# SignalShelf, free: Local business search API

> Billed per request, not per place: one search returns about 20 places for 1 credit.

SignalShelf'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. SignalShelf's docs list all 8: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run SignalShelf through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) 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.](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. [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.
[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), [HERE](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/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/signalshelf/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 50+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://signalshelf.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://signalshelf.dev/v1/google-maps/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://signalshelf.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://signalshelf.dev/docs/web/google-maps/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: SignalShelf (https://signalshelf.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## 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: 135 other SignalShelf calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Billed per request, not per place: one search returns about 20 places for 1 credit.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Don'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 get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 pages
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: location, limit, cursor, language, region, freshness
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google-maps/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## SignalShelf's plans (6)

- [SignalShelf, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/19-pack/llms.txt): $0.048 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/79-pack/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/299-pack/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, $499 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/499-pack/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [SignalShelf, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, stored

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

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

## SignalShelf's APIs (8)

- [SignalShelf: Amazon product API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)
- [SignalShelf: App Store API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)
- [SignalShelf: App Store review API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)
- [SignalShelf: local business reviews API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)
- [SignalShelf: local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)
- [SignalShelf: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)
- [SignalShelf: Google Play API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)
- [SignalShelf: Google Play review API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-review-apis/signalshelf/free/llms.txt)

## SignalShelf: local business search API alternatives

- [BestTime, $999 monthly, Pro Venues, 20,000 venues, GET /api/v1/venues/filter](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/besttime/999-monthly-pro-venues-20000-venues-get-api-v1-venues-filter/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [BRONTIR, €125 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/brontir/125-monthly/llms.txt): $0.025 per 1,000, 88% complete, stored
- [G Maps Crawl, $2,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/g-maps-crawl/2999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.187 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored
- [Semust, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semust/top-up/llms.txt): $0.396 per 1,000, 88% complete, stored

## 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.

- https://signalshelf.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/batch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/errors?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/quickstart?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/docs/web/google-maps/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/platforms/google-maps?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://signalshelf.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing