Outscraper Alternative: Outscraper Alternatives and Competitors for Recurring Google Maps Lead Lists

Outscraper sells Google Maps data by the record: 500 places free a month, then $3 per 1,000. For a one-off list that is cheap and we would tell you to buy it. The alternative makes sense when the list is not one-off: the same territory refreshed every week, fields read from each business website, or sources Outscraper has no scraper for. WebRobot runs that from one plain-English request for $79 a month.

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Outscraper figures taken from its published pay-as-you-go price list

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Comparison

Outscraper vs WebRobot for local lead lists

Outscraper prices come from outscraper.com/pricing. Rates change, so check there before you buy. Ours are on the WebRobot pricing page, and the full Outscraper rate card with worked bills is in our Outscraper pricing breakdown.

Dimension	Outscraper	WebRobot
What it is	A catalog of prebuilt scrapers for named sources: Google Maps, reviews, Search, Shopping, Amazon and more, plus email and phone checks	A hosted robot for any site: describe the data once and it runs on a schedule
How you pay	Pay as you go per 1,000 records, no subscription, invoice at the end of the billing period	Flat monthly plan with a record allowance
Google Maps places	500 free a month, $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, $1 per 1,000 after that	Counts toward your plan's records like any other row
Entry paid plan	None needed; you pay for what you pull	Launch $79/mo ($63 yearly): 5 robots, 10,000 records/mo, daily scheduling, API
Mid and top plans	Volume rates kick in automatically past 100,000 records (50,000 for some services)	Scale $249/mo: 100,000 records, hourly, change alerts, logins. Autopilot $699/mo: 1,000,000 records
Fields	A fixed set per service: listing fields, then contacts (emails, phones, socials) from each domain as a separate charge	The columns you name, including ones read from each business website
Sources	The services in its catalog	Any public site, plus portals behind a login on Scale and up
Recurring jobs	Every rerun is billed again as new records	Daily on Launch, hourly and change alerts on Scale, inside the flat price
Delivery	CSV, Excel, Parquet or JSON download; API	CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, webhooks, REST API
Refunds	Full refund within 3 days if its tools fail to retrieve data	Monthly or yearly, cancel any time

Fair play

When you should stay on Outscraper

On raw Google Maps volume, Outscraper is cheaper than we are. If your job looks like one of these, keep it.

Advantage 01

One-off Maps pulls

3,000 dentists in Texas, once: the first 500 are free and the other 2,500 cost $7.50. No plan comes close to that for a single list, ours included.

Advantage 02

Huge national volumes

Past 100,000 places the rate drops to $1 per 1,000, so 500,000 listings in a month cost $698.50. If you are building a national database once a quarter, that price is excellent.

Advantage 03

Email and phone checks in one place

Outscraper verifies emails ($3 per 1,000 after 25 free) and looks up phone numbers and carrier types ($5 per 1,000 after 25 free). We collect what is published; we do not validate deliverability.

Switching triggers

Why teams search for an Outscraper alternative

The people who outgrow Outscraper are rarely unhappy with the Maps data. They hit the edge of what a prebuilt Maps scraper can see.

Trigger 01

The field that qualifies the lead is not on Maps

A roofing lead list is only useful if you know who offers financing, who books online and who covers your county. That lives on each contractor's own website. Outscraper returns emails, phones and socials from the domain; anything else is a spreadsheet for a VA to fill by hand.

Trigger 02

The same list, every week

Local SEO agencies track client and competitor listings weekly. Each rerun is a new bill and a new file to diff. What they want is a sheet that updates itself and a Slack message when a competitor's rating or review count moves.

Trigger 03

Sources outside the catalog

State contractor license lookups, franchise store locators, association member directories and supplier portals behind a login. None of them is a prebuilt service, and a scraper that reads any site is the only way to put them in the same sheet as the Maps rows.

Trigger 04

A bill finance can plan for

Pay as you go is fair, but a busy month of reviews and enrichment lands as one large invoice. An agency reselling the data to clients usually prefers a fixed cost per month it can price into a retainer.

Worked bills

What three local data jobs cost on each tool

Outscraper math uses its published rates, with the monthly free tier taken off first. WebRobot math uses the plan whose record allowance covers the job.

