# Bolt Scraper, free: Local business reviews API

> Programmatic API for Google Maps customer review extraction. Extract 100% of reviews, star ratings, reviewer profile links, photos, and owner replies in clean JSON without Google OAuth.

Bolt Scraper's Free plan for the local business reviews API costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Bolt Scraper's docs list all 8: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply, Overall rating, Review count.
We haven't run Bolt Scraper through [our local business reviews API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 131 plans for local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.165 or less per 1,000 reviews. [59 local business reviews API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt) [CrustAPI](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt) has a free plan with 6,000 pages of reviews a month. CrustAPI is the best local business reviews API in our benchmark.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 reviews: $0.00028. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 80 reviews on each page to get the $0.00028 price. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 reviews a month: about $2.72.
[Reviewflowz's $80 monthly plan (List reviews (Google Maps))](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/reviewflowz/80-monthly-premium-location-based-monthly-1-to-3-locations-get-api-v2-accounts-account-id-reviews-list-reviews-google-maps/llms.txt) covers any number of reviews, and costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.
[CrustAPI](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-149/llms.txt), [Stophy](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/stophy/top-up-from-500-pay-as-you-go-500-in-top-ups-post-v1-scrape-google-maps-reviews/llms.txt) and [ScrapeField](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scrapefield/149-pack/llms.txt) are the best local business reviews API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/free
- [Local business reviews API in 2026: the 4 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt)
- Get it: https://boltscraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://boltscraper.com/api/v1/reviews/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://boltscraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.boltscraper.com/?topic=reviews-search&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: Bolt Scraper (https://boltscraper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Rating: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Reviewer: ✓
- Photos: ✓
- Reply: ✓
- Overall rating: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 reviews: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Real-time Search API · Create Scrape Job · Create Reviews Job · Real-time Website Scrape · Create Website Job

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Programmatic API for Google Maps customer review extraction. Extract 100% of reviews, star ratings, reviewer profile links, photos, and owner replies in clean JSON without Google OAuth.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 results a month
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: sort_by, language, next_page_token
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/reviews/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 33 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, search parameters, name, place ID, feature ID, overall rating, review count, address, website, phone, results returned, pages fetched, has more, next page token, review ID, rating, text, relative published time, published at, published timestamp, like count, review URL, review photo URLs, reviewer name, reviewer picture, reviewer profile URL, reviewer is Local Guide, reviewer Local Guide level, reviewer review count, reviewer photo count, has owner reply, owner reply, owner reply relative published time

## Bolt Scraper's plans (5)

- [Bolt Scraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.38 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.245 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.165 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Bolt Scraper, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Bolt Scraper's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/reviews/search`: [Bolt Scraper, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/free/llms.txt)

## Bolt Scraper's APIs (2)

- [Bolt Scraper Local business reviews API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/free/llms.txt)
- [Bolt Scraper Local business search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /api/v1/maps/jobs](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-jobs/llms.txt)
- [Bolt Scraper Local business search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /api/v1/maps/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/bolt-scraper/free-post-api-v1-maps-search/llms.txt)

## Bolt Scraper: local business reviews API alternatives

[Bolt Scraper alternatives: other local business reviews API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/bolt-scraper-alternatives.txt)

We list Bolt Scraper's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Bolt Scraper in price per 1,000 reviews. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Bolt Scraper, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/bolt-scraper/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [MCP Scraper, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/mcp-scraper/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.125 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [ScrapeNest, $99 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/scrape/google-maps/reviews/async](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-scrape-google-maps-reviews-async/llms.txt): $0.132 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeIt, €79 monthly, Pro, GET /api/v1/scrape/google/maps/reviews](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scrapeit/79-monthly-pro-get-api-v1-scrape-google-maps-reviews/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $199 monthly, Scale, GET /yelp/place/{id}/reviews](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/pullbay/199-monthly-scale-get-yelp-place-id-reviews/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 63% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-11.

- https://boltscraper.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/api/google-reviews-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/api/google-reviews-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://boltscraper.com/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.boltscraper.com/llms-full.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing