Outscraper Alternatives: 5 Ways to Get Google Maps Data Compared for Agencies (2026)

Updated September 2026. Prices are quoted only where we could read them on the vendor's own page; otherwise we link to the pricing page, because these numbers change often.

Outscraper is a good tool. It's pay-as-you-go, it returns the standard Google Maps fields (name, phone, address, website, rating, reviews), and it sells enrichments like emails and contacts as separate add-ons. If you only need raw data occasionally, it's hard to beat on simplicity. People start looking for an alternative for one of three reasons: they want the official API instead of a scraper, they want to build their own pipeline, or they need the list pre-qualified instead of raw.

Why people look for an Outscraper alternative

1. Raw data still needs qualifying

Outscraper gives you the website field for every listing, so filtering for businesses with no website is just a blank-cell filter in a spreadsheet. What it doesn't do is audit the websites that exist: whether they load over HTTPS, work on mobile, or score poorly on performance and SEO. If you sell web or SEO services, that audit is the part that takes time.

2. Enrichment is priced separately

Emails and contact details are separate add-ons on top of the base scrape. That's a fair pricing model, but it means your real cost per usable lead depends on how many enrichments you run. Check Outscraper's pricing page for the current rates.

3. Compliance or control

Some teams would rather pay for Google's official API than use a scraper. Others want the raw pipeline in their own code. Both are good reasons, and both point to different tools.

The 5 alternatives at a glance

Sources: Google Maps Platform pricing, Apify Google Maps Scraper, SerpApi pricing, all checked September 2026.

Each option in detail

Google Places API: the official route

If "scraper" makes your legal team nervous, this is the answer. You pay Google directly per call, with a free monthly allowance per pricing tier (10,000 calls for Essentials SKUs, 5,000 for Pro, 1,000 for Enterprise). The tradeoff is engineering time: you're writing the search logic, pagination, and storage yourself, and Google's terms restrict how long you can cache some of the data. It returns listing data, not an audit of the business's website.

Apify: the developer's toolbox

Apify's Google Maps Scraper is one of the most configurable options available. It charges per event, starting at $1.50 per 1,000 scraped places, and sells add-ons for extra place details, company contacts, and email verification. You can schedule runs, trigger them via API, and export in several formats. If you have a developer, it's excellent value. If you don't, you're assembling a product rather than buying one. We compare it head-to-head in Apify vs MapsLeadExtractor.

SerpApi: search results as an API

SerpApi returns Google search and Maps results as structured JSON. Plans are priced by monthly searches: a free plan with 250, then Starter at $25/month for 1,000, Developer at $75 for 5,000, and Production at $150 for 15,000. One search returns one page of results, so a large Maps pull uses more searches than you might expect. It's a data API, so qualification is on you.

PhantomBuster: automation across platforms

PhantomBuster's strength is chaining actions: scrape Maps, find the owner on LinkedIn, then trigger a follow-up. Plans are subscriptions sized by execution time and slots, so cost depends more on how often automations run than on row counts. For pure Google Maps extraction it's more tool than you need; for multi-channel outreach it's the reason people pick it. More detail in our PhantomBuster alternative comparison.

MapsLeadExtractor: pre-qualified for web and SEO sellers

This is what we build, so weigh it accordingly. The difference is what happens after the search: for each business with a website, it checks SSL, mobile-friendliness, performance, and SEO score, and it pulls contact emails published on the site. The output is a list sorted by the defect you're selling against, not a raw export. It's narrower than the others on purpose: no general-purpose API and no multi-platform automation. For a first test, the free no-website scanner returns a live preview sample for any category and location, no account needed.

The cost that pricing pages leave out

The price per 1,000 records is rarely the expensive part. The expensive part is turning 1,000 rows into the 50 you'll actually contact. Our own data gives a sense of the ratio: in the 1,597 businesses scanned for our Local Business Digital Gap Report, 29% had no website. Among the 1,120 websites we audited, only about 3% lacked SSL and about 4% failed mobile checks, while the average performance score was 88.

Two practical conclusions. First, "no website" is the biggest and easiest segment to find with any tool, including Outscraper with a blank-cell filter. Second, the other defects are real but rare, so finding them by hand means auditing dozens of sites to find each one. That's where automated auditing earns its keep, and where raw-data tools leave the work to you.

Smaller lists also tend to perform better. Woodpecker's analysis of over 20 million cold emails found lists under 50 contacts averaged a 5.8% reply rate versus 2.1% for lists over 1,000 (Woodpecker, June 2026). Whatever tool you pick, spend your effort on narrowing the list.

Which one to choose

• Stay with Outscraper if you scrape occasionally, need raw fields, and are happy filtering in a spreadsheet.
• Google Places API if you need the official, licensed source and have a developer.
• Apify if you want a cheap, configurable scraper inside your own pipeline.
• SerpApi if you need Google results via a clean API with predictable monthly quotas.
• PhantomBuster if Maps is one step in a multi-platform automation.
• MapsLeadExtractor if you sell websites or SEO and want the list already audited for the defect you pitch.

Still deciding on criteria? The best Google Maps scraper guide covers more tools, and the lead qualification guide covers what to do with the list once you have it.