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The best Outscraper alternatives for Google Maps in 2026

Kevin Wang
Kevin Wang
Founder, AnyAPI · September 28, 2026
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Outscraper vs AnyAPI
Key findings
  • For a spreadsheet of a few hundred businesses, stay on Outscraper. Its first 500 places, 500 reviews, and 500 contact lookups every 30 days are free, and the web app exports straight to Excel.
  • Past the free tier, Outscraper is $3 per 1,000 places and $3 per 1,000 reviews. Calling Maps from code, AnyAPI is $0.0875 per 1,000 places at 20 per search and $0.035 per 1,000 reviews at 100 per call.
  • Under 1,000 searches a month with Google's terms behind you, use the Places API. It caps reviews at five per place and has no email field.
  • A test across 10 cities cost $0.045 on AnyAPI for 200 places, 500 reviews, and 60 places with contacts. The same volume past Outscraper's free tier is $2.46.

Built on AnyAPI

402 scraping and data APIs behind one key.

Every endpoint in this post is one call away. Pay per request in USD from a prepaid wallet, with automatic failover when a provider breaks. No subscription, no card to start.

Get ~150 free requests$0.10 of credit on signup.

Outscraper is the pick for a list you download. If Google Maps is a step inside your code, paying per call costs a small fraction as much per place and per review.

Outscraper is a Google Maps scraping service: a web app on top, an API underneath. You type a category and a place, and download every matching business as CSV, Excel, Parquet, or JSON. Reviews, website emails, and phone lookups are each priced on their own.

How we know these vendors
  • AnyAPI: on September 27, 2026 I ran 18 calls: ten Maps searches in ten cities, five reviews calls of 100 reviews each, and three contacts searches.
  • Outscraper: I opened an account. Its API needs prepaid credit before the first call, so its side of the test is priced from its own page, not run.
  • Google Places API, Apify, and SerpApi: priced from their own pricing pages and docs the same day, not tested.

The best Outscraper alternatives

  • Outscraper for a spreadsheet inside the free tier
  • AnyAPI for Maps calls from code at volume
  • Google Places API for under 1,000 searches with Google's terms
  • Apify for a crawl you tune yourself
  • SerpApi for one vendor across every Google product

What makes a good Outscraper alternative?

I'm assuming you want business listings, reviews, and contact details from Google Maps for a lead list, a directory, or a review monitor, and you'll call it from code more than once. Here's what I compared:

  • Price per 1,000 places and per 1,000 reviews, past any free tier.
  • Fields on each place: name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, and coordinates.
  • Contacts: whether emails and social profiles come back, and how often.
  • Getting started: what you pay or prepay before the first API call.

I didn't check accuracy against a ground truth, or opening hours, which AnyAPI's search doesn't return.

The best Outscraper alternatives at a glance

ToolBest forWhat it returnsWhy pick itPricing
OutscraperA spreadsheet inside the free tierGoogle Maps places and reviews, emails and social profiles from each business's website, phone lookups500 free of each product every 30 days$3 per 1,000 places or reviews, $1 past 100,000
AnyAPIMaps calls from code at volumeGoogle Maps places, up to 100 reviews a call, and contacts with emails and Instagram profiles100 reviews per call$0.00175 per search of 20 places, $0.0035 per 100 reviews
Google Places APIUnder 1,000 searches with Google's termsGoogle's own place records, at most five reviews each, no emailThe official source$32 to $40 per 1,000 Text Search requests
ApifyA crawl you tune yourselfGoogle Maps places, with reviews, contacts, opening hours, and images as add-onsEvery add-on is a settingFrom $1.50 per 1,000 places, add-ons extra
SerpApiOne vendor across every Google productUp to 20 Google Maps places a search, next to Google Search, Shopping, and NewsMaps in the same response style as its other Google APIs$25 a month for 1,000 searches

Here's what each record costs per 1,000, Outscraper's paid tier against AnyAPI at a full page per call:

RecordOutscraper, past the free tierAnyAPI, full page per call
Place$3.00$0.0875
Review$3.00$0.035
Place with contacts$6.00 ($3 for the place, $3 for the website)$0.1625

Outscraper (best for a spreadsheet inside the free tier)

Outscraper's pricing page in September 2026: 'No monthly fees. No recurring billing. Pay only for the individual services, as much as you use them (pay-as-you-go). Tiers reset every 30 days.' Below it, a Prepaid panel reads 'Add credits to your account balance. Use the credits for the usage of the services (credits never expire).'
Outscraper's pricing page on September 27, 2026. There's no plan: you add credit, it never expires, and the free and volume tiers reset every 30 days.

