# ScrapeField, free: Local business search API

> Find businesses and places on Google Maps by a text query, optionally around a point.

ScrapeField's Local business search API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns all 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
In [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from ScrapeField scores 45.4 out of 100. ScrapeField ranks 3rd of 16 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 129 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.096 per 1,000 places or less.
[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.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [TomTom](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/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/scrapefield/free
- [Local business search API: 16 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapefield.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrapefield.com/v1/google-maps/places`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapefield.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapefield.com/docs/google-maps/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeField (https://scrapefield.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 44 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Find businesses and places on Google Maps by a text query, optionally around a point.

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not use it to target, harass or endanger individual people. Not allowed: Targeting an individual. Surveillance of a specific person, building a dossier, stalking, or anything whose point is to follow one human being around. Harassment. Assembling contact details in order to contact people who have asked not to be contacted, or to enable anyone else to. Discrimination. Using this data to make or inform decisions about employment, credit, housing or insurance for an individual [...] Sensitive inference. Deriving or targeting on health, sexuality, religion, political opinion, trade union membership or immigration status. Re-selling the raw feed. Build a product on it, do not resell our responses as a data feed. [...] Anything illegal where you are, or where the person is. What you are responsible for: Having a lawful basis for the personal data you ask us for, and for what you do with it afterwards. Your own compliance with the terms of any platform you have a relationship with. [...] Staying inside the acceptable use policy.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,000 credits
- Enough for: about 666 pages
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.18 s

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: lat, lng, radius_m, country, language, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google-maps/places

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone who verifies an email

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, name, category, categories, address, street, city, state, postal code, country code, latitude, longitude, plus code, rating, review count, price level, phone, international phone, website, Google Maps URL, business status, opening hours, popular times, about, main photo URL, next cursor

## ScrapeField's plans (5)

- [ScrapeField, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeField, $39 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt): $0.117 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeField, $149 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/149-pack/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeField, $749 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/749-pack/llms.txt): $0.075 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeField, $2,199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/2199-pack/llms.txt): $0.066 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours

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

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

## ScrapeField's APIs (25)

- [ScrapeField: Local business reviews API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: Local business search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: company headcount API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-headcount-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn profile comment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-comment-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn profile reaction API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-reaction-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-ad-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: X post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeField: X profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt)

## ScrapeField: Local business search API alternatives

- [Semscraper, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up/llms.txt): $0.034 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): $0.045 per 1,000, 88% complete, 12 hours
- [2GIS, ₽30,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/30000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.072 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [Yandex Maps API, $225,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yandex-maps-api/225000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://scrapefield.com/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/google-maps/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/docs/linkedin/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapefield.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing