Free Google Maps Scrapers: What You Actually Get (2026)

Every Google Maps scraper has a “free plan” pinned somewhere on its landing page. None of them are actually free in the way the homepage implies. They’re free for a specific amount of usage, after which they want money — and the shape of “specific amount” varies wildly between tools, in ways that determine whether you can run your prospecting on the free tier indefinitely or whether you’ll hit the wall in week two.

This guide lays out what you actually get from each free tier, where the gotchas are, and the honest cases where free is enough vs. where it isn’t. We make one of the tools in this comparison (MapsScraper), so the bias warning is up front. To compensate, the table below uses each vendor’s public May 2026 pricing and we flag the cases where a competitor’s free tier beats ours.

The 60-second summary table

Tool	Free leads	Renewal	Email?	Format	Cap details
MapsScraper	50/month	Monthly, indefinitely	❌ Premium only	Chrome ext (sideload)	All filters, all speed modes, CSV
G Maps Extractor	1,000/month	Monthly, indefinitely	❌ Paid tier only	Chrome ext (Web Store)	Names, phones, addresses
Outscraper	500 leads	One-time signup credit	❌ Add-on	Cloud SaaS	Use on any service
Scrap.io	100 leads	7-day trial	✅ Included in trial	Cloud SaaS	Full dashboard access
Leads Sniper	None	n/a	n/a	Chrome ext (lifetime deal)	Lifetime payment ~$50–100

Two patterns immediately visible:

1. Indefinitely renewable free tiers (MapsScraper, G Maps Extractor) suit ongoing usage. The quota refills every month forever
2. One-time or time-limited free tiers (Outscraper, Scrap.io) suit one-off testing before you commit to paid. The quota burns down once

If your usage is “I need leads every month for the foreseeable future,” you want a renewable free tier or a paid plan — not a one-time credit. If your usage is “I want to test this thing before paying,” any of the above works.

What “free” actually means, per tool

MapsScraper: 50 leads/month renewable

What you get on our free tier:

• 50 fresh leads every calendar month
• All Google Maps fields except email (name, phone, address, rating, review count, working hours, coordinates, website, Google Maps URL)
• All filters (minimum rating, minimum reviews, has-phone, has-website)
• All speed modes (Slow / Normal / Fast)
• CSV export
• Up to 1 device
• No credit card required
• 10 UI languages

What you don’t get:

• Email scraping (Premium feature)
• Social media links (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• WhatsApp click-to-chat link generation
• Excel (.xlsx) export
• Multi-device support

The 50/month cap is genuinely tight. It’s enough to:

• Test the extension before committing to Premium
• Do occasional small prospecting (50 hand-picked leads/month, no email)
• Build a one-off list for a specific event or campaign

It’s not enough for ongoing B2B outbound at any real volume. A meaningful cold email campaign needs 200–500 fresh leads/month minimum.

Verdict on our free tier: honest test, not a working free plan. We document this on the install page and the homepage — the upgrade path is $9.90/mo for unlimited.

G Maps Extractor: 1,000 leads/month renewable

What you get on their free tier (per their public May 2026 pricing):

• 1,000 leads every month, monthly renewable
• Names, phone numbers, addresses, basic Google Maps fields
• Chrome Web Store install (one-click, auto-updates)

What you don’t get:

• Email scraping (gated to Professional at $19.90/mo)
• Some advanced filtering and bulk features

The 1,000/month tier is the largest indefinitely renewable free plan in the Chrome extension category. If you’re running light prospecting — say, calling local businesses by phone — you can operate on G Maps Extractor’s free tier indefinitely without paying.

The gotcha is email. The moment you need email addresses for outbound, you’re on the $19.90/mo tier. For phone-only outreach, the free plan is functionally a paid plan elsewhere.

Verdict on G Maps Extractor’s free tier: genuinely useful free plan for phone-based or non-email outreach. The upgrade pressure shows up the moment you want email.

Outscraper: 500 leads, one-time

What you get on their free signup credit:

• $1 worth of free credit on signup (covers approximately 500 Google Maps records at the standard $3/1k Medium-tier rate, or fewer if you spend on email enrichment)
• Use on any Outscraper service (Maps, Yelp, LinkedIn, 50+ sources)
• REST API access included
• Full dashboard access

What you don’t get:

• Renewal. The credit is one-time. Spend it, you’re done unless you top up.

