The best Octoparse alternative for Google Maps depends on whether Maps is one of many sites you scrape or the only one. If you only need Google Maps leads with emails, MapScraper does that one job and sells it in one-time packs that never expire: 100 free leads with no card, then 1,000 leads for $5 at launch, 5,000 for $19, 20,000 for $49 and 50,000 for $99. Octoparse is a general no-code scraper billed as a subscription (Standard from $69 a month billed yearly), and its Google Maps template adds $2 per 1,000 lines on top. Stay with Octoparse if you scrape Amazon, TikTok or your own list of sites as well as Maps.
Every Octoparse figure below comes from Octoparse's own pages, read on 7 November 2026: the pricing page, its pricing explainer article and the Google Maps scraper template page. Prices change, so check Octoparse's pricing page before you buy. MapScraper figures come from our own pricing.
MapScraper vs Octoparse for Google Maps at a glance
| MapScraper | Octoparse | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A Google Maps lead tool: search, count, scan, download | A no-code scraper for any website, with 600+ preset templates |
| How you pay | One-time packs: 1,000 / $5 (launch), 5,000 / $19, 20,000 / $49, 50,000 / $99 | Monthly plans: Standard $69/month billed yearly (from $83 monthly), Professional $249/month billed yearly |
| Google Maps cost on top | None; the pack is the price | Enhanced Maps template: "$2/1000 lines". Email Finder template: "$0.5/1000 lines" |
| Unused balance | Leads never expire | Subscription renews each period |
| Free allowance | 100 leads once per new account, no card, full download | Free plan (10 tasks). Template results can be previewed but "cannot be exported in-app"; the MCP Server exports up to 2,000 records a week. A 14-day trial comes with $2 of free credits |
| Email addresses | Included in every lead, crawled from the business website | Not in the Enhanced template's listed fields; separate Email Finder template |
| Past the ~120-result limit | Yes: busy areas are split into cells and de-duplicated by place_id | Yes: the template page says it splits the area into smaller maps |
| Count before you spend | Free pre-count of how many businesses a scan returns | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Stopping early | You pay only for rows already delivered | Per-line template pricing; plan fee is fixed |
| Other sites | Google Maps only | Any website you build a task for, plus templates for sites like Amazon and TikTok |
| Extras | Scout, an agent that builds the search for you; digital weakness score | Residential proxies ($3/GB), CAPTCHA solving ($1–$1.50 per 1,000), crawler setup from $399, data service from $599 |
"Not stated" means we did not find the detail on Octoparse's pages, not that it is absent.
What a Google Maps list costs on each
Octoparse's cost for Maps has three parts: a paid plan (needed to export template results in the app), the Enhanced template at $2 per 1,000 lines, and the Email Finder template at $0.50 per 1,000 lines if you want emails. MapScraper has one part: the pack, with email included in each lead.
For one month on Octoparse Standard at its monthly price ($83), with emails:
| You need, once | MapScraper | Octoparse Standard, one month |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 leads with emails | $5 | $83 + $2 + $0.50 = $85.50 |
| 5,000 leads with emails | $19 | $83 + $10 + $2.50 = $95.50 |
| 20,000 leads with emails | $49 | $83 + $40 + $10 = $133 |
| 50,000 leads with emails | $99 | $83 + $100 + $25 = $208 |
On yearly billing the plan drops to $69 a month, but that is a $828 commitment for the year. Octoparse also lists a 5-day money-back guarantee on paid plans.
Two caveats so the comparison stays fair. First, Octoparse's "lines" and MapScraper's "leads" are close but not identical units: one Maps line is one place, and one MapScraper lead is one business row with its email, phone and website. Second, the template page does not say how many places the Email Finder returns an email for, and neither does every MapScraper lead have one: a business without a website, or with no email on its site, has no email to find.
Where Octoparse wins on price: if you already pay for Octoparse to scrape other sites, the Maps template costs you only the per-line fee, $2.50 per 1,000 with emails. That is cheaper than any MapScraper pack.
Three practical differences beyond price
1. A general tool vs a finished lead list
Octoparse is built to scrape any website. You pick a template or build a task, choose local or cloud runs, and manage proxies and CAPTCHA add-ons if a site blocks you. That flexibility is the point if you scrape many sites. For Google Maps leads alone it is extra setup: MapScraper asks for a business type and a place (or a typed search like "roofers in Denver", or a request to Scout) and returns a spreadsheet.
2. Emails in the same row
Google Maps listings don't show email addresses, so every tool has to visit the business website to find them. On Octoparse that is a second template run with its own fee. MapScraper crawls each business's home, contact and about pages during the scan and puts the email in the same row as the phone and website. Why Maps has no emails, and how the crawl works: extract emails from Google Maps.
3. Knowing the size before you pay
MapScraper runs a free pre-count that estimates how many businesses a scan will return before any lead is used, and stopping early costs only the rows already delivered. On Octoparse the per-line fee scales with what you extract, but the plan fee is due whether you run one search that month or fifty.
Who should stay with Octoparse
Switching is not always right. Stay with Octoparse if:
- You scrape many kinds of websites, not only Maps. MapScraper reads Google Maps only.
- You want popular times or delivery details. Octoparse's template page lists both among its Maps fields; MapScraper's 41 fields don't include them.
- You need very large single runs. Octoparse's template page says it can scrape "up to 20,000 results per hour and up to 40,000 results per search term and country."
- You already pay for a plan, so Maps costs you only the per-line template fee.
- You want Octoparse to build the scraper for you (crawler setup from $399) or deliver the data as a service (from $599).
Who MapScraper fits better
- Buyers who only need Maps leads. One tool, one price, no plan to keep paying for between campaigns.
- Cold-email teams who want the email in the same row as the phone and website, without a second run.
- Agencies selling websites or local SEO. Filter for businesses with no website, or sort by the digital weakness score. There is a ready-made no-website leads use case.
- Cold callers who want phone numbers in E.164 format for a dialer (cold calling lists).
- Small first orders. 1,000 leads with emails for $5 at launch lets you test a market before you commit to anything bigger.
Every MapScraper lead has 41 fields, including name, category, phone as shown and in E.164, email, website, full address split into parts, coordinates, place_id, rating, newest review date, opening hours and the digital weakness score. The full list is on the fields page.
How to test both in fifteen minutes
- Pick one real search you would buy, for example "plumbers in Austin".
- In MapScraper, sign up free and run the pre-count to see how many businesses the area holds.
- Run it with your 100 free leads and download the CSV.
- In Octoparse, start the 14-day trial (it comes with $2 of free credits for paid templates) and run the Google Maps template on the same search, then the Email Finder on the results.
- Compare how many rows have an email and a phone, how long setup took, and what your next 5,000 leads would cost on each.
Comparing more tools? See the best Google Maps scrapers compared on real prices, the no-code options compared, and the Outscraper, Apify and Scrap.io alternative breakdowns.
Summary
Octoparse is a general no-code web scraper sold as a subscription: Standard at $69 a month billed yearly or from $83 monthly, Professional at $249 billed yearly. Its Google Maps template costs $2 per 1,000 lines on top, with emails from a separate $0.50-per-1,000 template, and free-plan template results can't be exported in the app. It fits people who scrape many sites. MapScraper does one job, turning a Google Maps search into a lead list with email included, and sells it in one-time packs that never expire: $19 for 5,000 leads, down to $1.98 per 1,000 at 50,000, with a free pre-count before you spend.
Try it on your own market: start free with 100 leads, no card needed. After that, the launch pack is 1,000 leads with emails for $5, one-time, and the leads never expire.