Outscraper pros:

  • 500 places, 500 reviews, and 500 contact lookups free every 30 days
  • A web app that exports to CSV, Excel, Parquet, or JSON with no code
  • Prepaid credit never expires, and places, reviews, and contacts drop to $1 per 1,000 past 100,000

Outscraper cons:

  • $3 per 1,000 places, reviews, and websites checked, from the 501st on
  • The API key page asks you to "add credits to your account balance to use API" before the first call

Outscraper returns Google Maps places and reviews, plus emails and social profiles it reads from each business's website. Phone lookups and email verification are extra products.

It's built for people who want the list more than the code. Pick a category and a region, set filters, download a spreadsheet, and inside 500 records a month it costs nothing.

It gets expensive when Maps becomes a step inside a product. Each place, review, and website checked is its own record at $3 per 1,000, so places with contacts are $6 per 1,000.

Outscraper pricing: 500 free of each product every 30 days; places, reviews, and emails and contacts $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, then $1; email verification $3 per 1,000 after 25 free; phone lookup $5 per 1,000 after 25 free; prepaid, never expires

AnyAPI (best for Maps calls from code at volume)

AnyAPI's Google Maps Search API page on September 27, 2026: up to 20 place records per request, 99.95% uptime over 30 days across 26,541 calls, a 2.8 second median response, and three sources ranked by traffic, the first tried at $1.75 per 1,000 requests and a dearer one up to $0.116 a request.
AnyAPI's Maps search page on September 27, 2026. The cheapest source is tried first; if it fails, a dearer one answers at its own price.

AnyAPI pros:

  • 200 places from 10 searches in 10 cities, 20 in every search, for $0.0175
  • 100 reviews per call for $0.0035, sorted or filtered by keyword
  • Emails on 19 of 60 places and Instagram on 28 from three contacts searches, $0.00325 each

AnyAPI cons:

  • 20 places per search, so a list of thousands is many calls
  • No opening hours in the search response
  • The flat prices assume the cheapest source answers; a rescue source can cost up to $0.116 a search

AnyAPI is a catalog of data APIs you pay for per call. For Google Maps it has search, nearby search, place details, reviews, and contacts, which adds the emails and social profiles found on each place's website.

Every call in the test was served at the flat price. Places came back full:

FieldPlaces with it (of 200)
Address199
Website194
Phone184
Rating, review count, coordinates200

Emails varied a lot by the kind of business:

Contacts search (20 places each)Places with an email
Austin dentists9
Sydney yoga studios8
Paris bakeries2

At a full page per call, a place costs $0.0875 per 1,000 and a review $0.035. The whole test cost less than 2% of the same volume at Outscraper's paid rates.

Outscraper, paid rates: $2.460$2.460Outscraper, paid ratesAnyAPI, charged: $0.045$0.045AnyAPI, charged
What the test volume costs on each side, September 27, 2026: 200 places, 500 reviews, and 60 places with contacts. Outscraper's figure applies its paid rates to that volume; inside its free tiers it was $0. AnyAPI's is what the wallet was charged.

Scale it to a monthly lead-gen job of 10,000 places, 10,000 reviews, and 5,000 places with contacts:

Part of the jobOutscraper, after 500 free of eachAnyAPI callsAnyAPI cost
10,000 places$28.50500 searches$0.875
10,000 reviews$28.50100 reviews calls$0.35
5,000 places with contacts$28.50 ($15 places, $13.50 websites)250 contacts calls$0.8125

Outscraper's month comes to $85.50. All three AnyAPI lines together cost less than any one of Outscraper's.

The catch: a search with a category, rating, or website filter goes straight to a dearer source, and so does any call the cheapest source fails. Each endpoint page lists every source's price.

curl https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/maps.search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
  -d '{"query": "dentist", "location": "Austin, TX, USA", "limit": 20}'

AnyAPI pricing: Maps search $0.00175 per call of up to 20 places; reviews $0.0035 per call of up to 100; contacts $0.00325 per call of up to 20 places; nearby search $0.0013 per call; starter balance at signup

Google Places API (best for under 1,000 searches with Google's terms)

Google Maps Platform's price list in September 2026: Places API Text Search Pro with 5,000 free a month and $32.00 per 1,000 at the first tier, Text Search Enterprise with 1,000 free and $35.00, and Text Search Enterprise + Atmosphere with 1,000 free and $40.00, with lower rates at higher volume.
Google's Places API price list on September 27, 2026. Which tier you pay depends on the fields you ask for.

