# Places Data API, free: Local business reviews API

> 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.

Places Data API's Free Trial plan for the local business reviews API costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. Places Data API's docs list 6: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply.
We haven't run Places Data API through [our local business reviews API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 106 plans for local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.181 or less per 1,000 reviews. [See the best free local business reviews API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt)
[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. Reviewflowz's $80 monthly plan 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/places-data-api/free
- [Local business reviews API in 2026: the 4 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-reviews-api.txt)
- Get it: https://placesdataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.placesdataapi.com/v1/places/reviews`
- API key: with the plan, on https://placesdataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://placesdataapi.com/docs/places-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: Places Data API (https://placesdataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 reviews: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- 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)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 12,000 credits
- Enough for: 6,000 results
- Expires: 60 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5 (30 a minute)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: place_id. Optional: sort, limit, query
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/places/reviews

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- 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

## Places Data API's plans (9)

- [Places Data API, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/10-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.182 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/100-pack/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.166 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.144 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.114 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Places Data API, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.08 per 1,000, 75% complete

## Places Data API's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/places/reviews`: [Places Data API, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/free/llms.txt)

## Places Data API's APIs (3)

- [Places Data API: company enrichment API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/places-data-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Places Data API: local business reviews API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/places-data-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Places Data API: local business search API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/places/nearby](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-nearby/llms.txt)
- [Places Data API: local business search API pricing, 9 plans, GET /v1/places/search](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/places-data-api/free-trial-get-v1-places-search/llms.txt)

## Places Data API: local business reviews API alternatives

- [SignalShelf, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/signalshelf/79-pack/llms.txt): $0.079 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Semust, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/semust/top-up/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrapewise, top-up from €5](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scrapewise/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $0.084 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Stophy, top-up from $2,000, Pay as you go, $2,000 in top-ups, POST /v1/scrape, google-maps-reviews](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/stophy/top-up-from-2000-pay-as-you-go-2000-in-top-ups-post-v1-scrape-google-maps-reviews/llms.txt): $0.09 per 1,000, 75% complete

## 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.

- https://api.placesdataapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com/docs/places-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://placesdataapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing