Places API | Global POI Data for Developers | Foursquare
Better POI data, better app experiences
Join thousands of developers building incredible location features with Foursquare Places API points of interest (POI) data.
What makes Foursquare Places APIs unique?
Extensive POI coverage
All Foursquare APIs are built on our robust geospatial database of 100M+ POI across 200+ countries, 16+ billion human verified check-ins, and 1B+ photos, tips, and reviews.
Flexible licensing, scalable pricing
With pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for what you need. Test select Pro API endpoints at no charge for up to 10,000 calls. Enterprise accounts receive additional discount benefits.
More control over your POI data
Directly contribute to and enhance the POI data you and your users care about most through our Placemaker API.
Places API in action
Find places near you
Enhance your users’ experience with location-aware search, returning relevant and proximal POIs
Add context with tips & photos
Build functionality that leverages the wisdom of the crowds by returning photos and tips about a place.
Content geotagging & sharing
Help users tell their stories by providing an app experience that allows for geotagging their posts, photos, and other content.
What does the Places API consist of?
Search & Data
Returns places, place IDs, tips, and photos based on user-submitted keywords.
Geotagging & Check-in
Returns candidates and POIs to help users geotag their posts, photos, and other content.
Placemaker Tools
Directly improve the data you use most. Allow your users to contribute suggested edits, removals, merges, flags, and statuses.
Managed Users
Enables user creation, refresh, and deletion to support users in contributing edits to FSQ OS Places.
Powering AI with Foursquare APIs
Build AI Agents that are situationally aware and tailored to the user’s surroundings with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The Foursquare Places API provides detailed location context for apps that need to understand where a user is and what’s around them. Powered by a global, open source database of 100 million places across more than 1500 categories, they convert raw GPS data into meaningful insights.
The GeoTagging API pinpoints exact locations—from coffee shops to parks—with high accuracy using Foursquare’s Place Snap technology, while the Search & Data APIs go beyond basic proximity, allowing developers to filter places by category, features, hours, and more. Each result includes rich metadata like photos, reviews, ratings, and real-time popularity.
Real-world applications
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.
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.
Test out Places API to drive better app experiences
Try Places API, enhanced with new explorer tool that makes it easy to experiment with code snippets in the browser before committing changes to your code.