The best Scrap.io alternative depends on whether you need leads every month or in batches. If you buy Google Maps leads with emails in bursts (a campaign this month, nothing next month), MapScraper sells 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. Scrap.io is a subscription from $49 a month for 10,000 export credits, and unused credits reset every month. Stay with Scrap.io if you need country-wide or polygon searches, or Apple Maps and Bing Maps as sources.
Every Scrap.io figure below comes from Scrap.io's own pages, read on 4 November 2026: the pricing page, the homepage, the FAQ and its Google Maps API cost article. Prices change, so check Scrap.io's pricing page before you buy. MapScraper figures come from our own pricing.
MapScraper vs Scrap.io at a glance
| MapScraper | Scrap.io | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | One-time packs: 1,000 / $5 (launch), 5,000 / $19, 20,000 / $49, 50,000 / $99 | Monthly plans: Basic $49 (10,000 credits), Professional $99 (20,000), Agency $199 (40,000), Company $499 (100,000) |
| Billed yearly | No yearly plan; packs are one-time | $35 / $69 / $139 / $350 per month |
| Unused balance | Leads never expire | "Credits do not carry over from month to month" |
| Free allowance | 100 leads once per new account, no card, full download | "Try for free for 7 days and scrap up to 100 leads" |
| Email addresses | Included in every lead, crawled from the business website | Included: emails "straight from the listing and the linked website" |
| Data sources | Google Maps | "Google Maps, Apple Maps and Bing Maps" |
| How wide one search can be | A business type plus country, city and optional district, or a typed search; busy areas split past the ~120-result limit automatically | By city on every plan; radius from Professional (50 km), larger divisions on Agency, whole country and polygon on Company |
| 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 | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Filters | No website, has phone, minimum rating | Website, phone, email, rating, reviews, social media "and more" |
| Extras | Scout, an agent that builds the search for you | Reverse search, file enrichment, API and MCP access on every plan |
"Not stated" means we did not find the detail on Scrap.io's pages, not that it is absent.
What each option costs for the volume you actually need
Scrap.io counts export credits: one credit is one place exported, and its pricing page says each place counts once per 30-day period. MapScraper counts leads: one business row with its email, phone and website. That makes the two close enough to compare row for row.
Cost per 1,000 at the published prices:
| Plan | Price | Rows | Cost per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MapScraper Starter (launch) | $5 one-time | 1,000 | $5.00 |
| MapScraper Growth | $19 one-time | 5,000 | $3.80 |
| MapScraper Agency | $49 one-time | 20,000 | $2.45 |
| MapScraper Scale | $99 one-time | 50,000 | $1.98 |
| Scrap.io Basic | $49/month ($35 yearly) | 10,000 a month | $4.90 ($3.50 yearly) |
| Scrap.io Professional | $99/month ($69 yearly) | 20,000 a month | $4.95 ($3.45 yearly) |
| Scrap.io Agency | $199/month ($139 yearly) | 40,000 a month | $4.98 ($3.48 yearly) |
| Scrap.io Company | $499/month ($350 yearly) | 100,000 a month | $4.99 ($3.50 yearly) |
Scrap.io's cost per credit assumes you use every credit every month. Credits you don't use are gone at the reset, so the real cost per lead goes up in a slow month.
Here is what a one-off list costs on each, if you sign up for one month and cancel afterwards:
| You need, once | MapScraper | Scrap.io, cheapest plan that covers it |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 leads | $5 | Basic, $49 for the month |
| 5,000 leads | $19 | Basic, $49 |
| 10,000 leads | $38 (two 5,000 packs), or $49 for 20,000 | Basic, $49 |
| 20,000 leads | $49 | Professional, $99 |
| 50,000 leads | $99 | Company, $499 (Agency stops at 40,000) |
And a steady 10,000 leads every month for a year:
- Scrap.io Basic, billed yearly: $35 × 12 = $420.
- MapScraper: 120,000 leads as two 50,000 packs and one 20,000 pack = $247, bought when you need them.
Scrap.io's FAQ says you can cancel any time and keep access until the end of the period you paid for, so the one-month scenario above is a fair reading of its terms.
Three practical differences beyond price
1. Monthly reset vs leads that wait for you
Scrap.io's plan resets your export limit every month. That suits a team that exports a similar volume every month. If you run campaigns in bursts, such as a big list before a quarter and little in between, you pay for months you don't use. MapScraper's packs have no clock on them: a 20,000-lead pack bought today can be spent over the next six months.
2. How you set the search area
Scrap.io prices search width by plan: city search on Basic, a radius of up to 50 km on Professional, regional divisions on Agency, and whole-country and polygon searches on Company ($499/month). In MapScraper you pick a business type and a country, city and optional district, or type a search such as "roofers in Denver", or ask Scout to build it. Google Maps stops a single search at about 120 results, so MapScraper splits busy areas into smaller cells, searches each, and de-duplicates by place_id. The method is in how to get past Google Maps' 120-result limit.
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 if you stop a scan early you pay only for the rows already delivered. On a subscription, the question is different: whether this month's export fits in this month's credits.
Who should stay with Scrap.io
Switching is not always right. Stay with Scrap.io if:
- You need whole-country or polygon searches in one go. Scrap.io lists them on its Company plan; MapScraper does not offer polygon search.
- You want Apple Maps or Bing Maps data as well as Google Maps. MapScraper reads Google Maps only.
- You use reverse search, file enrichment or MCP access, which Scrap.io lists on every plan.
- You filter on social media profiles or review counts. Scrap.io lists both as filters. MapScraper's filters are no website, has phone and minimum rating, and review counts are not always available because Google hides them from signed-out visitors.
- You export a steady, high volume every month and re-export the same places often. Scrap.io counts each place once per 30 days, and its yearly billing brings the cost to about $3.50 per 1,000.
Who MapScraper fits better
- Campaign-based buyers. If you need 5,000 leads this month and none next month, $19 once is less than a $49 plan whose credits reset.
- Cold-email teams who need a business email in the same row as the phone and website. Where those emails come from is explained in why Google Maps has no emails.
- 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, and the side-by-side table is at MapScraper vs Scrap.io.
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 Scrap.io, start the 7-day trial and run the same city and category.
- Compare how many rows have an email and a phone, which columns you actually use, and what your next 5,000 leads would cost on each: once, or every month.
Comparing other tools too? Read the Outscraper alternative, Apify Google Maps Scraper alternative and PhantomBuster Google Maps alternative breakdowns.
Summary
Scrap.io is a Google Maps (plus Apple Maps and Bing Maps) lead tool sold as a subscription: $49 to $499 a month for 10,000 to 100,000 export credits, about $35 to $350 a month billed yearly, with credits that reset every month and wider search areas on higher plans. It fits teams with a steady monthly volume or a need for country-wide and polygon searches. 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: $3.80 per 1,000 at 5,000 leads, down to $1.98 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.