Apify Google Maps scraper alternatives: which tool gives you leads without building the pipeline?

Apify and six alternatives, compared

Prices, free tiers, verification and API access as each vendor states them on its own site. Who each one suits, in our view, is in the table further down.

Checked 14 October 2026. Each row links to the pages its facts were read on. Prices are in US dollars, per month on monthly billing, unless the cell says otherwise. We make Lyre Leads.

Which Apify alternative gives verified emails as standard?

On Apify's Maps scraper, emails are add-ons. One reads each business's website for the company email, phones and social profiles ($2 per 1,000 places on Starter). Another returns employee names and work emails ($5 per 1,000 on Starter). The verification add-on checks the mailbox ($4 per 1,000 on Starter), but only for emails from that second add-on, and on the free plan the leads and verification add-ons cost $100 per 1,000.

Among the alternatives, Outscraper's separate verifier takes any address and runs an SMTP check. HasData describes its Maps output as "public business contacts, not verified leads", Octoparse has no verification product we could find, Bright Data's Maps output carries no emails, and PhantomBuster's "verified" means a valid format on a real domain, not a mailbox check. Lyre Leads checks every address it finds at the mailbox, through MillionVerifier, inside the plan, and labels catch-all addresses instead of counting them as verified. In our study of 2,482 emails scraped from business websites, 14.2% of the addresses a mailbox check could decide were dead (the decay study).

Which alternative covers a city as well as Apify?

Apify fills in a location by opening many map screens inside it and merging the places, which it says "bypasses the limitation of Google Maps of displaying (and scraping) no more than 120 places per area". Octoparse's Google Maps Scraper template does much the same with overlapping grid points. Outscraper splits a city by zip code or neighbourhood if you ask it to. Bright Data takes thousands of map points per call, but you supply the points. HasData's API and PhantomBuster run one search per area and leave the splitting to you.

Lyre Leads in complete coverage mode searches a city from many overlapping points and merges on Google's place ID. In our test of 24 trade-and-city pairs it found about 2.2 times as many businesses as one paged search in the median city (method and numbers). We haven't run Apify through that test, so we can't say which of the two finds more in a given city; both are built to get past the single-search limit.

Is there a cheaper Apify alternative?

Apify's Maps scraper costs $3 per 1,000 places on the $19 Starter plan, falling to $2 on Scale and $1.50 on Business. Outscraper charges $3 per 1,000 with no plan, dropping to $1 past 100,000 places. HasData puts 1,000 Maps rows at $0.25 to $0.89 on its paid plans, and Bright Data charges $1.50 per 1,000 records pay as you go. Octoparse's grid template adds $2 per 1,000 rows on top of an $83 monthly plan.

Lyre Leads costs more per row and includes more per row: $39 a month buys 7,500 leads, each enriched from its website, checked against your keyword and with its email verified. Price it against Apify's places plus contacts plus verification for the same list.

When is Apify still the better choice?

When you're building a pipeline, or need more than Google Maps. Apify's store lists more than 87,000 ready-made scrapers, its Maps scraper takes polygons and custom areas, and its REST API, clients in seven languages, scheduling and MCP server let you run it from code or from Claude and ChatGPT. Developers who want raw data in their own warehouse, with their own scoring between steps, are Apify's customers, and a packaged tool like ours won't expose that much control.

When is Lyre Leads the wrong choice?

• You need scrapers for other sites. We read Google Maps and each business's own website, nothing else.
• You want the lowest price per raw record. HasData, Bright Data and Apify's larger plans are cheaper per row.
• You want custom logic between every step. Our API exposes search, enrichment, contacts and export, not the inside of each step.
• Your territory is small towns, where one search already reaches nearly every business.

Which one fits your campaign?

How do you test them before you pay?

Take one trade in one city over 200,000 people from search to a list you'd send to, on Apify and on the alternative, and note every setting and add-on it took. Remove duplicates on Google's place ID, count only businesses inside the city, and put every email through one mailbox verifier. Apify's free $5 covers up to 1,250 places; our free tier covers 500 leads, enough for a city the size of Tulsa or Tucson.