# ThinAir, free, Sandbox: Local business search API

> Category-specific POI search near a point — gas stations, truck stops, restaurants, charging stations, etc.

ThinAir's Sandbox plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. ThinAir's docs list 4: Phone, Website, Coordinates, Opening hours.
We haven't run ThinAir through [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
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/thinair/free-sandbox
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://geo.thinair.co/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://geo.thinair.co/v1/places`
- API key: with the plan, on https://geo.thinair.co/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://geo.thinair.co/developers/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: ThinAir (https://geo.thinair.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Weather - current conditions, forecast, and alerts · Live traffic - speed and congestion for a point · Explore administrative places near a point · Generate reachability polygons (isochrones) · Forward geocode — convert text into coordinates · Place lookup — resolve a stable ThinAir place id · Autocomplete — search-as-you-type place suggestions · Reverse geocode — convert coordinates into the nearest address · Compute a route between two locations · Locate — road-network context for one coordinate · Resolve a named cross-street to coordinates · Compute an N×M distance + duration matrix · Point-in-polygon containment test · Structured geocode — component fields into coordinates · Batch geocode — up to 50 addresses in one call · Snap raw GPS breadcrumbs to the road network · Road attributes along a matched GPS trace

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Category-specific POI search near a point — gas stations, truck stops, restaurants, charging stations, etc.

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 15 requests a day
- Enough for: 15 pages a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 15
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of query or category. Optional: location, lat, lon, radius, units, radius_m, limit, layers
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/places

## About the plan

- Plan: Sandbox
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, radius, radius in km, units, ID, name, label, latitude, longitude, layer, distance in km, website, phone, opening hours, cuisine, brand, warnings, upstream time, feature count, cache hit

## ThinAir's plans (6)

- [ThinAir, free, Sandbox](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/free-sandbox/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days
- [ThinAir, free, Developer Trial](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/free-developer-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days
- [ThinAir, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.012 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days
- [ThinAir, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0019 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days
- [ThinAir, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days
- [ThinAir, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete, 7 days

## ThinAir's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/places`: [ThinAir, free, Sandbox](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/free-sandbox/llms.txt)

## ThinAir's APIs (1)

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

## ThinAir: local business search API alternatives

[ThinAir alternatives: other local business search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/thinair-alternatives.txt)

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

- [ThinAir, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days
- [HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 0 to 5,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [FetchLayer, $900 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fetchlayer/900-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00033 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [SerpWiz, $90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpwiz/90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0056 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 hour
- [Scrape.land, $99,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrape-land/99990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0083 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 2026-11-11.

- https://geo.thinair.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geo.thinair.co/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geo.thinair.co/developers/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geo.thinair.co/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://geo.thinair.co/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.thinair.co/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing