# Tencent Maps, free, Individual developer (个人开发者), GET /ws/place/v1/explore: Local business search API

> 精准地点搜索，智能地址服务，一站式地理信息解决方案

Tencent Maps's Local business search API on its Individual developer (个人开发者) plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Category, Coordinates.
We haven't run a Local business search API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 89 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.04 per 1,000 places or less.
[Stadia Maps's $250 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.001. Stadia Maps charges for each page of results. We count 10 places on each page to get the $0.001 price.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/free-individual-developer-get-ws-place-v1-explore
- Get it: https://lbs.qq.com/dev/console/quotaImprove?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://apis.map.qq.com/ws/place/v1/explore`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lbs.qq.com/dev/console/quotaImprove?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lbs.qq.com/service/webService/webServiceGuide/search/webServiceSearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#6
- Sold by: Tencent Maps (https://lbs.qq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: 逆地址解析-坐标转地址（位置详情）: 6,000 a day · 地址解析-地址转坐标和地址信息: 6,000 a day · 地点搜索: 200 a day · POI详情查询（ID查询POI信息）: 200 a day · 周边推荐（here）: 200 a day · 关键词输入提示: 6,000 a day · 行政区划-搜索: 6,000 a day · 行政区划-列表: 6,000 a day · 行政区划-获取下级: 6,000 a day · 路线规划-驾车: 6,000 a day · 路线规划-步行: 6,000 a day · 路线规划-骑行: 6,000 a day · 路线规划-公交: 6,000 a day · 路线规划-电动车: 6,000 a day · 距离矩阵-驾车: 6,000 a day · 距离矩阵-步行: 6,000 a day · 距离矩阵-骑行: 6,000 a day · 距离矩阵-直线: 6,000 a day · 天气服务: 6,000 a day · IP定位: 6,000 a day · 静态图: 6,000 a day · 坐标转换: 6,000 a day

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: 精准地点搜索，智能地址服务，一站式地理信息解决方案

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 腾讯授予您一项不可转让、不可转授权的、非排他性的许可，以使您能够以本协议许可的方式在您开发或运营的网站或应用程序中使用本服务及购买的具体的服务。 [...] 您理解并同意，对于您及您用户使用本服务的过程中与腾讯服务器交互产生的所有相关数据归腾讯所有。 [...] 您不能为本服务创造或提供封装。例如，您不得进行如下行为：（1）在您向其他人提供的任何应用接口中使用或提供本服务或相关内容的任何部分（例如地图影像、地理编码、方位、地点或地理数据）；或（2）创造一个网站或应用程序以重现或复制本服务或腾讯位置服务开放平台。 [...] 除非法律允许或腾讯书面许可，您不得从事下列行为： [...] （3）将本服务单独销售、分发或提供给他人使用或将本服务的任何内容以应用接口方式提供给他人或以本服务为基础创建、衍生地图应用或本服务相同、类似的服务；（4）对腾讯拥有知识产权的内容进行本协议约定之外的使用、出租、出借、复制、修改、链接、转载、汇编、发表、出版、建立镜像站点等； [...] （6）您不得通过任何方式或工具（如网络搜索/检索程序、抓取工具等），对本服务的任何内容进行检索或索引，或在未获得用户等权利人授权的情况下收集用户相关信息。 [...] （8）通过非腾讯开发、授权的第三方软件、插件、外挂、系统，登录或使用本服务，或制作、发布、传播上述工具或通过非正常的方式（包括但不限于遍历抓取地图数据等）使用本服务； [...] 本服务所涉及的运营数据的全部权利，均归属腾讯所有，未经腾讯事先书面同意，您不得为任何目的使用。 [...] 您同意在此授予腾讯一项世界范围内的、免许可费的、不可转让的、非排他性的使用许可，许可腾讯可以在本条款期限内使用您的标志，以对外宣传或公布您正在使用本服务（例如在演示文稿、营销材料、客户名单、财务报告和网站列表（包括指向您网站的链接）中使用您的标志。

## Plan

- Pay: CNY 0
- You get: 200 requests a day
- Enough for: 200 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 200
- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: boundary. Optional: policy, filter, orderby, location_mode, address_format, page_size, page_index
- Method: GET
- Path: /ws/place/v1/explore

## About the plan

- Plan: Individual developer (个人开发者)
- Who can get it: individual developers, for personal study, not for an enterprise or organization

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, request ID, place ID, name, address, category, latitude, longitude, distance, district code, state, city, district

## Tencent Maps's plans (8)

- [Tencent Maps, free, Individual developer (个人开发者), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/free-individual-developer-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Tencent Maps, free, Enterprise developer, tech public interest (企业开发者-技术公益), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/free-enterprise-developer-tech-public-interest-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Tencent Maps, CNY 300 pack, Traffic pack (流量包), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/cny-300-pack-traffic-pack-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Tencent Maps, CNY 400 monthly, QPS, GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/cny-400-monthly-qps-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): 38% complete
- [Tencent Maps, CNY 50,000 yearly, Commercial licence, Basic (商业授权 基础版), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/cny-50000-yearly-commercial-licence-basic-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): $0.102 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Tencent Maps, CNY 70,000 yearly, Commercial licence, Premium (商业授权 高级版), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/cny-70000-yearly-commercial-licence-premium-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): $0.143 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Tencent Maps, contact us, Custom package (商务定制), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/contact-us-custom-package-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): 38% complete
- [Tencent Maps, contact us, Monthly traffic pack (流量包月), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/contact-us-monthly-traffic-pack-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt): 38% complete

## Tencent Maps's calls (3)

- `GET /ws/place/v1/explore`: [Tencent Maps, free, Individual developer (个人开发者), GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/free-individual-developer-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt)
- `GET /ws/place/v1/search`: [Tencent Maps, free, Individual developer (个人开发者), GET /ws/place/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/free-individual-developer-get-ws-place-v1-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /ws/place/v1/search_by_polygon`: [Tencent Maps, free, Enterprise developer, tech public interest (企业开发者-技术公益), GET /ws/place/v1/search_by_polygon](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/free-enterprise-developer-tech-public-interest-get-ws-place-v1-search-by-polygon/llms.txt)

## Tencent Maps's APIs (1)

- [Tencent Maps: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, GET /ws/place/v1/explore](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/free-individual-developer-get-ws-place-v1-explore/llms.txt)

## Tencent Maps: Local business search API alternatives

- [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
- [Stadia Maps, $80 monthly, Standard, GET /geocoding/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/80-monthly-standard-get-geocoding-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [TomTom, pay as you go, Pay as you grow, Tier 3, GET /search/2/poiSearch/{query}.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-3-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [2GIS, ₽138,400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/2gis/138400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://lbs.qq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lbs.qq.com/dev/console/authorization?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lbs.qq.com/dev/console/quotaImprove?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lbs.qq.com/faq/accountQuota/faqEnterprise?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lbs.qq.com/faq/accountQuota/faqQuota?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lbs.qq.com/service/webService/webServiceGuide/search/webServiceSearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://lbs.qq.com/terms.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing