Best Outscraper Alternatives for Google Maps Data in 2026

The best Outscraper alternatives in 2026 are Scrape.ly, Apify, Scrap.io and Octoparse. Scrape.ly comes first for Google Maps data because it costs less where most projects spend: Google Maps reviews are $0.36 per 1,000 instead of $3, places are $1.78 per 1,000, there are no tiers to track, and the same account runs 560+ other scrapers and an MCP server for AI agents.

Outscraper is a solid pay-as-you-go service for Google Maps data, and its free tier is generous for small tests. The moment a project grows past a few hundred records a month, though, the price per record starts to matter, and so do the things around it: schedules, delivery to your tools and a way to call it from code or an AI assistant. That's what this comparison covers. Every competitor price below was checked on 27 October 2026 on the vendor's own pricing page.

Why teams look for Outscraper alternatives

Outscraper's pricing is per record, with no subscription. For its three most popular services, the published tiers on 27 October 2026 were:

The tiers reset every 30 days. Three things push teams to look around:

• Reviews at $3 per 1,000. Review monitoring and sentiment work need many reviews per place, and every review past the first 500 costs the same as a business record.
• Contacts on top. Emails and contacts are a separate service, billed per domain, on top of the places that led you there.
• A Google Maps toolbox, not a platform. Outscraper covers Maps and a list of related services well. If your next project is Amazon prices, LinkedIn jobs or a site nobody has a scraper for yet, you need a second tool.

What to look for in Outscraper alternatives

1. A low price per review and per place. Most Google Maps projects pull reviews in bulk; that line decides the bill.
2. One price, no tiers. A flat price per record lets you budget before the run.
3. A free allowance that renews. Enough to test properly, and to keep a small monthly job running.
4. Scheduling and delivery. Weekly reviews into Google Sheets or Slack, without a server.
5. An API and an agent path. The same scraper from curl, Python, n8n or Claude.
6. More than Google Maps. The next dataset you need should be one Store search away.

Outscraper alternatives compared

The sources for every cell are the pricing pages linked in each section below.

1. Scrape.ly: Google Maps data at a flat price per record

Scrape.ly is a web data platform with a Store of ready-made scrapers called Actors. For Google Maps there are three that cover what Outscraper's main services do, each priced per record with compute and proxies included:

• Google Maps Reviews Scraper: reviews with stars, text, translation, date, owner reply and the place's details, at $0.36 per 1,000 reviews. Sort by newest, filter by keyword, and switch reviewer details off when you don't need them.
• Google Maps Scraper: places from a search term and a location, at $1.78 per 1,000 places, with optional contact enrichment from each business's website.
• Google Maps Email Extractor: places with the emails, phones and social links found on their websites, in one run.

What you get around them:

• One price, no tiers. The price on the Actor page is what you pay from the first record, with no thresholds to watch.
• A free credit every month. The Free plan gives you $5 of usage each month, no card. That's about 14,000 reviews or 2,800 places a month at no cost.
• Room to scale. Starter costs $19 every 4 weeks, all of it usable credit, and runs 32 Actors at once.
• Schedules and delivery. An automation runs a saved input daily or weekly and sends results to Google Sheets, Slack, email or a webhook (automations).
• A cap on every run. Set a maximum cost and the run stops before it goes over.
• Code and agents. Every Actor runs from the REST API, the Python and JavaScript clients, n8n, or Claude and Cursor through Scrape.ly's hosted MCP server.

What 10,000 records cost

Even above 100,000 reviews, where Outscraper drops to $1 per 1,000, Scrape.ly's $0.36 is less than half of that.

A real run

Here's a run of the Google Maps Reviews Scraper from 26 October 2026: the 5 newest reviews of Apple Fifth Avenue in New York, with reviewer details switched off. It returned 5 reviews in 8 seconds. Reviewers are private people, so we show them as [reviewer 1] and so on.

Every item also carries the place's name, rating (4.4), total review count (22,765), categories, address and place ID. The log line that matters:

2026-10-26T14:26:41.872Z [scrapely.actor] INFO  Saved 5 reviews from 1 places. Downloaded 0.02 MB in 3.0 s.

Best for: anyone who pulls Google Maps reviews or leads every month and wants one flat price, a renewing free credit and room to grow beyond Maps. For the head-to-head on features, see Scrape.ly vs Outscraper, and for the whole Google Maps toolbox, the Google Maps scraping page.

2. Apify

Apify is a platform for ready-made scrapers (Actors), with several Google Maps Actors in its Store. You pay from a monthly plan: Free includes $5 to spend each month, Starter $19, Scale $199 and Business $999. Each Actor sets its own price, and higher plans get a Store discount. On paid plans, usage above the prepaid amount goes on the next invoice, and unused credit doesn't roll over.

Best for: teams already on Apify, or running an Actor that only exists in its Store. Scrape.ly's clients are drop-in replacements for Apify's, so the move is a change of import, base URL and token; our Apify alternatives guide covers it.

3. Scrap.io

Scrap.io is a Google Maps lead tool built around monthly plans with export credits. Billed monthly, Basic costs $49 for 10,000 export credits, Professional $99 for 20,000, Agency $199 for 40,000 and Company $499 for 100,000 (billed yearly: $35, $69, $139 and $350 a month). The plan also sets how wide you can search: Basic searches by city, larger regions start with Professional, and searching a whole country needs Company.

Best for: lead lists from Google Maps at a steady monthly volume that fills a plan. If your volume swings, or you need reviews, Scrape.ly's per-record price and free monthly credit fit better.

4. Octoparse

Octoparse is a point-and-click scraper with a desktop app and a template library. The Free plan includes 10 tasks that run on your own computer. Standard costs $83 a month ($69 billed yearly) and adds cloud runs, scheduling, IP rotation and its 500+ preset templates, with up to 3 concurrent cloud processes. Professional costs $299 a month ($249 billed yearly).

Best for: people who want to build their own Google Maps task visually and run other point-and-click jobs in the same app. For ready-made Google Maps scrapers with a price per record, see the Scrape.ly vs Octoparse comparison.

How to switch from Outscraper to Scrape.ly

1. Sign up free. No card. Create an API token under Settings → API & Integrations.
2. Run your first export from the form. Open the Google Maps Reviews Scraper, paste a place URL or a Maps search, set the number of reviews and a maximum cost, and click Start. Download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON.
3. Map the fields. Rating, text, date and owner reply come back as stars, text, publishedAtDate and responseFromOwnerText, with the place's title, address, placeId and totalScore on every review.
4. Replace the API call. A short run fits the synchronous endpoint, which returns the items directly:

curl -X POST "https://api.scrape.ly/v2/actors/cornerledger~google-maps-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCRAPELY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": [{"url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/Apple+Fifth+Avenue+New+York"}], "maxReviews": 5, "reviewsSort": "newest", "personalData": false, "language": "en"}'

In Python (pip install scrapely-client-python):

import os
from scrapely_client import ScrapelyClient

client = ScrapelyClient(os.environ["SCRAPELY_TOKEN"], api_url="https://api.scrape.ly")

run = client.actor("cornerledger/google-maps-reviews-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "startUrls": [{"url": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/Apple+Fifth+Avenue+New+York"}],
        "maxReviews": 5,
        "reviewsSort": "newest",
        "personalData": False,
        "language": "en",
    }
)
for review in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(review["title"], review["stars"], review["publishedAtDate"], review.get("text"))

5. Schedule it. Save the input, create an automation with On a schedule as the trigger and add Send results to Google Sheets. Our review monitoring guide shows the full weekly setup.
6. Or ask your AI assistant. Add https://mcp.scrape.ly?actors=cornerledger/google-maps-reviews-scraper as an MCP server in Claude, Cursor or VS Code and ask: "Get the 50 newest reviews of this place and list the three most common complaints." The Google Maps MCP guide covers every client.

For the full walkthrough of places, filters and exports, read how to scrape Google Maps. If you're weighing the official Places API instead, our Google Maps API pricing breakdown compares its costs with scraping.

What to watch out for with any Google Maps scraper

• Personal data in reviews. Reviewer names and profile links are personal data under GDPR and similar laws. Scrape.ly's reviews Actor lets you switch reviewer details off, as in the run above, when you only need the review.
• Contact data. Emails and phone numbers from business websites are fine to collect for many B2B uses, but check the rules for cold outreach where you operate.
• Volume per place. Popular places have tens of thousands of reviews. Set a review limit and a maximum cost per run so a big place doesn't eat your budget.
• Results per search. Google Maps shows a limited number of places per search, so large areas work better split into smaller locations or several search terms.

FAQ

What is the best Outscraper alternative?

Scrape.ly, for most Google Maps projects: reviews cost $0.36 per 1,000 instead of $3, places $1.78 per 1,000, there are no tiers, and the Free plan includes $5 of credit every month. The same account runs 560+ other scrapers, schedules and an MCP server for AI agents.

Is there a free alternative to Outscraper?

Scrape.ly's Free plan gives you $5 of usage every month without a card, about 14,000 Google Maps reviews or 2,800 places. Outscraper's free tier covers the first 500 records per service every 30 days.

Is Outscraper legit?

Yes. Outscraper is a US company based in Bee Cave, Texas, that sells Google Maps and other public data pay as you go, and its pricing page offers a full refund within 3 days of purchase if its tools fail to retrieve data. Whether it's the right fit comes down to price per record and what else you need.

Apify vs Outscraper: which is better for Google Maps?

They bill differently: Outscraper per record in tiers with no subscription, Apify per Actor from a monthly plan. Scrape.ly combines the best of both, with a flat price per record, $5 of free usage every month to start and a Store of ready-made scrapers like Apify's.

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 Google Maps reviews?

On Scrape.ly, 10,000 × $0.36 per 1,000 = $3.60, which fits in the free monthly credit. On Outscraper, the first 500 are free and the other 9,500 cost $3 per 1,000, so $28.50.