Gmaps MCP server

Which MCP servers are Gmaps's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

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Whose server it is

Registry namedev.gmaps/gmapsverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under gmaps.dev. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-27

Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-27
Tools18
Server calls itselfgmaps.dev
Server version0.1.0
Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-27 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 556 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet

Its tools do every use case we checked: find local businesses by type and city; export business leads to a spreadsheet.
Checked on 1 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Once connected

For "find local businesses by type and city", the likely first call is search_places.
create_collection, cancel_collection, create_export, create_webhook, update_webhook change data without a sign-in: anyone with the address can call them.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 1, the first on 2026-10-27

INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 1 so far
What an agent can do with it2 of 2 use cases
Answeredmeasuring1 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
Median first answer571 ms
Space in an agent's context≈ 5,187 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (18), which an agent carries on every turn
Tool definitionsA · 99 of 100
Typed results0 of 18 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once

Parameters without a description: in 1 of 18

What an agent can do with it

can do · find local businesses by type and city
can do · export business leads to a spreadsheet
not sure · feed place data to an AI agent over MCP

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

Tools that change data, on a server that answers without a sign-in: create_collection, cancel_collection, create_export, create_webhook, update_webhook

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers18 tools · read 2026-10-27

get_attributions
List the projects credited by gmaps.dev, with their licenses and notices. No API key needed. Costs no credits.
search_places
Find places by what they are and where they are, such as bakeries in Curitiba. Places we saved from earlier searches come back at once, for free. If they do not fill `limit`, a collection starts to find the rest and the answer includes…
get_place
Read one saved place, by our id, Google's cid, Google's place ID, or a Google Maps link to it. It never searches: a place we have not saved answers 404, and searching its area with search_places brings it in. Needs an API key. Costs no…
create_collection
Search a whole area, square by square, and collect up to maxPlaces of the places in it. Answers straight away with the collection, then works through the area in the background. Read the collection again to see how far it has got…
list_collections
Your collections, newest first, with the total so you know how many more there are. Filter by status to find the ones still running. Needs an API key. Costs no credits.
get_collection
See where a collection has got to: how much of the area is searched, how many places have arrived, and what it has cost so far. Read it again whenever you want an update. Needs an API key. Costs no credits.
cancel_collection
Stop a collection you no longer want. One that has not started yet stops at once and costs nothing. One already running keeps the places that have arrived and the credits they cost; the search in flight finishes, and nothing new starts. A…
quote_collection
See what collecting an area would cost before you start it: how much of it we have searched recently, how many places we have saved there (those cost nothing), how many searches are left to run, and the most it can cost in credits. Needs…
create_export
Get a link to a collection's places as one file: csv, json or xlsx. The file has the places the collection holds now, even if it is still running. The link opens without an API key for 24 hours, so share it only with people who should see…
get_export
Read an export you made, with its download link, while the link still works. After 24 hours, or once the collection's places are deleted, it answers 404: make a new export from the collection. Needs an API key. Costs no credits.
get_coverage
See how much of an area we have already searched for a term, when we last searched it, and how many places we have saved there. Use it to decide whether to collect again or just read the saved places. Needs an API key. Costs no credits…
get_usage
See this month's credits: what your plan includes, what you have used, what is left today and this month, and the same totals for each API key. Needs an API key. Costs no credits.
create_webhook
Tell us where to POST when a collection ends, instead of asking us every few seconds whether it is done. The answer shows the signing secret once and never again. Store it, then check every request against it. The body carries counts and…
list_webhooks
Every endpoint you have added, newest first, with whether it is still receiving events and why we stopped if it is not. Secrets are not shown again after the endpoint is created. Needs an API key and a paid plan. Costs no credits.
update_webhook
Change which events an endpoint receives, rename it, or switch it off and on. This is how an endpoint comes back after we stopped sending to it: fix your server, then set enabled to true. The failure count starts again from zero. Whatever…
delete_webhook
Stop sending to an endpoint and forget it, along with the record of what we sent there. To pause one instead, set enabled to false. That keeps the secret, so you do not have to change your code to turn it back on. Needs an API key and a…
test_webhook
Send a "ping" to one of your endpoints now, so you can check your code reads it and the signature checks out before a real collection depends on it. Answers straight away with the delivery; read the deliveries list a moment later to see…
list_webhook_deliveries
What we sent to one endpoint, newest first: which event, whether it arrived, how many tries it took, and what your server answered. This is where to look when an event never showed up. Kept for 7 days. Needs an API key and a paid plan…

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gmaps": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http gmaps https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://api.gmaps.dev/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.