# Yellow Pages alternatives in Canada

> Yellow Pages alternatives for Canadian businesses: free listings compared, what the YP.ca free listing form asks you to agree to, and where Yellow Pages still fits.

Canonical: https://freelocalbusinessdirectory.ca/alternatives/yellow-pages
Last updated: 2026-10-23

Yellow Pages (YP.ca) still offers a free online listing, by request form, alongside paid placement. Here is how it compares with a free Canadian directory listing you add and edit yourself, and the other free places to be listed.

By the Free Local Business Directory team. Checked October 23, 2026.

## Free Local Business Directory vs Yellow Pages

| Feature | Free Local Business Directory | Yellow Pages |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cost | Free to list and to claim. Optional, one-time: Fast-track $9.99 (live now instead of waiting your turn) and Featured $49.99 CAD for 90 days | Free online listing by request form; paid products such as priority placement on YP.ca ([source](https://solutions.yp.ca/free-online-listing)) |
| Signing up | A free account with any email address | The form says submitting it enters a written agreement with Yellow Pages and consents to marketing texts from them ([source](https://solutions.yp.ca/free-online-listing)) |
| Getting listed | Free listings go live in the order they arrive, 5 a day; claiming an existing listing with an email at your website's domain is instant, otherwise a person checks within two business days | You request the listing through the form |

Facts about other platforms are from their own pages, linked.

## When Yellow Pages is the better choice

- You want to buy paid placement or marketing from Yellow Pages.
- Your customers already look you up on YP.ca or Canada411.

## Before you send the YP.ca form

Read the terms under the form: it says that submitting it enters a written agreement with Yellow Pages and consents to marketing text messages about YP products and services. That is normal for a sales-led listing, but worth knowing. A listing here needs only a free account, and we don’t email businesses that haven’t asked to hear from us.

## Questions

### Is a Yellow Pages listing free in Canada?

YP.ca offers a free online listing through a request form. Priority placement and other marketing products are paid.

### What replaced the Yellow Pages for small businesses?

Online listings: Google Business Profile first, then free listings on Bing Places, Apple Maps, Yelp, Yellow Pages’ own site and directories like this one.

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