The best Outscraper alternatives for Google Maps in 2026

- 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.
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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.
- 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
| Tool | Best for | What it returns | Why pick it | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Outscraper | A spreadsheet inside the free tier | Google Maps places and reviews, emails and social profiles from each business's website, phone lookups | 500 free of each product every 30 days | $3 per 1,000 places or reviews, $1 past 100,000 |
AnyAPI | Maps calls from code at volume | Google Maps places, up to 100 reviews a call, and contacts with emails and Instagram profiles | 100 reviews per call | $0.00175 per search of 20 places, $0.0035 per 100 reviews |
Google Places API | Under 1,000 searches with Google's terms | Google's own place records, at most five reviews each, no email | The official source | $32 to $40 per 1,000 Text Search requests |
Apify | A crawl you tune yourself | Google Maps places, with reviews, contacts, opening hours, and images as add-ons | Every add-on is a setting | From $1.50 per 1,000 places, add-ons extra |
SerpApi | One vendor across every Google product | Up to 20 Google Maps places a search, next to Google Search, Shopping, and News | Maps 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:
| Record | Outscraper, past the free tier | AnyAPI, 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 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 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:
| Field | Places with it (of 200) |
|---|---|
| Address | 199 |
| Website | 194 |
| Phone | 184 |
| Rating, review count, coordinates | 200 |
Emails varied a lot by the kind of business:
| Contacts search (20 places each) | Places with an email |
|---|---|
| Austin dentists | 9 |
| Sydney yoga studios | 8 |
| Paris bakeries | 2 |
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.
Scale it to a monthly lead-gen job of 10,000 places, 10,000 reviews, and 5,000 places with contacts:
| Part of the job | Outscraper, after 500 free of each | AnyAPI calls | AnyAPI cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 places | $28.50 | 500 searches | $0.875 |
| 10,000 reviews | $28.50 | 100 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 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)

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 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.
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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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