# Google Maps Platform, free: Local business reviews API

> Add rich details for millions of places to your website or app.

Google Maps Platform's Local business reviews API on its Free monthly usage plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Overall rating, Review count.
We 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](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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/free
- Get it: https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://places.googleapis.com/v1/places/{placeId}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-details?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: Google Maps Platform (https://mapsplatform.google.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Rating: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Reviewer: ✓
- 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

## Google Maps Platform's plans (6)

- [Google Maps Platform, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 1,001 - 100,000 monthly events](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-1001-100000-monthly-events/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 100,001 - 500,000 monthly events](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-100001-500000-monthly-events/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 500,001 - 1,000,000 monthly events](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-500001-1000000-monthly-events/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 1,000,001 - 5,000,000 monthly events](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-1000001-5000000-monthly-events/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Google Maps Platform, pay as you go, 5,000,001+ monthly events](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/pay-as-you-go-5000001-monthly-events/llms.txt): $0.456 per 1,000, 75% complete

## Google Maps Platform's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/places/{placeId}`: [Google Maps Platform, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/free/llms.txt)

## Google Maps Platform's APIs (2)

- [Google Maps Platform: Local business reviews API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/google-maps-platform/free/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, places:searchNearby, Places API Nearby Search Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/free-monthly-usage-post-v1-places-searchnearby-places-api-nearby-search-enterprise/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, places:searchNearby, Places API Nearby Search Enterprise + Atmosphere](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/free-monthly-usage-post-v1-places-searchnearby-places-api-nearby-search-enterprise-atmosphere/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, places:searchNearby, Places API Nearby Search Pro](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/free-monthly-usage-post-v1-places-searchnearby-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, places:searchText, Places API Text Search Enterprise](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/free-monthly-usage-post-v1-places-searchtext-places-api-text-search-enterprise/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, places:searchText, Places API Text Search Enterprise + Atmosphere](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/free-monthly-usage-post-v1-places-searchtext-places-api-text-search-enterprise-atmosphere/llms.txt)
- [Google Maps Platform: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans, places:searchText, Places API Text Search Pro](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/google-maps-platform/free-monthly-usage-post-v1-places-searchtext-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt)

## Google Maps Platform: Local business reviews API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp49,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0014 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /yelp/place/{id}/reviews](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/pullbay/9-monthly-hobby-get-yelp-place-id-reviews/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [Outscraper, pay as you go, Business Tier](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/outscraper/pay-as-you-go-business-tier/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pay-as-you-go?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/sku-details/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/data-fields?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-details?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/reference/rest/v1/places?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/usage-and-billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing