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Storefinch vs MapsData

MapsData (mapsdata.ai) builds Google Maps lead lists for the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, finds emails on business websites, and bills per lead with an email. Jobs take minutes to hours. Storefinch is a US business database your agent queries instantly, at a flat $19/month, under open licenses that let you keep and reuse the data. Pick MapsData for Google fields like ratings and hours, other countries, or very large email volumes; pick Storefinch for instant answers, website checks and data you're free to reuse.

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Side by side

	MapsData	Storefinch
Who runs it	Keshua Welch Consulting (British Columbia, Canada)	Storefinch
Data source	Google Maps listings obtained through business-listings data providers, plus each business's website	Overture Maps open data (Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare OS Places, AllThePlaces and others), rebuilt monthly
Coverage	US, Canada, UK, Australia; 4,000+ Google categories	US only: 14.9M businesses, 2,127 categories
Emails	Found on each business's website; MapsData says typically around 30% of businesses have one	In the data for 34% of places, plus `find_emails` reads the business's own site
Ratings, reviews, hours, claimed status	Yes (review text costs extra)	No
Is the website still live?	Not documented	`verify_websites`; about 1 in 5 listed sites is broken
Businesses with no website	Not documented	Free filter (`no_website`)
How an agent uses it	MCP: start a scrape job, check back (it suggests waiting 60 seconds between checks), then fetch a 15-minute download link. Jobs take "a few minutes to several hours"	Remote MCP server: 8 tools that return results directly. Searches answer in about a second from an indexed database; no jobs to start or poll
Free trial	7 days, up to 500 leads with email; card required, then $19/month	Free plan, no card: 200 calls and 500 export rows every month
Pricing model	Leads with an email per month: $19 (10k), $49 (50k), $99 (300k), $297 (1M)	Flat: free plan, or $19/month Pro (10,000 calls, 25,000 export rows)
What you may do with the data	Use for your own business or a client's; MapsData's terms forbid reselling or publishing lists as a dataset, and say Google's terms restrict automated access	Open licenses on every row (CDLA-Permissive-2.0, Apache-2.0, CC0): store it, put it in your CRM, reuse it

What a lead list costs

US leads per month	MapsData	Storefinch
1,000 leads	$19/month Starter (after the 7-day trial, which needs a card)	Free plan covers 500 export rows; Pro $19 covers it all
10,000	$19/month Starter: 10,000 leads with email	$19/month: 10,000 rows, a third with emails from the data, plus email lookup on up to about 9,900
25,000	$49/month Pro (50,000 leads with email)	$19/month: 25,000 rows; email lookup on up to about 9,900

MapsData counts only leads that come with an email; leads without one are included at no charge. Storefinch counts every exported row, and its email lookup uses one call per place out of Pro's 10,000 a month. If what you need is the largest number of emails per dollar, MapsData's higher plans are cheaper per email.

Choose MapsData if

You need ratings, review counts, opening hours or Google's open/closed status.
You need Canada, the UK or Australia.
You want tens or hundreds of thousands of emails a month at the lowest cost per email.
You want several emails per business and one-click email verification.
You don't mind waiting minutes to hours for each list.

Choose Storefinch if

Your agent should answer in the conversation, not start a job and check back later.
You want the right to keep, reuse or build on the data. Our open licenses allow it; MapsData's terms don't allow reselling lists.
You want to know which websites are dead, or find businesses with no website at all.
You want to try it without a card.
You want a data source that doesn't depend on Google Maps.

Questions

Is MapsData the same as mapsdata.io?

No. MapsData at mapsdata.ai (this comparison) and Mapsdata at mapsdata.io are separate products from different companies.

Which has more emails?

Both start in a similar place: MapsData says typically around 30% of businesses carry an email, and 34% of Storefinch places have one in the data. Storefinch's find_emails can add more from each business's own website. MapsData returns up to five addresses per business.

Why does Storefinch answer instantly?

Storefinch queries a prebuilt, indexed database of US businesses, so a search or export returns right away. MapsData gathers listings and visits websites for each job, which is why jobs take minutes to hours.

Can I resell or publish the data?

MapsData's terms forbid reselling or publishing lead lists as a standalone dataset. Storefinch data carries open licenses (CDLA-Permissive-2.0, Apache-2.0, CC0) that allow reuse, as long as you keep the attribution listed on each row.

Does either work with Claude?

Yes. Both offer remote MCP servers. MapsData's supports OAuth sign-in; Storefinch connects with an API key today.

Try it

Free: 200 calls a month, no card.

Sources

Facts about MapsData come from its public pages, checked November 6, 2026. Prices and features change; check their site before deciding. Storefinch is not affiliated with MapsData. Spot an error? Tell us at support@storefinch.com and we'll fix it.

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