TomTom pricing: Local business search API, GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}

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75% complete: 6 of the 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields

$0.00per 1,000 placesWe 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 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.

Plan: Free one of TomTom's 5 plans

Call: GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext} one of TomTom's 3 calls

API: Local business search API TomTom's only API

Local business search API

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
6 of the 8 key fields we check. Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Opening hours.
Nothing to pay. You get 2,500 requests a month, enough for 2,500 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
One call. You send ext to GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}. The call returns the businesses there.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

TomTom: Local business search API alternatives

TomTom alternatives: every Local business search API plan compared

The table starts with TomTom's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to TomTom's.

	TomTom, pay as you go, Pay as you grow, Tier 3, GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}	HERE, pay as you go, Base plan, 200,001 to 1,000,000 requests a month	Stadia Maps, $80 monthly, Standard, GET /geocoding/v1/search	2GIS, ₽138,400 monthly	Tencent Maps, CNY 300 pack, Traffic pack (流量包), GET /ws/place/v1/search
$ per 1,000 places	$0.022	$0.021	$0.021	$0.022	$0.022
Completeness	75%	75%	50%	75%	50%
Billing	pay as you go	pay as you go	monthly	monthly	pay first
Pay	per call	monthly	$80	₽138,400	CNY 300
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	375,000 pages a month	1,500,000 pages a month	100,000 pages
Freshness	unknown	24 hours	unknown	1 day	unknown
Who can get it	anyone not barred from receiving the Licensed Products under the laws of the United States or other countries	anyone who provides payment information, but for the Asset Management, UBI/Telematics and Optimization use cases	anyone with a Stadia Maps account	legal entities and fully capable individuals, residents or non-residents	enterprise developers with a commercial licence (商业授权) only: its page says the purchase is open only to customers who have one

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.

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
Rating, not in the answer
Review count, not in the answer
Opening hours

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

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Nearby Search · Points of Interest Search

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	If your search use case only requires POI (Points of Interest) results filtered by category, you may use the Category Search endpoint. This endpoint will only return POI results which are categorized as specified.

Data
Keep data	Only in clients, and no longer than the maximum age the result's cache control headers give, never to serve multiple clients or users (clause 11.4)
Use data	TomTom grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable license during the Term to use the Maps APIs, directly or in conjunction with a SDK, in connection with your Permitted Solution, excluding any Automotive Usage or Navigation Functionality except as specifically permitted to you by TomTom under a separate written agreement [...] The caching or storing of any Results shall be prohibited except that you may cache Results delivered by the Licensed Products provided that: such Results may only be cached in clients where the control headers are present in the Result, such Results must not be cached in clients for longer than the maximum age period indicated in such cache control headers [...] Nothing under Clause 11.4 entitles any form of caching for the purpose of scaling results to serve multiple clients or users. [...] You shall not: use the Licensed Products or part thereof (including any content delivered via the Licensed Products) to create any derivative work, product or service. This prohibition includes, without limitation, compiling a competing database or service to such content by using, extracting or reutilizing the data contained or delivered by the Licensed Products or a substantial part thereof or use the content delivered by the Licensed Products for the creation of any secondary or derived database populated wholly or partially with your data and/or data supplied or created by any third party, copy or use the structure and arrangement of the content delivered by the Licensed Products for the creation of the same, apply any machine learning or AI algorithm or other software related process to the Licensed Products, the output of which would render your use of the Licensed Products (or any products similar to the Licensed Products) redundant, use or permit the Licensed Products to be used in connection with any machine learning, AI algorithm or other software related process where the Licensed Products or any information contained within the Licensed Products would be stored or retained in any Public Reference Data Set by such machine learning, AI algorithm or other software related process [...] other than as expressly permitted under this Agreement, copy, rent, lease, sell, transfer, assign, sublicense, disassemble, modify or alter any part of the Licensed Products, use the Licensed Product or any derivatives thereof for the purpose of enforcement of traffic laws including but not limited to the selection of potential locations for the installation of speed cameras, speed traps or other speed tracking devices, the Licensed Products or any derivatives thereof for or in connection with in-flight or drone navigation or in any high-risk systems, devices, products or services that are critical to the health and safety or security of people and property, use the Licensed Products in connection with similar products of TomTom's competitors to check, compare or benchmark the Licensed Products unless explicitly approved by TomTom in writing [...]

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	2,500 requests a month
Enough for	2,500 pages a month

Rate limit
Per second	5

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	ext. Optional: query, typeahead, geobias, lat, lon, limit, ofs, countrySet, radius, topLeft, btmRight, language, extendedPostalCodesFor, categorySet, brandSet, connectorSet, fuelSet, vehicleTypeSet, view, openingHours, timeZone, mapcodes, relatedPois, minPowerKW, maxPowerKW
Method	GET
Path	/search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone not barred from receiving the Licensed Products under the laws of the United States or other countries

The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, place ID, match score, distance, name, phone, website, brands, category, category IDs, opening hours, time zone, street number, street name, neighbourhood, city, county, state, postal code, country, country code, full address, latitude, longitude, viewport, entry points, mapcodes, related places, data source IDs, fuel types, vehicle types, charging connectors, vehicle constraints

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