The business leads API returns local company contacts as clean JSON, or the same rows as CSV: name, phone, website, address, and category for every business in a city. One credit per business, empty searches free.
The same businesses as CSV, so it drops straight into a dialer, a spreadsheet, or a CRM import:
Change the category or city in q to build the next list, and add gl and hl for country and language. This one query returned 20 businesses in Dallas.
Every business comes back complete, so you build a call or outreach list with no second lookup. The same record as CSV, ready for Sheets or a CRM:
Or the same record as JSON:
The categories field lists every category a business is tagged with, so a roofer that also does gutters shows up when you filter your list by either one.
A prebuilt list arrives as a static file you pay for up front. The API pulls the same public business contacts the moment you run the search.
| Bought lead list | CrustAPI leads API | |
|---|---|---|
| Freshness | Static file, ages from the day it is sold | Pulled live the moment you run the search |
| Billing unit | Pay up front for the whole list, used or not | One credit per business returned; empty searches free |
| Fields | Varies by vendor | Name, phone, website, address, and category on every business |
| Free tier | Usually none | 3,000 credits / month, no card |
| Credits expiry | Not applicable | Never expire |
| Storing the data | Often license-restricted | No storage limits. Keep it, export it, build on it |
Start with 3,000 free credits every month, no card. Prepaid packs, and credits never expire: 25k for $49 · 100k for $149 · 500k for $549 · 2.5M for $1,999 · up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. A search that returns 20 businesses costs 20 credits; a search that returns none costs nothing.
Each business comes back with the company name, a phone number, a website, and a full street address in the same response. In the roofers in Dallas pull above that meant contacts like New View Roofing at (469) 966-11•• and Bert Roofing Inc. at (214) 239-26••, ready to load into a dialer or a CRM instead of stitched together from separate lookups.
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When a licensed contact database is the better pick: you need decision-maker names and job titles, verified direct-dial mobile numbers, or firmographic filters like employee count and revenue. Google business listings give you the public listing: company name, phone, website, address, and category, which is what most local outreach and territory building needs, but it is not a person-level B2B contact database.
3,000 free credits covers a real local call list. Run one search and look at the contacts that come back.
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