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SphereScout Local business search API pricing

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38% complete: 3 of the 8 fields on our checklistSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 placesIn our local business search API benchmark, the best plan from SphereScout scores 58.2 out of 100. SphereScout ranks 3rd of 63 providers.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. mitbbs.ai's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 57.0 out of 100.IBLead's $53 monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 places a month: $0.05.Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan covers any number of places, and costs less up front than IBLead's $53 monthly plan.LocationIQ, HERE and SphereScout are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest SphereScout plan for that many places. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of SphereScout's 6 plans
Call: GET /api/companies/ one of SphereScout's 2 calls
API: Local business search API SphereScout's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get places from SphereScout's database.
  • 3 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Address, Phone, Category.
  • Nothing to pay. SphereScout limits how many results you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You call GET /api/companies/. Every input is optional: category, countries, level2_locations, include_closed_businesses, email. The call returns the businesses there.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SphereScout: local business search API alternatives

SphereScout alternatives: every local business search API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

This planSphereScout, freeHERE, freeBolt Scraper, free, POST /api/v1/maps/searchScrapeField, freePlaces Data API, free trial, GET /v1/places/searchSerpWow, free
$ per 1,000 places$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness38%75%100%100%88%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published30,000 calls a month1,000 results a monthabout 666 pages2,400 results100 pages a month
Freshness1 month24 hourslive24 hours30 dayslive
Who can get itanyoneanyone without payment information, but for the Asset Management, UBI/Telematics and Optimization use casesanyoneanyone who verifies an emailanyone aged 18 or over who can enter into a binding contract, outside sanctioned countries and regions, and whose sign-up passes its automated abuse checksanyone

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. docs.spherescout.io/api-access/overview.md
  2. docs.spherescout.io/api-reference/openapi.json
  3. docs.spherescout.io/api-reference/search/get-apicompanies.md
  4. docs.spherescout.io/billing/plans
  5. docs.spherescout.io/concepts/contacts.md
  6. docs.spherescout.io/concepts/credits
  7. docs.spherescout.io/concepts/filters.md
  8. docs.spherescout.io/faq.md
  9. docs.spherescout.io/mcp/tools.md
  10. spherescout.io/pricing/
  11. spherescout.io/terms-of-service/

Product details

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

  • Address
  • Phone
  • Website, not in the answer
  • Category
  • Coordinates, not in the answer
  • Rating, not in the answer
  • Review count, not in the answer
  • Opening hours, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 places$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe SphereScout REST API gives you programmatic access to the contact database. Use it to search and filter millions of business contacts by location, category, and contact method, stream results into your CRM, trigger CSV exports, and manage API credentials
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep datano limit
Use dataUse the Service only for lawful business purposes [...] You may not use our Service to: Send spam, unlawful unsolicited communications, or bulk outreach that violates applicable privacy, anti-spam, direct-marketing, suppression-list, opt-out, or platform requirements, Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights, Distribute malware or harmful content, Resell or redistribute our data without explicit permission
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.57 s
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: category, countries, level2_locations, include_closed_businesses, email
MethodGET
Path/api/companies/
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

business ID, name, email, phone, city, region, country, total results, ZIP code, category

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