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SignalShelf pricing: local business search API

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$0.00per 1,000 placesWe haven't run SignalShelf through our local business search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 426 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.396 or less per 1,000 places. See the best free local business search API plan.SerpData's $200 pack 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. Amazon Location Service's pay-as-you-go plan costs the least for 10,000 places a month: $0.05.LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan covers any number of places. LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpData's $200 pack.LocationIQ, HERE and ScrapeField are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest SignalShelf plan for that many places. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of SignalShelf's 6 plans
Call: GET /v1/google-maps/search SignalShelf's only call for this API
API: Local business search API one of SignalShelf's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get places from SignalShelf's database. SignalShelf doesn't say how old the data is.
  • All 8 fields on our checklist. Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 1,000 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v1/google-maps/search. You can also send location, limit, cursor, language, region and freshness. The call returns the businesses there.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SignalShelf: local business search API alternatives

SignalShelf alternatives: other local business search API providers by price

The table starts with SignalShelf's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to SignalShelf's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

SignalShelf, $499 packBestTime, $999 monthly, Pro Venues, 20,000 venues, GET /api/v1/venues/filterBRONTIR, €125 monthlyG Maps Crawl, $2,999 monthlySemust, top-up
$ per 1,000 places$0.025$0.025$0.025$0.187$0.396
Completeness100%75%88%100%88%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$499$999€125$2,999any amount
Enough for1,000,000 pages40,000,000 results a monthabout 5,512 pages a month800,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnessstoredstoredstoredstoredstored
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live, and able to enter a contracta human (accounts registered by "bots" or other automated methods are not permitted), with a legal full name and a valid email address for a paid subscriptionanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyone with a Semust account

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. signalshelf.dev
  2. signalshelf.dev/acceptable-use
  3. signalshelf.dev/docs/batch
  4. signalshelf.dev/docs/caching
  5. signalshelf.dev/docs/errors
  6. signalshelf.dev/docs/quickstart
  7. signalshelf.dev/docs/web/google-maps/search
  8. signalshelf.dev/platforms/google-maps
  9. signalshelf.dev/pricing
  10. signalshelf.dev/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Address
  • Phone
  • Website
  • Category
  • Coordinates
  • Rating
  • Review count
  • Opening hours
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Perpage of 20
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 135 other SignalShelf calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchBilled per request, not per place: one search returns about 20 places for 1 credit.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataDon't use SignalShelf to: Harass, stalk, dox or target individuals, or build profiles of private people. Collect data about children, or sensitive data such as health, religion, politics or sexuality, to make decisions about individuals. Send spam or unsolicited messages to people found through the API. Break the law, including data protection, consumer protection and intellectual property laws. Resell raw API access as a competing API, share your key publicly, or create multiple accounts to collect free credits. Attack, overload or try to bypass the limits of the service.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for1,000 pages
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: location, limit, cursor, language, region, freshness
MethodGET
Path/v1/google-maps/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live, and able to enter a contract
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, name, address, latitude, longitude, rating, review count, categories, phone, website, opening hours

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