Lyre Leads
Scrap.io and five alternatives, compared
Prices, free tiers and verification as each vendor states them on its own site. Scrap.io prices in euros; the rest are in dollars. The last column is our judgement.
| Tool | How it finds businesses | Cheapest plan and free tier | Emails and verification | Best for (our view) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrap.ioSources: guide, categories help, pricing, trial help, emails, API docs, 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. | Large exports of a whole Google category across a region or country, with the count shown before you spend. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| D7 Lead FinderSources: search help, home, area help, plans, email help, validation help | One keyword and one city or town per search, fetched fresh, up to 1,200 leads a search. Big-city searches include the surrounding area. | Starter $44.99 (US, card): 10 searches a day, about 3,500 leads a day. Monthly only. Free tier: 5 guest searches a day, results partly blurred and not exportable. | One email per business, picked as the one most likely used from data merged across about 120 sources. Partial: syntax, spam traps, blacklists and whether the domain accepts mail. It doesn't check that the mailbox exists. | Cheap city-by-city lists with a phone, one email and ad and website flags, when you verify the emails yourself. |
| Bright DataSources: API docs, dataset, Maps scraper, output fields | 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. | Engineering teams that need Google Maps records at scale inside their own compliance-reviewed pipeline. |
| 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 Scrap.io alternative lets you search any keyword?
Scrap.io's help centre says it plainly: "Unlike Google Maps, on Scrap.io, you cannot perform keyword searches." You pick one of its 4,000+ Google categories, and by default that includes businesses that list the category as a secondary one, which a "Main Activity Only" filter narrows. That works when your market is "Dentist". It doesn't when it's "commercial roofers" or "salons with online booking".
Outscraper, Apify's Maps scraper, D7 Lead Finder and Bright Data's scraper all take a search term. So does Lyre Leads, which then reads every business's own website and marks it yes, no or unclear against what you searched for, quoting the sentence behind the verdict. That step matters whichever way you search: in our study of 284 businesses returned by 12 Google Maps keyword searches, 72.2% were the business searched for, from 95.8% for "roofing contractor" down to 28.0% for "home remodeling contractors". Reading the website kept 98.8% of the genuine businesses, against 87.4% for filtering on Google's category (the relevance study, which measures the method rather than our shipped check).
Which Scrap.io alternative gives verified emails?
Scrap.io returns up to five emails per business with the page each came from. Its API documents mail-server checks on each one (MX record, provider, webmail, disposable), while its marketing describes the emails as verified in real time; its own email guide still advises verifying a list before sending. Among the alternatives:
- 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 Email Address Verifier with an SMTP mailbox check.
- Apify's verification add-on covers emails from its leads add-on only, not the company emails it reads off websites.
- D7 Lead Finder checks syntax, spam traps, blacklists and the domain, and says it doesn't check that the mailbox exists.
- Bright Data's Google Maps output has no email field at all.
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).
Is there a free Scrap.io alternative?
Scrap.io has no free plan: a 7-day trial needs a card and stops at 50 searches and 100 exported places. 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 on its Maps scraper. Bright Data gives 5,000 records a month, without emails. D7 Lead Finder allows five guest searches a day, partly blurred and not exportable.
Is a stored index or a live search better?
They answer different needs. An index can tell you how many businesses match before you spend, and can cover a whole country in one job; Scrap.io says it refreshes each record at export time, and its own example export was 11,734 businesses in 45 minutes. A live search reads Google Maps as it is that day and takes any phrase, but each search stops after a slice of the city, so covering a big city means splitting it into many searches. Bright Data sells both: a live scraper and a stored Google Maps dataset of 328.2M+ records.
Lyre Leads searches live. In complete coverage mode it splits a city into many overlapping points; 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 compared that against Scrap.io's index for the same city, so we don't claim to find more than Scrap.io holds.
When is Scrap.io still the better choice?
When your market is a Google category and you want a lot of it at once. Its Company plan exports a whole country for a category, higher plans add county, state, radius and polygon searches, and every plan shows the count before you spend and includes a REST API and an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT. It also covers Apple Maps and Bing Maps, which we don't. For data resellers, market sizing and teams feeding an internal system, it's a strong, established product that has been public since October 2021.
When is Lyre Leads the wrong choice?
- A whole country, right now. We search live, so a country-wide job takes time to run; Scrap.io exports from data it already holds.
- Apple Maps or Bing Maps. We read Google Maps only.
- Small towns. In a town of 60,000 one search reaches nearly every business, so our coverage method adds little and you'd be paying for the enrichment alone.
- A count before any spend. We show the cost of a search before it runs, but not how many businesses it will find.
Which one fits your campaign?
| If you need | Look at | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A whole Google category across a country, counted first | Scrap.io | Filters a stored index |
| Any search phrase, paid per place, no plan | Outscraper | Live scrape, pay as you go |
| A whole city split for you, behind an API | Apify Google Maps Scraper | Splits the location into map screens |
| Cheap daily lists across many small towns | D7 Lead Finder | Low price per row on a daily search allowance |
| Maps records at engineering scale, live or as a dataset | Bright Data | Infrastructure plus a 328.2M-record dataset |
| Any keyword, every business in a big city checked against it, emails verified | Lyre Leads | Searches from many points, reads each website, checks every address |
How do you test them before you pay?
Pick a market you know, ideally one that isn't a neat Google category, in a city over 200,000 people. Run it through Scrap.io's trial and the alternative, remove duplicates on Google's place ID or name and street address, and count only businesses inside the city that really are what you sell to. Then put every email through one mailbox verifier and count what comes back deliverable.
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