Google Places

The Google Places API is a service that accepts HTTP requests for location data through a variety of methods. It returns formatted location data and imagery about establishments, geographic locations, or prominent points of interest. Supports nearby search, text search, place details, place photos, and autocomplete.

Google Places publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Search API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Restaurant, Geolocation, Google, Location, and Maps.

The Google Places catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Google Places’ developer surface includes authentication, tooling, getting-started guide, pricing, and 17 more developer resources.

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AccessPaid

1 published contract

Restaurant Geolocation Google Location Maps Places Points of Interest

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Location & Mapping

AE-120

PlacesSearch

GET /places/{placeId} POST /places:searchNearby POST /places:searchText POST /places:autocomplete

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 51.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.7 / 15

Access Clarity 7.5 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.5 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Operational Transparency scores 18.4 — up to +10.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 50.0 — up to +10.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 51.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Overture Maps Foundation (members + data contributors)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

Prices published by Google Places, read 2026-10-28 from developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing.

Plan	Price
Places API (New) - Autocomplete Requests (Essentials)	$2.83 per 1000 events Includes: 10,000 free usage cap
Places API Place Details Essentials	$5.00 per 1000 events Includes: 10,000 free usage cap
Places API Text Search Pro	$32.00 per 1000 events Includes: 5,000 free usage cap
Places API Nearby Search Enterprise	$35.00 per 1000 events Includes: 1,000 free usage cap
Places API Place Details Enterprise	$20.00 per 1000 events Includes: 1,000 free usage cap
Essentials Dynamic Maps	$7.00 per 1000 events Includes: 10,000 free usage cap
Geocoding	$5.00 per 1000 events Includes: 10,000 free usage cap

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Per-method per-minute quota: per-method, configurable in Cloud Console > Google Maps Platform > Quotas requests per minute
Daily quota cap (optional): optional cap set by the project owner to control spend requests per day

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Google Places's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Billed by: 1000 events · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Places Plans Pricing

7 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Places Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Google Places

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Google Places Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

context Context

16 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Google Places Api Context

24 classes · 57 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Places — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Google Places API Rules

44 rules · 6 errors 24 warnings 14 info

SPECTRAL

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Places Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Google Places Agentic Access

5 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Spectral

Spectral

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

MCP Server

Tools

MCP Server (Grounding)

Tools

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

SupportTermsOfService

SupportTermsOfService

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

name: Google Places
description: The Google Places API is a service that accepts HTTP requests for location data through a variety of methods.
  It returns formatted location data and imagery about establishments, geographic locations, or prominent points of interest.
  Supports nearby search, text search, place details, place photos, and autocomplete.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-places.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-places/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Restaurant
- Geolocation
- Google
- Location
- Maps
- Places
- Points of Interest
tags_raw:
- Restaurant
- Geolocation
- Google
- Locations
- Maps
- Places
- Points of Interest
apis:
- aid: google-places:google-places-places-api
  name: Google Places API
  description: Operations for retrieving place details and media.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service
  baseURL: https://places.googleapis.com/v1
  tags:
  - Places
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-places-places-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/Place.json
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/android-sdk/overview
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/ios-sdk/overview
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@googlemaps/google-maps-services-js
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/googlemaps/
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/googlemaps/google-maps-services-java
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service
- aid: google-places:google-places-search-api
  name: Google Places Search API
  description: Operations for searching and autocompleting places.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service
  baseURL: https://places.googleapis.com/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-places-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/Place.json
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/android-sdk/overview
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/ios-sdk/overview
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@googlemaps/google-maps-services-js
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://pypi.org/project/googlemaps/
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/googlemaps/google-maps-services-java
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/google-places-capability-edges.yml
  name: Google Places Business Capability Map
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-places/overview
- type: Website
  url: https://www.google.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-places-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-places-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-places-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-places-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-places-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/googlemaps
- type: Tools
  title: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/googlemaps/platform-ai
- type: Tools
  title: MCP Server (Grounding)
  url: https://developers.google.com/maps/ai/grounding-lite/reference/mcp
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/overview
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/get-api-key
- type: Pricing
  url: https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-places-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-places-plans-pricing.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-places-finops.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/context.jsonld
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/google-places-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/google-places-vocabulary.yml
- type: SupportTermsOfService
  url: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms
features:
- name: Text Search
  description: Search for places using free-form text queries such as "pizza near Boston" and return matching establishments
    and points of interest.
- name: Nearby Search
  description: Find places within a specified geographic radius, optionally filtered by place type, ranked by distance or
    prominence.
- name: Place Details
  description: Retrieve comprehensive information about a place including address, opening hours, ratings, reviews, contact
    details, and photos.
- name: Place Photos
  description: Access high-quality photographic content associated with a place from Google's database.
- name: Autocomplete
  description: Return place and query predictions in response to partial text input, with optional session-based billing.
useCases:
- name: Location Discovery
  description: Help users discover restaurants, hotels, and points of interest near their current location.
- name: Address Autocomplete
  description: Provide type-ahead address and place suggestions in forms to reduce input errors and speed up checkout flows.
- name: Delivery Enrichment
  description: Enrich delivery and logistics status updates with verified place details and geolocation data.
- name: Travel and Tourism
  description: Show travelers establishment contact information, pricing signals, reviews, ratings, and photos.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: google
x-relationship: product

Google Places API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Places have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Google Places, including Google Places API and Google Places Search API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Places API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Google Places, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Google Places API?

Google Places uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Google Places Authentication.

How much does the Google Places API cost?

Google Places publishes its prices; its Places API (New) - Autocomplete Requests (Essentials) plan is $2.83 per 1000 events as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for Google Places, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Google Places API ready for AI agents?

Google Places has a Kin Score of 51.4 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 32.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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