# upAPI, free: Local business search API

> Search Google Maps for businesses by text query, optionally centred on coordinates. Returns each place with its name, address, coordinates, category, rating, review count, opening hours, website and phone where Google publishes them, plus the place id you can pass to Google Maps Place Details.

upAPI's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. upAPI's docs list all 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
We haven't run upAPI through [our Local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 239 plans for Local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.365 per 1,000 places or less.
[SerpData's $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/serpdata/200-pack-growth-post-google-maps-search-places/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 places: $0.0004. SerpData charges for each page of results. We count 200 places on each page to get the $0.0004 price.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/scrapefield/39-pack/llms.txt) and [TomTom](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/tomtom/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-grow-tier-1-get-search-2-poisearch-query-ext/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/free
- [Local business search API: the 19 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.upapi.io/google-maps-search.post`
- API key: with the plan, on https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://upapi.io/apis/maps/google-maps-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: upAPI (https://upapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Address: ✓
- Phone: ✓
- Website: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓
- Opening hours: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: 30 minutes
- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 112 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Maps for businesses by text query, optionally centred on coordinates. Returns each place with its name, address, coordinates, category, rating, review count, opening hours, website and phone where Google publishes them, plus the place id you can pass to Google Maps Place Details.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: about 166 pages a month
- Expires: the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: zoom, region, language, latitude, longitude, proxyUrl, maxResults
- Method: POST
- Path: /google-maps-search.post

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, CID, feature ID, name, address, street, city, country code, latitude, longitude, time zone, phone, international phone, website, domain, rating, review count, category, categories, opening hours, Google Maps URL, query, results returned

## upAPI's plans (4)

- [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [upAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.087 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [upAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.059 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## upAPI's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /google-maps-search.post`: [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)

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- [upAPI: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, POST /google-search.post](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/upapi/free-post-google-search-post/llms.txt)
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- [upAPI: Instagram post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)
- [upAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)
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- [upAPI: TikTok profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)
- [upAPI: tech stack API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)
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## upAPI: Local business search API alternatives

- [Crawio, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.024 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Semscraper, top-up from €10,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/semscraper/top-up-from-10000/llms.txt): $0.031 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [FastAF, $799 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fastaf/799-pack/llms.txt): $0.067 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Yelp, $229 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/229-monthly/llms.txt): $0.153 per 1,000, 75% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://upapi.io/apis/maps/google-maps-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/apis/social-media/linkedin-get-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing