# Yelp, free, Base (30-day free trial): Local business search API

> This endpoint returns up to 240 businesses with some basic information based on the provided search criteria.

Yelp's Local business search API on its Base (30-day free trial) plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count.
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/yelp/free-base-30-day-free-trial
- Get it: https://business.yelp.com/data/products/places-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://business.yelp.com/data/products/places-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Yelp (https://www.yelp.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: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## 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

## Yelp's plans (6)

- [Yelp, free, Base (30-day free trial)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/free-base-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Yelp, free, Enhanced (30-day free trial)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/free-enhanced-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Yelp, free, Premium (30-day free trial)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/free-premium-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% 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
- [Yelp, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.199 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Yelp, $643 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/643-monthly/llms.txt): $0.429 per 1,000, 88% complete, live

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

- `GET /v3/businesses/search`: [Yelp, free, Base (30-day free trial)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/free-base-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Yelp's APIs (2)

- [Yelp: Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/free-base-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt)
- [Yelp: Local business reviews API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yelp/free-enhanced-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Yelp: Local business search API alternatives

- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /yelp/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-yelp-search/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Outscraper, pay as you go, Business Tier, GET /google-maps-directory](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/outscraper/pay-as-you-go-business-tier-get-google-maps-directory/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $3.50 per 1,000, 100% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://business.yelp.com/data/products/places-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/fusion-faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/fusion-intro?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/fusion-rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://terms.yelp.com/developers/api_terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing