# Outscraper review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Pay-as-you-go Google Maps, Search and review scraping with a free tier Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Outscraper collects public data from Google Maps, Google Search and other sites, through a no-code web app or an API. Its Google Search API returns organic results, ads, shopping results and related questions in real time, beside APIs for Maps places and reviews, Google News, Shopping and Images, Amazon, YouTube, Tripadvisor and Trustpilot. There is no subscription: each service has a monthly free allowance, then a price per 1,000 records. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** Outscraper - **Website:** https://outscraper.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if search is the point, at $5 per 1,000 Google searches until you pass 100,000. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Outscraper has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** A free allowance on each service that resets every 30 days: 500 Google Maps places and 500 reviews, 10 Google searches, 50 News or Shopping searches and 25 email checks. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free Tier | $0 | The monthly free allowance on every service; usage beyond it is billed per 1,000 records from prepaid credits or a card on file. | Read from https://outscraper.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Outscraper before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Discount for student researchers** (Education): Outscraper's pricing page invites student researchers to contact it for a discount; the amount is not stated. Source: https://outscraper.com/pricing/ - **Discount for nonprofit organizations** (Nonprofit): Outscraper's pricing page invites nonprofit organizations to contact it for a discount; the amount is not stated. Source: https://outscraper.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Google Search API:** Real-time Google results for a list of queries, with organic results, ads, shopping results and related questions, as JSON, CSV or Excel. - **Google Maps places and reviews:** Business listings with optional enrichments, plus reviews, photos, directions and geocoding, each with its own API. - **Other Google and review sources:** Google News, Images, Shopping and Play reviews, Amazon products and reviews, YouTube comments, Tripadvisor, Trustpilot and Yellow Pages. - **Contacts and email checks:** Find emails, phone numbers and social profiles for a list of domains, and verify email addresses or look up phone numbers. - **No-code app or API:** Run tasks from the web app and download files, or call the API and use a webhook to collect bulk results when they are ready. - **Universal AI Scraper:** A Universal AI-Powered Web Scraper, with a matching API, sits beside the site-specific scrapers for other websites. ## Good for - Local SEO and lead lists built from Google Maps data - Small or occasional Google Search pulls without a monthly plan - Collecting reviews from Google Maps, Amazon and Trustpilot ## Worth knowing - Google searches cost $5 per 1,000 after the free 10, then $3 after 100,000; its Google Search API page shows 25 free and $3 from 5,000. - Google Maps places cost $3 per 1,000 after the first 500 and $1 after 100,000; News and Shopping searches cost $9 per 1,000 after 50. - Pay with prepaid credits that never expire or a card billed monthly; a task that costs more than the balance still runs and is invoiced. - Refunds are offered only within 3 days of purchase, and only when its tools fail to retrieve the data. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Outscraper pulls Google Maps places and reviews, Google search results and data from Amazon, YouTube and Trustpilot, from a web app or an API, paid per 1,000 records. Google searches cost $5 per 1,000 after only 10 free, its own pages give two different free counts, and a task that costs more than your balance still runs and is invoiced. - **Value for money: C.** No subscription and no minimum on record: Google searches are $5 per 1,000 after the free 10, then $3 after 100,000, the dear end of what this category charges per search. Maps places are $3 per 1,000 after 500. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free allowance on every service each 30 days: 500 Maps places, 500 reviews and 25 email checks, but only 10 Google searches. Fine for Maps, thin for search. - **Features: C.** Google results with organic, ads, shopping and related questions, beside Maps places and reviews, News, Amazon, YouTube and Trustpilot scrapers and contact finding. For search it's the basics: the listing names no other engine and no location or device setting. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but the web app takes a list of Google or Maps queries and hands back a CSV or Excel file, with no code. The API is there if you want it. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with an API and webhooks for bulk results, and no integrations named in the listing. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Outscraper's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs - Outscraper's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 7 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 37 of 38) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-data-apis ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Outscraper you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 23 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** SERP API, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dataforseo-vs-outscraper) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://outscraper.com/pricing/ - https://outscraper.com/google-search-api/ - https://outscraper.com/faq/ - https://outscraper.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/outscraper Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).