# Semscraper, free: Local business search API

> One Google Maps search, every listing it returns: name, category, address, website, rating, review count and opening hours, with the rank of each listing.

Semscraper's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 5 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Website, Category, Rating, Review count.
We haven't run Semscraper through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
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/semscraper/free
- [Local business search API: 16 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.semscraper.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.semscraper.com/v1/serp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.semscraper.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.semscraper.com/en/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#serp_google_post_314e3022b812d5f482d8ba94414e6126b962c16f
- Sold by: Semscraper (https://www.semscraper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Address: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search queries

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One Google Maps search, every listing it returns: name, category, address, website, rating, review count and opening hours, with the rank of each listing.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms & Conditions, 5. Intellectual Property and Data Usage: "The Client is granted a personal, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to use the data for their own professional purposes." Prohibitions: "It is strictly forbidden to share, resell, redistribute, or make available to third parties the data obtained through the service (files, exports, API) without transformation or added value." "It is also forbidden to supply, even in an enriched or transformed form, all or part of the data to a third party whose main activity is the commercialization or redistribution of SERP data (e.g., direct competitors such as SEO platforms or position database providers)." "Any attempt to provide direct access to the Provider’s API or to exploit the data in a competing service is prohibited." Authorizations: "The Client is authorized to integrate and use the data within their own tools, dashboards, reports, software, or services, including in commercial solutions provided to their end customers." "Such integration is permitted as long as the data is used as a component of a broader service (e.g., SEO tools, reporting platforms, consulting services) and is not redistributed to other companies for independent commercial exploitation." 7. Client Obligations: "The Client agrees to use: the service in compliance with applicable laws, not attempt to bypass the service’s security systems, and not use the provided data in any illegal or unethical context."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests
- Enough for: 1,000 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 8.33
- Batch: 1,000

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: search_engine "google_maps", keyword, depth, location, language. Optional: geolocation, priority, callback_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/serp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, keyword, location code, language code, geolocation, pages requested, created at, fetched at, time taken, amount charged, result position, page number, pixel position, name, CID, category, address, website, rating, review count, open state, open state detail, review snippet, photos

## Semscraper's plans (6)

- [Semscraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [Semscraper, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up/llms.txt): $0.034 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [Semscraper, top-up from €100](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-100/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [Semscraper, top-up from €1,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-1000/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [Semscraper, top-up from €5,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-5000/llms.txt): $0.032 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [Semscraper, top-up from €10,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-10000/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 63% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/serp`: [Semscraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/free/llms.txt)

## Semscraper's APIs (2)

- [Semscraper: SERP API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/semscraper/free/llms.txt)
- [Semscraper: Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/free/llms.txt)

## Semscraper: Local business search API alternatives

- [Yelp, $229 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/229-monthly/llms.txt): $0.153 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [G Maps Extractor, $2,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-extractor/2999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.187 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [GeoGridAPI, €400 pack, Enterprise, POST /v1/grids](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/geogridapi/400-pack-enterprise-post-v1-grids/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 25% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://www.semscraper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.semscraper.com/en/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.semscraper.com/en/google-maps-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.semscraper.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.semscraper.com/en/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing