Local business reviews API: best providers in 2026
We score 4 local business reviews APIs. 2 of them leave out each review's date. CrustAPI, Stophy and ScrapeField are the best local business reviews API providers in the Datacircle benchmark. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 reviews cost. CrustAPI's top-up from $149 costs the least per 1,000 reviews of any provider in our ranking: $0.015. To buy local business reviews API calls, start with CrustAPI's top-up from $149. You pay at least $149 before your first result.
Top local business reviews API alternatives by score
| Rank | Provider and plan | Overall score | Accuracy score | $ per 1,000 reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CrustAPI, top-up from $149 (alternatives) | 87.9 | 81 | $0.015 |
| 2 | Stophy, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, $500 in top-ups (alternatives) | 80.0 | 84 | $0.12 |
| 3 | ScrapeField, $149 pack (alternatives) | 68.2 | 66 | $0.18 |
| 4 | BRONTIR, €20 pack (alternatives) | 33.0 | 49 | Unknown |
Unknown: the provider's pages give the plan's price. They don't say how many reviews come with the plan.
Compare the top three side by side: CrustAPI vs Stophy, CrustAPI vs ScrapeField, ScrapeField vs Stophy
#1 CrustAPI: Local business reviews API
CrustAPI's docs list 3 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Rating, Text, Reviewer.
- Overall score
- 87.9
- $ per 1,000
- $0.015
- Price score
- 94
- When the provider can't find the business: you pay nothing
- Plans of this API we rank by price: 63
- Plans cheaper per 1,000 reviews than this plan: 4
- Accuracy score
- 81
- Cost to get started score
- 74
- How you pay: a top-up you pay first
- Least to pay before your first result: $149
- Bundle score
- 94
- Also pays for, from the same budget: People refresh · Profile · Company · Jobs · Posts · People search · Maps · Places · News · Shopping and 7 more
- Performance score
- 100
- Median answer time: 0.97 s
- Fastest provider fetching fresh data
- On 8 November 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 places as every other provider in our benchmark.
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#2 Stophy: Local business reviews API
Stophy, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, $500 in top-ups
Stophy's docs list 6 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply.
- Overall score
- 80.0
- $ per 1,000
- $0.12
- Price score
- 73
- When the provider can't find the business: you pay nothing
- Plans of this API we rank by price: 63
- Plans cheaper per 1,000 reviews than this plan: 17
- Accuracy score
- 84
- Cost to get started score
- 65
- How you pay: a top-up you pay first
- Least to pay before your first result: $500
- Bundle score
- 99
- Also pays for, from the same budget: 110 other calls
- Performance score
- 87
- Median answer time: 1.1 s
- Fastest provider fetching fresh data: CrustAPI, 0.97 s
- On 8 November 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 places as every other provider in our benchmark.
#3 ScrapeField: Local business reviews API
ScrapeField's docs list 6 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply.
- Overall score
- 68.2
- $ per 1,000
- $0.18
- Price score
- 62
- When the provider can't find the business: you pay nothing
- Plans of this API we rank by price: 63
- Plans cheaper per 1,000 reviews than this plan: 24
- Accuracy score
- 66
- Cost to get started score
- 74
- How you pay: a pack you pay first
- Least to pay before your first result: $149
- Bundle score
- 98
- Also pays for, from the same budget: 44 other calls
- Performance score
- N/A
- On 8 November 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 places as every other provider in our benchmark.
Best local business reviews API for each need
Of the 4 local business reviews API providers ranked in the Datacircle benchmark:
How we tested
On 8 November 2026, we sent 4 providers the same list of 20 places. Price and Accuracy weigh most in each plan's Overall score. We score all 4 providers and rank them by their top plan's Overall score.
Questions about local business reviews APIs
What is a local business reviews API?
A local business reviews API takes a business on a map. The API returns the business's reviews. Our price sheet lists 274 local business reviews API plans from 41 providers.
What is the best local business reviews API?
CrustAPI is the best local business reviews API in the Datacircle benchmark. CrustAPI's top-up from $149 has an Overall score of 87.9 out of 100. Stophy is second at 80.0 and ScrapeField third at 68.2.
What is the cheapest local business reviews API?
CrustAPI's top-up from $149 costs the least per 1,000 reviews of any provider in our ranking: $0.015. CrustAPI charges for each page of results. We count 50 reviews on each page to get the $0.015 price. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 reviews a month: about $2.72. We rank 63 plans for local business reviews APIs by price. Half of the 63 plans cost $0.225 or less per 1,000 reviews.
Is there a free local business reviews API?
Yes: 38 local business reviews API plans on our price sheet are free. CrustAPI has a free plan with 6,000 pages of reviews a month. CrustAPI is the best local business reviews API in our benchmark. Ola Maps's free plan has the most calls of any free plan: 100,000 a month.
