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PlacesDataAPI vs The Machine Record

Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.

PlacesDataAPI

Google Maps API MCP Server for Claude, Cursor & AI Agents

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Paid

what it is

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf AI agents to 200M+ real-time Google Maps businesses, verified customer reviews, and website B2B email enrichment via @kaitoinfra/placesdataapi-mcp-server.

The Machine Record

Get the data

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

The register as open data: JSON API without a key, daily CSV and JSON mirrors on GitHub, Hugging Face and Kaggle, a Zenodo DOI for citation, RSS feeds per company. Case metadata is CC BY 4.0.