# TomTom, free, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}: Local business search API

> If your use case is only retrieving POI (Points of Interest) results around a location, you may use the Nearby Search endpoint. This endpoint will only return POI results. It does not take in a search query parameter.

TomTom's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Opening hours.
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/tomtom/free-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext
- Get it: https://docs.tomtom.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.tomtom.com/search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.tomtom.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.tomtom.com/search-api/documentation/search-service/nearby-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: TomTom (https://www.tomtom.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Category Search · Points of Interest Search

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: If your use case is only retrieving POI (Points of Interest) results around a location, you may use the Nearby Search endpoint. This endpoint will only return POI results. It does not take in a search query parameter.

## 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, lat, lon. Optional: 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/nearbySearch/.{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

## TomTom's plans (5)

- [TomTom, free, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/free-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [TomTom, pay as you go, Pay as you grow, Tier 1, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext/llms.txt): $0.034 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [TomTom, pay as you go, Pay as you grow, Tier 2, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-2-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext/llms.txt): $0.027 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [TomTom, pay as you go, Pay as you grow, Tier 3, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-3-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [TomTom, contact us, Enterprise, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/contact-us-enterprise-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext/llms.txt): 75% complete

## TomTom's calls (3)

- `GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}`: [TomTom, free, GET /search/2/categorySearch/{query}.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/free-get-search-2-categorysearch-query-ext/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}`: [TomTom, free, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/free-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext/llms.txt)
- `GET /search/2/poiSearch/{query}.{ext}`: [TomTom, free, GET /search/2/poiSearch/{query}.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/free-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/llms.txt)

## TomTom's APIs (1)

- [TomTom: Local business search API pricing, 5 plans, GET /search/2/nearbySearch/.{ext}](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/free-get-search-2-nearbysearch-ext/llms.txt)

## TomTom: 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
- [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
- [Tencent Maps, CNY 300 pack, Traffic pack (流量包), GET /ws/place/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tencent-maps/cny-300-pack-traffic-pack-get-ws-place-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 50% complete

## 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://docs.tomtom.com/legal/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.tomtom.com/platform/documentation/api-best-practices/qps-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.tomtom.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.tomtom.com/search-api/documentation/product-information/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.tomtom.com/search-api/documentation/search-service/nearby-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing