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Storefinch Local business search API pricing

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50% complete: 4 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 Storefinch scores 36.0 out of 100. Storefinch ranks 63rd of 71 providers.This plan is free. We rank 501 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.245 or less per 1,000 places. 272 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 Storefinch plan for that many places. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Storefinch's 2 plans
Call: POST /mcp Storefinch's only call
API: Local business search API Storefinch's only API

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get places from Storefinch's database.
  • 4 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Address, Phone, Website, Category.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month. Each page uses one request. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire at the monthly reset on the 1st (UTC).
  • One call. You call POST /mcp with method set to "tools/call" and params.name set to "search_places". You can send category, name, city, state, ZIP, radius around a point, require website, phone or email, no website. The call returns the businesses there.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Storefinch: local business search API alternatives

Storefinch alternatives: every local business search API provider ranked

The table starts with Storefinch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Storefinch's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

Storefinch, $19 monthlyCrawio, $99 monthlyScrape.land, $29 monthlyFetchLayer, $250 monthlyHERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 200,001 to 1,000,000 requests a month
$ per 1,000 places$0.019$0.017$0.017$0.02$0.021
Completeness50%88%75%63%75%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlypay as you go
Pay$19$99$29$250monthly
Enough for10,000 pages a month300,000 pages a month1,750,000 results a month250,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for
Freshness1 monthlive24 hourslive24 hours
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone who provides payment information, but for the Asset Management, UBI/Telematics and Optimization use cases

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. storefinch.com
  2. storefinch.com/docs
  3. storefinch.com/google-places-api-alternative
  4. storefinch.com/licenses
  5. storefinch.com/llms.txt
  6. storefinch.com/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, 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
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: find_categories · get_place · get_places · export_leads · verify_websites · find_emails
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitch14.9M US businesses (name, category, address, phone, website, email, socials) that any MCP agent can search in about a second. Openly licensed, so you can store it, resell it, and ship it inside your product.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep datano limit
Use dataEach record carries its open license (CDLA-Permissive-2.0, Apache-2.0 or CC0), keep the license and attribution when you share data you exported. You're responsible for how you use the data, including complying with laws on marketing and outreach such as CAN-SPAM, the TCPA and do-not-call rules. Don't use Storefinch to harass anyone, to send spam, or for anything unlawful. [...] Don't try to get around plan limits, for example by creating many free accounts.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 pages a month
Expiresat the monthly reset on the 1st (UTC)
Rate limit
Per second0.33 (20 a minute)
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.23 s
The call
You sendmethod "tools/call", params.name "search_places". Optional: category, name, city, state, ZIP, radius around a point, require website, phone or email, no website
MethodPOST
Path/mcp
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, category, address, phone, website, email, socials

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