Google Maps Platform pricing: Local business reviews API

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$0.00per 1,000 reviewsWe haven't run a Local business reviews API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 14 plans for Local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.50 per 1,000 reviews or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 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.

Plan: Free monthly usage one of Google Maps Platform's 6 plans

Call: GET /v1/places/{placeId} Google Maps Platform's only call for this API

GET /v1/places/{placeId}Free$0.00 per 1,000

API: Local business reviews API one of Google Maps Platform's 2 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
6 of the 8 key fields we check. Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Overall rating, Review count.
Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 requests a month, enough for 1,000 pages. Calls keep working once your requests run out. Your requests reset on the first day of each month, at midnight Pacific US time.
One call. You call GET /v1/places/{placeId} with the inputs in Product details. The call returns the business's reviews.
Who can get it: anyone with a Cloud Billing account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Google Maps Platform: Local business reviews API alternatives

Google Maps Platform alternatives: every Local business reviews API plan compared

The table starts with Google Maps Platform's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 reviews closest to Google Maps Platform's.

	Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 5,000,001+ monthly events	Zapi, Rp49,000 monthly	YepAPI, top-up	Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /yelp/place/{id}/reviews	Outscraper, pay as you go, Business Tier
$ per 1,000 reviews	$0.456	$0.0014	$0.20	$0.20	$1.00
Completeness	75%	100%	100%	63%	100%
Billing	pay as you go	monthly	pay first	monthly	pay as you go
Pay	monthly	Rp49,000	any amount	$9	monthly
Enough for	as many as you pay for	25,000 pages a month	as many as you pay for	45,000 results a month	as many as you pay for
Freshness	unknown	5 minutes	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone with a Cloud Billing account	anyone aged 18 or over, or with a guardian's consent	anyone	anyone	anyone who adds a payment method

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

Product details

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

Rating
Text
Date
Reviewer
Photos, not in the answer
Reply, not in the answer
Overall rating
Review count

Price
$ per 1,000 reviews	$0.00
Per	page of 5
Billing	free

Charges
Start fee	$0.00
Also pays for	nothing else

Overage
Units cap	soft

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Add rich details for millions of places to your website or app.

Data
Keep data	Customer may temporarily cache latitude and longitude values from the Places API for up to 30 consecutive calendar days, after which Customer must delete the cached latitude and longitude values. [...] Customer may cache the Google ID values from the Services that return such field and allow caching, in accordance with its Documentation. For example, Customer may cache (a) place_id from Places API [...]. [...] No Caching. Customer will not cache Google Maps Content except as expressly permitted under the Maps Service Specific Terms.
Use data	No Scraping. Customer will not export, extract, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Services. For example, Customer will not: (i) pre-fetch, index, store, reshare, or rehost Google Maps Content outside the services, (ii) bulk download Google Maps tiles, Street View images, geocodes, directions, distance matrix results, roads information, places information, elevation values, and time zone details, (iii) copy and save business names, addresses, or user reviews, [...] No Creating Content From Google Maps Content. Customer will not create content based on Google Maps Content. For example, Customer will not: [...] (iv) use latitude/longitude values from the Places API as an input for point-in-polygon analysis, [...] or (vii) use Google Maps Content to improve machine learning and artificial intelligence models, including to train, test, validate or fine-tune the models. No Re-Creating Google Products or Features. Customer will not use the Services to create a product or service with features that are substantially similar to or that re-create the features of another Google product or service. [...] For example, Customer will not: (i) re-distribute the Google Maps Core Services or pass them off as if they were Customer's services, (ii) use the Google Maps Core Services to create a substitute of the Google Maps Core Services, Google Maps, or Google Maps mobile apps, or their features, (iii) use the Google Maps Core Services in a listings or directory service or to create or augment an advertising product, [...] No Use With Non-Google Maps. [...] Customer will not use the Google Maps Core Services with or near a non-Google Map in a Customer Application. For example, Customer will not (i) display or use Places content on a non-Google Map [...]. No Modifying Search Results Integrity. Customer will not modify any of the Google Maps Core Services' search results. [...] Places API (Legacy and New): No use with a non-Google map. Customer must not use Google Maps Content from the Places API in conjunction with a non-Google map.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	1,000 requests a month
Enough for	1,000 pages a month
Expires	resets on the first day of each month, at midnight Pacific US time

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	placeId, X-Goog-FieldMask header "id,displayName,rating,userRatingCount,reviews,reviewSummary,googleMapsLinks". Optional: languageCode, regionCode, sessionToken
Method	GET
Path	/v1/places/{placeId}

About the plan
Plan	Free monthly usage
Who can get it	anyone with a Cloud Billing account

The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

review ID, text, original text, rating, reviewer name, reviewer profile URL, reviewer picture, published at, relative published time, review URL, flag content URL, visit date, review summary, place ID, name, overall rating, review count, reviews URL

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