Job	Outscraper	WebRobot	Better buy
3,000 dentists in Texas with contacts, once	Places $7.50 plus contacts on about 2,500 domains $6.00: about $13.50	Launch $79	Outscraper
5,000 HVAC contractors a month, plus financing offer, online booking and service area read from each website	Places $13.50; the three website fields are not a service, so they are manual work or custom code	5,000 listing rows plus 5,000 website rows = 10,000 records: Launch $79	WebRobot
Agency: 2,000 client and competitor listings tracked weekly, Slack alert on rating or review count changes	8,000 places a month: $22.50, plus your own diff and alerting	8,000 records with change alerts: Scale $249	Outscraper if you have someone to build the diff; WebRobot if you do not

The pattern is simple. When the job is Google Maps and nothing else, Outscraper's per-record price wins. When the valuable columns come from somewhere Outscraper does not go, or the job repeats and someone has to turn files into alerts, the flat plan is cheaper than the hours it replaces. The same logic runs through our web scraping for lead generation page.

Shortlist

Outscraper alternatives and competitors, and who each one fits

Pick by who runs the tool and whether the job repeats. Rows with a write-up link to our verified pricing.

Tool	Best for	How it charges	Our write-up
Apify (Google Maps actor)	Developers who want to script Maps runs and chain them with other actors	Pay per event (places, details, contacts, reviews) on top of an Apify plan from $0 to $999 a month	Apify pricing
Google Places API	Licensed lookups of a few clean fields inside your own app	Per request by field group, with free monthly usage caps; search results capped per query	Places API vs scraping
Thunderbit	Individuals grabbing a Maps results page from a Chrome extension	Credits per row, Starter from $9 a month billed yearly	Thunderbit alternative
Bright Data	Enterprise volumes and ready-made datasets	$1.50 per 1,000 records pay as you go	Bright Data alternative
Browse AI	Point-and-click monitors on a handful of pages	Credits, Personal from $19 a month billed yearly	Browse AI pricing
WebRobot	Agencies and sales teams that refresh local lists on a schedule, with fields from websites and other directories	Launch $79/mo, $63 billed yearly	WebRobot pricing

Migration

How to move a recurring Outscraper job to WebRobot

Keep Outscraper for the one-off pulls it does well and move only the jobs that repeat.

Step 1

Pick the job that repeats

Look at last quarter's Outscraper tasks. Any query you ran more than twice is a schedule waiting to happen.

Step 2

Write the request in a sentence

"Every HVAC contractor within 25 miles of Dallas on Google Maps with name, phone, website, rating and review count, then from each website whether they offer financing."

Step 3

Send it where the CSV went

Deliver to the Google Sheet or CRM that used to receive the Outscraper download, or to a webhook. Compare twenty rows against your last export.

Step 4

Schedule and alert

Set it daily on Launch, or hourly with change alerts to Slack on Scale. New businesses and rating drops show up without anyone opening a file.

Teams leaving Outscraper usually run one of these jobs next: Google Maps scraping for territory lists, a Google reviews scraper for reputation reporting, real estate data scraping, and website change monitoring on competitors. For pipelines behind your own code, the web scraping API page shows the request format.

FAQ

Outscraper alternative questions buyers ask

It depends on what the list is for. For a one-off Google Maps pull, Outscraper itself is hard to beat on price. Developers who want to script Maps runs move to Apify's Google Maps actor. Agencies and sales teams that need the same local list refreshed on a schedule, with custom fields from each business website or from sources outside Google, pick WebRobot, which runs 10,000 records a month for $79.

Yes. Outscraper is an established pay-as-you-go data service with a public price list, an API, card payment through Stripe and a results guarantee: a full refund within 3 days of purchase if its tools fail to retrieve the data. Most complaints online are about bills that grew faster than expected, not about missing data.

For bulk Google Maps data, yes. The first 500 places each month are free and the next 99,500 cost $3 per 1,000, so a 10,000-business list costs $28.50. It is less of a fit when you need fields Outscraper does not collect, sources it has no scraper for, or a fixed monthly invoice for a recurring job.

Partly. Every Outscraper service has a monthly free tier that resets every 30 days: 500 Google Maps places, 500 reviews, 500 domains for contacts, 25 email verifications and 25 phone lookups, among others. Anything above that is billed per 1,000 records at the end of the billing period.

Outscraper is simpler: a web form, a flat $3 per 1,000 places and a bill at the end of the period. Apify's Google Maps actor is more flexible for developers, with pay-per-event pricing where place details, contacts, reviews and social profiles are billed as separate events on top of an Apify plan. Pick Outscraper for simple lists and Apify if you want to script the run.

Yes. You describe the search and the fields in plain English and the robot runs the query, scrolls every result, opens each listing and delivers rows to Google Sheets, Excel, Slack, a webhook or the REST API. The difference is that the same robot can also read each business website or another directory in the same run, on a daily or hourly schedule.

The business facts on a Maps listing are public, and US courts have generally treated collecting public data as lawful. Google's terms still restrict automated access, and personal data rules apply to what you do with reviewer names or emails, whichever tool you use. The web scraping legality guide covers the cases.