Outscraper’s “free” is really a “try before you buy” credit. It’s well-suited to:

• Engineers evaluating whether the API output format fits their pipeline
• One-off bulk jobs that genuinely fit under 500 records
• Side-by-side comparisons against another tool’s free tier on the same query

It’s not a working free plan. The economics are pay-as-you-go from the start; after the credit you pay $3/1k for Maps plus ~$0.003/record for email enrichment.

Verdict on Outscraper’s free tier: test credit, not a free plan. Best for engineers and one-off jobs.

Scrap.io: 100 leads / 7 days

What you get on their free trial:

• 100 leads
• 7 days of access
• Full dashboard, including country-level scraping, polygon search, MCP server, REST API
• Email scraping included

What you don’t get:

• More than 7 days. The trial ends; if you don’t subscribe, access closes.

Scrap.io’s free is the most feature-complete of the bunch — you actually get to use the country-level scrape and MCP integration during the trial, which are the platform’s differentiated features. But the 7-day clock means you should pick your test queries deliberately, not casually.

Verdict on Scrap.io’s free trial: thorough feature test, time-boxed. Best if you’ve already decided you’re shopping in the $40+/mo cloud-platform category.

Leads Sniper: no free tier

What you get for free: nothing. Leads Sniper is a one-time lifetime payment model (~$50–100 via DealFuel and similar deal sites), not a freemium product.

The implicit “free” alternative is the deal-site refund window — typically 30 days. Buy it, test it, return it if it doesn’t fit. That’s a different shape of risk-free trial.

Verdict: no free tier, but lifetime pricing means no recurring cost after purchase. Different category.

When “free” is actually enough

A working free plan covers your use case without forcing an upgrade. The realistic patterns:

“Free is enough” — phone-based outreach, low volume

You sell to local service businesses (HVAC contractors, dentists, restaurants) and your motion is cold calling, not cold email. You need names, phones, and addresses — not emails. You scrape ~500 leads/month.

Best fit: G Maps Extractor free (1,000 leads/mo, names/phones, no email needed).

”Free is enough” — one-off list build

You need 300 leads for one specific event, mailer, or campaign and you’ll be done after that. You don’t have ongoing prospecting needs.

Best fit: Outscraper signup credit (~500 records, one-time, no subscription overhead).

”Free is enough” — evaluating before committing

You want to spend 7 days seeing whether a tool’s data quality, dashboard, or API fits your workflow before you pay anything.

Best fit: Scrap.io trial (most feature coverage during the eval window).

”Free is enough” — small, hand-picked prospecting

You’re running tightly targeted outbound — 30–50 prospects/month, all hand-picked, high-touch follow-up. Volume is low because quality is high.

Best fit: MapsScraper free (50 leads/mo renewable, full feature parity except email; do email manually for 50 prospects, takes an hour).

When “free” is not enough

The cases where free plans don’t cover real work:

“Free is not enough” — ongoing email-based outreach

You’re running cold email campaigns to 200–500 fresh leads/month, sustained. Every tool’s free tier either caps you (50 leads, 1,000 leads with no email) or burns out (one-time credit, 7-day trial). No free plan covers this; you’ll need to pay.

Cheapest paid option that covers it: MapsScraper Premium at $9.90/mo or $79/yr — unlimited leads + email built in.

”Free is not enough” — agency / multi-client workflows

You’re running scraping across multiple client accounts, multiple countries, multiple verticals. You need a shared dashboard, audit logs, REST API, and bulk capacity.

Free tier gap: no free plan covers this. The right tools start at $40/mo (Scrap.io) or $19.90/mo (G Maps Extractor Professional) and go up.

”Free is not enough” — country-level or polygon-based scraping

You want to pull every dentist in Germany or every restaurant inside a custom polygon. Most tools (including ours) don’t do this even on paid plans.

Free tier gap: only Scrap.io offers country-level and polygon search, and only on paid plans (the 7-day trial covers a small test).

”Free is not enough” — API integration

You’re integrating Maps scraping into a Make / n8n / Airflow pipeline. You need a REST endpoint, JSON output, and reliable uptime.

Free tier gap: Outscraper signup credit covers the test, but ongoing API usage requires paid PAYG. MapsScraper does not offer an API at any tier (it’s a browser extension).

How to test a free tier honestly

If you’re shopping for a free Google Maps scraper, the meaningful test isn’t “does it work on a generic query.” It’s “does it work on the query I actually care about.” A proper test sequence:

1. Pick your highest-priority real query. Not “restaurants in Brooklyn” — your actual target industry-geography
2. Pull the maximum the free tier allows. 50, 500, 1,000 — whatever the quota is
3. Spot-check 5 random rows manually. Open the Maps listing, verify the phone and address match what the tool exported
4. For email-enabled tools, spot-check 5 emails. Open the business website, find the email, verify it matches what the tool found
5. Calculate your real coverage rate. Of 50 leads, how many came back with usable phone? With usable email (if applicable)?

Coverage rates vary by industry. Restaurants: usually 90%+ phone, 30–50% email. Professional services (lawyers, accountants): 90%+ phone, 60–80% email. Specialty trades (HVAC, plumbing): 80%+ phone, 40–60% email.

If a tool’s coverage on your specific query is meaningfully below these ranges, it’s not a free-tier problem — it’s a tool fit problem. Try another.

The honest comparison: free plans ranked by use case

Picking by use case rather than overall ranking:

Use case	Best free plan	Why
Phone-only outreach, ongoing	G Maps Extractor	1,000 leads/mo, renewable, no email needed
Email-based outreach, low volume	MapsScraper for testing, then Premium $9.90/mo	Free covers test; no free plan covers volume
One-off bulk job	Outscraper signup credit	500 records, no subscription
Feature evaluation, 7 days	Scrap.io trial	Full platform access during eval
Tight, hand-picked, high-touch	MapsScraper free	50 leads/mo is enough; email by hand
Country-level / polygon	None — pay for Scrap.io	No free tier covers this
API-driven integration	Outscraper then PAYG	No tool offers unlimited free API

The “best free plan” depends entirely on your use case, not on which tool sounds best.

What we’d test first if you have no idea where to start

If you’re new to Maps scraping and don’t know which workflow you’ll end up with, the cheapest sequence of tests:

1. Day 1: MapsScraper free — pull 50 leads from your target query, see if the field set matches what you need
2. Day 2: G Maps Extractor free — pull 500 leads on the same query, compare CSV quality
3. Day 3: Outscraper signup credit — pull 200 leads with email enrichment, see if email coverage matches your expectation
4. Optional Day 4: Scrap.io trial — only if you’re seriously considering the cloud-platform category

Total cost: $0. Total time: 3–4 hours including the spot-checking. End state: you know which tool’s data fits your workflow before paying anything.

Where free runs out and paid begins

For most B2B outbound, the free plans take you through evaluation and into the first 2–4 weeks of real usage. After that, sustained volume forces an upgrade. The cheapest paths once free runs out:

• $9.90/mo: MapsScraper Premium (unlimited leads + email + WhatsApp links, $79/yr saves 33%)
• $19.90/mo: G Maps Extractor Professional (unlimited up to ~100k leads/mo + email)
• Pay-as-you-go: Outscraper at ~$3/1k + ~$3/1k email enrichment
• $42/mo: Scrap.io entry tier (cloud platform + country-level + API)

We covered the full price comparison and 12-month projections elsewhere. For specific head-to-heads, see MapsScraper vs Outscraper or MapsScraper vs Scrap.io.

Conclusion

“Free” Google Maps scrapers exist, but the shape of “free” matters more than the label:

• MapsScraper free: 50 leads/mo renewable — honest test, small ongoing usage
• G Maps Extractor free: 1,000 leads/mo renewable — most generous free plan, no email
• Outscraper free: 500 records one-time — credit, not plan
• Scrap.io free: 100 leads / 7 days — feature-complete trial, time-boxed
• Leads Sniper: no free tier — lifetime payment alternative

Match the tool to the use case, not the other way around. The phone-only freelancer wins with G Maps Extractor. The email-driven outbound team wins with MapsScraper Premium. The engineer building a pipeline wins with Outscraper PAYG. The agency running country-level work wins with Scrap.io paid.

If you’re not sure which you are, MapsScraper’s free tier is 50 leads/month with no credit card and no signup — enough to find out whether Maps data is the right source for your prospecting in the first place. If it is, the lead generation playbook covers the next steps regardless of which tool you graduate to.