# Unmap, free, dev, GET /places/nearby: Local business search API

> Canadian points of interest, from the same corpus the geocoder answers from. Name search, nearby categories and by-id lookup, with parameters and coverage limits.

Unmap's dev plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Unmap's docs list 3: Address, Category, Coordinates.
In [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt), the best plan from Unmap scores 39.5 out of 100. Unmap ranks 61st 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/unmap/free-dev-get-places-nearby
- [Local business search API in 2026: the best of 70+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://unmap.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.unmap.dev/places/nearby`
- API key: with the plan, on https://unmap.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://unmap.dev/docs/apis/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#get-placesnearby
- Sold by: Unmap (https://unmap.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 72 other Unmap calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Canadian points of interest, from the same corpus the geocoder answers from. Name search, nearby categories and by-id lookup, with parameters and coverage limits.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: to use the responses in your own applications and services [...] Keep the attribution the API and styles hand you visible and legible to your end users. [...] Do not use unmap to attack systems, evade rate limits, resell access as an unmanaged proxy, overload the service, violate source licences, infringe rights, or process data you do not have the right to process. Do not bulk-extract tiles, geocoding results, or routing results to assemble a substitute dataset or a competing maps product.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 10,000 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 16.67 (1,000 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.29 s

## The call

- You send: category, one of near or bbox. Optional: radius, limit, lang
- Method: GET
- Path: /places/nearby

## About the plan

- Plan: dev
- Who can get it: anyone who can enter a contract where they live, for building and prototyping, not for a production origin

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, source ID, name, names, category, category group, longitude, latitude, house number, street, city, region, postal code, country, distance, source, attribution, data status

## Unmap's plans (3)

- [Unmap, free, dev, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/free-dev-get-places-nearby/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Unmap, $19 monthly, indie, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/19-monthly-indie-get-places-nearby/llms.txt): $0.0015 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Unmap, $99 monthly, growth, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/99-monthly-growth-get-places-nearby/llms.txt): $0.00099 per 1,000, 38% complete

## Unmap's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /places/nearby`: [Unmap, free, dev, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/free-dev-get-places-nearby/llms.txt)
- `GET /places/search`: [Unmap, free, dev, GET /places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/free-dev-get-places-search/llms.txt)

## Unmap's APIs (2)

- [Unmap IP geolocation API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/unmap/free/llms.txt)
- [Unmap Local business search API pricing, 3 plans, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/free-dev-get-places-nearby/llms.txt)

## Unmap: local business search API alternatives

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

We list Unmap's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Unmap in price per 1,000 places.

- [Unmap, $99 monthly, growth, GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/unmap/99-monthly-growth-get-places-nearby/llms.txt): $0.00099 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Stadia Maps, $250 monthly, Professional, GET /geocoding/v2/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/stadia-maps/250-monthly-professional-get-geocoding-v2-autocomplete/llms.txt): $0.001 per 1,000, 13% complete
- [LocationIQ, $5,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/5000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0011 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [CSV2GEO, $6,040 yearly, API 250 (yearly), GET /places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/csv2geo/6040-yearly-api-250-yearly-get-places-nearby/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [ThinAir, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/thinair/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0013 per 1,000, 50% complete, 7 days

## 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://api.unmap.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://unmap.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://unmap.dev/docs/apis/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://unmap.dev/docs/reference/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://unmap.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://unmap.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing