# Google Maps Scraper, Tested: 1,644 Places

> Google Maps scraper tested on 4 October 2026: 8 searches, 1,644 unique places in 7 min 19 s, phone on 95.3%, website on 90.7%. $0.001 per delivered place.

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# Google Maps scraper, tested: 1,644 places in 8 runs

Lead generationOct 4, 2026·6 min read·By [Aldo Morese](https://quanticdata.io/about/), founder of QuanticData

Four bars show how many of the 1,644 Google Maps places collected on 4 October 2026 carried each field: rating 96.4%, address 96.0%, phone 95.3%, website 90.7%; the card reads 1,644 places from 8 searches in 7 min 19 s, with no duplicates and name, category and coordinates on every row, at $0.001 per place.

On this page [What we ran](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#what-we-ran) [Rows, time and cost, run by run](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#rows-time-and-cost-run-by-run) [Field coverage on 1,644 places](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#field-coverage-on-1-644-places) [Opening hours and review counts: the detail call](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#opening-hours-and-review-counts-the-detail-call) [What 1,000 and 10,000 places cost](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#what-1-000-and-10-000-places-cost) [How to get past one search's ceiling](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#how-to-get-past-one-search-s-ceiling) [Limits of this test](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#limits-of-this-test) [The exact run, and what to buy](/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/#the-exact-run-and-what-to-buy)

We tested our Google Maps scraper on 4 October 2026 with eight keyword-and-city searches. It delivered 1,644 unique places in 7 minutes 19 seconds, for $1.64 at the list price of $0.001 per place. Every row had name, category, coordinates and place id; 95.3% had a phone number and 90.7% a website.

Pages about Maps scrapers tend to quote a maximum and stop there. A buyer of local business data needs different numbers: how many rows one search really returns, which columns are filled, how long it takes and what it costs. Those are below, run by run, and the per-run file is [results-2026-10-04.csv](https://quanticdata.io/blog/google-maps-scraper-tested/results-2026-10-04.csv?v=20261004c).

## What we ran

| Item | Setting |
| --- | --- |
| Date and time | 4 October 2026, 08:30 to 08:37 UTC, plus the detail calls at 08:39 |
| Tool | The google_maps_places collector on the production API, version 1.0.0 |
| Input | A keyword and a location, with country and language; nothing else |
| Cap | max_results 300, the collector's maximum per run |
| Runs | 8 searches in 8 cities of 5 countries, one after the other, each as a background run polled every 3 seconds |
| Time | From the run's own started and finished timestamps |
| Cost | Delivered places multiplied by the published price of $0.001 |

The collector searches Google's local results for the keyword in the location, pages through them and removes duplicates before it delivers. You pay for delivered places only. If you have never used it, the product page for the [Google Maps scraper API](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/google-maps-scraper-api/) shows the input form and the output schema.

**Try it on your own targets.** Every QuanticData account gets $2 of free API usage per month.

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## Rows, time and cost, run by run

| Search | Places | Time | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| dentist, Austin TX | 193 | 90.9 s | $0.193 |
| coffee shop, Seattle WA | 185 | 76.6 s | $0.185 |
| plumber, Chicago IL | 191 | 17.1 s | $0.191 |
| real estate agency, Miami FL | 297 | 41.1 s | $0.297 |
| restaurant, Manchester UK | 178 | 92.9 s | $0.178 |
| Zahnarzt, Berlin | 227 | 51.7 s | $0.227 |
| ristorante, Milano | 232 | 37.0 s | $0.232 |
| gym, Sydney NSW | 141 | 31.8 s | $0.141 |
| **Total** | **1,644** | **7 min 19 s** | **$1.64** |

That is 3.7 places per second on average, with a wide spread: the Chicago run delivered 191 plumbers in 17 seconds, the Manchester run took 93 seconds for 178 restaurants. Inside each run every place id was unique, so the 1,644 rows are 1,644 different businesses.

One search returns between 141 and 297 places here, not a fixed number. Google decides how deep a local query goes, and the answer depends on the category and the city. You are billed for the delivered rows only.

Places delivered per search by the Google Maps collector, 4 October 2026. The cap is 300 places per run; Google decides how deep each local query goes.

## Field coverage on 1,644 places

Coverage is the share of rows where the field is filled. These are all rows, not the best ones.

| Field | Rows filled | Coverage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Name | 1,644 | 100% |
| Category | 1,644 | 100% |
| Latitude and longitude | 1,644 | 100% |
| Place id and Maps link | 1,644 | 100% |
| Rating | 1,585 | 96.4% |
| Address | 1,579 | 96.0% |
| Phone | 1,567 | 95.3% |
| Website | 1,491 | 90.7% |
| Phone or website | 1,629 | 99.1% |
| Phone and website | 1,429 | 86.9% |

The contact columns are the ones a lead list lives on, and they are the strong part: 1,629 of 1,644 businesses can be reached by phone or through a site.

Opening hours and the exact review count are available through the detail call in the next section. An email address is not part of a Maps listing; it comes from the business's own website, which is the job of the [lead scraper](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/lead-scraper-api/). The anatomy of a row is in [what a Google Maps lead contains](https://quanticdata.io/blog/what-a-google-maps-lead-contains/).

