# Woosmap, free: Local business search API

> Discover and filter points of interest (POIs) within a specified radius of any location. Use this endpoint to find restaurants, stores, hotels, and more, with support for type-based queries and precise geolocation.

Woosmap's Local business search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Category, Coordinates.
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/woosmap/free
- Get it: https://www.woosmap.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.woosmap.com/localities/nearby`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.woosmap.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.woosmap.com/products/localities/features/nearby/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Woosmap (https://www.woosmap.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Discover and filter points of interest (POIs) within a specified radius of any location. Use this endpoint to find restaurants, stores, hotels, and more, with support for type-based queries and precise geolocation.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Client and its Authorized Users are authorized to use the Woosmap Platform solely for the Intended Purposes and for the internal business needs of the Client only, any commercial exploitation of the Woosmap Services being excluded. [...] API responses cannot be used to train, enhance, or validate AI models without explicit prior approval, [...] Storing, caching, or processing API responses for AI-related purposes without authorization constitutes a breach of these terms

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 50

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: location, types. Optional: radius, excluded_types, page
- Method: GET
- Path: /localities/nearby

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, place ID, address, city, street, country, country code, latitude, longitude, viewport, types, categories, next page, previous page

## Woosmap's plans (5)

- [Woosmap, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/woosmap/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Woosmap, pay as you go, Pro, 10,001 to 100,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/woosmap/pay-as-you-go-pro-10001-to-100000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.695 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Woosmap, pay as you go, Pro, 100,001 to 500,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/woosmap/pay-as-you-go-pro-100001-to-500000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.556 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Woosmap, pay as you go, Pro, over 500,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/woosmap/pay-as-you-go-pro-over-500000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.521 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [Woosmap, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/woosmap/contact-us/llms.txt): 38% complete

## Woosmap's calls (1)

- `GET /localities/nearby`: [Woosmap, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/woosmap/free/llms.txt)

## Woosmap's APIs (1)

- [Woosmap: Local business search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/woosmap/free/llms.txt)

## Woosmap: Local business search API alternatives

- [Foursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-100000-calls/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 88% complete
- [ArcGIS, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, GET /places/near-point](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/arcgis/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-get-places-near-point/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Yelp, $643 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/643-monthly/llms.txt): $0.429 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 monthly events, POST /v1/places:searchNearby, Places API Nearby Search Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-1000001-5000000-monthly-events-post-v1-places-searchnearby-places-api-nearby-search-enterprise/llms.txt): $0.525 per 1,000, 100% 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://developers.woosmap.com/api-reference/rate-limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://developers.woosmap.com/products/localities/features/nearby/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.woosmap.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.woosmap.com/policies/terms-online?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.woosmap.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing