5 Best Google Maps Scrapers Compared (May 2026): Real Pricing, Honest Reviews

Most “best Google Maps scraper” listicles are affiliate-driven, six months out of date, or written without ever opening any of the tools. This one is different on the first two counts and partially on the third.

We make one of the tools in this list (MapsScraper), so the bias warning is up front. To make this comparison useful instead of self-serving, we document each competitor’s real strengths, the prices we found on their May 2026 public pages, and the limitations that would actually push a buyer toward a different tool — including ours. If a competitor is the right fit for your use case, this guide will say so.

The five tools below cover the four buying patterns we see most often: a flat-rate Chrome extension, a metered API platform, an enterprise-leaning cloud dashboard, a Web Store-listed extension with a generous free tier, and a lifetime-deal alternative.

Master comparison table

Feature	MapsScraper	Outscraper	Scrap.io	G Maps Extractor	Leads Sniper
Cheapest paid	$9.90/mo	Pay-as-you-go from $3/1k	~$42/mo	$19.90/mo	~$50–100 lifetime
Annual unlimited	$79/yr	Variable	~$504/yr	$238/yr (Pro)	One-time payment
Free tier	50 leads/mo (renewable)	500 leads (one-time)	100 leads / 7 days	1,000 leads/mo (no email)	None
Format	Chrome ext (sideload)	Cloud + REST API	Cloud dashboard	Chrome ext (Web Store)	Chrome ext (sideload)
API access	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
MCP server (AI agents)	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Email scraping	✅ Built-in (Premium)	Add-on ~$0.003/rec	✅ Built-in	Pro tier only	✅ Built-in
WhatsApp click-to-chat	✅ Built-in (Premium)	❌	❌	❌	❌
Multi-platform (Yelp, LinkedIn)	❌	✅ 50+ sources	❌	❌	❌
Country-level scrape	❌	❌	✅ 195 countries	❌	❌
Polygon / radius search	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
UI languages	10	1 (EN)	1 (EN)	1 (EN)	1 (EN)
Result cap per session	None	None	None	None	120
Chrome Web Store listed	❌	n/a	n/a	✅	❌

Five tools, twelve feature axes, one obvious truth: there’s no winner. There are five tools that each win two or three boxes. The rest of this guide is the reasoning behind picking yours.

MapsScraper

Best for: Solo founders, freelancers, 2–5 person teams on a budget, Google Maps-focused workflows, WhatsApp-led outbound markets.

Pricing: Free forever 50 leads/mo · Premium $9.90/mo or $79/yr unlimited.

What’s actually good: This is the cheapest unlimited-usage annual plan in the list — $79/yr buys what others charge $200–500/yr for. WhatsApp click-to-chat link generation is unique among the five (MapsScraper builds wa.me/<E.164> URLs from scraped phones, ready to paste into outreach). The UI ships in 10 languages, which matters for non-English-first teams more than people who only build in English realize. Data lives in your browser; nothing is uploaded to a vendor cloud.

What’s actually not: The Chrome Web Store rejected our listing twice (policy decisions we couldn’t engineer around), so installation is sideload via Developer Mode. First-time setup is ~10 minutes instead of 30 seconds. There’s no REST API, no multi-platform support (Maps only), and no country-level scraping. If you need any of those, you’re in the wrong row of the table.

Verdict: Best value per $/lead if you commit to a year and your workflow is Google Maps-focused. The price gap funds an entire freelancer’s tool stack.

For a detailed head-to-head with Outscraper or Scrap.io, we wrote MapsScraper vs Outscraper and MapsScraper vs Scrap.io.

Outscraper

Best for: Developers, agencies, multi-platform scraping, one-time bulk jobs without a subscription.

Pricing: Pay-as-you-go. Google Maps places at roughly $3 per 1,000 records (Medium tier), bulk discounts past 100k. Email enrichment is a separate add-on at ~$0.003/record. Free signup credit of 500 records.

What’s actually good: Outscraper is the only tool in this list with both a clean REST API and 50+ source coverage — Yelp, LinkedIn, Facebook, Yellow Pages, TripAdvisor, and more. If your pipeline cross-references a Maps listing against a LinkedIn page, Outscraper does it in one query. The pay-as-you-go model is the right fit for “I need 800 leads once” or for engineers integrating scraping into a Make/Airflow workflow.

What’s actually not: Email scraping is billed separately, which roughly doubles the per-lead cost when you need it. There’s no flat-rate option, so high recurring volume gets expensive — 5,000 leads/mo with emails runs ~$30/mo, or ~$360/yr, vs MapsScraper’s $79/yr at the same volume. No WhatsApp link generation. Single-language dashboard.

Verdict: Best for one-time bulk jobs or API-driven integrations. Less compelling if your usage is steady monthly volume with email needs.

Scrap.io

Best for: Agency-scale country-wide prospecting, AI agent workflows, polygon-based targeting.

Pricing: Plan-based starting around $42–49/mo for the entry tier; ~$504/yr at the entry level. 100-lead, 7-day free trial.

What’s actually good: Country-level scraping (all 195 countries) is a category-defining feature — pick “Germany” or “Indonesia,” pick a business category from 4,000+ pre-mapped options, get every listing across the country in one job. Polygon and radius search let you draw arbitrary areas on a map instead of chaining city queries. MCP server support means AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT) can call scraping tools directly from a conversation — useful if you’re building agent-driven research workflows. Email scraping built in, no add-on.

What’s actually not: Most expensive tool in this list. No Chrome extension option — fully cloud-based, so you’re dependent on their dashboard and uptime. Single-language UI. No WhatsApp click-to-chat generation.

