Comparison
Maplist vs Scrapingdog: Raw API vs Ready-to-Use Leads
Updated September 26, 20266 min read
Scrapingdog is a pure API -- no dashboard to draw an area in, no CSV export button, just an endpoint that returns Google Maps data as JSON when you call it. On a per-request basis it's one of the cheapest ways to get Maps data. Whether that's actually cheap depends on what you count as the cost.
Quick answer
Scrapingdog's Google Maps API starts around $0.00033 per request at volume -- genuinely cheap raw data. But it's raw: JSON responses with no dedupe and no export, so you're writing code to turn it into a usable lead list. Maplist costs more per lead ($0.57 per 1,000) but hands you a finished, deduplicated CSV, no code required.
Cheap data isn't the same as a finished lead list
A Google Maps API priced in fractions of a cent per request sounds like an easy win on cost. But an API request gets you a JSON object for one listing or one page of results -- to turn that into a clean, deduplicated CSV of leads with matched emails, someone has to write and maintain code: paginating through results, handling rate limits and retries, deduplicating businesses that show up in overlapping searches, and running a separate email-finding step, since the API itself doesn't include enrichment. That's real engineering time, and it's ongoing every time Google changes something about how Maps renders.
Maplist's per-lead price is higher than Scrapingdog's raw per-request rate, but it's the price of the finished thing -- a deduplicated CSV with emails already matched, no code to write or maintain.
Who should use which
- Pick Maplist if you want a ready-to-use lead list and would rather not write or maintain code to get there.
- Pick Scrapingdog if you're a developer building Google Maps data into your own product or internal tool, where calling an API is already part of the plan.
FAQ
Is Scrapingdog cheaper than Maplist?
Per raw request, yes -- Scrapingdog's Google Maps API starts around $0.00033 per request, among the cheapest ways to pull raw Maps data. But that price buys you a JSON response, not a finished lead list. You still have to write code to paginate, deduplicate, find emails separately, and export a usable file, which is real time even if the API bill is small.
Does Scrapingdog include emails or enrichment?
No -- it's a Google Maps data API, returning what's on the listing itself (name, address, phone, rating, etc). Email enrichment isn't part of it, so you'd need a separate tool or service to match emails to the businesses you scrape.
Who is Scrapingdog actually built for?
Developers integrating Google Maps data directly into their own software or internal tools, where writing a bit of code to call an API is the whole point. If you want to open a CSV of leads with emails already matched, it's the wrong layer of the stack to start from.
No parsing, no dedupe script required
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