# Apify Google Maps Scraper alternatives in 2026: 5¢ to $1 a place Compared on Nov 12, 2026. The page: https://specstream.ai/alternatives/apify-google-maps-scraper Apify's Google Maps Scraper costs $4 per 1,000 places on the Free plan and from $1.50 per 1,000 on paid plans. Each filter, contact lookup, review and extra detail is a separate charge per place, and each row starts from what the Maps listing shows. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the places you want with every condition, and each place that meets them all comes back as one row, joined from its listing, its own site and other pages, at 5¢ to $1. [Describe your places](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-apify-google-maps-scraper&utm_source=alternatives-md&utm_campaign=apify-google-maps-scraper&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DIndependent%2520roofing%2520contractors%2520in%2520Ohio%2520rated%25204.5%2520or%2520higher%2520with%2520at%2520least%2520100%2520reviews%252C%2520with%2520the%2520owner%252C%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520and%2520a%2520phone) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ## SpecStream and Apify's Google Maps Scraper side by side | | SpecStream | Apify Google Maps Scraper | |---|---|---| | What you send | The places you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet | Search terms, categories and a location, or a list of Google Maps URLs or place IDs. URLs and place IDs are charged as the additional place details add-on | | What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company, place or filing, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | The fields of a Google Maps listing, such as name, address, website, phone, rating, review count, category and opening hours. Google shows some details mostly to logged in users, so they are often missing | | The conditions a row must meet | Any condition you can write, such as how many locations a business has, whether it is independent or part of a chain, or whether it takes bookings on its own site. A result that fails one of your conditions is not delivered and not billed | Category, minimum star rating, website availability and title match. Each filter is charged per place: $1 per 1,000 places for each filter on the Free plan | | Emails and phones | On the same row as the place: 5¢ for a person's email and 15¢ for a phone. An email no page printed is labeled likely | Company contacts enrichment reads the business's website, at $2 per 1,000 places on the Free plan | | Data already held | On Nov 12, 2026, [specstream.ai/data/places](https://specstream.ai/data/places?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=apify-google-maps-scraper) held 18,031 local businesses in 355 categories across 390 cities in 12 countries, each with its rating, reviews and website. Ask for your own cut of it for a new region | Each run reads Google Maps when you start it. An unnamed dataset is kept for 7 days | | The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every plan | A place scraped: $4 per 1,000 on the Free plan, from $1.50 per 1,000 on paid plans. Extras per place on Free: $2 per 1,000 for extra details, $2 per 1,000 for contacts, and $0.50 per 1,000 reviews | | How to start | $10 of credit, no card. Pro $19, Scale $99 and Team $499 a month, all spent as credit at the same row rates. A yearly plan adds 20% more credit | A Free plan with $5 to spend in the Apify Store. Paid plans are $19, $199 or $999 a month plus pay as you go | | The cost cap before a run | The most the run can cost, quoted before it starts. Nothing runs until you approve it, and there are no automatic overages | A maximum charge limit you can set when you start a run. Usage past a plan's prepaid amount is added to the next invoice | | What failed or empty work costs | Nothing. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not charged | Each place scraped is charged, whether or not it meets a condition the Maps listing does not show | | MCP and API | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDC | The Apify API, a CLI, and a hosted MCP server over Streamable HTTP with OAuth | | Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | Dataset exports in JSON, CSV, Excel and other formats, and integrations with n8n, Make, Zapier, Airtable, Google Drive and HubSpot | ## Why Google Maps scraper buyers move to SpecStream ### 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](https://specstream.ai/data/places?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=apify-google-maps-scraper) 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](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=apify-google-maps-scraper). 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. ## Other Google Maps scraper alternatives ### 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](https://specstream.ai/alternatives/outscraper?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=apify-google-maps-scraper). ### 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. ## How to switch from Apify's Google Maps Scraper Write the places you want in plain words, in place of the search terms, categories and filters you set today. Or import the dataset you exported from Apify, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows. Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the `402` reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost. ``` curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"request": "Independent roofing contractors in Ohio rated 4.5 or higher with at least 100 reviews, with the owner, a work email and a phone", "count": 25}' ``` Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance. ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does Apify's Google Maps Scraper cost? $4 per 1,000 places on the Free plan, and from $1.50 per 1,000 on paid plans. Extras are charged per place: on the Free plan $1 per 1,000 for each filter, $2 per 1,000 for contact details, $2 per 1,000 for extra place details, and $0.50 per 1,000 reviews. Paid plans cost $19, $199 or $999 a month plus pay as you go. ### What is the best Apify Google Maps Scraper alternative? SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the places in plain words with every condition, approve the most the run can cost, and get one structured row per place that meets all of them, with the owner's contact if you ask, in your CRM, your sheet, Slack or your agent. Only delivered rows are billed. ### Is there a free Google Maps scraper? The open source gosom/google-maps-scraper is free under the MIT license, and you run it on your own machine. Apify's Free plan carries $5 to spend in its Store, about 1,250 places at $4 per 1,000. SpecStream gives every new account $10 of credit with no card, up to 200 rows at 5¢, with the API and the MCP server included. ### How much does the Google Places API cost for place search? Text Search Pro costs $32 per 1,000 calls after the first 5,000 free each month. SpecStream charges per delivered place instead: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, and nothing for a place that fails one of your conditions. ### Does SpecStream find emails and phone numbers? Yes, at 5¢ for a person's email and 15¢ for a phone, on the same row as the place. Each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled. The Extract API also returns every email address a page carries, at $0.80 per 1,000 pages. ### What does a failed run cost? On SpecStream, $0. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not charged, and the charge never goes past the maximum you approved. On Apify each place scraped is charged, and a maximum charge limit set at the start caps the run. ### Does SpecStream have an API and an MCP server? Yes. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches, the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. The MCP server is at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an API key, and an agent spends from the same balance as your team, inside the limits you set on its key. ## Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page. - [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream local businesses](https://specstream.ai/data/places), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/compass/crawler-google-places), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify Google Maps Scraper pay per event pricing](https://help.apify.com/en/articles/10774732-google-maps-scraper-is-going-to-pay-per-event-pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify pricing](https://apify.com/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify Actors in Store](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify datasets](https://docs.apify.com/storage/dataset), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify integrations](https://docs.apify.com/integrations), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify MCP](https://docs.apify.com/mcp), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Outscraper pricing](https://outscraper.com/pricing/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Google Maps Platform pricing](https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [gosom/google-maps-scraper README](https://github.com/gosom/google-maps-scraper), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Scrap.io pricing](https://scrap.io/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026