Verdict: Best for agency-scale country-wide prospecting or when AI agent integration matters. Overkill (and overpriced) for solo founders running city-level outbound.

G Maps Extractor

Best for: Free-tier seekers who want generous volume, Chrome Web Store comfort, users uncomfortable with sideload.

Pricing: Free tier 1,000 leads/mo (no email scraping). Professional $19.90–39.49/mo (~100k leads + email). Business tier $99/mo for 500k leads.

What’s actually good: The largest free tier in this list by an order of magnitude — 1,000 leads/mo, monthly renewable, no card required. The only tool besides our own that’s a Chrome extension, but unlike ours it’s listed on the Chrome Web Store, so installation is a one-click affair. That matters for users who won’t enable Developer Mode no matter what you tell them about it.

What’s actually not: Email scraping is gated behind the paid tier — the 1,000 free leads come with names, phones, addresses, but no email enrichment. The paid plan starts at $19.90/mo, roughly 2× MapsScraper’s $9.90 monthly. No WhatsApp links. Single language.

Verdict: Good if you don’t need email scraping and you want a Chrome Web Store install. The free tier alone supports a lot of light prospecting. If you need emails or low total cost, look elsewhere.

Leads Sniper

Best for: Buyers who prefer a one-time payment over subscriptions, 60+ data field enthusiasts.

Pricing: Lifetime deal model, typically $50–100 on DealFuel and similar sites. No recurring fees once purchased.

What’s actually good: Unique pricing model in this list — pay once, use indefinitely. If your scraping is one-off enough that a $9.90/mo subscription feels wasteful after 6 months, the lifetime structure is honest math. Comprehensive data fields (60+) captured per listing, which is more than most tools surface by default.

What’s actually not: A 120-result cap per scrape session is a hard ceiling. To pull 1,000 leads you’d run nine sessions. Sideload install with manual setup that’s more complex than ours. No active development cadence visible on the public site, so future Google Maps DOM changes may or may not be patched promptly. Single language.

Verdict: Best if you want one-time payment over subscription and your volume genuinely fits the 120-per-session cap. Otherwise the session ceiling becomes the bottleneck.

Decision matrix

The fastest way to pick:

Your situation	Pick
Solo founder, budget tight, Maps-focused	MapsScraper ($9.90/mo or $79/yr)
Need Chrome Web Store install + generous free tier	G Maps Extractor (1,000 free/mo)
Developer, need REST API + JSON	Outscraper
Multi-platform scraping (Yelp + LinkedIn + Maps)	Outscraper
Country-scale lead generation (whole-country pulls)	Scrap.io
AI agent integration via MCP	Scrap.io
Lifetime payment preference, small volume	Leads Sniper
5,000+ leads/mo + WhatsApp outreach workflow	MapsScraper Premium yearly
One-time bulk job, no subscription	Outscraper pay-as-you-go
10-language UI for non-English team	MapsScraper

If two rows match your situation, the second row is usually the tiebreaker.

12-month cost projection: 3,000 leads/mo, emails included

Realistic outbound prospecting scenario — 3,000 cleaned leads with email enrichment per month, sustained for a year:

Tool	Plan	Annual cost
MapsScraper	Premium yearly (unlimited)	$79
Outscraper	Pay-as-you-go ($3/1k base + email add-on)	~$216
G Maps Extractor	Professional ~$19.90/mo	~$238
Scrap.io	Entry plan ~$42/mo	~$504
Leads Sniper	Lifetime (multiple sessions for volume)	$50–100 one-time + time cost

The spread is real. MapsScraper at $79 vs Scrap.io at $504 is a 6.4× cost difference for the same lead volume. Scrap.io justifies its price if you’re using country-scale or polygon features that MapsScraper doesn’t offer — but if you’re doing 3,000 city-level leads/mo with emails, you’re paying for capacity you don’t use.

This calculation flips at very low volume. Under 1,000 leads/yr, Outscraper’s pay-as-you-go beats MapsScraper’s subscription, and Leads Sniper’s lifetime model beats both. Pick based on annual volume, not on which tool sounds best in isolation.

Strategy beats tooling

Whichever tool you pick, the scrape itself is the easy part. The hard parts are:

Targeting. Wrong industry, wrong geography, wrong size signals — the scrape is fine, the leads convert at 0.5%. We covered this in our Google Maps lead generation playbook.
Niche selection. Restaurants have no budget. We ranked 10 better lead sources by margin and contactability.
Rate limits. Even the right tool gets throttled if you’re scraping 5,000 records from one IP in twenty minutes. Our scraping-without-getting-blocked guide covers the fundamentals.

The right tool with the wrong targeting produces clean garbage. The wrong tool with the right targeting produces messy gold. Spend more time on the targeting brief than on the tool selection.

Conclusion

Five tools, five legitimate use cases:

MapsScraper ($9.90/mo, $79/yr) — cheapest unlimited annual plan, WhatsApp built in, 10 languages
Outscraper (pay-as-you-go from $3/1k) — REST API, 50+ sources, no subscription
Scrap.io (~$42/mo) — country-scale, polygon search, MCP for AI agents
G Maps Extractor ($19.90/mo, 1,000 free/mo) — Chrome Web Store install, big free tier without emails
Leads Sniper (~$50–100 lifetime) — one-time payment, 120-result cap per session

If your work is steady Google Maps lead generation and budget matters, try MapsScraper’s free tier — 50 leads/month, no credit card. If it doesn’t fit your workflow, one of the four other tools will. None of these is going to make your outbound work on its own; the tool is the cheap part.