Places Data API pricing: local business reviews API
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- FreeFree Trial$0.00 per 1,000
- $10 pack$10 pay-as-you-go credit pack$0.20 per 1,000
- $50 pack$50 pay-as-you-go credit pack$0.182 per 1,000
- $100 pack$100 pay-as-you-go credit pack$0.167 per 1,000
- $500 pack$500 pay-as-you-go credit pack$0.133 per 1,000
- $29 monthlyStarter$0.166 per 1,000
- $79 monthlyGrowth$0.144 per 1,000
- $199 monthlyPro$0.114 per 1,000
- $499 monthlyBusiness$0.08 per 1,000
GET / v1/ places/ reviews Places Data API's only call for this API- Company enrichment API
- Local business reviews API
- Local business search API
GET /v1/ places/ nearby - Local business search API
GET /v1/ places/ search
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 6 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply.
- Nothing to pay. You get 12,000 credits, enough for 6,000 results. Unused credits expire after 60 days.
- One call. You send
place_toid GET /. You can also sendv1/ places/ reviews sort,limitandquery. The call returns the business's reviews. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Places Data API: local business reviews API alternatives
Places Data API alternatives: other local business reviews API providers by price
The table starts with Places Data API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 reviews closest to Places Data API's.
| Places Data API, $499 monthly | SignalShelf, $79 pack | Semust, top-up | Scrapewise, top-up from €5 | Stophy, top-up from $2,000, Pay as you go, $2,000 in top-ups, POST /v1/scrape, google-maps-reviews | |
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| $ per 1,000 reviews | $0.08 | $0.079 | $0.083 | $0.084 | $0.09 |
| Completeness | 75% | 50% | 100% | 50% | 75% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | $499 | $79 | any amount | €5 | $2,000 |
| Enough for | 6,250,000 results a month | 50,000 pages | as many as you pay for | about 3,333 pages | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over who can enter into a binding contract, outside sanctioned countries and regions | anyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live, and able to enter a contract | anyone with a Semust account | anyone | anyone who signs up |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.
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
- Reply
- Overall rating, not in the answer
- Review count, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 reviews | $0.00 |
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| Per | result |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | Place & Business Text Search API for Google Maps · Nearby & Bounding-Box Search API for Google Maps · Place Details & Business Profile API for Google Maps · Storefront & Place Photos API for Google Maps · Website Email & Contact Enrichment API for Google Maps · Place & Address Autocomplete API for Google Maps · Reverse Geocoding API for Google Maps (Lat/Lng) |
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| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Fetch verified customer reviews for any Google Maps business by place_id or cid. Supports sorting by newest, highest_rating, lowest_rating, or most_relevant, plus keyword filtering. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You agree not to use PlacesData API, or data obtained through it, to: harass, defraud, or send unlawful unsolicited bulk communications, try to obtain non-public data, get around our access controls or rate limits, or use someone else’s API key, disrupt, overload, probe or reverse-engineer our systems, break any law, or infringe anyone else’s rights. [...] The service may not be used from, or for the benefit of anyone in, countries and regions under comprehensive sanctions, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. [...] Respect anti-spam and data protection laws when contacting businesses using publicly published emails or phone numbers. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 12,000 credits |
| Enough for | 6,000 results |
| Expires | 60 days |
| Per second | 0.5 (30 a minute) |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | place_id. Optional: sort, limit, query |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/places/reviews |
| Plan | Free Trial |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over who can enter into a binding contract, outside sanctioned countries and regions, and whose sign-up passes its automated abuse checks |
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold
request ID, status, review ID, place ID, rating, text, published at, relative published time, like count, review photo URLs, reviewer name, reviewer profile URL, reviewer picture, reviewer is Local Guide, reviewer review count, owner reply, owner reply published at, credits used, credits remaining, results returned, has more, next cursor, cached