Yelp pricing: Local business search API

Name: Yelp Local business search API
Brand: Yelp
Price: 229 USD

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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: Base (30-day free trial) one of Yelp's 6 plans

Call: GET /v3/businesses/search Yelp's only call for this API

GET /v3/businesses/searchFree, Base (30-day free trial)$0.00 per 1,000

API: Local business search API one of Yelp's 2 APIs

About this item

Live. Yelp searches the map when you call the API.
6 of the 8 key fields we check. Address, Phone, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 requests, enough for 5,000 pages. Unused requests expire after 30 days.
One call. You send one of location or latitude with longitude to GET /v3/businesses/search. The call returns the businesses there.
Who can get it: anyone with a Yelp user account and a business email. Keep data: 24 hours. Use data: with conditions.

Yelp: Local business search API alternatives

Yelp alternatives: every Local business search API plan compared

The table starts with Yelp's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 places closest to Yelp's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	Yelp, $229 monthly	Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /yelp/search	Outscraper, pay as you go, Business Tier, GET /google-maps-directory	YepAPI, top-up
$ per 1,000 places	$0.153	$0.16	$1.00	$3.50
Completeness	75%	75%	100%	100%
Billing	monthly	monthly	pay as you go	pay first
Pay	$229	$199	monthly	any amount
Enough for	30,000 pages a month	1,243,750 results a month	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for
Freshness	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone with a Yelp user account and a business email	anyone	anyone who adds a payment method	anyone

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

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

Charges
Most per search	240
Start fee	$0.00

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	This endpoint returns up to 240 businesses with some basic information based on the provided search criteria.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	24 hours
Use data	Subject to compliance with the terms set forth in the Display Requirements and elsewhere in the API Agreement, Yelp grants you, during the Term, a non-exclusive, revocable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license in the Territory to (i) access and use the API to receive the Yelp Content, (ii) display the Yelp Content on Your Site, and (iii) reproduce and display the Yelp name and logo (the “Yelp Brand Features”) solely in order to comply with the Display Requirements. You may not use the API, Yelp Content, or Yelp Brand Features for any other purpose without Yelp’s prior written consent. [...] You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable others to: [...] b. modify the Yelp Content, or use it to update or create your own database of business listing information, unless such modification is for non-commercial analysis [...], d. [...] use Yelp Content for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of Yelp (i.e. don’t sell any Yelp data or content whatsoever) [...], e. modify or remove the hyperlink contained within any Yelp Content that is provided in the API, f. use the API on behalf of any third party, [...] i. copy, rent, lease, sell, transfer, assign, sublicense, disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile [...] modify or alter any part of the API, [...] l. remove applicable tracking parameters from any API calls, such as Google Analytics tracking tags, [...] Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this API Agreement, during or after the Term, you shall not: 9.1. Use, copy, process, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on the Yelp Content for the purpose of training, developing, enhancing, or fine-tuning any Generative AI Models without Yelp’s prior written approval [...], 9.2. Share, sell, sublicense, or distribute the Yelp Content, in whole or in part, to any third party for use (express or implied) with Generative AI Model training, development, or enhancement, without Yelp’s express written consent. [...] 9.4. Submit or ingest any Yelp Content into any Generative AI Model (e.g., prompts that contain any Yelp Content into ChatGPT or other such models). 7.3 Launch Restrictions. During the free trial period, you may not publicly launch or release your product that uses the API.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	5,000 requests
Enough for	5,000 pages
Expires	30 days

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	one of location or latitude with longitude. Optional: term, radius, categories, locale, price, open_now, open_at, attributes, sort_by, device_platform, reservation_date, reservation_time, reservation_covers, matches_party_size_param, job_alias, limit, offset
Method	GET
Path	/v3/businesses/search

About the plan
Plan	Base (30-day free trial)
Who can get it	anyone with a Yelp user account and a business email

The 24 fields the plan's answer can hold

business ID, alias, name, image URL, closure status, Yelp URL, review count, categories, rating, latitude, longitude, transactions, address, city, state, ZIP code, country, phone, display phone, distance, attributes, business hours, total results, search region center

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