# Google Maps Reviews API. Pay per record.

> Google Maps reviews as JSON: text, stars, date, reviewer and owner response. Sort newest or by rating. From $0.000225 per review.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google_maps/reviews-api · Updated 2026-10-21

Get the reviews for up to ten Google Maps places: the text, the stars, the date, the reviewer and the owner's response. Sort by newest, most relevant, highest or lowest rating, priced per review returned.

- Price: $0.000225 / review
- Billed: Per record
- Free to start: $0.10
- Endpoint: POST /v1/google_maps

## What people build with the Google Maps Reviews API

- **Reputation monitoring.** Pull the newest reviews for every one of your locations and flag the low ones before they sit unanswered.
- **Competitor review analysis.** Read what customers praise and complain about at the places you compete with, sorted lowest rating first.
- **Feed an agent.** Give your agent a place's latest reviews before it writes a reply, a summary or a report.

## Quote it, then run it

1. free quote: the exact price, nothing charged:

```bash
curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/google_maps \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"reviews","subjects":["ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4"],"sort":"newest","limit":25,"estimateOnly":true}'
```

2. the same call, run:

```bash
curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/google_maps \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"reviews","subjects":["ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4"],"sort":"newest","limit":25}'
```

## Inputs

Everything you can send in one reviews call. Required inputs first.

| Input | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| subjects * | text list | Maps URLs carrying a place id or cid, or bare ChIJ… place ids. 1-10 items |
| sort | enum |  |
| limit | integer | 1-100 |

## What comes back

The fields of every row, always present. Nothing is guessed: a value that could not be measured is null, and the answer's coverage says why.

| Field | Type |
|---|---|
| reviewId | string |
| reviewUrl | string |
| reviewText | string |
| stars | number |
| postedAt | string |
| reviewer | string |
| reviewerId | string |
| reviewerUrl | string |
| reviewerPhoto | string |
| reviewerTotalReviews | integer |
| localGuide | boolean |
| reviewLikes | integer |
| originalLanguage | string |
| translatedLanguage | string |
| translatedText | string |
| ownerResponse | string |
| ownerResponseDate | string |
| reviewContext | any |
| reviewImageUrls | string |
| details | object |

details is always the last field: everything else the source sent for that row, under our own field names. Its keys depend on the source that answered, so read them defensively; it is {} when there is nothing more.

## A sample answer

Made-up names and values in the real field names, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

| reviewer | stars | reviewText | localGuide | reviewerTotalReviews | reviewLikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravi K. | 5 | Great espresso and fast service. | true | 214 | 12 |
| Lena M. | 4 | Good coffee, few seats. | false | 9 | 3 |
| Sam T. | 5 | My go-to place before work. | true | 88 | 5 |

## Pricing

Pay as you go, in US dollars, per record. No subscription, nothing expires, $5 first top-up, and every new agent starts with $0.10 free.

| Request | Records | At the list price |
|---|---|---|
| One review | 1 | $0.000225 |
| 10 reviews | 10 | $0.0022 |
| A full page | 100 | $0.022 |

These are per-record list prices. Some calls also carry a minimum, such as a page of search results, so a small request can cost more than the table shows. The quote ("estimateOnly": true) is free, gives the most your exact request can cost, and the charge then settles to what came back. Records that do not come back are refunded.

## Try it without writing code

- [Open the Google Maps Reviews API in the playground](https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run?platform=google_maps&op=reviews): 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.

## Why this one, and not a scraper you run yourself

- No login, no Google Maps account, no cookies, no proxies, no browser to babysit.
- When the site changes its pages, your request stays the same: keeping the reads working is our job, not yours.
- A fetch that fails costs nothing: it is named in the answer with a reason, and the quote says the most a call can cost before it runs.

## Use it from your tools

- [Google Maps in n8n](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/n8n/google_maps)
- [Google Maps in Make](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/make/google_maps)
- [Google Maps in Zapier](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/zapier/google_maps)
- [Google Maps in Python](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/python/google_maps)
- [Google Maps in LangChain](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/langchain/google_maps)
- [Google Maps in Claude Code](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/claude-code/google_maps)

## Questions

### What does the Google Maps Reviews API return?

One row per review: the reviewer's name, the stars, the review text, whether the reviewer is a Local Guide, how many reviews they have written, likes on the review, when it was posted, the owner's response and its date, the review id and URL, and the reviewer id and URL.

### What do I pass in?

Up to ten places, as Google Maps URLs that carry a place id or cid, or bare ChIJ place ids. Optional: sort (newest, relevance, rating_high or rating_low) and a limit of 1 to 100.

### How much does it cost?

$0.000225 per review at the list price. A small call can carry a minimum, so quote first with "estimateOnly": true, which is free and is the most the call can cost. You pay for what comes back.

## 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?platform=google_maps&op=reviews (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