What makes Foursquare Places APIs unique?
Comprehensive coverage
All Foursquare APIs are built on our robust geospatial database of 120M+ POIs across 200+ countries, 15B+ human verified check-ins, and 1B+ photos, tips, and reviews.
Free $200 monthly credits
Leverage free $200 monthly credits to access Foursquare’s high-quality places and location data for real-time venue search, discovery, and ranking.
Flexible licensing, scalable pricing
With no restrictions on use cases and pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for what you need. Enterprise accounts receive additional discount benefits.
Leading companies use Foursquare Places APIs to power their products and apps
Places API in action
Find top Places near you
Enhance location searches to help users effortlessly discover local spots through photos, reviews, tips, and more when using Places API.
Location matching & check-ins
Leverage our snap-to-place technology and Nearby Places endpoint to power location detection and check-in features.
Simplified address search
Use our Address Autocomplete endpoint to power more accurate pick-up and drop-off locations for both residential and commercial addresses.
Content geotagging & sharing
Help users tell their stories by providing an app experience that allows geotagging their posts, photos, and other content.
What does the Places API consist of?
Search & Data
Returns places based on user-submitted keywords. Matches against names, categories, tips, and tastes.
Geotagging & Check-in
Provide POI tagging that supports check-in based on where your end-user’s device is and what is around them.
Autocomplete
Returns a list of top addresses, places, geos, and/or searches partially matching the provided keyword and location inputs.
Address Data
Retrieve details for any address including non-Places. Works only in conjunction with the Autocomplete endpoint.
How brands use Foursquare Places API
Place discovery through authentic video content
Retail and restaurant exploration app Atmosfy uses Places API to show users POI-specific video content, helping them explore new venues.
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Powering POI search for Beat
Beat is the fastest-growing ride-hailing app in Latin America and it’s point of interest results are powered by Places API. As riders type pickup and dropoff locations into the app, Places API provides real-time responses to identify the right destination and connect with drivers faster.
Features | Places API | Personalization API |
|---|---|---|
| Access to an extensive database of over 120M+ global POIs and residential addresses, updated and verified daily |  Yes | Yes |
| Access to rich, real-world data with 1,200+ searchable categories and 60+ POI attributes including geocodes, photos, reviews, tags, and more | Yes | Yes |
| Personalized search results based on user-generated content created through Foursquare’s UGC APIs | N/A, search results are not tailored to the end user’s interests and historic activity. | Yes, results are personalized. Requires content to be created via UGC endpoints to generate signals for the personalization algorithm. |
| Provide users with the capability to share their sentiments using reviews, ratings, and tastes. | N/A, Places API allows users to provide POI information only. | Yes. Users can contribute content within your app using the UGC endpoints. |
| Recommend trending or similar places. | N/A | Yes. Your mobile app can recommend trending places nearby or places relevant to your user’s tastes. |
