Commercial Platforms & Search API Proxies
Outscraper, Apify, Bright Data, SerpAPI, Serper.dev, etc.

Commercial Scraping Platforms
Commercial Scraping Platforms
Outscraper (Best Value)
Pricing
$1-3/1K records (basic); ~$14/1K full enrichment
Free Tier
500 records (first 500 reviews free)
Fields
74 fields incl. name, address, phone, hours, rating, reviews, photos, emails
Reviews
Full text, not limited to 5
Real-world
Reddit user: $50 for 20K listings, ~6,500 usable after dedup
Apify (Marketplace)
Pricing
$1.50-4/1K places (varies by actor)
Free
$5 monthly platform credit
Fields
25+ core + enrichment actors for emails/social
Tips
Set 
maxCrawledPlaces to 9999999 for all results. Niche searches have 75-80% junk rate
Actors
compass/crawler-google-places, beatanalytics/google-maps-reviews-scraper
Bright Data (Enterprise)
Dataset
200.7M+ pre-scraped records at $0.0025/record ($250/100K)
Scraper API
From $500/mo + proxy costs
Proxy Network
72M+ residential IPs — industry's largest
Other Commercial Services
Service
Pricing
Key Feature
Scrap.io
From EUR 35/mo (10K leads)
Simplest UX, radius/polygon search, count preview, 200M+ places
ScrapFly
~$3.37/1K requests
General-purpose, credit-based, 99% success rate
LocalAPI
Free tier: 50 searches
Only API exposing Popular Times histograms
HasData
API plans
Cloud-powered, built-in email finder
Leads-Extractor.com
Various
Dedicated Maps scraper
MapSHunt.com
Various
Prioritizes businesses with websites, crawls for emails/social
LocalProspects
Various
Auto-crawls for owner name, emails, mobile phones
GeoScraper
Unlimited/mo
Reviews scraper + email/social extraction
Minelead
Various
Email finder for Maps businesses
Estrattore Dati
Various
Email and phone extraction
Cost Comparison (per 1,000 POI records)
Platform
Basic POI
With Reviews
With Enrichment
Outscraper
$1-3
$5-8
~$14
Apify
$1.50-4
$3-6
$5-10
Bright Data (dataset)
$2.50
Included
Included
Scrap.io
~$3.50
Extra
Extra
ScrapFly
$3.37+
Same
Same
PhantomBuster
$50-80
N/A
N/A
Google Places API
$17-35
Enterprise tier
Enterprise tier

Search API Proxies (SerpAPI, Serper, etc.)
Search API Proxies
Services that handle scraping/anti-bot, returning clean JSON from Google Maps queries.
Service
Pricing
Speed
Notes
SerpAPI
$50/5K queries
Standard
Market leader. Active DMCA lawsuit from Google (Dec 2025)
Serper.dev
~$1/1K queries; $0.30/1K at volume
~2.87s
2,500 free queries. SERP-based Maps results
Scrapingdog
$0.33/1K
3.05s
100% success rate (benchmarked), fastest
Scrape.do
$1.16/1K
1.73s
AI Overview detection
ScraperAPI
$50/4K searches
Standard
Maps in all plans
ScrapeBadger
Competitive
Standard
Review support
DataForSEO
Pay-per-task
Standard
Maps SERP + reviews endpoints
Oxylabs SERP
From $49/mo
Standard
Enterprise SERP API
ValueSERP
Various
~40s (slow)
Some user complaints
Zenserp
From $30/mo
Standard
Multi-engine support
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.