# Google Maps dataset in 2026: the businesses you need, from 5¢ a row Compared on Nov 12, 2026. The page: https://specstream.ai/google-maps-dataset Bright Data sells Google Maps full information as a dataset of 269.4M records, from $250 for 100K records, about $0.0025 a record, with a $250 minimum order. Subscriptions refresh it biannually to daily and can deliver only New Records or Updated Records. SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the businesses you need, in any city, and get every match as a row with the email from its own site, refreshed as often as every hour, from 5¢ a row. [Describe the businesses you need](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-google-maps-dataset&utm_source=alternatives-md&utm_campaign=google-maps-dataset&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DEvery%2520dentist%2520in%2520Austin%252C%2520TX%2520rated%25204.5%2520or%2520higher%252C%2520with%2520the%2520address%252C%2520phone%252C%2520website%2520and%2520the%2520email%2520from%2520its%2520own%2520site) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. ## SpecStream and Bright Data's Google Maps dataset side by side | | SpecStream | Bright Data Google Maps dataset | |---|---|---| | What you ask for | The businesses you need in plain words: the kind, the places and every condition a row must meet, such as a minimum rating or a service named on the business's own site | A dataset from its marketplace, narrowed with filters or one written prompt. A record limit picks the records at random | | What each row carries | The fields you name, such as name, category, address, phone, website, rating and review count, joined with facts from the business's own site, email included. Source URL and read time on every value | Place id, URL, Country, Name, Category, Address, Description, Business details, and more | | Records ready now | Local businesses read from their Google Maps listings and their own sites, at [specstream.ai/data/places](https://specstream.ai/data/places?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=google-maps-dataset). Every other business comes from the live web when you ask | 269.4M records in Google Maps full information | | Price | 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. 1,000 businesses with up to 5 facts each cost $50 | From $250 for 100K records, about $0.0025 a record, bought once. Subscriptions save up to 25% biannual, 50% quarterly and 80% monthly | | Smallest order | No minimum. $10 of credit on sign-up, no card, and a top-up starts at $10 and never expires | $250 per marketplace order | | What is not charged | A business that fails one of your conditions, a duplicate, a row you already own and a run that finds nothing | A record collected fresh that later stops matching your filters is removed, and its first scrape is still charged | | Updates | A saved request reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢ | Once, biannual, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily, on custom delivery schedules. Smart data updates send only New Records or Updated Records | | Where the data goes | Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks, or your agent through the API and the MCP server | Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Snowflake, Google PubSub, SFTP, a webhook or email, as JSON, NDJSON, CSV, XLSX or Parquet | | Live lookups | Search API at $5 per 1,000 searches, or $1 on the fast tier, and Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, on the same key | A separate Google Maps Scraper API, with 5K free records a month | ## Why teams that buy Google Maps data choose SpecStream ### Only the businesses that meet your conditions A marketplace dataset is cut by its filters, and when you set a record limit, Bright Data picks the records at random. On SpecStream you write the businesses you need: "every dentist in Austin, TX rated 4.5 or higher, with the website and the email from its own site", or "physiotherapy clinics in Lyon that offer home visits, with the phone and opening hours". SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit, finds every match on the live web and checks each condition against the business's own pages. A business that fails one condition is not delivered and not billed. ### Start with $10, not a $250 order Bright Data's Google Maps dataset starts at $250 for 100K records, and every marketplace order has a $250 minimum. On SpecStream you start with $10 of credit on sign-up, no card. A row costs 5¢ with up to 5 facts, 15¢ with up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. 200 businesses with name, address, phone, website and rating cost $10. The most a run can cost is quoted before it starts, and nothing runs until you approve it. What the run does not use goes back to your balance. ### New and changed businesses, labeled, as often as every hour Bright Data delivers a subscription on a schedule you set, from biannual to daily, and its smart data updates send only New Records or Updated Records, with up to 80% off on monthly plans. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly, and each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new business costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢), and an unchanged one costs 1¢. New matches land in Slack, email, Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce or a signed webhook, or in your agent through the MCP server. ### The email from the business's own site Each SpecStream row joins the listing with facts read on the business's own site, such as its email, the services it names and the people it lists. An email adds 5¢ and a phone 15¢. An email no page printed is labeled likely. Source URL and read time on every value. ## Other ways to buy Google Maps data ### Outscraper A Google Maps scraper billed per business. The first 500 businesses are free, then $3 per 1,000 businesses up to 100,000. You pick categories and locations and get each listing's fields. SpecStream returns the businesses that meet every condition you wrote, joined with facts from their own sites. ### Apify Google Maps Scraper An Actor in the Apify Store that scrapes places from Google Maps, priced from $1.50 per 1,000 scraped places. You set up, run and schedule it yourself. SpecStream runs the whole request from one sentence and bills only the rows delivered. ### Bright Data Google Maps Scraper API Bright Data sends buyers who need real time Google Maps data to its Google Maps Scraper API, with 5K free records a month. SpecStream reads every listing live when you ask, and keeps the rows up to date on the schedule you save. ## How to start Sign up and get $10 of credit, no card. Describe the businesses you need: the kind, the cities, the conditions and the fields, email or phone included. Read the request back, approve the most the run can cost, and the rows arrive with the source on each value. Save the request with a schedule from hourly to yearly, and new and changed rows reach your sheet, CRM, Slack or webhook. Already bought a dataset? Import it as a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base of up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Import is free. 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": "Every dentist in Austin, TX rated 4.5 or higher, with the address, phone, website and the email from its own site", "count": 25}' ``` ## Questions about Google Maps datasets ### How much does Bright Data's Google Maps dataset cost? $250 for 100K records, about $0.0025 a record, bought once. Subscriptions cost up to 25% less biannual, 50% less quarterly and 80% less monthly, and every marketplace order has a $250 minimum. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, with no minimum. ### What are New Records in Bright Data's datasets? A smart data update: a subscription that delivers only New Records or Updated Records, so you pay for new or changed records. SpecStream labels every row on each rerun as changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and an unchanged row costs 1¢. ### How often is Bright Data's Google Maps dataset updated? On the schedule you buy: once, biannual, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily. A saved SpecStream request reruns as often as every hour. ### What is the best alternative to a Google Maps dataset? SpecStream. You describe the businesses in plain words and get every match from 5¢ a row, with the email from each business's own site, refreshed as often as hourly and billed only for rows delivered. ### Is there a minimum order? Bright Data's marketplace has a $250 minimum per order. SpecStream has none: new accounts get $10 of credit, no card, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing. ### Does SpecStream have an API for local business data? Yes. The REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp take the same request in plain words and return the same rows. The [MCP guide](https://specstream.ai/docs/mcp?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=google-maps-dataset) lists every tool. ## Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page, read on Nov 12, 2026. - [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Google Maps datasets](https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/google-maps), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Marketplace pricing](https://docs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Marketplace purchase options](https://docs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/purchase-options), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data Google Maps Scraper API](https://brightdata.com/products/web-scraper/google-maps), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Outscraper pricing](https://outscraper.com/pricing/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Apify Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/compass/crawler-google-places), read Nov 12, 2026