# YepAPI, free: Local business search API

> Google Maps place search powered by the official Google Places API (New). Returns full place profiles — name, types, address, phone, website, rating, review count, hours, photos, top review, amenities, and coordinates — for any text query.

YepAPI's Local business search API on its Free credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. It returns all 8 key fields we check: Address, Phone, Website, Category, Coordinates, Rating, Review count, Opening hours.
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/yepapi/free
- Get it: https://docs.yepapi.com/getting-started/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.yepapi.com/v1/maps/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.yepapi.com/getting-started/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.yepapi.com/maps-api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: YepAPI (https://www.yepapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## 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

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 154 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google Maps place search powered by the official Google Places API (New). Returns full place profiles — name, types, address, phone, website, rating, review count, hours, photos, top review, amenities, and coordinates — for any text query.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use YepAPI to: Violate any applicable law or regulation, Infringe on intellectual property rights of any third party, Transmit malicious code, spam, or abusive content, Attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or resell our service, Exceed reasonable usage patterns or abuse rate limits

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: about 71 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: limit, language, region, location_bias, location_restriction, rank_preference, open_now, min_rating, price_levels, included_type, page_token, latitude, longitude, radius
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/maps/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credit
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, next page token, search URL, place ID, name, types, primary type, address, phone, website, Google Maps URL, latitude, longitude, rating, review count, price level, business status, open now, opening hours, dine in, takeout, delivery, serves coffee, serves breakfast, serves dessert, good for groups, outdoor seating, photos, reviews, directions URL, reviews URL

## YepAPI's plans (2)

- [YepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yepapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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

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

- `POST /v1/maps/search`: [YepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yepapi/free/llms.txt)

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## YepAPI: Local business search API alternatives

- [Yelp, $643 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/643-monthly/llms.txt): $0.429 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /google-maps/place/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/pullbay/9-monthly-hobby-get-google-maps-place-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
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## 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://docs.yepapi.com/getting-started/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.yepapi.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.yepapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
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- https://www.yepapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing