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, we re-checked every competitor number below against the vendor’s own pricing page in September 2026, linked each source, and 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 (ZIP sideload)	Basic fields, phones, 20 reviews/place
Outscraper	500 businesses	Every 30 days	✅ First 500 domains free	Cloud SaaS	Then $3/1,000, pay-as-you-go
Scrap.io	100 leads	7-day trial	Not stated	Cloud SaaS	Trial, then from $49/mo
Leads Sniper	None	n/a	n/a	Chrome ext (lifetime license)	$149 one-time, test on request

Two patterns immediately visible:

1. Renewable free tiers (MapsScraper, G Maps Extractor, Outscraper) suit ongoing usage. The quota refills every month or 30-day cycle
2. Time-limited free tiers (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 7-day trial. 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 Premium at $9.90/month or $79/year, which adds unlimited leads, email extraction, social and WhatsApp links, Excel export and up to 3 devices.

G Maps Extractor: 1,000 leads/month renewable

What you get on the extension’s free tier, per G Maps Extractor’s pricing page (checked September 2026):

• 1,000 records every month, monthly renewable
• Basic business information and phone numbers
• Up to 20 reviews and 10 photos/videos per place
• Installed as a ZIP file in Chrome’s Developer mode, per their install guide; we found no live Chrome Web Store listing

What you don’t get:

• Email addresses and social profiles (extension Professional, listed at $39/mo for 100,000 records/month)
• Saved-list extraction and automatic bulk extraction

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 $39/mo extension plan (or $19/mo Lite on their separate cloud scraper, whose free tier also excludes email). For phone-only outreach, the free plan is functionally a paid plan elsewhere. We go through the field-by-field differences in MapsScraper vs G Maps Extractor.

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 businesses every 30 days

What you get on their free tier, per Outscraper’s pricing page (checked September 2026):

• The first 500 Google Maps businesses free, with tiers resetting every 30 days
• The first 500 domains of email and contact enrichment free on the same cycle
• CSV, Excel, Parquet or JSON export
• Separate free allowances on other services (for example, 500 Google Maps reviews)

What you don’t get:

• Anything above 500. From record 501 you pay $3 per 1,000 businesses, and $3 per 1,000 domains for contacts. There’s no subscription; usage is billed as pay-as-you-go.

This corrects our May 2026 version, which described Outscraper’s free allowance as a one-time signup credit. It renews. It’s well-suited to:

• Engineers evaluating whether the API output format fits their pipeline
• Small recurring jobs that fit under 500 businesses per cycle
• Side-by-side comparisons against another tool’s free tier on the same query

The catch is the billing model: the free tier sits inside a pay-as-you-go account, so any usage past 500 records in a cycle is billed at $3/1k. Watch your counts if you want to stay at $0.

Verdict on Outscraper’s free tier: a real renewable allowance with email enrichment included — more generous than ours on email. Best for engineers and anyone who stays under 500 records a month.

Scrap.io: 100 leads / 7 days

What you get on their free trial, per Scrap.io’s homepage (checked September 2026):

• Up to 100 leads
• 7 days of access

What you don’t get:

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

Scrap.io doesn’t spell out which plan’s features the trial unlocks. Per Scrap.io’s pricing page (checked September 2026), MCP and API access come with every paid plan, but whole-country search and polygon search are limited to the Company plan ($350/mo billed yearly, $499/mo billed monthly). So don’t plan a trial around a country-level export. With 100 leads and a 7-day clock, pick your test queries deliberately, not casually.

Verdict on Scrap.io’s free trial: short feature test, time-boxed. Best if you’ve already decided you’re shopping in the cloud-platform category, where Scrap.io starts at $49/mo ($35/mo billed yearly) for 10,000 export credits.

Leads Sniper: no free tier

What you get for free: nothing. Leads Sniper sells a one-time lifetime license — $149 on its Google Maps scraper product page (checked September 2026) — not a freemium product.

The page also says there are no refunds after purchase. Instead, they offer a test on request before you buy. Ask for that test and run it on your real query before paying.

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 free tier (500 businesses plus 500 contact lookups per 30 days, no subscription).

”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. Most free tiers either cap you (50 leads, or 1,000 leads with no email) or burn out (7-day trial). The exception is Outscraper: 500 businesses and 500 contact domains per 30 days can cover the low end of this range if you stay under the limit. Past 500, or if you’d rather not meter every job, you’ll need to pay.

Cheapest flat-rate 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 $49/mo (Scrap.io Basic, $35/mo billed yearly) or $19/mo (G Maps Extractor’s cloud Lite plan, 20,000 records/month) 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: among the tools here, only Scrap.io offers country-level and polygon search, and only on its Company plan ($350/mo billed yearly). A 100-lead trial won’t tell you much about country-scale output.

”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’s 500 free businesses per 30 days cover the test and very small pipelines, but anything bigger is paid PAYG. MapsScraper does not offer an API at any tier (it’s a browser extension). If you’re weighing actor-based platforms too, see MapsScraper vs Apify.

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 free tier	500 businesses per 30 days, no subscription
Feature evaluation, 7 days	Scrap.io trial	100 leads on the cloud platform
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 free tier — 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%)
• $39/mo: G Maps Extractor extension Professional (100,000 records/mo + email, checked September 2026)
• Pay-as-you-go: Outscraper at $3/1k businesses + $3/1k domains for contacts, after the free 500 of each
• $49/mo: Scrap.io Basic ($35/mo billed yearly; 10,000 export credits, API and MCP; country-level search only on Company)

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 businesses every 30 days, email enrichment included — pay-as-you-go after that
• Scrap.io free: 100 leads / 7 days — time-boxed trial
• Leads Sniper: no free tier — $149 lifetime license 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.