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Places Data
The world’s top companies and more than 150,000 registered developers rely on Foursquare to power geo-tagging, venue search and more in their apps. Join them.
Build with Places
Free
SANDBOX
1 app per account
API call quota is 950 regular API calls per day and 50 premium API calls per day
Free
PERSONAL
1 app per account
API call quota is 99,500 regular calls per day and 500 premium calls per day
Start-ups
From $599
Unlimited apps per account
No API quota, with .001 cents per regular call and .003 cents per premium call
72 hour email support
Places Database
Download venue content and customize data to your business needs
Available via JSON or TSV
Places API
Connect to our API to search, discover and rank venues
Get real-time data access
Key Features and Venue Attributes
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62M+ Global Venues
Number of commercial POIs
190+ Countries and 50 Territories
Countries for which we provide POI data
900+ Venue Categories
Venue category count across 3 levels
30+ Attribute Fields
Number of fields per venue (where applicable)
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