Twenty places per page
Each with title, rating, reviews, type, address, open state, hours, website, thumbnail and gps_coordinates.
// google maps api
The world's cheapest Google Maps API
Places from Google Maps for a query and viewport, or one exact place by place_id or CID: 20 per page with rating, reviews, type, address, hours, website and coordinates. Live foot traffic, business posts and photo metadata have their own endpoints.
$0.15 / 1K requestsPay as you go10 free calls, no card
// live playground
Search Google Maps
The key below is created for this browser with 10 free calls and works on every Litescrape endpoint. Results are drawn the way the source shows them, with the JSON one click away.
Your API key
Verifying browser…Paste an existing key to see its credits and top it up, or use the free key created for this browser. Keep it safe: anyone with the key can spend its balance.
Ready
Run the request to draw its results here. This endpoint returns:
local_resultsplace_resultssearch_informationpagination
// use it anywhere
Take this exact request to your terminal.
Every public search, maps, place, and reviews endpoint accepts the same bearer key and exposes its full documented parameter surface here.
# pip install litescrape-sdk
# GET https://api.litescrape.com/api/google/maps
from litescrape_sdk import scrape
[result] = scrape(
[
{
"endpoint": "google_maps",
"q": "coffee shops in Austin, TX",
"type": "search",
"ll": "@30.2672,-97.7431,14z",
"hl": "en",
"gl": "us",
"google_domain": "google.com",
}
],
api_key="ls_live_your_key",
)
print(result.raise_for_error())// what you get
What the Google Maps API returns
Search a viewport or a radius
ll takes @lat,lon with a zoom level or a radius in meters; location, or lat and lon, with z or m work the same way.
Resolve one exact place
type=place with a place_id, data_cid or Google data sequence returns that listing alone.
Filters Google Maps offers
min_rating, min_price and max_price, open_state now or 24h, open_on_day and open_at_hour.
Links into reviews, posts and photos
Every place carries ready-made links for the Reviews, Posts and Photo Metadata endpoints, and live foot traffic takes its place_id.
Any country, language and domain
hl, gl and google_domain localize labels and results.
// use cases
What teams build with it
- 01
Lead generation
Every business of a type in a city, with website, hours and rating, for a fraction of a cent each.
- 02
Local rank tracking
Where a business ranks in the map results for a term at a coordinate, across a grid of points.
- 03
Location intelligence
Density, ratings and categories of competitors around a site before you open it.
- 04
Reputation monitoring
Resolve each of your locations by place_id, read its rating and review count, then pull the reviews.
// why it's the cheapest
Google Maps API pricing, per 1,000 requests
Public list prices for 100,000 requests a month, read on September 17, 2026. Litescrape's rate is flat at every volume.
| Provider | Plan modeled | Per 1,000 requests | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Litescrape | Flat prepaid rate | $0.15 | $15.00 |
| DataForSEO | Standard queue, up to 45 minutes | $0.60 | $60.00 |
| Serper | Standard pack, 500,000 credits | $0.75 | $75.00 |
| Scrapingdog | Standard, 5 credits per request | $0.90 | $90.00 |
| HasData | Basic, 5 credits per search | $0.99 | $99.00 |
| Oxylabs | Starter, Google rate | $0.99 | $99.00 |
| Bright Data | Pay as you go | $1.50 | $150.00 |
| SearchApi | BigData, 100,000 searches | $2.50 | $250.00 |
| ScraperAPI | Business, 25 credits per request | $2.99 | $299.00 |
| Google Places API | Text Search Pro, first 100,000 calls | $32.00 | $3,200.00 |
| Outscraper | Pay per record | $3.00 per 1,000 places returned |
Start pulling Google Maps data in five minutes.
Your first 10 calls are free. Top up the same key from $10 whenever you need more.