# Tripadvisor API access what it takes and what you get.

> Tripadvisor's legacy Content API is no longer updated; its new API is priced per location, for display on your own site. When a data API fits instead.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/guides/tripadvisor-api-access · Updated 2026-10-21

You sign up for Tripadvisor's new API, called Terra, to show its content on your own site or app. The legacy Content API is no longer updated. As of October 2026 Terra gives a one-time 1,000 free billable entities, then charges per entity, and its terms require attribution and allow no caching except the location ID.

- Legacy Content API: No longer updated
- Free allowance: 1,000, once
- Caching: Location ID only
- Checked: Oct 2026

## Official API or this one

Tripadvisor's side is from its Terra developer docs, seen 21 October 2026.

|  | Tripadvisor Terra API | API for Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Where results may be used | Your own website or app, with Tripadvisor's mark and a link back | Your own analysis and agents |
| Reviews per location | Set by your contract | Up to 100 per call, $0.0018 per record |
| Hotels priced for your dates | Check the current Terra docs | Yes |
| Keeping the data | Location ID only | Your rows are yours to keep |
| Daily limit | 10,000 calls a day per API on the entry package | Priced per record, with a ceiling per call (maxUsd) |
| Who can get access | Sign up as a Terra customer | Anyone. An agent signs itself up in one call and starts on a $0.10 trial |
| Price model | Per billable entity after a one-time free 1,000 | Pay as you go, from $0.0018 per record |
| Setup | Account, package, key, display rules | One API key. No Tripadvisor account or app review |

## When Tripadvisor's API is the right tool

If you run a travel site or app and want Tripadvisor ratings and reviews on your pages, with its branding, use Terra. That is the use it licenses, and the display rules come with it.

Its master terms rule out combining the content with other content and most use with AI or machine learning, beyond internal non-commercial grounding. For market research, rate checks across hotels or an agent that compares places, a data API fits better.

## What you can get here

- **[Tripadvisor Hotel Search API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/hotel-search-api).** Hotels for a destination, priced for your dates, with rating, rank and class.
- **[Tripadvisor Restaurants API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/restaurants-api).** Restaurant cuisines, rating, rank, price range, hours and menu link.
- **[Tripadvisor Attractions API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/attractions-api).** Attraction rating, rank, types, lowest ticket price and booking links.
- **[Tripadvisor Reviews API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/reviews-api).** Reviews for hotels, restaurants and attractions: title, text, rating, trip type and dates.

> **Not affiliated** API for Agents is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tripadvisor. It returns public data only: nothing behind a login.

## Operation pages

- [Tripadvisor Hotel Search API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/hotel-search-api)
- [Tripadvisor Restaurants API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/restaurants-api)
- [Tripadvisor Attractions API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/attractions-api)
- [Tripadvisor Reviews API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/tripadvisor/reviews-api)

## Questions

### Is the Tripadvisor Content API still available?

Tripadvisor's legacy Content API overview says it is no longer being updated. New integrations go through Terra.

### Is the Tripadvisor API free?

Terra grants 1,000 free billable entities once per account, not monthly, then charges per entity, as of October 2026.

### Can I store Tripadvisor API data?

Terra's caching policy allows only the location ID to be cached. Check the current terms for your use.

### What does Tripadvisor data cost here?

Priced per record, from $0.0018 per record. Quote any call first with estimateOnly, which is free.

## Sources

1. [Tripadvisor Content API (legacy): Overview](https://tripadvisor-content-api.readme.io/reference/overview), seen 21 October 2026
2. [Tripadvisor Terra: Usage-based pricing](https://docs.terra.tripadvisor.com/docs/usage-based-pricing), seen 21 October 2026
3. [Tripadvisor Terra: API access and limits](https://docs.terra.tripadvisor.com/docs/api-access-and-limits), seen 21 October 2026
4. [Tripadvisor Terra: Caching policy](https://docs.terra.tripadvisor.com/docs/caching-policy), seen 21 October 2026
5. [Tripadvisor Terra: API master terms](https://docs.terra.tripadvisor.com/docs/api-master-terms), seen 21 October 2026

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md