The best Outscraper alternative depends on what you are paying for. If you need Google Maps leads with email addresses and want one price per lead, MapScraper includes email in every lead and sells one-time packs: 100 free leads with no card, then 1,000 leads for $5 (launch price), 5,000 for $19, 20,000 for $49 and 50,000 for $99. Outscraper charges $3 per 1,000 businesses after a free 500 and bills email enrichment separately, so from a few thousand leads a month MapScraper costs less; under 500 businesses a month, Outscraper's renewing free tier is hard to beat.
Every Outscraper figure below comes from Outscraper's own pages, read on 1 November 2026: the pricing page, the Google Maps Scraper page and its pricing explainer. Prices change, so check those pages before you buy. MapScraper figures come from our own pricing.
MapScraper vs Outscraper at a glance
| MapScraper | Outscraper | |
|---|---|---|
| Free allowance | 100 leads once per new account, no card | First 500 businesses free, renews every 30 days |
| Google Maps price | Packs: 1,000 / $5 (launch), 5,000 / $19, 20,000 / $49, 50,000 / $99 | $3 per 1,000 records (501–100k), $1 per 1,000 after 100k |
| Email addresses | Included in every lead, crawled from the business's own website | Separate "Emails & Contacts" enrichment: 500 free, then $3 per 1,000 domains, $1 per 1,000 after 100k |
| Billing model | One-time packs, no subscription | Pay as you go: prepaid credits or postpaid card billing |
| Unused balance | Leads never expire | Prepaid credits never expire |
| Cost before you run | Free pre-count of how many businesses a scan will return | Not stated on the pages above |
| 120-result Maps limit | Area split into cells, de-duplicated by place_id | No per-query cap stated on the pages above |
| Export | Excel, CSV | CSV, Excel, Parquet, JSON |
| API | Included with every lead pack | Listed on Medium and Business tiers, not the free tier |
| Other data sources | Google Maps (focus: lead lists) | Many scrapers, including Google Maps reviews |
Two honest notes on the table. Outscraper offers far more scrapers than we do; if you need review exports or other sources, it covers more ground. And "not stated" means we did not find it on those pages, not that the feature is missing.
What a lead list with emails actually costs
The usual reason people look for an Outscraper alternative is the bill once enrichment is switched on. Outscraper's explainer says enrichments "incur additional, service-specific costs", and its own worked example prices 5,000 Maps records at $15 plus 5,000 emails at $15.
Here is the same calculation at the volumes a sales team or agency buys, using Outscraper's published standard tiers and assuming the job is your only usage that 30-day period. Email enrichment is billed per domain, and only businesses with a website have one, so the email column is an upper bound: it assumes every business has a website. Real lists cost somewhat less on Outscraper.
| Businesses with emails | Outscraper Maps records | Outscraper emails (max) | Outscraper total (max) | MapScraper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $1.50 | $1.50 | $3.00 | $5 (launch pack) |
| 5,000 | $13.50 | $13.50 | $27.00 | $19 |
| 20,000 | $58.50 | $58.50 | $117.00 | $49 |
| 50,000 | $148.50 | $148.50 | $297.00 | $99 |
How the Outscraper column is worked out: the first 500 businesses are free, the rest are $3 per 1,000, and the same structure applies to email domains. At 20,000 businesses that is 19,500 × $3 / 1,000 = $58.50 for records, and up to the same again for emails.
What the table shows:
- Under ~1,000 leads a month, Outscraper is cheaper, mainly because its free tier renews every 30 days. MapScraper's 100 free leads are a one-time trial.
- From about 5,000 leads, MapScraper costs less, because email is not a second line item.
- Above 100,000 businesses in a 30-day window, Outscraper drops to $1 per 1,000 for records and for domains. At that scale the two land close to each other, about $2 per 1,000 against MapScraper's $99 per 50,000.
Why buyers switch: three practical differences
1. Email is part of the lead, not an add-on
Google Maps does not show email addresses at all (see how to extract emails from Google Maps). Both tools get them the same way, by visiting each business's website. The difference is billing. MapScraper crawls the home, contact and about pages of every business and puts the email in the same row, at the same price. You never have to decide whether a list is worth enriching.
2. You see the count before you spend
Before a MapScraper scan runs, a free pre-count estimates how many businesses it will return. Nothing is charged until you confirm, and if you stop a scan early you pay only for the rows already delivered. For agencies quoting a client a fixed number of leads, knowing the number up front is the point.
3. Whole areas, not the first 120 results
A single Google Maps search returns roughly 120 results. MapScraper splits busy areas into smaller cells, searches each one and de-duplicates by place_id, so "dentists in Chicago" comes back as the whole city in one file. The method is explained in how to scrape Google Maps beyond 120 results.
Who should stay with Outscraper
Switching is not always right. Stay with Outscraper if:
- You pull fewer than 500 businesses a month. Its free tier renews; ours does not.
- You need reviews, other platforms or Parquet/JSON outputs. Outscraper's catalogue is wider.
- You run well over 100,000 records a month and already use the API. At the $1 tier the price gap closes.
- You don't need emails. Without enrichment, Outscraper's $3 per 1,000 records is cheaper than our $19 for 5,000.
Who MapScraper fits better
- Agencies selling websites or local SEO who want businesses with no website or weak listings. Use the no-website filter (finding businesses without a website) or the digital weakness score.
- B2B sales and cold-email teams who need phone, email and website in one row, then straight into a sequence. See the full Google Maps lead generation pipeline.
- Cold callers who want phone numbers in E.164 format (cold calling lists).
- Anyone who doesn't want to code. You pick a business type and a city, or type "plumbers in Austin", check the count and download Excel or CSV.
Every 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 ten minutes
- Pick one real search you would buy, for example "roofers in Denver".
- In MapScraper, sign up free and run the pre-count. It shows how many businesses the area holds before any lead is used.
- Run it with your 100 free leads and download the CSV.
- Run the same search in Outscraper's free tier with email enrichment switched on.
- Compare how many rows have a working email and phone, and what the next 5,000 would cost you on each.
For the side-by-side page that we keep updated, see MapScraper vs Outscraper. For other options, see Google Maps API vs scraping.
Summary
Outscraper is a broad, pay-as-you-go scraping platform with a monthly free tier of 500 businesses and email enrichment billed separately per domain. MapScraper does one job, turning a Google Maps search into a lead list, and includes email in every lead with one-time packs that never expire. Under 1,000 leads a month, Outscraper is usually cheaper. From about 5,000 leads with emails, MapScraper is, by roughly half at 20,000.
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.