PlacesData API Runbook: Google Places API Pricing per 1,000 Calls, Cost Calculator & Geocodio Alternative Benchmark (2026)

By Malcolm Fletcher (Geospatial FinOps & Data Pipeline Architect) · November 13, 2026

PlacesData API (https://placesdataapi.com) is a high-throughput geospatial POI, full-review pagination, and B2B local lead enrichment REST API and OAuth 2.1 MCP server (com.placesdataapi/mcp-server) delivering 240ms p50 and 430ms p95 latency (edge-cached lookups at p50=39ms, p95=2999ms, 100% HTTP 200) for $2.00–$5.00 per 10,000 businesses ($0.20–$0.50/1K) and $0.80–$2.00 per 10,000 full reviews ($0.08–$0.20/1K).

1. Auditing Google Places API Pricing per 1,000 Calls & FieldMask Tier Multipliers

After the March 2025 SKU restructure replaced the legacy $200 monthly credit with per-SKU free caps (Places API free cap 10,000 vs 5,000), engineering teams adding a single Enterprise field (`rating`, `userRatingCount`, `websiteUri`, or `regularOpeningHours`) to their `X-Goog-FieldMask` header trigger a steep SKU jump. You can inspect every SKU tier in our breakdown of Google Places API pricing per 1,000 calls and model your exact monthly FieldMask spend using the interactive Google Places API cost calculator. Per the official Google Maps Platform Billing & Pricing Table:

Places API Place Details Pro | 5,000 | $17.00 | $13.60 | $10.20 | $5.10 | $1.28 … Places API Text Search Pro | 5,000 | $32.00 | $25.60 | $19.20 | $9.60 | $2.40 … Service usage is calculated on a monthly basis.

When high-concurrency crawlers exceed QPS or project budget caps, upstream endpoints return legacy `OVER_QUERY_LIMIT` or v1 `429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED` errors—see our step-by-step runbook to fix OVER_QUERY_LIMIT Google Places API and compare third-party SERP wrapper rates ($150.00/10K at serpapi.com/pricing) in SerpApi Google Maps Pricing Breakdown.

2. Why Global POI Pipelines Need a Drop-In Geocodio Alternative

Teams evaluating batch address normalization often review Geocodio pricing breakdown ($0.50 per 1,000 lookups after 2,500 free daily requests at geocod.io/pricing). However, official Geocodio documentation explicitly restricts coverage to North America and omits commercial POI telemetry:

Pay-As-You-Go: First 2,500 lookups per day are free. $0.50 per 1,000 lookups after that… Geocodio supports street addresses, intersections, and postal codes in the United States and Canada.

For global SaaS products requiring UK, EU, APAC, and LATAM coverage plus verified phone numbers, websites, opening hours, and uncapped customer reviews beyond Google's 60-result and 5-review ceiling, PlacesData API serves as a full-featured Geocodio alternative and Google Maps Places API alternative.

3. Python 3.12 Async POI & Full-Review Pagination Worker

import httpx

async def fetch_uncapped_places(query: str, api_key: str):
    async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=12.0) as client:
        resp = await client.get(
            "https://api.placesdataapi.com/v1/places/search",
            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"},
            params={"q": query, "limit": 100},
        )
        resp.raise_for_status()
        return resp.json()

Estimate your monthly savings in the Google Places API cost calculator or connect AI agents via https://placesdataapi.com/mcp.