Comparison
Maplist vs Bright Data for Google Maps Leads
Updated September 26, 20267 min read
Bright Data is one of the largest proxy and web-data infrastructure companies in the world, and Google Maps is one of many data sources it offers -- both as a pre-collected dataset you can buy outright, and as a live scraper API you call yourself. It's a serious, enterprise-grade platform. It's also built for a different buyer than someone who wants a lead list for next week's campaign.
Quick answer
Bright Data's Google Maps dataset starts at $250 for 100,000 pre-collected records -- cheap per record, but it's a snapshot of whatever's already been gathered, not a fresh scrape of the specific area you draw. Its live Scraper API runs $0.75-$1.50 per 1,000 records, with the best rate needing a $499/month platform subscription. Maplist is $28.50 per 50,000 leads for a live scrape of exactly the area you choose, no platform plan required.
Dataset vs live scrape -- the distinction that matters most
Bright Data's Google Maps dataset is genuinely inexpensive per record. But "dataset" means exactly that: a pre-collected snapshot, filterable by geography, category and other fields, of data Bright Data has already gathered. If the area, niche or freshness you need happens to already be well-covered in that snapshot, it's a strong deal. If you need this specific ZIP code's roofing companies scraped as of this week, the dataset can't do that -- you'd need the live Scraper API instead, which is priced and built differently.
Maplist only does live scrapes. Every job runs against Google Maps right now, for the exact area you draw, which is a more direct fit when freshness and precision matter more than buying the cheapest possible bulk snapshot.
The live API: built for engineers, not for a CSV this afternoon
Bright Data's Scraper API is pay-per-use starting around $0.75-$1.50 per 1,000 records, with a free tier of about 5,000 monthly credits to test against -- but the best per-record rate requires a $499/month Scale plan. It's also, as the name says, an API: you're getting structured data back to parse and pipe into your own system, not a CSV export button. That's the right shape for a data engineering team building Maps data into a product. It's a lot of platform for someone who wants 100,000 leads for one outreach campaign.
Who should use which
- Pick Maplist if you want a fresh scrape of a specific area, without committing to a monthly platform plan or writing code to consume an API.
- Pick Bright Data if you're a data or engineering team that needs Google Maps data piped into an existing pipeline at real scale, or if an existing dataset snapshot already covers what you need cheaply.
FAQ
How much does Bright Data's Google Maps data cost?
Two different products: a pre-collected dataset starting at $250 for 100,000 records (about $0.25 per 1,000), and a live Scraper API priced from roughly $0.75-$1.50 per 1,000 records, with the best rate requiring a $499/month Scale plan. A free tier gives about 5,000 credits a month (roughly $7.50 of usage) to test with.
Is the Bright Data dataset the same as a live scrape?
No, and this is the important distinction. The dataset is a pre-collected snapshot -- whatever Bright Data has already gathered for the regions and categories in it. If you need a specific city, radius or niche scraped fresh today, you want the live Scraper API (or a tool built around live scraping, like Maplist), not the static dataset.
Is Bright Data overkill for a small lead list?
For most small or one-off jobs, yes. Bright Data is built as infrastructure for data engineering teams running scraping at real scale, with the pricing and plan structure to match -- the best per-record rate needs a $499/month commitment. If you need 50,000-250,000 leads for one campaign, that's a lot of platform to commit to for a single job.
No $499/month commitment required
Draw the exact area you need and pay for that job, not a platform plan.
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