# Yelp, free, Enhanced (30-day free trial): Local business reviews API

> This endpoint returns up to three review excerpts for a given business ordered by Yelp's default sort order.

Yelp's Local business reviews API on its Enhanced (30-day free trial) plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 reviews. It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Rating, Text, Reviewer.
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/yelp/free-enhanced-30-day-free-trial
- Get it: https://business.yelp.com/data/products/places-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.yelp.com/v3/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/reviews`
- API key: with the plan, on https://business.yelp.com/data/products/places-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- Sold by: Yelp (https://www.yelp.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 38%
- Rating: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Reviewer: ✓

## 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

## Yelp's plans (4)

- [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
- [Yelp, free, Premium (30-day free trial)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yelp/free-premium-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Yelp, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yelp/299-monthly/llms.txt): $3.322 per 1,000, 38% complete, live
- [Yelp, $643 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yelp/643-monthly/llms.txt): $3.062 per 1,000, 38% complete, live

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

- `GET /v3/businesses/{business_id_or_alias}/reviews`: [Yelp, free, Enhanced (30-day free trial)](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yelp/free-enhanced-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Yelp's APIs (2)

- [Yelp: Local business search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/yelp/free-base-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt)
- [Yelp: Local business reviews API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yelp/free-enhanced-30-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Yelp: 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
- [YepAPI, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/yepapi/top-up/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Pullbay, $9 monthly, Hobby, GET /google-maps/place/reviews](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/pullbay/9-monthly-hobby-get-google-maps-place-reviews/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Outscraper, pay as you go, Medium Tier](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-reviews-apis/outscraper/pay-as-you-go-medium-tier/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% 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://business.yelp.com/data/products/places-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/fusion-faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/fusion-intro?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/fusion-rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/docs/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_reviews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://docs.developer.yelp.com/reference/v3_business_reviews.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing
- https://terms.yelp.com/developers/api_terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-reviews-api-pricing