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 — but split sharply on three things: how you install them, what’s gated behind the paid tier, and how much you pay once you need email.

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 (Chrome Web Store install, biggest free tier in the category) honestly, and we flag the places where we lose (sideload install, smaller free quota). The numbers below come from each tool’s public pricing page in May 2026.

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

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	$19.90/mo (Professional)
Annual unlimited	$79/yr	$238/yr (Pro tier)
Top tier	$9.90/mo unlimited	$99/mo (500k leads — Business)
Format	Chrome extension (sideloaded)	Chrome extension (Web Store)
Install time, first run	~10 minutes	~30 seconds
Email scraping on free tier	❌ (Premium only)	❌ (paid only)
Email scraping on cheapest paid	✅ Built-in ($9.90)	✅ Built-in ($19.90)
WhatsApp click-to-chat links	✅ Built-in (Premium)	❌ Not generated
UI languages	10 (EN, ES, PT, DE, FR, TR, IT, PL, JA, KO)	1 (English)
Excel export	✅ Premium	✅ Paid
Up to N devices	3 (Premium)	Varies by plan

The headline trade is clear. G Maps Extractor wins on install friction and free-tier volume. MapsScraper wins on paid pricing (2× cheaper), 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. Public May 2026 pricing:

• Free: 1,000 leads/month, no email scraping, monthly renewable
• Professional: $19.90/mo at entry, ~$39.49/mo at higher caps. Includes ~100,000 leads/mo and email scraping
• Business: $99/mo for 500,000 leads/mo

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 $19.90/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.

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)	$238 (Professional yearly)
12 months, 5,000 leads/mo, with email	$79 (still unlimited)	$238–474 depending on volume
12 months, 50,000 leads/mo	$79	~$474+ (Professional 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 is roughly 3× cheaper than G Maps Extractor’s $238/year Professional plan, and the gap widens at higher volumes because 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.

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 $19.90/mo. If email matters to your outreach — which for most B2B it does — that’s a 2× 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 is English-only. 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

This is where the comparison gets honest, and we lose.

G Maps Extractor:

1. Open Chrome Web Store
2. Click “Add to Chrome”
3. Pin extension
4. Done

About 30 seconds. The browser auto-updates the extension, and there are no developer-mode warnings to dismiss.

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

About 10 minutes the first time, plus Chrome shows a developer-extensions warning every time you open the browser (you click Cancel to keep us active — there’s a FAQ note on this).

Why the difference: 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: the 30-second install, auto-update, the lack of warnings
• 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

For most users this is a one-time, ten-minute cost. After install, the workflow is the same. But the first-impression gap is real, and if 10 minutes of install friction is a dealbreaker, G Maps Extractor is the right pick.

Who should use which

Pick G Maps Extractor if:

• You’re allergic to Developer Mode and won’t enable it no matter what
• Your monthly volume stays under 1,000 leads and you don’t need email
• You work in English and your team is English-first
• You prefer auto-updating extensions over manual updates
• Web Store presence matters for your purchasing process (some companies block sideloads by policy)

Pick MapsScraper if:

• You need email scraping and want to pay $9.90/mo for it, not $19.90/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 comfortable with a 10-minute first install for ongoing savings

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. We 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. They differ on three measurable axes:

Axis	Winner
Free tier volume	G Maps Extractor (1,000/mo vs 50/mo)
Install friction	G Maps Extractor (Web Store vs sideload)
Paid pricing	MapsScraper ($9.90 vs $19.90/mo)
Email economics	MapsScraper (bundled vs upsell)
WhatsApp workflow	MapsScraper (built-in vs absent)
UI language coverage	MapsScraper (10 vs 1)
Web Store presence	G Maps Extractor (listed vs sideload)

Pick by the row that matters most to your work. If install friction is a dealbreaker, G Maps Extractor wins regardless of the pricing math. If email-included unlimited scraping at $79/year matters more than the first 10 minutes of setup, MapsScraper wins.

If you’d rather compare against other tools in the category, see MapsScraper vs Outscraper 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.