# upAPI, free: Local business reviews API

> The Google Maps Reviews API on upAPI returns place reviews as JSON: pass a place id, CID, feature id or Maps link and get each rating, text, author, photos and owner reply, sorted and paged by cursor.

upAPI's Local business reviews API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. upAPI's docs list 5 of the 8 key fields we check: Rating, Text, Date, Photos, Reply.
We haven't run a Local business reviews API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 52 plans for Local business reviews APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.231 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/upapi/free
- Get it: https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.upapi.io/google-maps-reviews.get`
- API key: with the plan, on https://upapi.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://upapi.io/apis/maps/google-maps-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: upAPI (https://upapi.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Rating: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Photos: ✓
- Reply: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 reviews: $0.00
- Per: page of 60
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 15 minutes
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 112 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Google Maps Reviews API on upAPI returns place reviews as JSON: pass a place id, CID, feature id or Maps link and get each rating, text, author, photos and owner reply, sorted and paged by cursor.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: about 166 pages a month
- Expires: the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of cid, url, placeId or featureId. Optional: sort, region, language, proxyUrl, pageToken, maxResults
- Method: POST
- Path: /google-maps-reviews.get

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

review ID, text, rating, review photo URLs, review language, review URL, published at, owner reply, results returned, next page token

## upAPI's plans (4)

- [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [upAPI, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/upapi/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.029 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [upAPI, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/upapi/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.01 per 1,000, 63% complete, live

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

- `POST /google-maps-reviews.get`: [upAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/upapi/free/llms.txt)

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## upAPI: Local business reviews API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.00045 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [CrustAPI, top-up from $549](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-549/llms.txt): $0.011 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
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- [Outsend, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/outsend/top-up/llms.txt): $0.056 per 1,000, 63% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://upapi.io/apis/maps/google-maps-reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/apis/social-media/linkedin-get-profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://upapi.io/docs/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
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