Yelp pricing: Local business reviews API

Name: Yelp Local business reviews API
Brand: Yelp
Price: 299 USD

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38% complete: 3 of the 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields

$0.00per 1,000 reviewsWe 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 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.

Plan: Enhanced (30-day free trial) one of Yelp's 4 plans

Call: GET /v3/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/reviews Yelp's only call for this API

GET /v3/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/reviewsFree, Enhanced (30-day free trial)$0.00 per 1,000

API: Local business reviews API one of Yelp's 2 APIs

About this item

Live. You get the reviews from the map when you call the API.
3 of the 8 key fields we check. Rating, Text, Reviewer.
Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 requests, enough for 5,000 pages. Unused requests expire after 30 days.
One call. You send business_id_or_alias to GET /v3/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/reviews. You can also send locale, offset, limit and sort_by. The call returns the business's reviews.
Who can get it: anyone with a Yelp user account and a business email. Keep data: 24 hours. Use data: with conditions.

Yelp: Local business reviews API alternatives

Yelp alternatives: every Local business reviews API plan compared

The table starts with Yelp's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 reviews closest to Yelp's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	Yelp, $643 monthly	Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly	YepAPI, top-up	Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /google-maps/place/reviews	Outscraper, pay as you go, Medium Tier
$ per 1,000 reviews	$3.062	$0.00045	$0.20	$1.00	$3.00
Completeness	38%	100%	100%	75%	100%
Billing	monthly	monthly	pay first	monthly	pay as you go
Pay	$643	Rp129,000	any amount	$9	monthly
Enough for	30,000 pages a month	200,000 pages a month	as many as you pay for	9,000 results a month	as many as you pay for
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone with a Yelp user account and a business email	anyone aged 18 or over, or with a guardian's consent	anyone	anyone	anyone who adds a payment method

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.

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
Photos, not in the answer
Reply, not in the answer
Overall rating, not in the answer
Review count, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 reviews	$0.00
Per	page of 3
Billing	free

Charges
Start fee	$0.00

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	This endpoint returns up to three review excerpts for a given business ordered by Yelp's default sort order.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	24 hours
Use data	Subject to compliance with the terms set forth in the Display Requirements and elsewhere in the API Agreement, Yelp grants you, during the Term, a non-exclusive, revocable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license in the Territory to (i) access and use the API to receive the Yelp Content, (ii) display the Yelp Content on Your Site, and (iii) reproduce and display the Yelp name and logo (the “Yelp Brand Features”) solely in order to comply with the Display Requirements. You may not use the API, Yelp Content, or Yelp Brand Features for any other purpose without Yelp’s prior written consent. [...] You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable others to: [...] b. modify the Yelp Content, or use it to update or create your own database of business listing information, unless such modification is for non-commercial analysis [...], d. [...] use Yelp Content for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of Yelp (i.e. don’t sell any Yelp data or content whatsoever) [...], e. modify or remove the hyperlink contained within any Yelp Content that is provided in the API, f. use the API on behalf of any third party, [...] i. copy, rent, lease, sell, transfer, assign, sublicense, disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile [...] modify or alter any part of the API, [...] l. remove applicable tracking parameters from any API calls, such as Google Analytics tracking tags, [...] Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this API Agreement, during or after the Term, you shall not: 9.1. Use, copy, process, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works based on the Yelp Content for the purpose of training, developing, enhancing, or fine-tuning any Generative AI Models without Yelp’s prior written approval [...], 9.2. Share, sell, sublicense, or distribute the Yelp Content, in whole or in part, to any third party for use (express or implied) with Generative AI Model training, development, or enhancement, without Yelp’s express written consent. [...] 9.4. Submit or ingest any Yelp Content into any Generative AI Model (e.g., prompts that contain any Yelp Content into ChatGPT or other such models). 7.3 Launch Restrictions. During the free trial period, you may not publicly launch or release your product that uses the API.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	5,000 requests
Enough for	5,000 pages
Expires	30 days

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	business_id_or_alias. Optional: locale, offset, limit, sort_by
Method	GET
Path	/v3/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/reviews

About the plan
Plan	Enhanced (30-day free trial)
Who can get it	anyone with a Yelp user account and a business email

The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

review ID, review URL, text, rating, created at, reviewer ID, reviewer name, reviewer profile URL, reviewer image URL, possible languages, total results

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