# Serpbit, free: Local business search API

> Places with ratings, hours, phones and coordinates.

Serpbit'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. Serpbit's docs list all 8: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run Serpbit 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/serpbit/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://serpbit.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.serpbit.com/v1/maps`
- API key: with the plan, on https://serpbit.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://serpbit.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#maps
- Sold by: Serpbit (https://serpbit.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## 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

- Repeat free: 1 hour
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · News · Shopping · Shopping product · Images · Videos · Autocomplete · AI Mode · Custom Search API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Places with ratings, hours, phones and coordinates.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must follow the acceptable use policy. You are responsible for how you use the results, including any rights of others in the content of the pages and any law that applies to your use, such as data protection law if results contain personal data. You may resell or build products on the results, you may not resell access to the API itself without a written agreement with us. Acceptable use, Do not: Use the service or its results to break the law, or to infringe the rights of others. Use results to harass, stalk or profile individuals, or to build lists of people's personal data without a lawful basis. Send spam, distribute malware, or run phishing or fraud with the help of the service. Try to get around plan limits, for example by spreading load over several free accounts or keys to avoid paying. Share keys publicly, or put them in code that runs in a browser or an app others can read. Probe, attack or overload our servers, or try to reach data that is not yours. Resell access to the API itself (not the results) without a written agreement with us.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 pages a month
- Expires: at the end of each period

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5 (30 a minute)
- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: gl, hl, location, device, pages, start, no_cache, safe, lr, nfpr, filter, tbs, html
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/maps

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, types, rating, review count, price level, address, opening hours, phone, website, place ID, CID, Google Maps URL, latitude, longitude, page number, next start, time taken

## Serpbit's plans (9)

- [Serpbit, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/200-pack/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, $600 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/600-pack/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, $75 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/75-monthly/llms.txt): $0.037 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, $150 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/150-monthly/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, $350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/350-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serpbit, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

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

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

## Serpbit's APIs (9)

- [Serpbit Google AI Mode scraper API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-mode-scraper-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit Image search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit Search autocomplete API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit Video search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit Local business search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit Google Shopping product API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-product-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit Google Shopping search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/serpbit/free/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit SERP API pricing, 9 plans, GET /customsearch/v1](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpbit/free-get-customsearch-v1/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit SERP API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpbit/free-get-v1-search-search/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit SERP API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpbit/free-get-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit News API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbit/free-get-v1-news-news/llms.txt)
- [Serpbit News API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/news, News, full](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbit/free-get-v1-news-news-full/llms.txt)

## Serpbit: local business search API alternatives

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

We list Serpbit's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Serpbit in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Serpbit, $350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpbit/350-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [MCP Scraper, $40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/mcp-scraper/40-monthly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [Crawio, $313 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/313-yearly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [GMapsScraper.io, $588 yearly, Advanced Yearly, POST /api/v1/scrape, Area Search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/gmapsscraper-io/588-yearly-advanced-yearly-post-api-v1-scrape-area-search/llms.txt): $0.027 per 1,000, 100% 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://serpbit.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://serpbit.com/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://serpbit.com/changelog/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://serpbit.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://serpbit.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://serpbit.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing