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Foursquare Local business reviews API pricing

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$0.375per 1,000 reviewsWe haven't run Foursquare through our local business reviews API benchmark yet.We rank 131 plans for local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.165 or less per 1,000 reviews. This plan costs less per 1,000 reviews than 27% of the 131 plans.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 reviews a month: about $2.72.Reviewflowz's $80 monthly plan (List reviews (Google Maps)) covers any number of reviews, and costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.CrustAPI, Stophy and ScrapeField are the best local business reviews API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls one of Foursquare's 4 plans
Call: GET /places/{fsq_place_id}/tips Foursquare's only call for this API
API: Local business reviews API one of Foursquare's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Text, Date.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay this price for each of the first 100,000 pages each month.
  • One call. You send fsq_place_id to GET /places/{fsq_place_id}/tips. You set the X-Places-Api-Version header to "2025-06-17". You can also send limit, fields and sort. The call returns the business's reviews.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a Foursquare developer account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Foursquare: local business reviews API alternatives

Foursquare alternatives: other local business reviews API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 reviews.

This planFoursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 callsG Maps Extractor, $2,999 monthlyLocal SEO Data, $49 monthlyBolt Scraper, $19 monthlyTickerTrends, $47.50 pack
$ per 1,000 reviews$0.375$0.375$0.377$0.38$0.38
Completeness25%63%50%100%75%
Billingpay as you gomonthlymonthlymonthlypay first
Payat a threshold$2,999$49$19$47.50
Enough foras many as you pay for800,000 pages a month130,000 results a month50,000 results a month125,000 results
Freshnessunknownliveunknownlive24 hours
Who can get itanyone with a Foursquare developer accountanyone with a Google accountanyoneanyoneanyone who creates an API account, for internal business purposes

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/pagination.md
  2. docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/place-search
  3. docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/place-tips
  4. docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/rate-limits.md
  5. docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/response-fields
  6. docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/usage-guidelines.md
  7. foursquare.com/legal/terms/apilicenseagreement
  8. foursquare.com/legal/terms/enterprise-developermasterterms
  9. foursquare.com/pricing/
  10. foursquare.com/products/places-api/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Rating, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Date
  • Reviewer, not in the answer
  • Photos, not in the answer
  • Reply, not in the answer
  • Overall rating, not in the answer
  • Review count, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 reviews$0.375
Perpage of 50
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Place Search · Get Place Details · Get Place Photos · Place Match · Find Geotagging Candidates
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve tips for a FSQ Place using the fsq_place_id.
Data
Keep datano caching permitted for Pay as You Go and Sandbox customers, but for fsq_place_id and Photo IDs, which are cached without limit
Use dataFoursquare grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license, without rights to create any derivative works, to access and use the Places API to (a) develop, implement and integrate with application(s), website(s), product(s) and/or service(s) owned or controlled by you (“Your Service”), (b) call the Places API for Foursquare Places data (“Places Data”) using your Access Credentials, (c) use, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display and perform Places Data as part of Your Service, and (d) create external reports, analyses and demos (“External Materials”) using Places Data, so long as: (i) you provide Foursquare with branded attribution in connection with any External Materials, (ii) no material portions of the Places Data are exposed to third parties [...], and (iii) the External Materials are not competitive with Foursquare’s then-current products or services. You may not use the Places API for any other purpose without Foursquare’s prior written consent. [...] You must provide Foursquare with branded attribution (i.e., ‘Powered by Foursquare’) on any page or screen within Your Service where Places Data may appear. [...] if certain attributes included in Places Data are not publicly available to users of the Foursquare City Guide mobile app or any successor thereto (e.g., “Calculated Scores” attributes and various other reliability metrics), then you may only use such attributes on an internal basis (and must not [...] externally display such attributes or make such attributes available to users of Your Service or any third party). [...] In addition, you shall not do any of the following: Provide access to the Places API or Places Data to third parties, except as integrated into Your Service as permitted by the licenses granted hereunder, Make Places Data available to third parties in bulk, Allow third parties to systematically query Places Data to obtain all or substantially all Places Data for a given locality, region, or country, or Use Places Data to contact businesses included in Places Data as prospective customers.
Plan
Payat a threshold
You getfrom the 1st page a month
Rate limit
Per second50
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendfsq_place_id, X-Places-Api-Version header "2025-06-17". Optional: limit, fields, sort
MethodGET
Path/places/{fsq_place_id}/tips
About the plan
PlanPay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls
Who can get itanyone with a Foursquare developer account
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

tip ID, text, published at, language, tip URL, agree count, disagree count, photo

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