Foursquare Places API
Best-in-class POI database with rich place attributes and categories, plus 500 free Pro calls every month.
Foursquare's Places API is one of the deepest commercial points-of-interest catalogues, covering venue names, categories, hours, contact details, ratings/popularity, and geolocation worldwide. The modern API (places-api.foursquare.com) supports place search by lat/lng and radius, place details, and autocomplete. As of June 1, 2026, Foursquare developer accounts receive 500 free Pro calls per month, usable for small skills/automations at no cost. Pricing is CPM-based beyond the free allotment. The legacy v3 endpoints are deprecated on May 15, 2026, so build against the new Places API.
Free tier
Free: 500 Pro calls/month (effective June 1, 2026). Beyond that, Pro calls billed from ~$15 CPM (scaling down to ~$9 CPM at volume); Premium fields cost more and bill from the first call, with no free tier on Premium.Rate limits
Pay-as-you-go / sandbox accounts: about 50 queries/second across endpoints. Free usage is bounded by the 500 monthly Pro calls.Auth
API keyBase URL
https://places-api.foursquare.comWhat you'd build with it
- Power a high-quality local-search skill where venue category and popularity matter
- Enrich a CRM/automation with canonical venue details from a coordinate
- Place autocomplete for a 'where are you?' step in a workflow
- Pull category-tagged POIs for market/competitor mapping
Key endpoints
- GET
/places/searchSearch places by lat/lng (ll), radius, query, and category, sorted by relevance/popularity/distance. - GET
/places/{fsq_place_id}Fetch full details for a single place by its Foursquare ID. - GET
/autocompleteAutocomplete suggestions for places, addresses, and categories.
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