Vonsel vs Octoparse Which one is better for Google Maps leads? Prices, contacts and CRM compared

What is the difference between Vonsel and Octoparse?

Vonsel is a Chrome extension that captures Google Maps businesses, reads the emails and social links published on each business website, and saves the results in a map-based CRM. Octoparse is a general web scraping platform whose Google Maps templates deliver files. For prospecting, Vonsel fits better because capture, contacts and follow-up happen in one workflow.

Octoparse describes itself as a web scraping platform with a desktop app and cloud runs. It is not limited to Google Maps. On the Maps side it has several templates: Google Maps Scraper, Google Maps Leads Scraper by keywords and Google Maps Email Finder. This comparison uses the Email Finder as the closest match to Vonsel, because it is the Maps template that also returns emails and social links.

Vonsel is narrower on purpose. It is a Chrome extension plus a CRM with a map, designed for freelancers, agencies and sales teams who want to find local businesses, contact them and keep track of the conversation. A search such as "roofers in Phoenix, Arizona" goes from the Google Maps results to businesses on your CRM map without leaving the workflow.

Every Octoparse figure below comes from its official pages, opened on October 10, 2026, and is linked in the sources section. Every Vonsel figure comes from the current Vonsel plan details. Octoparse can change its pricing and templates at any time, so check the pages before you buy.

How do Vonsel and Octoparse compare feature by feature?

Vonsel puts capture, contacts and CRM in one place, while Octoparse delivers data files from a general scraping platform. Octoparse data is as of October 10, 2026.

Octoparse is a strong general tool. Vonsel is built around one job, turning Google Maps listings into contacted customers.

Which tool finds more contacts for each business?

Vonsel visits each business website on Basic, Pro and Scale and detects up to 118 social platforms, emails, extra phone numbers and WhatsApp links in the same pass. Octoparse splits this work across templates, so what you get depends on which one you run.

Google Maps itself rarely shows an email address, and Octoparse's own help center guide says so: Google Maps does not show email addresses. Octoparse's answer is the Google Maps Email Finder template. It returns emails and phones, looks for the business website to help find contact details, and adds six social networks: Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. The page also notes that not every listing includes contact details.

The other two Maps templates, such as the Google Maps Scraper, list phone and website but no email or social fields. For more networks you run a separate, free Email and Social Media Finder template, which lists 12 platforms and takes website URLs as input, so it is another run on top of the Maps one.

With Vonsel, the website visit is part of the capture, so one search returns the Google Maps data plus whatever each business publishes. The available fields still depend on what each business shows, and some will have no email at all. For a step-by-step look at this process, read our guide to the free Google Maps email scraper.

What listing data and reviews does each tool return?

Both tools return the core listing: name, address, phone, website, category, rating and coordinates. The difference is in the extra layers. Vonsel adds review text and Google identifiers, while Octoparse's Maps templates add visual and schedule fields.

Vonsel collects the name, phone, website, domain, full address, coordinates, categories, description, opening hours, business status, owner, rating, review count, reviews, booking and menu links, the Google Maps URL, and the Place ID, CID, FID and KGMID. Reviews come with rating, date, text and the owner's reply when available, with up to 20 per business on Basic, 40 on Pro and 100 on Scale. Pro and Scale add keyword filtering inside reviews, which helps when you want businesses whose customers mention a specific problem.

The Octoparse Email Finder lists title, address, city, category, rating, review count, price range, opening times, popular times, coordinates, Plus Code, website, phone, images, Place ID and Google ID. That is useful if popular times or images matter to your project. For review text, the Maps templates opened on October 10, 2026 show the rating and the number of reviews only. We could not verify whether Octoparse has a separate review template, so this comparison does not claim either way.

Available fields on both sides depend on what each business publishes, so run a small test search in your own market before you decide.

How much do Vonsel and Octoparse cost?

Vonsel starts at €13.99 a month with a free 200-business trial, and its plans are priced by monthly Google Maps businesses. Octoparse has a free plan, paid plans from $69 a month billed annually, and Maps templates billed per row on top. Both are priced in different currencies and units, so compare by your own volume.

On its official pricing page, as of October 10, 2026, Octoparse lists a Free plan at $0 with no card, 10 tasks and up to 50,000 rows of export a month. Standard starts at $69 a month and Professional at $249 a month, both billed annually, with a 16% saving against monthly billing. Enterprise is custom. Paid plans carry a 5-day money-back guarantee. The page does not show the monthly price, so we do not quote it. The Maps templates are billed per 1,000 rows: $0.50 for the Email Finder and $2 for the Google Maps Scraper, according to the template pages.

Vonsel pricing is by plan, and the plan states what you get. Basic is €13.99 a month, or €11.80 a month billed yearly, for 2,000 Google Maps businesses a month with the Business Scraper. Pro is €19.99 a month, or €14.80 billed yearly, for 40,000 businesses with the Autopilot Business Scraper and a CRM with AI features, bulk actions, areas and audio to text. Scale starts at €39.99 a month, or €23.80 billed yearly, with no monthly Google Maps business limit, priority support and a 10,000-business CRM. Prices exclude VAT, and you can cancel anytime. See the full details on the Vonsel pricing page.

One caveat: if you only need a very large file of raw rows and already have a CRM, per-row template pricing is worth modelling. If you need the contacts found, the businesses organised and the follow-up in one place, a Vonsel plan covers that in a single price.

How do you go from a Maps search to a contacted lead with Vonsel?

You capture the businesses, let Vonsel read their websites, and work them on the CRM map. The video tutorial on the scraper page shows each step on screen. The short version for a US search such as "dentists in Denver, Colorado":

1. Install the extension. Vonsel runs in Chrome, so there is no desktop app or task builder to set up.
2. Search on Google Maps. Type the business type and the city. On Basic you move around the map to capture the businesses in your area.
3. Use Autopilot for whole areas. On Pro and Scale, Autopilot searches across the area you select, with up to 10 business types per task on Pro and up to 100 on Scale.
4. Let it read the websites. Vonsel visits each business website to find published emails, extra phone numbers, WhatsApp links and social profiles.
5. Send the businesses to the CRM. One click puts them on your map, within your plan's capacity, where you can organise them by area. Pro adds Kanban, calendar, tags and activity history.
6. Export when you need a file. Excel, CSV, JSON and Google Sheets are included in every plan.

With a generic scraping platform you would run a template, download the file, then import it into whatever tool you use to follow up. For a wider view of how scraper types compare, read our Google Maps scraper pricing comparison.

Who is Octoparse for, and who is Vonsel for?

Octoparse suits people who scrape many kinds of websites and want a configurable platform. Vonsel suits anyone whose goal is to find local businesses and win them as clients.

Octoparse fits you if you collect data from many sites beyond Google Maps, such as product listings or directories, you are comfortable building or adapting tasks, and you only need the output as files or database rows. Its help center even describes building a manual Google Maps task with loops and XPath, which gives control to people who want it.

Vonsel fits you if you are a freelancer, agency or sales team that wants to prospect local businesses such as dentists, roofers or restaurants. You get the Google Maps data, the emails and social links from each website, the reviews, and a map-based CRM in the same product. You can also compare it with other Maps approaches in our guide to Google Maps versus Yelp for leads.

If your aim is to prospect, Vonsel is the option we recommend, because the CRM, the contact detection and the review data are included instead of assembled from separate runs.

Which should you choose to prospect local businesses?

Choose Vonsel if you want to prospect. It combines capture, website contact detection with 118 social platforms, review text and a map-based CRM, with a clear plan price and a free trial of 200 businesses. Octoparse remains a capable platform for general web scraping.

Three differences decide it. The workflow: Vonsel ends in a CRM, while Octoparse ends in a file. The contacts: Vonsel reads each business website on Basic, Pro and Scale, while Octoparse needs the Email Finder template, or a second template, to get emails and social links. The price shape: Vonsel is one plan price with a free test, while Octoparse mixes a platform plan with per-row template charges.

The best way to decide is to run the same search in both. Take one city and one business type, count how many businesses come back with an email, and see how long it takes before you can start contacting them. Before any outreach, read our notes on legal basics in the Google Maps scraper guide.