Apify Google Maps Scraper alternatives in 2026

Places by the trait your best customers share

Apify's Google Maps Scraper finds places by search term, category and location, and filters them by what the listing shows: category, stars, a website, a word in the title. The trait that makes a place a good account is often on another page: how many locations it runs, who owns it, whether it books online on its own site. On SpecStream you write the places you want with every condition, such as "independent roofing contractors in Ohio rated 4.5 or higher with at least 100 reviews". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, then reads the listing, the business's own site and other pages, and joins what it finds into one record per place. A result that fails one of your conditions is not delivered and not billed.

What 1,000 places cost on each

On Apify's Free plan rates, 1,000 places cost $4, one filter adds $1, contact details add $2, and 100 reviews a place add $50. The price buys every place the search returns, and sorting out the ones that fit is your work. A SpecStream row with up to 5 facts costs 5¢, so 1,000 places that meet every condition cost $50, and a person's email adds 5¢ a row. You pay more a row on SpecStream and nothing for the places that do not fit.

The price is set before the run

On Apify the add-ons you switch on set the rate per place, and a maximum charge limit stops the run. Every SpecStream request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes. Nothing runs until you approve it, the charge never goes past that amount, and whatever the run does not use goes back to your balance. Reading and pricing a request cost nothing.

Local businesses on the page, and a measured search API

On Nov 12, 2026, specstream.ai/data/places held 18,031 local businesses in 355 categories across 390 cities in 12 countries, each with its rating, reviews and website, read from its Google Maps listing. The page is rebuilt every morning, and you can ask for your own cut of it for a new region.

SpecStream's search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Scores and method are at specstream.ai/benchmarks. A search costs from $1 per 1,000 and a page read $0.80 per 1,000, on the same balance as your rows.

Reruns label every place and land in your CRM

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row costs 1¢, so rechecking 1,000 places that did not change costs $10. New matches and changes land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Slack or Teams with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns structured rows from the live web at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, under a maximum you approve before the run. The Search API costs from $1 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

Outscraper

A Google Maps Scraper with no monthly fee: the first 500 businesses are free, then $3 per 1,000, and $1 per 1,000 above 100,000. Emails are a second service at $3 per 1,000 domains. SpecStream returns the place and its contact on one row, and only places that meet every condition are billed. The full comparison is at Outscraper alternatives.

Google Places API

Google's own API for place data. Text Search Pro is free for the first 5,000 calls a month, then $32 per 1,000 calls. SpecStream reads the listing, the business's own site and other pages, and returns one row per place that meets your conditions.

gosom/google-maps-scraper

An open source scraper under the MIT license, run in Docker or as a binary on your own machine, at about 120 places a minute by its README. The software is free, and the machines and the upkeep are yours. SpecStream runs the work and delivers rows with a source on every value.

Scrap.io

Local business exports by search area and business type. Plans run from $39 to $399 a month billed yearly, or $59 to $599 billed monthly. The Basic plan carries 10,000 export credits every month. A SpecStream row costs the same on every plan, and it meets every condition you wrote, with facts from many sites joined into one record.