# Foursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls: Local business reviews API

> Retrieve tips for a FSQ Place using the fsq_place_id.

Foursquare's "Pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls" plan for the local business reviews API costs $0.375 per 1,000 reviews. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Foursquare's docs list 2: Text, Date.
We haven't run Foursquare through [our local business reviews API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt) 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](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/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-100000-calls
- [Local business reviews API in 2026: the 4 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt)
- Get it: https://foursquare.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://places-api.foursquare.com/places/{fsq_place_id}/tips`
- API key: with the plan, on https://foursquare.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/place-tips?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: Foursquare (https://foursquare.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Text: ✓
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 reviews: $0.375
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Place Search · Get Place Details · Get Place Photos · Place Match · Find Geotagging Candidates

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve tips for a FSQ Place using the fsq_place_id.

## Data

- Keep data: no caching permitted for Pay as You Go and Sandbox customers, but for fsq_place_id and Photo IDs, which are cached without limit
- Use data: Foursquare 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

- Pay: at a threshold
- You get: from the 1st page a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: fsq_place_id, X-Places-Api-Version header "2025-06-17". Optional: limit, fields, sort
- Method: GET
- Path: /places/{fsq_place_id}/tips

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Foursquare's plans (4)

- [Foursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-100000-calls/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Foursquare, pay as you go, 100,001 to 500,000 calls](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-100001-to-500000-calls/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Foursquare, pay as you go, 500,001 calls and more](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-500001-calls-and-more/llms.txt): $0.225 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Foursquare, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/foursquare/contact-us/llms.txt): 25% complete

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

- `GET /places/{fsq_place_id}/tips`: [Foursquare, pay as you go, 0 to 100,000 calls](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-100000-calls/llms.txt)

## Foursquare's APIs (2)

- [Foursquare Local business search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/free/llms.txt)
- [Foursquare Local business reviews API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-100000-calls/llms.txt)

## Foursquare: local business reviews API alternatives

[Foursquare alternatives: other local business reviews API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/foursquare-alternatives.txt)

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

- [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
- [Local SEO Data, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/local-seo-data/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.377 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [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
- [TickerTrends, $47.50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/tickertrends/47-50-pack/llms.txt): $0.38 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours

## 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.

- https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/pagination.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/place-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/place-tips?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/response-fields?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.foursquare.com/fsq-developers-places/reference/usage-guidelines.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://foursquare.com/legal/terms/apilicenseagreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://foursquare.com/legal/terms/enterprise-developermasterterms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://foursquare.com/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://foursquare.com/products/places-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing