What is BestTime used for?

BestTime is a foot traffic data API that forecasts hourly busyness and shows live activity for venues worldwide, with venue search, filters and bulk processing. It is a good fit for travel apps steering visitors away from crowded venues and analysts studying visitor patterns for locations.

Is BestTime open source?

No. BestTime is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the API Tools category, open-source options include ROAPI, Nango and CodeChat.

What are some alternatives to BestTime?

BestTime competes with Foursquare.

BestTime: features, pricing and alternatives

About BestTime

BestTime is a hosted API that adds a time dimension to location data. For venues such as bars, restaurants, shops and attractions, it returns relative foot traffic as a percentage for every hour of the week, plus week-overview heatmaps, daily peak and quiet hours and surge analysis showing when people arrive and leave.

Live busyness compares real-time activity with the usual pattern to flag surges or quiet periods. Venue search accepts natural-language queries such as a restaurant chain in a district or brunch places in a city, can add venues that are not yet in your dataset, and can process up to 200 venues in one background task and group results into collections.

A venue filter supports time-based queries like Friday at 10 PM, category filters and coordinates, so developers can build features that steer people away from crowded places. The site offers free testing, documentation, a radar demo and AI tools.

Key features

Hourly relative foot traffic forecasts per venue
Live busyness compared with the average
Week-overview heatmaps and peak analysis
Natural-language venue search worldwide
Bulk processing of up to 200 venues
Time-based and category venue filters

Good fit for

Travel apps steering visitors away from crowded venues
Analysts studying visitor patterns for locations

Tags: api; foot-traffic; location-data; busyness; analytics; venues; developer-tools

BestTime: questions and answers

What is BestTime used for?: BestTime is a foot traffic data API that forecasts hourly busyness and shows live activity for venues worldwide, with venue search, filters and bulk processing. It is a good fit for travel apps steering visitors away from crowded venues and analysts studying visitor patterns for locations.
Is BestTime open source?: No. BestTime is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the API Tools category, open-source options include ROAPI, Nango and CodeChat.
What are some alternatives to BestTime?: BestTime competes with Foursquare.