# ScrapeWhale, free: Local business search API

> Google Maps place search for any query: name, address, coordinates, rating and review count, type, website, phone, price level, opening hours, booking links, and whether the listing is claimed by its owner (claimed: false is a lead-gen signal).

ScrapeWhale's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. ScrapeWhale's docs list all 8 fields on our checklist: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run ScrapeWhale through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 264 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.40 per 1,000 places or less. [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.
[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), [CityBotMagic](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/citybotmagic/free-preview-get-api-v1-search-json/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/scrapewhale/free
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrapewhale.dev/api/v1/maps`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/google-maps-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeWhale (https://scrapewhale.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## 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

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 44 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google Maps place search for any query: name, address, coordinates, rating and review count, type, website, phone, price level, opening hours, booking links, and whether the listing is claimed by its owner (claimed: false is a lead-gen signal).

## Data

- Freshness: 24 hours
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 10 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: ll, gl, hl, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/maps

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up for an account, no credit card

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, address, latitude, longitude, phone, website, rating, review count, price level, opening hours, category, CID, booking appointment link, claimed

## ScrapeWhale's plans (4)

- [ScrapeWhale, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapewhale/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $9.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapewhale/9-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.495 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $19.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapewhale/19-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.452 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $49.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapewhale/49-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.416 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours

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

- `GET /api/v1/maps`: [ScrapeWhale, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapewhale/free/llms.txt)

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- [ScrapeWhale: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, GET /api/v1/brand](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrapewhale/free-get-api-v1-brand/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeWhale: Local business search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapewhale/free/llms.txt)
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## ScrapeWhale: Local business search API alternatives

- [Hubertino, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/hubertino/99-pack/llms.txt): $0.396 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Google Maps Lead Finder, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-lead-finder/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $100,000, $100,000+ deposit, GET /v1/search, Maps](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-100000-100000-deposit-get-v1-search-maps/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Yelp, $643 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/643-monthly/llms.txt): $0.429 per 1,000, 88% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/google-maps-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/linkedin-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing