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All products include access to 105M+ POIs |   Power location-based experiences in your app or website. |   Engage and communicate with users by delivering context-aware content - in real-time. |   Comprehensive, global places data - available offline. |
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| Account Tiers | |||
| Free | Get API | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Enterprise | Let's Talk | Let's Talk | Let's Talk |
| Key Features | |||
| Access to millions of fresh venue-related tips, tastes, photos & attributes from the Foursquare community | — | ||
| Access places data - in real time - from any connected application | — | — | |
| Accurately assign a mobile app user to a specific location (Snap-to-Place) | — | ||
| Detect when a mobile app user stops at or visits a particular location - using our always-on, passive location awareness | — | — | |
| Access downloadable points-of-interest (POI) data | — | — | |
| Use Cases | |||
| Enable users to search and discover venues via a mobile app or website | — | — | |
| Geo-tag content such as a photos, videos and more in your mobile app or website | — | — | |
| Know where your mobile app users go in the real world | — | ||
| Build mobile audience segments for analysis, targeting and measurement | — | ||
| Trigger real-time, context-aware notifications and content in your mobile app (MMA integration recommended) | — | — | |
| Analyze visit and venue data to identify shopper and consumer insights trends | — | — | |
| Get API | Let's Talk | Let's Talk | |
| Free | |
| Places API | Get API |
| Pilgrim SDK | Not applicable |
| Places Database | Not applicable |
| Enterprise | |
| Let's Talk | |
| Access to millions of fresh venue-related tips, tastes, photos & attributes from the Foursquare community | |
| Places API | |
| — | Pilgrim SDK |
| Places Database | |
| Access places data - in real time - from any connected application | |
| Places API | |
| — | Pilgrim SDK |
| — | Places Database |
| Accurately assign a mobile app user to a specific location (Snap-to-Place) | |
| Places API | |
| Pilgrim SDK | |
| — | Places Database |
| Detect when a mobile app user stops at or visits a particular location - using our always-on, passive location awareness | |
| — | Places API |
| Pilgrim SDK | |
| — | Places Database |
| Access downloadable points-of-interest (POI) data | |
| — | Places API |
| — | Pilgrim SDK |
| Places Database | |
| Enable users to search and discover venues via a mobile app or website | |
| Places API | |
| — | Pilgrim SDK |
| — | Places Database |
| Geo-tag content such as a photos, videos and more in your mobile app or website | |
| Places API | |
| — | Pilgrim SDK |
| — | Places Database |
| Know where your mobile app users go in the real world | |
| Places API | |
| Pilgrim SDK | |
| — | Places Database |
| Build mobile audience segments for analysis, targeting and measurement | |
| Places API | |
| Pilgrim SDK | |
| — | Places Database |
| Trigger real-time, context-aware notifications and content in your mobile app (MMA integration recommended) | |
| — | Places API |
| Pilgrim SDK | |
| — | Places Database |
| Analyze visit and venue data to identify shopper and consumer insights trends | |
| — | Places API |
| — | Pilgrim SDK |
| Places Database | |
Foursquare’s terms of service varies by account type. Unverified and verified accounts, which are available to users at no cost, may access the API for non-commercial, public apps only.
Enterprise account holders, however, may use the API for commercial and private applications.
Foursquare defines a commercial app as one that earns a profit for its developer, while a public app is described as one that is free to use for all users. Per our policy, any commercial apps require an Enterprise account. Talk to our business development team if you’d like to learn more about our Enterprise-level developer solutions.
For additional information on the Places API usage policy, check out licensing rules here.
For unverified accounts, the Places API enforces a limit of 1,000 requests per 24 hour period, free of charge.
For verified accounts, the Places API will increase this limit to 100,000 requests per 24 hour period, also at no cost when you provide a credit card to confirm your identity. While verification is confirmed using a credit card, your credit card will not be charged.
Both verified and unverified account holders may create only one app.
Users of the Places API have access to a number of content attributes, vetted by our dedicated community of Foursquare City Guide and Swarm Superusers. In addition to ratings, tips, tastes and photos, developers also have access to a wide variety of place attributes. Read more about our database and what other attributes are available to developers by visiting our Endpoints Overview page.
Given user authorization, you can surface the following information from a user’s Foursquare profile using the Places API. This includes a list of venues a user has visited, all the photos a user has uploaded to Foursquare, and where a user has checked into. To see a complete list of user-level attributes, click here.
With Pilgrim SDK, mobile app publishers and marketers can see their audiences’ real world visits to a specific venue, chain or category over a given period. Analysts can also gain competitive insights including the number of visitors that go to a competitor’s chain or venue. Pilgrim SDK is available for Android and iOS.
Interested in the Pilgrim SDK or the want to learn about the Enterprise-level Places API? Contact us here.