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SignalShelf pricing: local business reviews API

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50% complete: 4 of the 8 fields on our checklistSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 reviewsWe haven't run SignalShelf through our local business reviews API benchmark 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.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 reviews a month: about $2.72.Reviewflowz's $80 monthly plan (List reviews (Google Maps)) covers any number of reviews. Reviewflowz's $80 monthly plan costs more up front than Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan.CrustAPI, Stophy and ScrapeField are the best local business reviews API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest SignalShelf plan for that many reviews. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of SignalShelf's 6 plans
Call: GET /v1/google-maps/reviews SignalShelf's only call for this API
API: Local business reviews API one of SignalShelf's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get reviews from SignalShelf's copy of the map. SignalShelf doesn't say how old the copy is.
  • 4 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Rating, Text, Overall rating, Review count.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 500 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send place_id or url to GET /v1/google-maps/reviews. You can also send language, region, limit, sort, cursor, source and freshness. The call returns the business's reviews.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SignalShelf: local business reviews API alternatives

SignalShelf alternatives: other local business reviews API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 reviews.

This planSignalShelf, freeCrustAPI, freeStophy, free, POST /v1/scrape, google-maps-reviewsScrapeField, freeBRONTIR, free
$ per 1,000 reviews$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness50%38%75%75%63%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0€0
Enough for500 pages6,000 pages a month50,000 results, onceabout 333 pagesnot published
Freshnessstoredliveunknown6 hoursunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live, and able to enter a contractbusinesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only)anyone who signs up, no cardanyone who verifies an emailanyone aged 18 or over

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.

  1. signalshelf.dev
  2. signalshelf.dev/acceptable-use
  3. signalshelf.dev/docs/batch
  4. signalshelf.dev/docs/caching
  5. signalshelf.dev/docs/errors
  6. signalshelf.dev/docs/quickstart
  7. signalshelf.dev/docs/web/google-maps/reviews
  8. signalshelf.dev/platforms/google-maps
  9. signalshelf.dev/pricing
  10. signalshelf.dev/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Rating
  • Text
  • Date, not in the answer
  • Reviewer, not in the answer
  • Photos, not in the answer
  • Reply, not in the answer
  • Overall rating
  • Review count
Price
$ per 1,000 reviews$0.00
Perpage of 20
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 135 other SignalShelf calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle Maps place reviews (top, guest view).
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataDon't use SignalShelf to: Harass, stalk, dox or target individuals, or build profiles of private people. Collect data about children, or sensitive data such as health, religion, politics or sexuality, to make decisions about individuals. Send spam or unsolicited messages to people found through the API. Break the law, including data protection, consumer protection and intellectual property laws. Resell raw API access as a competing API, share your key publicly, or create multiple accounts to collect free credits. Attack, overload or try to bypass the limits of the service.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Enough for500 pages
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of place_id or url. Optional: language, region, limit, sort, cursor, source, freshness
MethodGET
Path/v1/google-maps/reviews
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where they live, and able to enter a contract
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

text, rating, review count, reviews per score

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