Which is better, CrustAPI or Stophy?
CrustAPI scores higher overall, at 87.9 against Stophy's 80.0 in our benchmark. Stophy scores higher on Bundle, at 99 against CrustAPI's 94.
Can I use local business reviews API data?
Each provider's terms decide what you can do with local business reviews API data. We rank 4 local business reviews API providers. All 4 have API terms. All 4 set no time limit on keeping the data. All 4 set conditions on how you use the data. Each plan's page shows what the provider's terms say about keeping and using the data.
How did you test local business reviews APIs?
On 8 November 2026, we sent 4 providers the same list of 20 places.
We haven't benchmarked 35 other local business reviews API providers yet:
- API for Agents
- Browsable
- Crawio
- Datashake
- ExportComments
- G Maps Extractor
- GMapsScraper.AI
- Google Maps Lead Finder
- Google Maps Platform
- LeadX
- Local Dominator
- LurkAPI
- Marketplace for AI Agents
- Mindcase
- Outscraper
- Outsend
- Pleper
- Pullbay
- Reviewflowz
- Roketfy
- Scale SERP
- ScrapeNest
- Scrapewise
- ScrapingBot.io
- ScrapingDaddy
- Semust
- serp402
- SerpData
- SerpWow
- Shout About Us
- Unstuckapi
- upAPI
- Yelp
- YepAPI
- Zapi
Local business reviews API calls by name
Local business reviews API batch and bulk calls
2 local business reviews API providers have a call named for batches or bulk:
Local business reviews API comparison: how we tested each provider, and what each one costs
CrustAPI, #1 of 4
We tested CrustAPI on 8 November 2026 with all 20 places in our test. CrustAPI scored 87.9 out of 100 overall and 81 out of 100 for accuracy. Best for: the lowest price per 1,000 reviews.
Price on the cheapest plan for each number of reviews:
- 1,000 to 10,000 reviews: $10 paid once, enough for 24 months ($0.42 a month), with CrustAPI's $10+ deposit top-up
- 100,000 reviews: $10 paid once, enough for 5 months ($2 a month), with CrustAPI's $10+ deposit top-up
- 1,000,000 reviews: $149 paid once, enough for 9.8 months ($15.20 a month), with CrustAPI's $149+ deposit top-up
Stophy, #2 of 4
We tested Stophy on 8 November 2026 with all 20 places in our test. Stophy scored 80.0 out of 100 overall and 84 out of 100 for accuracy. Best for: the most accurate answers.
Price on the cheapest plan for each number of reviews:
- 1,000 reviews: $10 paid once, enough for 24 months ($0.42 a month), with Stophy's Pay as you go top-up
- 10,000 reviews: $10 paid once, enough for 5 months ($2 a month), with Stophy's Pay as you go top-up
- 100,000 reviews: $100 paid once, enough for 6.7 months ($14.93 a month), with Stophy's Pay as you go, $100 in top-ups top-up
- 1,000,000 reviews: $2,000 paid once, enough for 22.2 months ($90.09 a month), with Stophy's Pay as you go, $2,000 in top-ups top-up
ScrapeField, #3 of 4
We tested ScrapeField on 8 November 2026 with all 20 places in our test. ScrapeField scored 68.2 out of 100 overall and 66 out of 100 for accuracy. ScrapeField's best rank is #2, for cost to get started.
Price on the cheapest plan for each number of reviews:
- 1,000 reviews: $39 paid once, enough for 24 months ($1.63 a month), with ScrapeField's 50,000 credits pack
- 10,000 reviews: $39 paid once, enough for 16.7 months ($2.34 a month), with ScrapeField's 50,000 credits pack
- 100,000 reviews: $149 paid once, enough for 8.3 months ($17.95 a month), with ScrapeField's 250,000 credits pack
- 1,000,000 reviews: $2,199 paid once, enough for 16.7 months ($131.68 a month), with ScrapeField's 5,000,000 credits pack
BRONTIR, #4 of 4
We tested BRONTIR on 8 November 2026 with all 20 places in our test. BRONTIR scored 33.0 out of 100 overall and 49 out of 100 for accuracy. Best for: the lowest cost to get your first result.
BRONTIR's plans don't say what 1,000 to 1,000,000 reviews cost.
The Accuracy score on local business reviews APIs
The score runs from 0 to 100.
- A higher score shows a fuller first page of Google reviews.
- For each place, we count how many reviews the call returned, out of 10.
- We also check which scored fields those reviews fill in.
- Each place's score has two parts.
- One part is the share of 10 reviews that came back.
- The other part is the share of scored fields filled in on those reviews.
- We average the place scores to get the call's score.
- When the call returned no review for a place, that place scores 0.
- We lower the score when we test the call on fewer places than the benchmark has.
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