# LurkAPI, free: Local business reviews API

> Up to 5 of a place's Google reviews in the order you pick (most relevant, newest, highest or lowest), with its rating breakdown.

LurkAPI's Local business reviews API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. It returns 7 of the 8 key fields we check: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply, Review count.
We haven't run a Local business reviews API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 20 plans for Local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.765 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/lurkapi/free
- Get it: https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/google/maps/reviews`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lurkapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lurkapi.com/docs/google/maps-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: LurkAPI (https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 88%
- Rating: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Reviewer: ✓
- Photos: ✓
- Reply: ✓
- Review count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 reviews: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 87 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Up to 5 of a place's Google reviews in the order you pick (most relevant, newest, highest or lowest), with its rating breakdown.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 100 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of place_id, cid or url. Optional: sort, language
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/google/maps/reviews

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

place ID, name, rating, review count, rating counts, review ID, review URL, review rating, text, review language, published at, reviewer name, author ID, author URL, author photo, reviewer review count, reviewer photo count, reviewer is Local Guide, review photo URLs, owner reply, owner reply published at

## LurkAPI's plans (4)

- [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/lurkapi/9-pack/llms.txt): 88% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/lurkapi/59-pack/llms.txt): 88% complete, 1 hour
- [LurkAPI, $225 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/lurkapi/225-pack/llms.txt): 88% complete, 1 hour

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

- `GET /v1/google/maps/reviews`: [LurkAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/lurkapi/free/llms.txt)

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## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://lurkapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
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