Google Maps Search API
Every business for a keyword in a location, with rating, phone, address and category.
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Google Places API versus a Google Maps data API.
Use Google's Places API to show places inside your app; use a data API to collect places and reviews for analysis. As of October 2026 the Places API returns at most 5 reviews per place, and Google's policies let you store place IDs indefinitely but limit other content.
- Reviews per place
- Up to 5 (Places API)
- Stored forever
- Place IDs only
- Billing
- Required
- Checked
- Oct 2026
Updated 21 October 2026
What each is for
Google's side is from its Places API documentation, seen 21 October 2026.
| Google Places API (New) | API for Agents | |
|---|---|---|
| Search businesses by keyword and area | Text Search and Nearby Search | Yes |
| Place details | Yes, priced by the fields you ask for | Yes |
| Reviews | Up to 5 per place, by relevance | Up to 100 per call, newest or by rating, $0.000225 per record |
| Autocomplete, photos, maps in your UI | Yes | No |
| Keeping the data | Place IDs only, without limits | Your rows are yours to keep |
| Who can get access | Anyone with a Cloud project and billing | Anyone. An agent signs itself up in one call and starts on a $0.10 trial |
| Price model | Per 1,000 calls by SKU, with a free monthly cap | Pay as you go, from $0.000225 per record |
| Setup | Cloud project, billing, API key, field masks | One API key. No Google Maps account or app review |
When the Places API is the right choice
Pick Google's API when the place data is shown to a user in your product: a store finder, an address box, a booking flow. It is fast, documented and covered by Google's licence for that use, including the attribution rules.
Pick a data API when the output is a dataset: every dentist in a city with ratings, the last hundred reviews of each competitor, a weekly check on a list of venues. That is where five reviews and the storage rules get in the way.
What you can get here
Google Maps Places API
Full details for known places: rating, review count, category, address, phone, website and hours.
Google Maps Reviews API
Review text, stars, date, reviewer and owner response, sorted newest or by rating.
Operation pages
Questions people ask.
How many reviews does the Google Places API return?
At most 5 per place, sorted by relevance, according to the Place resource reference, as of October 2026.
Can I store Google Places data?
Google's policies say place IDs are exempt from caching limits and can be stored indefinitely. For other fields, check the current Google Maps Platform terms.
Does this API return Google place IDs?
Yes. Each place comes back with its place id, cid and place URL, so you can match rows with your own records.
Can I search a whole city?
Yes. The search operation takes a keyword and a location and returns up to 100 businesses per call.
Sources (4)
- Places API (New): Place resource, reviews field, seen 21 October 2026
- Places API: Policies and attributions, seen 21 October 2026
- Places API (New): Data fields and SKUs, seen 21 October 2026
- Places API: Usage and billing, seen 21 October 2026
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