## Opening hours and review counts: the detail call

For a sample spread across the eight cities (every 55th row of the 1,644) we asked for the place card with the `place_details` search type, passing the id from the list row, and read 29 cards.

| Measure | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Place cards read | 29 |
| Median time per call | 0.60 s |
| Weekly opening hours present | 29 of 29 |
| Review count present | 29 of 29 |
| Website present | 27 of 29 |
| Also returned | Open or closed now, plus code, phone, address, rating, category |

So the working pattern is two steps: the collector for the list, then a detail call only for the rows you keep. A detail call is a Google rich-vertical search at $0.002, twice the price of a list row, which is why it pays to filter first. For the text of the reviews rather than their count, use the [Google reviews collector](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/google-reviews-scraper-api/).

## What 1,000 and 10,000 places cost

| Volume | List rows at $0.001 | With a detail call on every row |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1,000 places | $1.00 | $3.00 |
| 10,000 places | $10.00 | $30.00 |
| This test: 1,644 places, 29 detail calls | $1.64 | $1.70 |

Every account gets $2 of free API usage per month, which is 2,000 list rows before the first cent. There is no subscription and a run that delivers nothing costs nothing. At the pace of this test, 10,000 places are about 45 minutes of sequential runs, or far less if you run several searches at once.

## How to get past one search's ceiling

The largest run here returned 297 places and the cap per run is 300, while a big city has thousands of restaurants. The way through is more searches, not a bigger one:

- Split the area: run the same keyword on districts, postcodes or neighbouring towns instead of the whole city.

- Split the keyword: "dentist", "orthodontist" and "dental clinic" surface different businesses.

- De-duplicate on `place_id` across runs. Inside one run the collector already does it; across runs it is one line of code.

The full method, with the tiling and the email step, is in [how to scrape leads from Google Maps](https://quanticdata.io/blog/how-to-scrape-leads-from-google-maps/). If you would rather receive the finished file than build it, we sell [ready-made lead lists](https://quanticdata.io/leads/) by sector and country, built with these same runs.

## Limits of this test

- Eight searches on one morning. Coverage moves with category and city, as the phone column shows.

- Counts are what Google returned for one query, not a census of the city. We do not claim there are 193 dentists in Austin.

- We checked that fields were filled and ids unique. We did not phone 1,567 numbers.

- The detail sample is 29 place cards. It supports "hours come back", not a percentage to the decimal.

- Business listings are public, commercial data, but rules on using them for outreach differ by country: see [is scraping Google Maps legal](https://quanticdata.io/blog/is-scraping-google-maps-legal/).

## The exact run, and what to buy

One collector, a keyword and a location. The same run is the `run_collector` tool on the MCP server, and the result downloads as JSON or CSV.

```
curl -X POST "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_maps_places/run" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer qd_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input":{"query":"dentist","location":"Austin, TX","country":"us","max_results":300},"async":true}'

curl "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/RUN_ID?format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer qd_live_YOUR_KEY"
```

What to buy: nothing up front. The collector is pay per delivered place at $0.001, the free $2 per month covers the first 2,000 places, and the other 100+ scrapers in the [collectors catalogue](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/) run on the same key. Parameters and the response envelope are in the [API documentation](https://quanticdata.io/docs/); how the underlying search layer performed on the same day is in [our SERP API benchmark](https://quanticdata.io/blog/serp-api-benchmark-tested/).

### Sources & further reading

- [Place data fields, Google Maps Platform documentation](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/data-fields)

- [Guidelines for representing your business on Google, Google Business Profile Help](https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177)

## FAQ

Quick answers on google maps scraper.

[Something else? Ask us](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

### How many results does a Google Maps scraper return per search?

In our eight runs of 4 October 2026, between 141 and 297 places per search, with a cap of 300 per run. Google decides how deep a local query goes, so the number changes with the category and the city. To cover a large city, split it into districts and de-duplicate on place id.

### Which fields does the Google Maps scraper return?

Name, category, coordinates, place id and Maps link on every row; rating on 96.4%, address on 96.0%, phone on 95.3% and website on 90.7% of 1,644 places. Opening hours and the exact review count come from a place details call, which returned both on 29 of 29 sampled places.

### How fast is it?

1,644 places in 7 minutes 19 seconds across eight sequential runs, 3.7 places per second on average. Single runs ranged from 17 seconds for 191 places to 93 seconds for 178 places.

### How much does it cost to scrape Google Maps?

$0.001 per delivered place, so $1.00 per 1,000 and $1.64 for the 1,644 places of this test. Every account gets $2 of free API usage per month, which covers 2,000 places, and a run that delivers nothing is not billed.

### Does Google Maps data include email addresses?

No. A Maps listing carries phone and website, not an email. Emails are collected from each business website in a second step, which our lead scraper does; in this test 90.7% of places had a website to collect from.

### Are the places de-duplicated?

Yes, inside each run: all 1,644 rows had a distinct place id within their run. When you combine several searches, such as districts of one city, de-duplicate across runs on the place_id field.

## Run your own keyword and city

Measured on 4 October 2026: 1,644 unique places from 8 searches in 7 min 19 s, phone on 95.3% of rows. Pay $0.001 per delivered place; every account gets $2 of free API usage per month, enough for 2,000 places.

[Start free — $2/month included](https://quanticdata.io/signup/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=blog-end&utm_content=google-maps-scraper-tested)[Explore Ready-Made Scraper APIs](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/)

## Related reading

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