# Scale SERP, free: Local business reviews API

> The Google Place Reviews Parameters are applicable when making a request with search_type=place_reviews to retrieve place reviews for a Place.

Scale SERP's Local business reviews API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. It returns 6 of the 8 key fields we check: Rating, Text, Date, Reviewer, Photos, Reply.
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/scale-serp/free
- Get it: https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scaleserp.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/place-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: Scale SERP (https://www.scaleserp.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: ✓
- Photos: ✓
- Reply: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search · Google News · Google Images · Google Videos · Google Scholar · Google Autocomplete · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Map Place Details · Google Place Photos · Google Place Products · Google Place Posts · Google Shopping · Google Product · Google Product Details · Google Product Reviews · Google Product Online Sellers · Google Product Specifications

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Google Place Reviews Parameters are applicable when making a request with search_type=place_reviews to retrieve place reviews for a Place.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control. [...] You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 125 credits a month
- Enough for: 125 pages a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: search_type "place_reviews", data_id. Optional: sort_by, next_page_token
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

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

## The 30 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, search parameters, created at, processed at, time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, original query yields zero results, result position, reviewer name, reviewer profile URL, reviewer picture, reviewer ID, reviewer review count, text, text HTML, review ID, rating, review photo URLs, relative published time, published at, owner reply, dining ratings, dining attributes, next page token

## Scale SERP's plans (6)

- [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scale-serp/29-monthly/llms.txt): 75% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $83 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scale-serp/83-monthly/llms.txt): 75% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scale-serp/276-yearly/llms.txt): 75% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $792 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scale-serp/792-yearly/llms.txt): 75% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scale-serp/contact-us/llms.txt): 75% complete, live

## Scale SERP's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search`: [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)

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## Scale SERP: Local business reviews API alternatives

- [YepAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yepapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Datashake, free trial, POST /api/v2/profiles/add](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/datashake/free-trial-post-api-v2-profiles-add/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [SerpWow, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/serpwow/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Yelp, free, Enhanced (30-day free trial)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yelp/free-enhanced-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% 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://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/fundamentals/pagination?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/results/google/place-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/common?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/place-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing