.land through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 492 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.25 or less per 1,000 places. [269 local business search API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) [mitbbs.ai's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mitbbs-ai/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.
[IBLead's $53 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/iblead/53-monthly-starter-get-businesses/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places, with no charge per call. You get as many places as IBLead's rate limit allows. [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.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.
[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 [SphereScout](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-get-api-companies/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrape.land/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://scrape.land/v1/places`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrape.land/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrape.land/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#places-endpoint
- Sold by: Scrape.land (https://scrape.land?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch · Extract · Batch · Search · Rank · Jobs

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Local businesses of one kind in one place, as rows: name, address, website, phone, email and opening hours. A lead list without writing a scraper.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Every response carries that credit as attribution and every row links to its source in osm_url. If you publish or share the data, you must credit OpenStreetMap as the licence requires.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests
- Enough for: 10,000 results, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: category, one of location or bbox. Optional: website, phone, email, limit, offset
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/places

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, categories, latitude, longitude, data source URL, address, city, website, profile page URL, phone, email, opening hours, attribution, bounding box, total results

## Scrape.land's plans (19)

- [Scrape.land, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.016 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.014 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $1,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/1999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $3,499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/3499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $9,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/9999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/190-yearly/llms.txt): no limit, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $290 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/290-yearly/llms.txt): $0.014 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.014 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $4,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/4990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $9,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/9990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $19,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/19990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $34,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/34990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0097 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Scrape.land, $99,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/99990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0083 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours

## Scrape.land's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/places`: [Scrape.land, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/free/llms.txt)

## Scrape.land's APIs (3)

- [Scrape.land Local business search API pricing, 19 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrape.land Web search API pricing, 19 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrape-land/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrape.land Web scraping API pricing, 19 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/free-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [Scrape.land Web scraping API pricing, 19 plans, POST /v1/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/free-post-v1-extract/llms.txt)
- [Scrape.land Web scraping API pricing, 19 plans, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/free-post-v1-fetch-fetch/llms.txt)
- [Scrape.land Web scraping API pricing, 19 plans, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/free-post-v1-fetch-fetch-full/llms.txt)

## Scrape.land: local business search API alternatives

[Scrape.land alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/scrape-land-alternatives.txt)

We list Scrape.land's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Scrape.land in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a day old.

- [Scrape.land, $99,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/99990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0083 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [SerpWiz, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpwiz/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0075 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [2GIS, ₽250,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/250000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [MCP Scraper, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mcp-scraper/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 38% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://scrape.land?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrape.land/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrape.land/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrape.land/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing