5 Best Google Maps Scrapers Compared (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Most “best Google Maps scraper” listicles are affiliate-driven, six months out of date, or written without ever opening any of the tools.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 on their public pages (first checked May 2026; pricing checked again September 2026), 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, an extension with a generous free tier, and a lifetime-deal alternative. If you’re new to the category, start with what a Google Maps scraper is and how it works.

Update (September 2026): we could no longer find a live Chrome Web Store listing for the G Maps Extractor extension itself. Its install guide now installs it from a ZIP with Developer mode, the same way MapsScraper installs (the Web Store links on that page are for its separate Review Link Generator and Place ID Finder tools). We’ve updated the G Maps Extractor install and pricing points below to match.

Short answer: For steady Google Maps lead generation on a budget, MapsScraper is the cheapest unlimited option ($9.90/month or $79/year, emails included). Pick Outscraper for an API and pay-as-you-go billing (from $3 per 1,000 records), Scrap.io for country-scale search ($49/month, or $35/month billed yearly), G Maps Extractor for the biggest free tier (1,000 leads/month, no emails), and Leads Sniper if you want a one-time $149 license. Prices checked on vendor pages in September 2026.

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	$35/mo billed yearly ($49 monthly)	$39/mo (extension Pro); cloud Lite $19/mo	$149 lifetime
Annual unlimited	$79/yr	None (metered)	None ($420/yr Basic, 10k credits/mo)	None ($468/yr at $39/mo Pro, 100k records/mo)	$149 one-time
Free tier	50 leads/mo (renewable)	500 businesses/mo (resets every 30 days)	100 leads / 7 days	1,000 leads/mo (no email)	Test on request
Format	Chrome ext (sideload)	Cloud + REST API	Cloud dashboard	Chrome ext (ZIP install)	Chrome ext (sideload)
API access	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
MCP server (AI agents)	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Email scraping	✅ Built-in (Premium)	Separate service, $3/1k domains	✅ Built-in	Pro tier only	✅ Built-in
WhatsApp click-to-chat	✅ Built-in (Premium)	❌	❌	❌	❌
Multi-platform (Yelp, LinkedIn)	❌	✅ 50+ sources	❌	❌	❌
Country-level scrape	❌	❌	✅ Company plan only	❌	❌
Polygon / radius search	❌	❌	✅ Company plan only	❌	❌
UI languages	10	~17 (dashboard follows browser language)	App: EN, FR	Not stated	Not stated
Result cap per session	None	None	None	None	None stated (vendor says unlimited)
Chrome Web Store listed	❌	n/a	n/a	❌ (no live listing found, Sept 2026)	❌

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 — MapsScraper’s $79/yr plan buys what others charge roughly $180–470/yr for at steady volume with emails. 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 with no subscription, per Outscraper’s pricing page (checked September 2026). Google Maps scraping is free for the first 500 businesses, then $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000 and $1 per 1,000 after that. Emails and contacts are a separate service: first 500 domains free, then $3 per 1,000 domains. The free allowances and tiers reset every 30 days. Tiers, add-on costs and free-tier limits are in our full Outscraper pricing breakdown.

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 — roughly $27/mo, or about $324/yr, at 5,000 leads/mo with emails, 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: Per Scrap.io’s pricing page (checked September 2026), the Basic plan is $49/mo billed monthly or $35/mo billed yearly ($420/yr), with 10,000 export credits a month that don’t roll over. Whole-country and polygon search are only on the Company plan: $350/mo billed yearly, $499/mo monthly. Free trial: 7 days, up to 100 leads.

What’s actually good: Country-level scraping (all 195 countries, on the Company plan) 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: The features that set it apart (whole-country and polygon search) sit on a $350+/mo plan, which makes it the most expensive way to use any tool in this list. No Chrome extension scraper 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 and don’t need emails.

Pricing: Per G Maps Extractor’s pricing page (checked September 2026): extension free tier 1,000 records/mo (no email or socials). Extension Professional $39/mo (100k records/mo, emails included). Business $99/mo for 500k records. Its cloud scraper is a separate product, from $19/mo (Lite).

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. Like ours, it’s a Chrome extension, and like ours it now installs from a ZIP with Developer mode — we couldn’t find a live Chrome Web Store listing in September 2026.

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. Emails need the $39/mo Professional plan, roughly 4× MapsScraper’s $9.90 monthly. No WhatsApp links.

Verdict: Good if you don’t need email scraping. The free tier alone supports a lot of light prospecting. If you need emails or low total cost, look elsewhere. For a detailed head-to-head, see MapsScraper vs G Maps Extractor.

Leads Sniper

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

Pricing: $149 lifetime license for the Google Maps scraper, per Leads Sniper’s product page (checked September 2026). The same page says it extracts 60+ fields per listing and that you can scrape an “UNLIMITED amount” of listings on any plan. No recurring fees, but also no refunds after purchase; they’ll arrange a test on request.

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. The 60+ fields per listing are more than most tools surface by default.

What’s actually not: 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.

Verdict: Best if you want a one-time payment over a subscription and can live with a more manual install and no refunds. Test it before buying.

Decision matrix

The fastest way to pick:

Your situation	Pick
Solo founder, budget tight, Maps-focused	MapsScraper ($9.90/mo or $79/yr)
Generous free tier, no emails needed	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	Leads Sniper
5,000+ leads/mo + WhatsApp outreach workflow	MapsScraper Premium yearly
One-time bulk job, no subscription	Outscraper pay-as-you-go

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 (prices checked September 2026):

Tool	Plan	Annual cost
MapsScraper	Premium yearly (unlimited)	$79
Outscraper	Pay-as-you-go (2,500 billable places + 2,500 billable email domains × $3/1k, ~$15/mo)	~$180
G Maps Extractor	Extension Professional $39/mo	$468
Scrap.io	Basic, $35/mo billed yearly	$420 ($588 billed monthly)
Leads Sniper	Lifetime (vendor states unlimited)	$149 one-time

The spread is real. MapsScraper’s $79 yearly plan vs Scrap.io at $420 is a 5.3× cost difference for the same lead volume (5.9× against G Maps Extractor’s $468). Scrap.io’s country-scale and polygon features aren’t on Basic anyway — they need the Company plan — so at 3,000 city-level leads/mo with emails you’re paying for 10,000 credits you don’t use.

This calculation flips at very low volume. Under 500 leads a month, Outscraper’s free allowance (500 businesses plus 500 email domains, reset every 30 days) costs nothing, which beats any subscription. Leads Sniper’s $149 license only undercuts MapsScraper’s $79/yr from the second year on. 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:

1. 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.
2. Niche selection. Restaurants have no budget. We ranked 10 better lead sources by margin and contactability.
3. 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 ($35/mo yearly, $49 monthly) — country-scale and polygon search (Company plan), MCP for AI agents
• G Maps Extractor ($39/mo with emails, 1,000 free/mo) — big free tier without emails
• Leads Sniper ($149 lifetime) — one-time payment, 60+ fields per listing

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.

Comparing other tools?

If you only want browser extensions, our roundup of the best Google Maps scraper Chrome extensions compares them side by side, and if Outscraper is your starting point, see these Outscraper alternatives.

For tool-by-tool head-to-heads in the Chrome extension category:

• MapsScraper vs G Maps Extractor — the closest Chrome extension competitor, with the largest free tier
• MapsScraper vs MapLeadScraper — same price band, less public documentation

If you want to understand what each tool’s free plan actually covers before paying for any of them, see our breakdown of free Google Maps scrapers.