# CrustAPI, free: Local business reviews API

> Google reviews for a business, with sorting and pagination

CrustAPI's Local business reviews API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. CrustAPI's docs list 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Rating, Text, Reviewer.
We haven't run a Local business reviews API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 52 plans for Local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.231 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/crustapi/free
- Get it: https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://crustapi.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: CrustAPI (https://crustapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Rating: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Reviewer: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 reviews: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: People refresh · Profile · Company · Jobs · Posts · People search · Maps · Places · News · Shopping · Images · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete · Webpage · Lens · Process a list of LinkedIn URLs

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google reviews for a business, with sorting and pagination

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "The Service is for business and professional use only. It is a business-to-business product. It is not a consumer or end-user service, and you may not use it for personal, household, or consumer purposes." "We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for your own business purposes" [...] "Do not resell or redistribute the raw data as a competing dataset or API without adding meaningful value." "Do not use CrustAPI for anything illegal, and comply with all laws that apply to you and to your use of the data."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $6 a month
- Enough for: 6,000 pages a month
- Expires: month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: type "reviews", one of placeId, cid or fid. Optional: num, sortBy, nextPageToken, gl, hl, fresh
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: businesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only)

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

rating, text, review URL, review ID, reviewer name, reviewer review count, reviewer photo count, next page token

## CrustAPI's plans (10)

- [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/5-pack/llms.txt): 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $149](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-149/llms.txt): $0.015 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $549](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-549/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $1,999](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-1999/llms.txt): $0.0082 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $6,500](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-6500/llms.txt): $0.0066 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $27,500](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-27500/llms.txt): $0.0056 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $50,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-50000/llms.txt): $0.0052 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $100,000](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-100000/llms.txt): $0.004 per 1,000, 38% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/search`: [CrustAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)

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- [CrustAPI: search autocomplete API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business reviews API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: news API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
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- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/crustapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/linkedin](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin/llms.txt)
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- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Lens](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-lens/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Patents](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-patents/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-scholar/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Maps](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-maps/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: Local business search API pricing, 10 plans, GET /v1/search, Places](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-search-places/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, GET linkedin, People refresh](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin-people-refresh/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST linkedin/batch, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch-process-a-list-of-linkedin-urls-profile/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST linkedin/batch, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, refresh](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-post-v1-linkedin-batch-process-a-list-of-linkedin-urls-refresh/llms.txt)
- [CrustAPI: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 10 plans, GET linkedin, Profile](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crustapi/free-get-v1-linkedin-profile/llms.txt)

## CrustAPI: 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
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 63% 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
- [Outsend, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/outsend/top-up/llms.txt): $0.056 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 2026-11-06.

- https://crustapi.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/linkedin-profile-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://crustapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing