# Commercial Platforms & Search API Proxies

Outscraper, Apify, Bright Data, SerpAPI, Serper.dev, etc.

# Commercial Scraping Platforms

## Commercial Scraping Platforms

### Outscraper (Best Value)

<table id="bkmrk-pricing%241-3%2F1k-recor"><tr><td>Pricing</td><td>**$1-3/1K records** (basic); ~$14/1K full enrichment</td></tr><tr><td>Free Tier</td><td>500 records (first 500 reviews free)</td></tr><tr><td>Fields</td><td>74 fields incl. name, address, phone, hours, rating, reviews, photos, emails</td></tr><tr><td>Reviews</td><td>Full text, not limited to 5</td></tr><tr><td>Real-world</td><td>Reddit user: $50 for 20K listings, ~6,500 usable after dedup</td></tr></table>

### Apify (Marketplace)

<table id="bkmrk-pricing%241.50-4%2F1k-pl"><tr><td>Pricing</td><td>**$1.50-4/1K places** (varies by actor)</td></tr><tr><td>Free</td><td>$5 monthly platform credit</td></tr><tr><td>Fields</td><td>25+ core + enrichment actors for emails/social</td></tr><tr><td>Tips</td><td>Set `maxCrawledPlaces` to 9999999 for all results. Niche searches have 75-80% junk rate</td></tr><tr><td>Actors</td><td>compass/crawler-google-places, beatanalytics/google-maps-reviews-scraper</td></tr></table>

### Bright Data (Enterprise)

<table id="bkmrk-dataset200.7m%2B-pre-s"><tr><td>Dataset</td><td>**200.7M+ pre-scraped records** at $0.0025/record ($250/100K)</td></tr><tr><td>Scraper API</td><td>From $500/mo + proxy costs</td></tr><tr><td>Proxy Network</td><td>72M+ residential IPs — industry's largest</td></tr></table>

### Other Commercial Services

<table id="bkmrk-servicepricingkey-fe"><tr><th>Service</th><th>Pricing</th><th>Key Feature</th></tr><tr><td>Scrap.io</td><td>From EUR 35/mo (10K leads)</td><td>Simplest UX, radius/polygon search, count preview, 200M+ places</td></tr><tr><td>ScrapFly</td><td>~$3.37/1K requests</td><td>General-purpose, credit-based, 99% success rate</td></tr><tr><td>LocalAPI</td><td>Free tier: 50 searches</td><td>Only API exposing Popular Times histograms</td></tr><tr><td>HasData</td><td>API plans</td><td>Cloud-powered, built-in email finder</td></tr><tr><td>Leads-Extractor.com</td><td>Various</td><td>Dedicated Maps scraper</td></tr><tr><td>MapSHunt.com</td><td>Various</td><td>Prioritizes businesses with websites, crawls for emails/social</td></tr><tr><td>LocalProspects</td><td>Various</td><td>Auto-crawls for owner name, emails, mobile phones</td></tr><tr><td>GeoScraper</td><td>Unlimited/mo</td><td>Reviews scraper + email/social extraction</td></tr><tr><td>Minelead</td><td>Various</td><td>Email finder for Maps businesses</td></tr><tr><td>Estrattore Dati</td><td>Various</td><td>Email and phone extraction</td></tr></table>

### Cost Comparison (per 1,000 POI records)

<table id="bkmrk-platformbasic-poiwit"><tr><th>Platform</th><th>Basic POI</th><th>With Reviews</th><th>With Enrichment</th></tr><tr><td>Outscraper</td><td>$1-3</td><td>$5-8</td><td>~$14</td></tr><tr><td>Apify</td><td>$1.50-4</td><td>$3-6</td><td>$5-10</td></tr><tr><td>Bright Data (dataset)</td><td>$2.50</td><td>Included</td><td>Included</td></tr><tr><td>Scrap.io</td><td>~$3.50</td><td>Extra</td><td>Extra</td></tr><tr><td>ScrapFly</td><td>$3.37+</td><td>Same</td><td>Same</td></tr><tr><td>PhantomBuster</td><td>$50-80</td><td>N/A</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Google Places API</td><td>$17-35</td><td>Enterprise tier</td><td>Enterprise tier</td></tr></table>

# Search API Proxies (SerpAPI, Serper, etc.)

## Search API Proxies

Services that handle scraping/anti-bot, returning clean JSON from Google Maps queries.

<table id="bkmrk-servicepricingspeedn"><tr><th>Service</th><th>Pricing</th><th>Speed</th><th>Notes</th></tr><tr><td>**SerpAPI**</td><td>$50/5K queries</td><td>Standard</td><td>Market leader. Active DMCA lawsuit from Google (Dec 2025)</td></tr><tr><td>**Serper.dev**</td><td>~$1/1K queries; $0.30/1K at volume</td><td>~2.87s</td><td>2,500 free queries. SERP-based Maps results</td></tr><tr><td>**Scrapingdog**</td><td>$0.33/1K</td><td>3.05s</td><td>100% success rate (benchmarked), fastest</td></tr><tr><td>**Scrape.do**</td><td>$1.16/1K</td><td>1.73s</td><td>AI Overview detection</td></tr><tr><td>**ScraperAPI**</td><td>$50/4K searches</td><td>Standard</td><td>Maps in all plans</td></tr><tr><td>**ScrapeBadger**</td><td>Competitive</td><td>Standard</td><td>Review support</td></tr><tr><td>**DataForSEO**</td><td>Pay-per-task</td><td>Standard</td><td>Maps SERP + reviews endpoints</td></tr><tr><td>**Oxylabs SERP**</td><td>From $49/mo</td><td>Standard</td><td>Enterprise SERP API</td></tr><tr><td>**ValueSERP**</td><td>Various</td><td>~40s (slow)</td><td>Some user complaints</td></tr><tr><td>**Zenserp**</td><td>From $30/mo</td><td>Standard</td><td>Multi-engine support</td></tr></table>

### SerpAPI Details

Accepts standard Google Maps query syntax (`q=restaurants+in+Berlin`), returns structured JSON with: title, address, phone, rating, reviews, hours, service\_options, GPS coordinates, place\_id, data\_cid, price, type, photos, thumbnails.

Separate endpoint for individual place reviews.

**Legal warning:** Google v. SerpAPI (Dec 2025) — active DMCA lawsuit with ruling pending.