Google Maps knows every local business in your area. Getting that list is the easy part and half a dozen tools do it. Deciding which twenty of the three hundred deserve a call this week is where the hours actually go.
Extraction tools pull the listings and hand you a spreadsheet. Name, address, phone, rating, review count. Accurate, fast, and completely unsorted. You still have to read all three hundred rows to find the ones worth your time.
Pulls the same businesses through the official Google Places API, then scores each one 0-99 on outreach readiness using review history and velocity, ad detection, site health, and whether there is a real phone number and contact email. The list arrives ranked.
Best Google Maps Scrapers for Lead Generation (2026)
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Read it →| Tool | Starting price | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| Outscraper | Pay-as-you-go, no monthly fee. First 500 places free, then roughly $28.50 per 10,000 places. | People who want raw business data exported to CSV at volume, without committing to a subscription. |
| Scrap.io | $49/mo Basic (10,000 credits), $99 Professional, $199 Agency, $499 Company. 7-day trial, 100 leads | Teams pulling large volumes of local business data, especially outside the US. |
| Apify | Around $1.50 per 1,000 scraped places on the Google Places crawler, plus platform usage | Developers and technical teams who want programmable scraping they can wire into their own systems. |
| ZipLead | Free, then $59/mo | Anyone who sells to SMBs and needs the list ranked, not raw |
Worth saying plainly: these are good tools and for a lot of buyers they are the right answer. If you want raw records at volume and already have a process for sorting them, an extraction tool is cheaper per row. ZipLead is for the step after that.
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