# Crawio, free: Local business reviews API

> Get a place's reviews as clean JSON: rating, date, text, likes, photos, the owner's response, the reviewer and, for restaurants, the visit details.

Crawio's Local business reviews API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. It returns all 8 key fields we check: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply, Overall rating, Review count.
We haven't run a Local business reviews API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 26 plans for Local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.765 per 1,000 reviews or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 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.
[ExportComments's $220 monthly plan (Create batch, Google Maps)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/exportcomments/220-monthly-business-post-api-v1-batch-export-create-batch-google-maps/llms.txt) covers any number of reviews. ExportComments's $220 monthly plan costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/free
- Get it: https://crawio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.crawio.com/plugin/google/maps/reviews`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crawio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://crawio.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing#google-maps-reviews
- Sold by: Crawio (https://crawio.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 reviews: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape · Google Maps · Google Shopping

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get a place's reviews as clean JSON: rating, date, text, likes, photos, the owner's response, the reviewer and, for restaurants, the visit details.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You decide which websites the Service accesses and what you do with the data. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use, including target selection, collected data and downstream use, complies with applicable laws and regulations, the target websites' terms where they apply to you, and data-protection rules (GDPR, CCPA, and similar). [...] You must not use the Service to: access content that is not publicly available (e.g. behind other people's credentials or paywalls you are not authorized to use), collect personal data for spam, surveillance, stalking, or discrimination, or knowingly collect data about children, engage in fraud, credential stuffing, denial-of-service, or any unlawful activity, probe, attack, overload, or circumvent the Service's own security, quotas, or billing, resell raw access to the Service without our written agreement.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of place_id or data_id. Optional: sort_by, num, pages, next_page_token, topic_id, query, session, hl
- Method: GET
- Path: /plugin/google/maps/reviews

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, results returned, next page token, credits used, name, address, overall rating, review count, category, review topics, result position, review ID, rating, relative published time, published at, text, like count, review photo URLs, owner reply, owner reply published at, reviewer name, reviewer is Local Guide, reviewer review count, reviewer photo count, dining attributes, review site

## Crawio's plans (8)

- [Crawio, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawio, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.024 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawio, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawio, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.016 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawio, $313 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/313-yearly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawio, $1,069 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/1069-yearly/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawio, $2,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/2689-yearly/llms.txt): $0.014 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Crawio, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Crawio's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /plugin/google/maps/reviews`: [Crawio, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)

## Crawio's APIs (4)

- [Crawio: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawio: Local business reviews API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawio: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawio: Google Shopping search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/crawio/free/llms.txt)

## Crawio: Local business reviews API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00045 per 1,000, 100% 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
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [G Maps Extractor, $2,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/g-maps-extractor/2999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.375 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 2026-11-05.

- https://crawio.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crawio.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crawio.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crawio.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing