# SphereScout, free: Local business search API

> The 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

SphereScout'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. SphereScout's docs list 3: Address, Phone, Category.
SphereScout limits how many results you get but gives no number.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), 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.](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/spherescout/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 60+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.spherescout.io/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.spherescout.io/api/companies/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.spherescout.io/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.spherescout.io/api-reference/search/get-apicompanies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: SphereScout (https://spherescout.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: The 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

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use 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

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.57 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: category, countries, level2_locations, include_closed_businesses, email
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/companies/

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## SphereScout's plans (6)

- [SphereScout, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, 1 month
- [SphereScout, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /api/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-get-api-companies/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete, 1 month
- [SphereScout, $99 monthly, Growth, GET /api/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/99-monthly-growth-get-api-companies/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete, 1 month
- [SphereScout, $199 monthly, Pro, GET /api/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/199-monthly-pro-get-api-companies/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete, 1 month
- [SphereScout, $499 monthly, Scale, GET /api/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/499-monthly-scale-get-api-companies/llms.txt): no limit, 38% complete, 1 month
- [SphereScout, contact us, Custom plan, GET /api/companies/](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/contact-us-custom-plan-get-api-companies/llms.txt): 38% complete, 1 month

## SphereScout's calls (2)

- `GET /api/companies/`: [SphereScout, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/download-csv/`: [SphereScout, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /api/download-csv/](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/spherescout/49-monthly-starter-post-api-download-csv/llms.txt)

## SphereScout's APIs (1)

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

## SphereScout: local business search API alternatives

[SphereScout alternatives: every local business search API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/spherescout-alternatives.txt)

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

- [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Bolt Scraper, free, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeField, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 24 hours
- [Places Data API, free trial, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days
- [SerpWow, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpwow/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://docs.spherescout.io/api-access/overview.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/api-reference/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/api-reference/search/get-apicompanies.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/billing/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/concepts/contacts.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/concepts/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/concepts/filters.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/faq.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.spherescout.io/mcp/tools.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.spherescout.io/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.spherescout.io/terms-of-service/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing