MapsScraper vs G Maps Extractor: Chrome Extension Comparison (2026)

If you’re picking between MapsScraper and G Maps Extractor, you’re choosing between two products that look very similar on the surface — both are Chrome extensions, both scrape Google Maps, both export CSV — and on Chrome they even install the same way (ZIP file, Developer mode). They split sharply on two things: what’s gated behind the paid tier, and how much you pay once you need email.

Updated September 2026: earlier versions of this post said G Maps Extractor installs from the Chrome Web Store in about 30 seconds and auto-updates. That’s not accurate as of September 2026: its install guide describes a ZIP install via Developer mode, and we found no Chrome Web Store listing for the scraper. The Web Store links on its site are for separate small tools (Review Link Generator, Place ID Finder). We’ve rewritten the install sections below to match.

We make MapsScraper, so the bias warning is up front. To make the comparison useful instead of self-serving, we document G Maps Extractor’s real strengths (biggest free tier in the category, a Microsoft Edge Add-ons listing) honestly, and we flag the places where we lose (smaller free quota). The pricing below comes from each tool’s public pricing page, checked September 2026.

This guide covers the actual feature gap, total cost at realistic volumes, and a decision matrix at the end.

Short answer: Both are Google Maps scraper extensions that install on Chrome the same way (ZIP + Developer mode). G Maps Extractor has the bigger free tier (1,000 leads/month, no emails) and an Edge Add-ons listing. MapsScraper is cheaper once you pay ($9.90/month or $79/year with emails, vs $39/month for G Maps Extractor’s Pro plan) and adds WhatsApp links.

Quick comparison

Feature	MapsScraper	G Maps Extractor
Free tier	50 leads/month (renewable)	1,000 leads/month (renewable, no email)
Cheapest paid plan	$9.90/mo	$39/mo (Professional)
Annual unlimited	$79/yr	None; $468/yr at $39/mo (Pro, 100k records/mo)
Top tier	$9.90/mo unlimited	$99/mo (500k leads — Business)
Install on Chrome	ZIP + Developer mode (Load unpacked)	ZIP + Developer mode
Chrome Web Store listing	No	None found (September 2026)
Store listing on Edge	No (sideload in Edge too)	Yes (Microsoft Edge Add-ons)
Updates	Download the new ZIP	Not described in its install guide
Email scraping on free tier	❌ (Premium only)	❌ (paid only)
Email scraping on cheapest paid	✅ Built-in ($9.90)	✅ Built-in ($39)
WhatsApp click-to-chat links	✅ Built-in (Premium)	❌ Not generated
UI languages	10 (EN, ES, PT, DE, FR, TR, IT, PL, JA, KO)	Not stated by vendor
Excel export	✅ Premium	Not stated for the extension (listed on its cloud plans)
Up to N devices	3 (Premium)	Not stated by vendor

The headline trade is clear. Install friction on Chrome is the same for both. G Maps Extractor wins on free-tier volume and has a store listing on Edge. MapsScraper wins on paid pricing (about 4× cheaper monthly), email-included economics, and language coverage. Below we put numbers behind both.

Pricing breakdown

G Maps Extractor math

G Maps Extractor uses a tiered subscription model. Extension pricing per G Maps Extractor’s pricing page (checked September 2026):

• Free: 1,000 records/month, no email or social extraction, monthly renewable
• Professional: $39/mo (shown discounted from $49). Includes 100,000 records/mo and email scraping
• Business: $99/mo for 500,000 records/mo

Its cloud scraper is a separate product with its own subscription, starting at $19/mo (Lite). We compare the extension here.

That free tier is genuinely generous. If your prospecting is light — say, 800 cleaned leads a month with names and phones — you can run it on the free plan indefinitely without paying anything. No other tool in the Chrome extension category matches that quota.

The catch is email. Email scraping is gated behind Professional. The moment you need email addresses, your cost jumps from $0 to $39/mo.

MapsScraper math

Two prices, unlimited usage on either:

• Free forever: 50 renewable leads/month (no card, all filters, all speed modes, CSV export)
• Premium monthly: $9.90/mo — unlimited leads + email scraping + social media + WhatsApp link generation + Excel export
• Premium yearly: $79/yr ($6.58/mo equivalent — saves 33% vs monthly)

There’s no separate email tier and no per-lead metering. Email is included from the first paid dollar — you can compare MapsScraper’s plans on one screen.

Side by side

Scenario	MapsScraper	G Maps Extractor
12 months, light usage (under 1,000/mo), no email	$0 (50/mo cap hurts)	$0 (1,000/mo cap fine)
12 months, 500 leads/mo, with email	$79 (yearly)	$468 (Professional, $39 × 12)
12 months, 5,000 leads/mo, with email	$79 (still unlimited)	$468 (Professional)
12 months, 50,000 leads/mo	$79	$468 (within Professional’s 100k/mo cap)

If you don’t need email and you’re staying under 1,000 leads/month, G Maps Extractor’s free tier beats us — we cap at 50/month free. That’s an honest loss for us at the very low end.

The moment you need email scraping, the math flips. MapsScraper’s $79/year plan is roughly 6× cheaper than a year of G Maps Extractor’s $39/month Professional plan ($468). Past 100,000 records a month, G Maps Extractor moves you to the $99/mo Business plan; we don’t cap leads at any tier.

Feature comparison

Free tier volume. G Maps Extractor’s 1,000 leads/month free is the largest in the Chrome extension category. Ours is 50/month renewable. If you’re a freelancer running occasional lead pulls and email-free CSVs are enough, their free tier is functionally a paid plan elsewhere. We can’t match it on the free tier; we make up the ground on paid pricing. If free volume is your deciding factor, our breakdown of free Google Maps scrapers compares the free quotas across the category.

Email scraping. Both tools visit business websites from the browser and parse contact pages, mailto links, and footer patterns. The difference is when you pay for it. MapsScraper bundles email into the $9.90/mo Premium. G Maps Extractor reserves email for Professional at $39/mo. If email matters to your outreach — which for most B2B it does — that’s roughly a 4× recurring cost difference.

WhatsApp click-to-chat links. MapsScraper Premium generates wa.me/<E.164> links from scraped phones, ready to paste into outbound. Useful if you sell into LATAM, MENA, Southeast Asia, Türkiye, or anywhere WhatsApp Business is the dominant channel. G Maps Extractor provides the phone number but does not format the WhatsApp link. You’d build it yourself, which for 1,000 leads is a 10-minute spreadsheet formula and for ongoing usage is a recurring annoyance.

Language support. MapsScraper UI ships in 10 languages (EN, ES, PT, DE, FR, TR, IT, PL, JA, KO). G Maps Extractor’s site doesn’t say which interface languages the extension supports (checked September 2026). Doesn’t matter if you and your team work in English. Matters a lot if half your team prefers reading the interface in their native language — especially for non-technical sales staff who aren’t comfortable in English.

Filters and speed modes. Roughly equivalent on both tools. Minimum rating, minimum review count, has-phone, has-website, configurable speed for rate-limit avoidance. Neither tool is meaningfully ahead here.

Data fields. Both pull name, phone, address, rating, review count, working hours, coordinates, website, and (on paid) email. MapsScraper Premium also pulls social media links (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn) as separate fields. G Maps Extractor’s social field coverage is less specific from the public docs — we’d encourage you to test both on a small sample to verify.

Setup experience

On Chrome, this is a tie. Neither tool is on the Chrome Web Store, so both install as a ZIP in Developer mode.

G Maps Extractor (per G Maps Extractor’s install guide, checked September 2026):

1. Download the extension ZIP from their site
2. Open chrome://extensions, toggle Developer Mode
3. Drag the ZIP onto the extensions page
4. Pin the extension

MapsScraper:

1. mapsscraper.shop/install → download ZIP
2. Unzip somewhere permanent (not Downloads)
3. Open chrome://extensions, toggle Developer Mode top-right
4. Click “Load unpacked,” select the unzipped folder
5. Pin the extension

The steps are nearly identical; budget about 10 minutes for MapsScraper the first time. Because both run in Developer mode, Chrome may show a developer-extensions warning on startup; for MapsScraper you click Cancel to keep it active (there’s a FAQ note on this).

On our side, updating means downloading the new ZIP when we ship one. G Maps Extractor’s install guide doesn’t say how updates reach ZIP installs.

The one real difference is Edge. G Maps Extractor has a Microsoft Edge Add-ons listing, so Edge users can install it from a store. MapsScraper runs in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi, but always as a sideloaded ZIP.

Why we’re off-store: the Chrome Web Store rejected our listing twice for policy reasons we couldn’t engineer around. We chose self-hosted direct distribution instead of trying a third time. The trade-off:

• What we lose: a store install and store-managed updates
• What we gain: ship features without store review delays, unobfuscated code you can inspect before installing, and we’re not dependent on Google’s policy reading on a given day

After install, the workflow is the same.

Who should use which

Pick G Maps Extractor if:

• You use Edge and want a store install instead of Developer mode
• Your monthly volume stays under 1,000 leads and you don’t need email
• You work in English and your team is English-first
• Your company blocks sideloaded extensions but allows Edge Add-ons installs

Pick MapsScraper if:

• You need email scraping and want to pay $9.90/mo for it, not $39/mo
• You scrape more than 1,000 leads/month with email — the price gap multiplies
• Your outbound includes WhatsApp click-to-chat (we generate the wa.me links)
• Your team prefers a non-English UI (10 languages built in)
• You want the cheapest annual commitment ($79/yr unlimited)
• You’re fine with a ZIP + Developer mode install (on Chrome, G Maps Extractor needs the same)

The fork is mostly about email. If your outbound is phone-only and your volume stays low, G Maps Extractor’s free tier is unbeatable. If your outbound needs email enrichment — which is most B2B prospecting today — MapsScraper’s bundled-from-day-one pricing wins.

Try both first

If you’re not sure, both free tiers are honest tests:

• G Maps Extractor: 1,000 leads/month, monthly renewable, no email
• MapsScraper: 50 leads/month, monthly renewable, no credit card, all features (email gated)

Run the same query through both, compare the CSVs side by side. The data should be roughly equivalent on basic fields; the divergence shows up on email, social, and WhatsApp coverage. If your workflow can survive without those three, the cost-per-lead winner at low volumes is G Maps Extractor. If you need any of them, you’ll be on MapsScraper Premium.

The pipeline matters more than the tool

Whichever tool you pick, the scrape itself is rarely the bottleneck. Targeting (wrong industry, wrong size, wrong geography) and outreach (generic copy, bad timing, no warmup) decide whether the leads convert. If you’re still choosing a niche, our list of Google Maps lead sources beyond restaurants ranks ten industries by margin and contactability. We also wrote a Google Maps lead generation playbook that covers the full pipeline — applicable to either tool.

If you’re running into rate limits on either, our notes on scraping Google Maps without getting blocked cover the fundamentals. Both extensions respect Google’s limits internally; you can still hit problems if you’re trying to pull 10,000 records from one IP in an hour regardless of which tool you use.

Conclusion

G Maps Extractor and MapsScraper are the two closest competitors in the Chrome-extension category for Google Maps scraping. Here’s how they compare, axis by axis:

Axis	Winner
Free tier volume	G Maps Extractor (1,000/mo vs 50/mo)
Install friction on Chrome	Tie (both ZIP + Developer mode)
Paid pricing	MapsScraper ($9.90 vs $39/mo)
Email economics	MapsScraper (bundled vs upsell)
WhatsApp workflow	MapsScraper (built-in vs absent)
UI language coverage	MapsScraper (10 languages; GME doesn’t publish its list)
Store listing	G Maps Extractor on Edge Add-ons; neither on Chrome Web Store

Pick by the row that matters most to your work. If you need a store-installed extension on Edge, G Maps Extractor is the only one of the two that offers it. On Chrome the install is the same, so it comes down to free volume versus email-included unlimited scraping at $79/year.

If you’d rather compare against other tools in the category, see how Outscraper’s per-record pricing stacks up for the API-first option, MapsScraper vs Scrap.io for the country-level cloud platform, or the 5-tool roundup for the full picture including Leads Sniper.

Or just try our free tier and see whether the 50-lead monthly quota fits your test before you commit.