Lyre Leads
Bright Data and five alternatives, compared
Prices, free tiers, emails 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.
| Tool | How it finds businesses | Cheapest plan and free tier | Emails and verification | API and AI assistants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bright DataSources: API docs, dataset, Maps scraper, output fields, MCP docs | Scraper searches one map point per input (latitude, longitude, zoom, keyword), thousands of inputs per call. Also sells a stored Google Maps dataset of 328.2M+ records. | Pay as you go at $1.50 per 1,000 records, or Scale at $499 with 384,000 records included. Free tier: 5,000 free records a month, no card. | No email field in the documented Google Maps output. Not applicable: the Maps output carries no emails. | API, SDKs, webhooks and cloud delivery; an MCP server with 5,000 free requests a month. |
| Apify Google Maps ScraperSources: Maps scraper, Maps pricing, plans, Maps inputs, MCP, API docs | Splits the location you give it into many map screens (or a polygon you draw) to get past the 120-per-search limit, then merges the places. | Starter $19 a month of prepaid usage; the Maps scraper costs $3 per 1,000 places on Starter. Emails and verification are paid add-ons. Free tier: $5 of usage a month, no card: up to 1,250 places. The leads and verification add-ons cost $100 per 1,000 on Free. | Paid add-ons: company emails and social profiles from the business website, or employee names and work emails from a leads add-on. Paid add-on that checks the mailbox (ok, invalid, catch-all), but only for emails from the leads add-on, not website emails. | REST API, clients in seven languages, and an MCP server documented for ChatGPT and Claude. |
| HasDataSources: depth test, API docs, pricing, Maps scraper docs, Maps scraper, Maps API, MCP docs | Maps API: one keyword at one map point, paged 20 at a time. Its own test found a search stops at 36 to 256 results, and it advises splitting the area and deduplicating. | Startup $59 ($49 billed yearly): 200,000 credits. A Google Maps row costs 3 credits on the no-code scraper. Free tier: 1,000 credits a month (about 333 Maps places), no card. | Optional on the no-code Maps scraper, found by crawling each business's website, at extra credits per row (the Maps API returns none). No verification documented; HasData calls its Maps output "public business contacts, not verified leads". | API on every plan, Free included, and an MCP server with Google Maps tools. |
| OutscraperSources: API docs, app, Maps prices, email prices | One Google Maps search per query, up to 500 places. For dense areas it tells you to split the query; the app can split a city by zip code or neighbourhood. | No subscription. Google Maps places: first 500 free, then $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, then $1 per 1,000. Emails and contacts are priced separately, from $3 per 1,000 sites. Free tier: First 500 Google Maps places and 500 website email lookups free each billing period; a card or prepaid credits needed to start. | A separately billed Emails & Contacts service reads each business website for emails, phones and social links. A separate, billed Email Address Verifier checks the mailbox (SMTP). | REST API with official SDKs in six languages. |
| Scrap.ioSources: guide, categories help, pricing, trial help, emails, API docs, MCP help, home | Filters its own stored index (225,676,406 listings in 195 countries, by its count) by Google category and area, up to a whole country. No free-text keyword search. | Basic €49, priced in euros (€35 billed yearly): 10,000 export credits, one per place. Whole-country search needs the €499 Company plan. Free tier: No free plan; a 7-day trial with a card covers up to 50 searches and 100 export credits. | Up to 5 emails per business, found on its website, each with the page it came from. API documents mail-server checks only (MX record, provider, webmail, disposable). Its marketing calls the emails verified in real time. | REST API and an MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT) on every plan. |
| Lyre Leads (ours)Sources: coverage test, pricing, how we verify, API docs, features | Live Google Maps search for any keyword. Complete coverage mode searches a city from many overlapping points and merges on place ID (median 2.2x one paged search in 24 US tests). | Growth $39: 7,500 leads (a lead is one new business, enriched and relevance-checked). Unused leads roll over up to three months. Free tier: 500 leads a month, no card. | Company email read off the business's own website, never guessed. Named contacts on request, 2 tokens each, charged only when one is found. Every address checked at the mailbox (SMTP, through MillionVerifier), included. Catch-all addresses are labelled, never counted as verified. | REST API, webhooks and an MCP server on every plan, Free included; Claude and ChatGPT connect with a sign-in, no key to paste. |
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.
Does Bright Data return emails?
Not from Google Maps. Its documented Google Maps scraper output has 39 fields, including the phone number and website, and no email field, so emails need another tool and verification a third. Among the alternatives, HasData's no-code Maps scraper can crawl each website for emails at extra credits per row, Outscraper sells a website email lookup and a separate SMTP verifier, Apify sells email add-ons with verification for its leads add-on, and Scrap.io's exports include emails with mail-server checks. Lyre Leads reads the email off each business's website and checks every address at the mailbox, through MillionVerifier, inside the plan.
That last step matters for outreach: 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 without building a grid?
Bright Data's scraper searches one map point per input, a latitude, longitude, zoom level and keyword, and accepts thousands of inputs in one call. That makes a grid easy to run, but you design it. Its stored dataset sidesteps searching altogether: you filter 328.2M+ records by geography and category, pre-collected or collected fresh on order.
Apify's Google Maps Scraper splits a location into map screens itself. Outscraper can split a city by zip code or neighbourhood. HasData's API, like Bright Data's scraper, leaves 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 that found about 2.2 times as many businesses as one paged search in the median city (method and numbers).
How do the prices compare?
Bright Data charges $1.50 per 1,000 Maps records pay as you go, or $499 a month for 384,000 records on Scale, with 5,000 free records a month; its dataset starts at $250 for 100,000 records. Apify's Maps scraper runs from $3 per 1,000 places on Starter down to $1.50 on its Business plan. HasData puts 1,000 Maps rows at $0.25 to $0.89 on its paid plans. Outscraper charges $3 per 1,000 places with no plan, dropping to $1 past 100,000. Scrap.io's Basic plan is €49 for 10,000 exported places. Lyre Leads is $39 for 7,500 leads, and each lead includes the enrichment and the verified email, which the per-record prices above don't.
When is Bright Data still the better choice?
When you're running a data programme rather than a campaign. Bright Data collects from many sources besides Maps, delivers to S3, Google Cloud, Azure, Snowflake or SFTP with storage included, sells datasets on refresh schedules from one-off to daily, and documents a compliance programme (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II) and a know-your-customer process that some legal teams require. Its MCP server includes 5,000 free requests a month. If an engineer with a pipeline is the one reading the output, it's built for them.
When is Lyre Leads the wrong choice?
- You need data from many sources into your own warehouse; we read Google Maps and each business's website only.
- You want hundreds of thousands of raw records at the lowest price per record. Bright Data and HasData win that.
- Your legal team requires a vendor with a published compliance programme. Bright Data publishes one; we're a small company and don't.
Which one fits your campaign?
| If you need | Look at | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Web data at engineering scale with compliance review | Bright Data | Scrapers, datasets and proxies, delivered to your cloud |
| A whole city scraped from Maps without designing a grid | Apify Google Maps Scraper | Splits the location into map screens itself |
| The cheapest Maps rows for your own product | HasData | Credit plans with a low price per row |
| Maps rows plus website emails and a verifier, per record | Outscraper | Pay as you go, each step billed separately |
| A whole Google category across a region | Scrap.io | Stored index, count first |
| A list a sales team can send to this week | Lyre Leads | Enrichment, relevance check and verified emails included |
How do you test them before you pay?
Ask who opens the output. If it's an engineer, run the same city through Bright Data's free records and the alternative's free tier, and compare unique place IDs and price per record. If it's a salesperson, take one trade in one city to a list you'd send to, count the businesses inside the city and put every email through one mailbox verifier, then add up what each list cost, including the engineering time.
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