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Google Reviews API Pricing
Google charges for reviews only through the Places API: any Place Details call that asks for reviews is billed under the Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere SKU, at $25 per 1,000 calls after 1,000 free calls a month, falling to $20 and $15 at higher volumes. The Google Business Profile API, the one that returns all reviews of your own locations, has no per-call fee; you pay in approval time instead. This guide is part of our Google Reviews API guide.
Prices from Google Maps Platform’s pricing list, checked November 10, 2026. List prices in USD; your contract or region may differ.
How much does the Google Places API charge for reviews?
Places API (New) bills by SKU, and the SKU depends on the fields in your field mask. Ask for reviews and the whole call is billed at the top SKU:
| Monthly calls (Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere) | Price per 1,000 calls |
|---|---|
| 0–1,000 | Free |
| 1,001–100,000 | $25.00 |
| 100,001–500,000 | $20.00 |
| 500,001–1,000,000 | $15.00 |
| 1,000,001–5,000,000 | $7.50 |
| Over 5,000,000 | $2.28 |
How do the other Place Details SKUs compare?
If you don’t need review text, leave reviews out of the field mask. rating and userRatingCount alone don’t need the Atmosphere SKU:
| SKU | Free calls a month | First-tier price per 1,000 | Includes reviews? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place Details Essentials | 10,000 | $5.00 | No |
| Place Details Pro | 5,000 | $17.00 | No |
| Place Details Enterprise | 1,000 | $20.00 | No |
| Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere | 1,000 | $25.00 | Yes (max 5 per place) |
Check which SKU each field triggers in Google’s Place Details docs before you ship; one extra field can move every call to a pricier SKU.
What does a real Google reviews integration cost?
Worked examples at list price, one Place Details call with reviews per place per check:
| Scenario | Calls a month | Billable after 1,000 free | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 place, checked hourly | 720 | 0 | $0 |
| 10 places, checked hourly | 7,200 | 6,200 | $155 |
| 1,000 places, checked daily | 30,000 | 29,000 | $725 |
| 100 places, checked hourly | 72,000 | 71,000 | $1,775 |
And for each call you get at most 5 reviews, by relevance, which you’re not allowed to store. Checking more often doesn’t get you more reviews; it gets you a bigger bill.
Is the Google Business Profile API free?
There’s no per-call price. The costs are elsewhere:
- Approval. A Business Profile verified for 60+ days, a website, and an application; 0 QPM until Google says yes. Steps in Google Business Profile API access.
- Engineering. OAuth per Google account, token refresh, pagination, Pub/Sub for real-time.
- Scope. Only locations you own or manage.
What do third-party Google reviews APIs cost?
Data providers and scraping APIs sell Google reviews per 1,000 reviews or per request, usually far below the Places API per review, and without the 5-review cap. They’re not official Google APIs, so price isn’t the only thing to compare: read Google Reviews API vs scraper before choosing one.
How much does it cost to read Google reviews with Prisma?
Prisma reads the public Google reviews of places you own or manage through its Google Maps connector, using a data provider. From our plan configuration:
| Plan | Price | Paid reads included | Google reviews that buys (≈20 per read) | Cost per 1,000 reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spark | €0 | 100 free reads, once | About 2,000 | €0 |
| Spark + read pack | €6 a month | 250 a month | About 5,000 | About €1.20 |
| Beam | €49 a month | 2,500 a month | About 50,000 | About €0.98 |
| Spectrum | €149 a month | 7,500 a month | About 150,000 | About €0.99 |
Plan prices also include the locations, the other 80+ platforms (many of them free, on official APIs), webhooks and history. Prisma’s Google connection is read only today; replying on Google from Prisma depends on Google approving Prisma’s Business Profile API access. See pricing.
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-H "Authorization: Bearer pk_test_YOUR_KEY"How do you keep Google reviews API costs down?
- Trim the field mask. Ask for
reviewsonly when you’ll show them. - Cache place IDs, not reviews. Place IDs can be stored indefinitely; review text can’t.
- Check less often. Reviews of most places change a few times a week, not hourly.
- Use the owner route for your own locations. The Business Profile API has no per-call fee and returns every review.
- Set a budget alert in Google Cloud Billing before you go live.
FAQ
Is the Google Reviews API free?
Partly. The Places API gives 1,000 free calls with reviews a month, then charges $25 per 1,000. The Business Profile API has no per-call fee but needs Google’s approval.
How much does the Google Places API cost per review?
Google charges per call, not per review. A call with reviews costs $0.025 in the first tier and returns at most 5 reviews, so at best about half a cent per review shown.
Did Google remove the $200 monthly credit?
Google Maps Platform now lists free monthly calls per SKU, such as 1,000 for Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere, on its pricing page. Check your billing account for any credit that still applies to you.
Why is my Places API bill higher than expected?
Usually because the field mask includes reviews or other Atmosphere fields, which bills every call at the highest Place Details SKU, or because the integration polls far more often than reviews change.
What’s the cheapest way to get all reviews of my own business?
The Google Business Profile API (no per-call fee, after approval) or Google Takeout for a one-off copy. Prisma reads them from Google Maps for about €1 per 1,000 reviews on paid plans.
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