Best Google Maps data APIs, 2026Every main way to get Google Maps data.Google’s Places API and Business Profile APIs, plus the main Google Maps data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Business lists by category and area, with phone numbers and websitesA data API that searches by category and area and returns contact details. They differ most in how they charge.
Competitors’ categories, ratings and Google posts for local SEOAn option that returns a listing’s categories and the posts the business publishes on it.
Ratings and reviews for places you trackMonocrawl returns a place’s rating and up to five of its most relevant reviews. To collect every review, choose an option that pages through a place’s reviews.
An AI agent that looks up places and reviewsAn option with an MCP server, so the agent can call it directly.
Reviews, replies and posts for business profiles you manageGoogle’s Business Profile APIs, built for businesses and agencies that manage their own listings.
9options compared
7with an MCP server
8free to start
37sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Three routes
Google’s Places API is built for apps that show places to their users. Its Business Profile APIs are for businesses managing their own listings. Data APIs read public Google Maps listings and reviews with an API key.
Google Places API
Google Business Profile APIs
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| Google Maps data | Connect | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | Place search | Place details | Reviews | Photos | Opening hours | Contact details | Categories | Business posts | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | ||||||||||
| Google Places APIOfficial, Google Maps Platform | – | 12345 | |||||||||
| Google Business Profile APIsOfficial, for listing owners | – | – | 678910 | ||||||||
| ApifyGoogle Maps Scraper actor | – | 11121314 | |||||||||
| Bright DataGoogle Maps Scraper API | – | 15161718 | |||||||||
| HasDataGoogle Maps APIs | 1920212223 | ||||||||||
| Scrap.ioLead extraction API | – | – | 2425262728 | ||||||||
| ScraperAPIWeb scraping API | – | – | – | 29303132 | |||||||
| SearchApiSearch results API | 3334353637 | ||||||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
$20 per 1,000 place details with phone, website and hours
With reviews, $25 per 1,000. Text Search Pro is $32 per 1,000. Rates fall with volume.
Worth knowingReturns at most five reviews and ten photos per place, and Google’s terms bar storing or caching most results.
Free calls a month per SKU: 10,000, 5,000 or 1,000
Free for registered users, once Google approves API access.
Google says access requests are reviewed within 14 days.
Worth knowingReads reviews, posts and details for listings you manage and can reply to reviews, but can’t read other businesses’ profiles.
Free if approved
$4 per 1,000 places on the free plan
From $1.50 on the Business plan. Reviews and images are $0.50 per 1,000 each on the free plan.
Worth knowingReviews, images and contact details from business websites are paid add-ons on top of the price per place.
$5 of usage a month
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records.
Worth knowingScrapes Google live on each request, and a reviews request can stop at a set number of days back.
5,000 records a month
$59 a month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly
$49 a month billed yearly. Most Google Maps calls cost 5 credits, and posts 10. Unused credits expire monthly.
Worth knowingSeparate calls for search, place details, reviews, photos and business posts draw on one credit balance.
1,000 credits a month
$49 a month for 10,000 export credits, billed monthly
$35 a month when billed yearly. API and MCP access on every plan.
Worth knowingSearches its own continuously updated database by category and area, and adds emails and social links from business websites.
7-day trial, up to 100 leads
$49 a month for 100,000 API credits
A Google request costs 25 credits.
Worth knowingIts Google Maps endpoint turns a keyword and map coordinates into search results as JSON.
7-day trial with 5,000 credits
$40 a month for 10,000 searches
From $1 per 1,000 on its largest listed plan. Only successful searches are billed.
Worth knowingSeparate engines for Maps search, place details, reviews and photos; reviews page through and can be sorted by newest.
100 free requests
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded place record for Iconic Coffee Roasters. No Google Cloud project, no billing account with Google and no Maps API key.
GET /v1/google_places/placecurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/google_places/place?id=ChIJl1wfOSCjdUgRhrFnqMsMhQM" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"ICONIC COFFEE ROASTERS
Coffee shop
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Place search2 creditsFull place record6 creditsBusiness listing4 creditsUp to five reviews2 creditsBusiness posts5 creditsQuestions and answers4 creditsHotel search4 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Only up to a monthly allowance. Since March 2025 Google gives free calls for each SKU every month: 10,000 for Essentials, 5,000 for Pro and 1,000 for Enterprise SKUs. After that it charges per 1,000 calls, and place details with phone, website and hours cost $20 per 1,000, or $25 with reviews. For public Google Maps data, Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, Apify $5 of usage a month, HasData 1,000 credits a month and SearchApi 100 requests, and ScraperAPI and Scrap.io offer 7-day trials.
Google’s Places API returns at most five reviews per place, sorted by relevance, and Monocrawl’s reviews call returns up to five of the most relevant with the place’s rating. Google’s Business Profile APIs list every review, but only for locations you manage. Apify and Bright Data list collecting all of a place’s reviews, and HasData and SearchApi page through reviews with a next-page token.
Only as far as Google’s terms allow. They bar pre-fetching, storing or caching Google Maps content outside Google’s services, and give copying and saving business names, addresses or user reviews as an example. Google’s service terms let you keep place IDs and cache coordinates for up to 30 days.
Not with Monocrawl: you send your Monocrawl API key and get public Google Maps data back, with no Google Cloud project and no billing account with Google. Google’s Places API needs a Cloud project with billing enabled, plus an API key or OAuth token on every request.
Monocrawl, Apify, Bright Data, HasData, Scrap.io, ScraperAPI and SearchApi publish their own MCP servers, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Google’s Maps Grounding Lite server returns AI-generated place summaries with place IDs and map links, at $7 per 1,000 requests after 10,000 free a month.
Units differ: a call, a result, a record, a search and a credit are not the same size, and a search can return a page of places while a place call returns one. Price your own workload, such as a number of places or reviews a month, with each vendor.
Method
What’s includedGoogle’s Places API and Business Profile APIs, plus widely used Google Maps data APIs that come up across Google Maps API searches and comparison lists, return structured place data and publish their pricing or offer a trial.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its Google Maps data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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