Google Places API pros:

  • The official source, under Google's own terms
  • Free requests every month on every price tier

Google Places API cons:

  • "A maximum of 5 reviews" per place
  • No email field on the Place object
  • $32 to $40 per 1,000 Text Search requests past the free requests

The Places API returns Google's own place records. Its docs cap reviews at five and list no email field, which is the reason every other route here exists.

If you're showing places to users on a map, or you need Google's terms behind the data, use it. Small apps stay inside its free requests, and Google Maps API pricing goes through its tiers field by field.

Google Places API pricing: Text Search $32 (Pro), $35 (Enterprise), $40 (Enterprise + Atmosphere) per 1,000; 5,000 free Pro requests a month

Apify (best for a crawl you tune yourself)

The pricing tab of Apify's Google Maps Scraper in September 2026: per 1,000 scraped places, up to 1,250 free on Apify's free plan, $3.00 on Starter at $19 a month, $2.00 on Scale at $199, and $1.50 on Business at $999.
Apify's Google Maps Scraper pricing on September 27, 2026. The per-place price falls as your Apify plan rises; enrichments are billed on top.

Apify pros:

  • Reviews, contacts, opening hours, and images are all options on one scraper
  • Scheduling, storage, and dataset exports on the platform

Apify cons:

  • Contacts, reviews, social profiles, and place details are each an extra charge
  • The per-place price depends on your Apify plan

Apify's Google Maps Scraper returns places, and on request reviews, contacts, opening hours, and images.

It's priced per event, from $1.50 per 1,000 places on the $999 Business plan, with every enrichment billed on top. Pick it if you want to tune the crawl yourself; the best Apify alternative covers the platform side.

Apify pricing: From $1.50 per 1,000 places, pay per event; contacts, reviews, and details extra, varying by Apify plan

SerpApi (best for one vendor across every Google product)

SerpApi's pricing page in September 2026: Starter $25, Developer $75, Production $150, and Big Data $275 a month, with searches per month, throughput per hour, and U.S. Legal Shield on the two bigger plans.
SerpApi's plans on September 11, 2026. Every Google Maps search, of up to 20 places, uses one search from the plan.

SerpApi pros:

  • Maps comes with Search, Shopping, News, and the rest in one response style
  • 250 free searches a month

SerpApi cons:

  • $25 for 1,000 searches on Starter, billed per search of up to 20 places
  • No contact enrichment, and reviews are a separate paged search

SerpApi returns up to 20 Google Maps places a search, in the same response style as its Search, Shopping, and News APIs.

If Maps is one of several Google products in the same program, it's the simple choice. The best SerpApi alternative prices the rest.

SerpApi pricing: Free 250 searches a month; Starter $25 for 1,000; Developer $75 for 5,000; Production $150 for 15,000

Which Outscraper alternative should you use?

  • A one-off list, or a team that won't write code: Outscraper, inside its free tier.
  • Maps calls from code, every day, past a few hundred records: AnyAPI.
  • An app that shows places on a map, or Google's terms required: Google Places API.
  • A crawl you want to configure yourself: Apify.
  • Maps as one of many Google products: SerpApi.

The limits of this comparison

  • AnyAPI was the only API run. Everything else is priced from each vendor's own page.
  • The per-1,000 figures assume a full page per call, 20 places or 100 reviews. A sparse search costs a per-call vendor the same and a per-record vendor less.

For scraping beyond Maps, the best Oxylabs alternative covers general scraping.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Outscraper cost in 2026?
Outscraper is pay as you go with no subscription. Google Maps places, Google Maps reviews, and website emails and contacts are each free for the first 500 in a 30-day window, then $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, then $1 per 1,000. Email verification is $3 per 1,000 after 25 free, and phone lookups $5 per 1,000 after 25 free. Tiers reset every 30 days and prepaid credit never expires. Checked September 27, 2026.
Does Outscraper have a free API?
Outscraper's free tier covers the first 500 records of each product every 30 days, but on a new account the API key page asks you to add credits to your account balance before the API can be used.
How many reviews can you get from Google Maps per place?
Google's official Places API returns a maximum of five reviews per place. Scraping services return more: AnyAPI's maps.reviews returns up to 100 reviews per call for $0.0035, and Outscraper charges $3 per 1,000 reviews after its free tier.
Can you get emails from Google Maps listings?
Not from Google directly; the Places API has no email field. Contact scrapers visit each business's website and read emails and social profiles from it. In a test of 60 places, AnyAPI's maps.contacts found an email on 19, from 9 of 20 dentists down to 2 of 20 bakeries.

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