Google Maps API
Official Google Maps and Places data through one simple API — search places and businesses, get full place details, and pull reviews with rating summaries. Powered by the Google Places API (New), returned as clean JSON. A pay-per-call Google Maps API from $0.05 with $5 free credit and no minimums. A Google Places API and SerpApi Maps alternative.
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Why builders choose YepAPI
Official Google Places data
Powered by the Google Places API (New) — the same live data behind Google Maps. Search places, get full details, and pull reviews as clean JSON, no scraping and no stale snapshots.
No Google Cloud setup
Skip the Google Cloud project, billing account, quotas, and field masks. One YepAPI key gives you place search, details, and reviews with pay-per-call pricing from $0.05.
Search, details & reviews in one key
Search Google Maps for places, fetch the full profile for any place ID, and get a place's rating summary with reviews — three endpoints, one key, one bill.
A Google Places API & SerpApi alternative
Same official Google place data, simpler pricing. Pay per call from $0.05 with $5 free credit and no monthly minimums — a straightforward Google Places API, SerpApi Maps, and Outscraper alternative.
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Google Maps Places API
3Maps Search
$0.07Search Google Maps for places, businesses, and points of interest. Get names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, ratings, hours, and coordinates as clean JSON — official Google Places data from $0.07/call.
Place Details
$0.05Get full details for any Google Maps place by its ID — address, phone, website, hours, amenities, photos, ratings, coordinates, and a top review as clean JSON from $0.05/call.
Maps Reviews
$0.01+Fetch up to 150 Google Maps reviews for any place by its ID — sorted by newest, most relevant, or rating — with full text, star ratings, author profiles, photos, and owner responses as clean JSON.
Google Maps API — place search, details & reviews
YepAPI's Google Maps API gives you official Google Places data through one simple key. Search Google Maps for places and businesses, fetch the full profile for any place by its ID, and pull a place's rating summary with reviews — all as clean, structured JSON. It's powered by the official Google Places API (New), so every result reflects Google's live data rather than a fragile scrape.
Search returns each place's name, address, phone, website, coordinates, rating, hours, amenities, photos, and a top review — plus a stable place ID. Pass that ID to Place Details for the complete record, or to Reviews for the rating summary and review bodies. It's everything you need to build store locators, local lead lists, map-based apps, and reputation dashboards.
Best of all, there's no Google Cloud project, billing account, or quota configuration to manage. Pay per call from $0.05 with $5 free credit and no monthly minimums. One key also covers SEO, SERP, web scraping, and AI endpoints — so you're not juggling providers. It's a clean Google Places API and SerpApi Maps alternative built for developers.
Looking for a Google Places API alternative?
YepAPI gives you the same data with simpler pricing. One API key, pay per call, no monthly minimums.
What developers say
“Switched from SerpAPI and cut our SERP costs by 80%. Same data quality, way simpler billing.”
“One API key for AI models, SERP data, and web scraping. Saved us from managing 4 separate providers.”
“The $5 free credit let us prototype our entire rank tracking feature before committing. No other API does that.”
Frequently asked questions
YepAPI's Google Maps API is a set of three endpoints — Search, Place Details, and Reviews — that return official Google Places data as clean JSON. Search finds places for a text query, Place Details returns the full profile for a place ID, and Reviews returns a rating summary with review bodies. It's powered by the official Google Places API (New), so the data is live.
Yes. YepAPI wraps the official Google Places API (New) behind one key with no Google Cloud project, billing account, quota configuration, or field masks required. You get the same live place data with pay-per-call pricing from $0.05, $5 free credit, and one key that also covers SEO, SERP, scraping, and AI endpoints.
Maps Search is $0.07 per call, and Place Details and Reviews are $0.05 each. There are no monthly minimums or subscriptions, and you get $5 free credit on signup. You pay only for the calls you make. Compare that to Google's own Places API (billed per request with a required Google Cloud billing account) or SerpApi Maps (from a $75/mo plan).
Google's official Places API (New) exposes at most five review bodies per place, so the Reviews endpoint returns those five along with the place's overall rating and total rating count. We're accurate about this — the API is not an unlimited review scraper, and no official Google API returns every review.
No. That's the point. You don't need a Google Cloud project, billing account, API key, or quota setup. Sign up for YepAPI, get one key, and call the Maps endpoints directly. YepAPI handles the upstream Google Places integration for you.
Yes. Search and Place Details both return latitude/longitude, a seven-line weekly hours array, a live open-now flag, typed amenities, photos, and ready-made directions and reviews links — everything you need to plot places on a map and render accurate detail cards.
The SERP Google Maps endpoint scrapes the Google Maps local pack for a keyword — great for local rank tracking. The Maps API uses the official Google Places API (New) and returns richer, structured place objects with stable place IDs you can pass to Place Details and Reviews. Use SERP for rankings; use the Maps API for building on canonical place data.
YepAPI gives you $5 free credit on signup — no credit card required — which covers dozens of Maps API calls to test with real Google Places data. After that, pay per call from $0.05 with no minimums.
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