# Storefinch, free: Local business search API

> 14.9M 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.

Storefinch'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. Storefinch's docs list 4: Address, Phone, Website, Category.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), 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.](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/storefinch/free
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://storefinch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://storefinch.com/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://storefinch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://storefinch.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Storefinch (https://storefinch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: find_categories · get_place · get_places · export_leads · verify_websites · find_emails

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: 14.9M 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

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Each 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 get: 500 requests a month
- Enough for: 500 pages a month
- Expires: at the monthly reset on the 1st (UTC)

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33 (20 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.23 s

## The call

- You send: method "tools/call", params.name "search_places". Optional: category, name, city, state, ZIP, radius around a point, require website, phone or email, no website
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## Storefinch's plans (2)

- [Storefinch, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/storefinch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 1 month
- [Storefinch, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/storefinch/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.019 per 1,000, 50% complete, 1 month

## Storefinch's calls (1)

- `POST /mcp`: [Storefinch, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/storefinch/free/llms.txt)

## Storefinch's APIs (1)

- [Storefinch Local business search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/storefinch/free/llms.txt)

## Storefinch: local business search API alternatives

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

We list Storefinch's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Storefinch in price per 1,000 places. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most a month old.

- [Storefinch, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/storefinch/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.019 per 1,000, 50% complete, 1 month
- [Crawio, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Scrape.land, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 200,001 to 1,000,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-200001-to-1000000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours

## 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://storefinch.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://storefinch.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://storefinch.com/google-places-api-alternative?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://storefinch.com/licenses?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://storefinch.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://storefinch.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing