ZILVO VS OUTSCRAPER
Both Zilvo and Outscraper can turn a business category and geography into structured Google Maps data.
The difference is not whether they can scrape Google Maps. It is how much product you want around the scrape.
Outscraper is a mature cloud data platform with advanced filters, enrichment, several export formats and API access. Its Google Maps product is pay-as-you-go and currently starts free for 500 places, then costs $3 per 1,000 through 100,000 places and $1 per 1,000 above that.
Zilvo is narrower. Enter the business category and geography. Zilvo breaks large markets into smaller searches where necessary, collects the businesses, removes duplicates and gives you a CSV.
500 free credits = up to 1,000 unique Google Maps businesses. No card required.
Automatic coverage
Unique businesses
CSV
Ready to download
30-SECOND VERDICT
Focused extraction
You mainly want to say: “Find every business of this type across this geography.” Then get a usable CSV without configuring a data pipeline.
Broader platform
Outscraper is clearly the more developed data infrastructure product today.
CAPABILITY COMPARISON
| Capability | Zilvo | Outscraper |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps business extraction | Yes | Yes |
| Category + geography input | Yes | Yes |
| City / region / country searches | Yes | Yes |
| Large-area splitting | Automatic | Supported |
| Postal/ZIP based coverage | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic duplicate removal | Yes | Yes |
| No fixed Zilvo extraction ceiling | Yes | High/unlimited tiers |
| CSV | Yes | Yes |
| Excel / JSON / Parquet | No | Yes |
| Rating data | Yes | Yes |
| Reviews | Up to 100 when requested | Strong review support |
| Filter before export | No | Yes |
| Email/contact enrichment | No | Yes |
| API | No | Yes |
| One-time / usage pricing | Yes | Yes |
| Windows desktop app | Yes | Cloud |
| Mac | Not yet | Browser/cloud |
THE ZILVO ADVANTAGE
Say you want: Ice cream shops across Texas.
One Google Maps query will not reliably expose an entire large market. Somebody has to break the geography apart.
Zilvo handles the search plan
Enter Category: Ice cream shop and Location: Texas. Zilvo handles the geographic decomposition underneath the job and consolidates unique businesses into the final dataset.
IMPORTANT CONTEXT
This is not something we should pretend is unique to Zilvo.
Outscraper supports bulk queries and large-volume Google Maps scraping. Its own materials also discuss using ZIP codes and smaller areas when covering dense geographies.
More controls, formats, enrichment and infrastructure.
A deliberately simpler category + geography workflow where much of the geographic expansion is handled for you.
STRUCTURED OUTPUT
A Zilvo Google Maps extraction can include business name, website, phone number, category or categories, ZIP code, address and geography, Google Maps URL, latitude and longitude, rating, review count, business status and price information.
Users can also request rating data and up to the top 100 reviews when required. The result is delivered as a structured CSV.
Structured output
accounting-firms-california.csv
| Business name | Category | Location | Rating | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northstar Accounting | Accounting firm | Sacramento, CA | 4.8 | northstar.example |
| Ledger & Co. | Accountant | Fresno, CA | 4.6 | ledger.example |
| Coastal Tax Group | Tax consultant | San Diego, CA | 4.7 | coastal.example |
OUTSCRAPER STRENGTHS
Outscraper can run enrichment after Maps extraction, including contact/domain-related processing. Zilvo currently does not crawl the business website after extraction to find extra emails or social profiles. If your goal is Google Maps → emails → enriched lead file, Outscraper is stronger today.
Outscraper supports advanced filtering. Zilvo's current workflow is extract → CSV → filter. If you only want 4+ stars, 50+ reviews and businesses with a website, you will currently apply those filters after the Zilvo extraction.
Outscraper offers API access. That matters when Google Maps data needs to flow directly into your application, warehouse, CRM, scheduled automation or internal data pipeline. Zilvo currently does not offer API or webhook access.
PRICING
Google Maps extraction uses 0.5 Zilvo credit per unique business, so one credit covers two unique businesses.
See Zilvo pricing| Pack | Credits | Approx. unique businesses | Price | Cost / 1,000 unique businesses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 2,500 | 5,000 | $10 | $2.00 |
| Standard | 6,000 | 12,000 | $20 | $1.67 |
| Premium | 20,000 | 40,000 | $50 | $1.25 |
Outscraper PAYG
500
First places free
$3
per 1,000, 501–100,000
$1
per 1,000 above 100,000
Zilvo Premium is ~58% lower per 1,000 raw Google Maps businesses than Outscraper's $3/1,000 PAYG band — but Outscraper becomes cheaper above 100k records.
OPERATING MODEL
Zilvo currently runs as a Windows desktop application. For some users that's attractive: install the tool, give it category + geography, run the extraction.
But Zilvo does not currently support Mac.
Outscraper is cloud-based. If you need platform independence, server-side processing or API-first workflows, the cloud model is the obvious advantage.
Zilvo
Windows desktop
Outscraper
Cloud + API
DECISION GUIDE
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
Requirement: All accounting firms across California
With Zilvo
With Outscraper
If the goal is simply to get the market into a spreadsheet, Zilvo keeps the process narrow.
If that spreadsheet is only the first stage of a larger data pipeline, Outscraper offers substantially more infrastructure.
FAQ
NEED THE LIST, NOT A DATA PIPELINE?
Let the desktop app work through the market, remove duplicate businesses and hand you the CSV.
500 free credits = up to 1,000 unique Google Maps businesses. No card required.
