Best Google Maps scrapers compared for prospecting, and why Vonsel leads

Which is the best Google Maps scraper for prospecting?

The best Google Maps scraper for prospecting is Vonsel. It captures businesses from Google Maps, reads the emails and social profiles published on each business website and saves every lead in a map-based CRM, all in one workflow. Nine other tools are compared here, and each one is strong at a different job.

A Google Maps scraper is a tool that collects the public listing data of businesses shown on Google Maps, such as name, phone, website, address and rating, into a file or a database. Prospecting means finding businesses, contacting them and managing the conversation until they answer. The right tool supports all three steps.

This guide compares Vonsel with Outscraper, Scrap.io, Instant Data Scraper, GMapsExtractor, Apify, PhantomBuster, Lobstr.io, Octoparse and Bright Data. Figures about a rival come from its official pages, checked on October 10, 2026, and figures about Vonsel come from our plans reference. Where we could not confirm something, we leave it out.

How do the 10 tools rank when the goal is prospecting?

Vonsel ranks first for prospecting because it is the one tool in this list where capture, contact detection and follow-up live in the same account. The ranking measures fit for that job. Row counts and price per record are not part of it.

All of these tools can pull core listing data from Google Maps, or in one case any table on a page. What changes is what happens to the data after the capture, and for a freelancer, an agency or a local sales rep, that is where the time goes.

What does each Google Maps scraper offer, as of October 10, 2026?

Each tool below gets a short profile with its main fact and a link to its dedicated comparison with Vonsel. Names and prices are the ones published on the official pages on October 10, 2026.

Vonsel

Vonsel is a Chrome extension plus a map-based CRM. On Basic you use the Business Scraper and move around Google Maps to capture the businesses in your area. Pro and Scale add the Autopilot Business Scraper, which searches across your selected area, with up to 10 business types per task on Pro and 100 on Scale. It visits each business website for published emails, extra phone numbers, WhatsApp links and social profiles across 118 platforms, and includes up to 20, 40 or 100 reviews per business by plan. Every capture can go straight into the CRM.

Scrap.io

Scrap.io is a lead generation web app with map zones, an API and an MCP server. As of October 10, 2026, its pricing page lists Basic at 49 euros per month, or 35 euros per month billed yearly, with 10,000 credits per month, and its home page offers a 7-day trial of up to 100 leads. It extracts emails and social profiles, and we did not find a built-in CRM in its regular plans. Read the full comparison.

Lobstr.io

Lobstr.io is a cloud platform of ready scrapers, and its Google Maps Leads Scraper works with credits. Its pricing documentation lists a Free plan with 100 credits per month and Starter at 20 dollars per month, or 192 dollars per year, with 10,000 credits. Its credit-cost page says that extracting emails from a business website costs 1 credit per row when an email is found. Results are delivered as files, to Google Sheets or by API, and we found no CRM on the pages we reviewed. Read the full comparison.

Octoparse

Octoparse is a general web scraping platform with Google Maps templates. Its pricing page lists a Free plan and paid plans from 69 dollars per month billed annually, and its Google Maps Email Finder template is listed at 0.50 dollars per 1,000 lines and returns six social networks. Templates run on the Octoparse platform and deliver files, so the management of leads happens elsewhere. Read the full comparison.

Apify

The Google Maps Scraper on Apify is a cloud actor you run from a console, an API or a command line. It uses pay-per-event pricing, from 1.50 dollars per 1,000 scraped places, and contact enrichment, reviews and social profile enrichment are billed as separate events. It exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML. We found no built-in CRM on the pages we reviewed. Read the full comparison.

PhantomBuster

PhantomBuster is a cloud automation platform. Its Google Maps Search Export returns name, rating, review count, category, address, website, phone and hours, and for emails and social links its help points to a second step, the Search to Contact Data flow. According to its official blog, plans are priced by execution time and slots, with a Free plan of 30 minutes per month and Start at 69 dollars per month, and Google shows around 120 results per search. Read the full comparison.

Outscraper

Outscraper is a business data platform with a web interface and a REST API. Its API specification describes a Google Maps search with no more than 500 places per query, asynchronous requests, and output as xlsx, csv, json or parquet. Emails and social links come from an optional enrichment named leads_n_contacts. It is built for data delivery, and we do not quote its prices because we could not open its pricing page. Read the full comparison.

GMapsExtractor

GMapsExtractor sells an Online Scraper, a Chrome extension and an API as separate products, each with its own subscription. It looks for emails and social links on public business websites, and we did not find a built-in CRM among the pages we could review. We do not quote its plan prices here because we could not open its pricing page directly on October 10, 2026. Read the full comparison.

Bright Data

Bright Data offers a Google Maps scraper through its API for developers and data teams. Its documentation of the Google scraper endpoints lists 39 output fields, among them rating, review count, opening hours and place ID, and none of them is an email or a social profile field. It is infrastructure for data work, not a prospecting tool.

Instant Data Scraper

Instant Data Scraper is a free Chrome and Edge extension that detects tables and listings on a web page and downloads CSV or Excel. Its official page notes that it is no longer owned, developed or supported by Web Robots, and it does not mention Google Maps, emails or social profiles. Read the full comparison.

How do the Google Maps scrapers compare side by side?

How much work remains after the capture depends on how you run the tool, where contacts come from and whether the leads have a home. The table compares them.

Reviews are another difference. Vonsel includes up to 20, 40 or 100 reviews per business by plan, with rating, date, text and owner reply when available, plus keyword filtering on Pro and Scale. Units are not identical across tools: Vonsel counts Google Maps businesses saved, others count records, credits, events or execution time, so compare cost per useful lead rather than cost per row.

How much do the Google Maps scrapers cost?

Prices are not directly comparable because each tool charges on a different unit. Still, Vonsel is the one that sells fixed monthly plans with the CRM included. These are the entry points published on October 10, 2026. We do not list Outscraper, GMapsExtractor or Bright Data because we could not confirm their prices on pages we could open.

Vonsel Pro costs 19.99 euros per month, or 14.80 euros per month billed yearly, for 40,000 Google Maps businesses with Autopilot and a CRM for 2,000 businesses. Scale starts at 39.99 euros per month, or 23.80 euros per month billed yearly, and has no monthly limit of Google Maps businesses. Pro and Scale do not cap exports, and prices exclude VAT. You can see every plan and switch between monthly and yearly on the Vonsel pricing page.

Why is Vonsel the better choice for prospecting?

Vonsel comes out ahead on the whole prospecting workflow, and each point below can be checked in the plans reference and on the rival pages.

1. Capture and CRM in one subscription. Vonsel sends captured businesses to a map-based CRM in every plan. In the other tools we reviewed, the result is an export, an API response, a template output or an automation result that you manage elsewhere.
2. Contacts come with the capture. Vonsel visits each business website for published emails, extra phone numbers, WhatsApp links and social profiles, included in Basic, Pro and Scale, without a separate enrichment step or a per-email credit.
3. 118 social platforms. Vonsel detects all of them on each business website, while the rivals name between four and twelve networks in their official material.
4. Reviews included by plan. Up to 20, 40 or 100 per business, with rating, date, text and owner reply when available, plus keyword filtering on Pro and Scale.
5. A price you can read. Fixed monthly or yearly plans, excluding VAT, instead of credits, events or execution time.
6. A free test without a card. 200 businesses, which go straight into the CRM.

Because the CRM sits on a map, you can also plan visits by area. Pro adds Kanban, a calendar, tags, activity history, AI features, bulk actions and audio to text, and you can add the WhatsApp and Instagram inboxes for 10 euros per month each, excluding VAT.

Which Google Maps scraper should you choose?

Choose Vonsel if your goal is to win clients. Choose another tool only when your goal is data delivery or general scraping.

• Agencies and freelancers selling to local businesses: Vonsel. You capture, qualify and follow up in one account, with a map of your pipeline.
• Field sales reps and small sales teams: Vonsel. The map-based CRM, the calendar on Pro and Scale and team users keep territories and visits organized.
• Anyone who wants to test before paying: Vonsel gives 200 businesses without a card.
• Very high volume: Vonsel Scale has no monthly limit of Google Maps businesses.
• Developers and data teams feeding their own software: Outscraper, Bright Data, Apify and Lobstr.io offer APIs, which is a different job from prospecting.
• Teams that already build scraping workflows: Octoparse and PhantomBuster are general platforms for that.
• People who only need a quick table from any web page: Instant Data Scraper is free and general.

For most readers of this page the goal is prospecting, and Vonsel is the recommended option. Before you send outreach, remember that in the United States commercial email falls under the CAN-SPAM Act. The text of 15 U.S. Code section 7704 covers false headers, misleading subject lines and the opt-out requirement. This is general information, not legal advice.

How do you choose between these Google Maps scrapers?

Choose a scraper with a five-step check that takes less than an hour.

1. Define the job. Do you need data in your own system, or leads you will contact yourself?
2. Run the same test search. For example, dentists in Austin or HVAC contractors in Phoenix, in each free option.
3. Count usable contacts. Note how many businesses end up with a published email or a social profile.
4. Check where the leads live. If the answer is a spreadsheet, add the cost of the tool you will use to manage them.
5. Compare the real monthly cost. Include enrichments, events, credits and extra users.

When prospecting is the job, steps three to five usually favor Vonsel, because contacts come with the capture and the CRM is already included.

Verdict: which Google Maps scraper should you pick?

Pick Vonsel if you want to prospect local businesses. It gives you extraction, website emails, 118 social platforms and a map-based CRM in one subscription, with a free test of 200 businesses and no card. That combination removes the spreadsheet step between finding a business and contacting it.

The other tools are capable at what they do: Scrap.io for credit-based lead exports, Lobstr.io for cloud scrapers with credits, Octoparse for template-based scraping, Apify for cloud actors, PhantomBuster for automations, Outscraper and Bright Data for API delivery, GMapsExtractor for files and an API, and Instant Data Scraper for free general scraping. If you need one of those jobs, use them. If you want clients, start with Vonsel.

To see it on your own market, watch the video tutorial, install the extension and run a first search in a city you know. For one-to-one detail, open the comparisons with Scrap.io, Lobstr.io, Octoparse, Apify, PhantomBuster, Outscraper, GMapsExtractor or Instant Data Scraper.