Lyre Leads
Octoparse and five alternatives, compared
Prices, free tiers and verification as each vendor states them on its own site. The last column is our judgement.
| Tool | How it finds businesses | Cheapest plan and free tier | Emails and verification | Best for (our view) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OctoparseSources: Maps template, listings template, pricing, free credits help, email template, home | Its Google Maps Scraper template splits the area into overlapping grid points, up to 120 results each, and merges them. Its free Listings template pages one search and leaves splitting to you. | Standard $83 billed monthly ($69 billed yearly). Google Maps templates need Standard, and the grid template adds $2 per 1,000 rows. Free tier: 10 tasks and local runs, but the Google Maps templates need Standard. 2,000 free records a week through its MCP and API. | Its Google Maps Email Finder template ($0.50 per 1,000 rows) reads emails off the Maps profile and the business website. No email verification product found on its site. | Non-developers who scrape many kinds of websites with point-and-click control. |
| Apify Google Maps ScraperSources: Maps scraper, Maps pricing, plans, Maps inputs | 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. | Developers who want automatic full-area Google Maps scraping behind an API and will assemble enrichment and qualification themselves. |
| PhantomBusterSources: Maps export help, plans help, trial help, Maps contacts help, email help, pricing | Runs your Google Maps search in its cloud and exports the listings: up to 120 to 200 results a search, so a city means splitting searches by hand. | Start $69 ($56 billed yearly): 20 hours of run time, 5 automation slots and 500 email credits a month. Free tier: 14-day trial, no card, exports capped at 10 rows. Then a Free plan with 30 minutes of run time a month. | Its Maps-to-contacts workflow visits each business's website for emails, phones and social links. No mailbox check described: "verified" means the domain exists, the format is valid and it fits company patterns. Website emails aren't verified. | Building your own scraping and outreach automations, above all on LinkedIn. |
| 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). | Occasional or technical users who want cheap per-record extraction and pay only for what they switch on. |
| HasDataSources: depth test, API docs, pricing, Maps scraper docs, Maps scraper, Maps API | 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". | Developers who want cheap live Google Maps rows in their own pipeline and will do the splitting, dedupe and verification. |
| Lyre Leads (ours)Sources: coverage test, pricing, how we verify, 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. | Selling to local businesses in cities over 200,000 people, when you want every business in the territory checked and its emails verified. |
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. "Best for" is our judgement, and we make Lyre Leads.
Which Octoparse alternative gives verified emails?
Octoparse's Google Maps Email Finder template ($0.50 per 1,000 rows) reads emails off the Maps profile and the business's website. We found no verification product on Octoparse's site, so what comes back is whatever was published, live or not.
Lyre Leads checks every address it finds at the mailbox, through MillionVerifier, inside the plan, and labels catch-all addresses rather than counting them as verified. Outscraper sells a separate SMTP verifier. Apify's verification add-on covers emails from its leads add-on only. HasData describes its Maps output as "public business contacts, not verified leads", and PhantomBuster's "verified" is a format and domain check. 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).
Can you scrape Google Maps on a free plan?
Not on Octoparse's. Its free plan runs 10 tasks locally, but the Google Maps templates are marked for the Standard plan and up ($83 billed monthly, $69 billed yearly), and its MCP and API give 2,000 free records a week instead. Lyre Leads gives 500 leads a month with no card. Outscraper's first 500 places each billing period are free once a card or credits are on the account. Apify gives $5 of usage a month, up to 1,250 places, and HasData 1,000 credits, about 333 places. PhantomBuster's 14-day trial caps exports at 10 rows.
Which one covers a city best?
Octoparse's Google Maps Scraper template is one of the better designs here: it splits the area into overlapping grid points, collects up to 120 results at each, and bills only unique rows. Apify's scraper does the same job with map screens it chooses itself. Outscraper scrolls up to 500 places per query and can split a city by zip code. HasData's API and PhantomBuster leave the splitting to you.
Lyre Leads in complete coverage mode searches a city from many overlapping points as well, and adds one run of the plain city-wide search. 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). We haven't run Octoparse's template through the same test, so we can't say which finds more. Both are built to get past the single-search limit, and the difference you'll notice first is what arrives with each business.
When is Octoparse still the better choice?
When you scrape many kinds of websites, not only Google Maps, and want point-and-click control without code. It has 600+ ready-made templates, an AI assistant that builds tasks, cloud runs, an MCP server with a free weekly quota, and account credit that doesn't expire. For a non-developer who scrapes product pages on Monday and directories on Friday, that breadth is the point.
When is Lyre Leads the wrong choice?
- You scrape sites other than Google Maps. We read Maps and each business's own website, nothing else.
- You want to choose exactly which fields to extract and how, step by step.
- Your territory is small towns, where one search already reaches nearly every business.
Which one fits your campaign?
| If you need | Look at | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Point-and-click scraping of many kinds of sites | Octoparse | Templates and visual workflows |
| A whole city scraped from Maps, behind an API | Apify Google Maps Scraper | Splits the location into map screens itself |
| LinkedIn and Maps automations together | PhantomBuster | Ready-made automations across 15+ platforms |
| Pay per place with no plan | Outscraper | Pay as you go, 500 places free each period |
| Cheap rows for your own product | HasData | Credit plans with a low price per Maps row |
| Every business in a big city, checked against your keyword, emails verified | Lyre Leads | Nothing to build, verification included |
How do you test them before you pay?
Pick one trade in a city over 200,000 people and take it from search to a list you'd send to, on Octoparse and on the alternative. Note every step it took, remove duplicates on Google's place ID, count only businesses inside the city, and put every email through one mailbox verifier. Then compare what each finished list cost you in money and in time.
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