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5 reviews per request vs up to 1001Lookup returns up to 100 Google reviews for a place for $0.010, where a Google Places API request returns at most 5 and costs $0.025.
Google's Place Details request returns a place's rating, hours, phone and website with at most 5 reviews, sorted by relevance. 1Lookup is built for the reviews: up to 100 of them in the order you choose, with the owner replies, the star split and the topics, and no Google Cloud project.
The Google Places API is Google's own place data service. A Place Details request that includes the reviews field is billed at $25.00 per 1,000 requests after 1,000 free a month, and returns at most 5 reviews sorted by relevance, with no paging or sort option documented. 1Lookup exports up to 100 reviews of a place for 2 credits, about $0.010 on the Starter plan.
The Places API reviews field, priced per place
Asking Google for reviews moves a Place Details request to its dearest rate and returns five of them. This is the same job as one request per place for up to 100.
Place Details with the reviews field
Google Reviews Export API
A Google place id or a Google Maps link in; up to 100 reviews out, newest, highest, lowest or most relevant first, each with the star rating, text, date, reviewer and the owner's reply.
2 credits per place that has reviews, free when a place has none
Place Details without reviews
Business Lookup API
A business name and a city in; the address, phone, website, rating and opening hours out, with no place id to look up first.
10 credits per business found
1Lookup vs Google Places API: the same criteria, side by side
Both products measured on identical criteria, with Google Places API’s numbers taken from its own published pricing.
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google.comLocal business data| Criteria | 1Lookup | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more | Pay-as-you-go by billable event (SKU), priced per 1,000 events with monthly volume tiers and a free monthly usage cap per SKU, aggregated across all projects on one billing account. The SKU that returns reviews is Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere: 1,000 free events per month, then $25.00 per 1,000 up to 100,000 events, $20.00 for 100,001 to 500,000, $15.00 for 500,001 to 1,000,000, $7.50 for 1,000,001 to 5,000,000 and $2.28 above 5,000,000. A fixed-fee subscription alternative exists (Starter $100, Essentials $275, Pro $1,200 per month) but its included-SKU lists name no Enterprise or Enterprise + Atmosphere Place Details SKU, and usage of SKUs not in a plan is charged at pay-as-you-go prices. |
| Starting price | $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise) | No monthly minimum. A Place Details request that includes the reviews field costs $25.00 per 1,000 requests after the first 1,000 free per month (pay-as-you-go). |
| Free option | Free single lookups via the online tools at 1lookup.io/tools, no account required | Free usage cap per SKU each month: 1,000 events for Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere (reviews), 1,000 for Place Details Enterprise, 5,000 for Place Details Pro and 10,000 for Place Details Essentials. Place Details Essentials (IDs Only) and Text Search Essentials (IDs Only) are listed as Unlimited with no price. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today | None published |
| Do credits expire? | Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year | Not published |
What Google Places API costs at volume
| Volume | Google Places API price | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 place requests with reviews, first 1,000 each month | Free, up to 5 reviews per request | - |
| 1,000 place requests with reviews, up to 100,000 a month | $25.00 per 1,000 requests, up to 5 reviews each | $25.00 |
| 1,000 place requests with reviews, 100,001 to 500,000 a month | $20.00 per 1,000 requests | $20.00 |
| 1,000 place requests with reviews, 500,001 to 1,000,000 a month | $15.00 per 1,000 requests | $15.00 |
| 1,000 place requests with reviews, above 5,000,000 a month | $2.28 per 1,000 requests | $2.28 |
A Places API request that returns reviews is $25.00 per 1,000 up to 100,000 requests a month and falls to $2.28 above 5,000,000, with the first 1,000 free, at most 5 reviews each. 1Lookup is $9.90 per 1,000 places on Starter for up to 100 reviews each.
Before you sign: Google Places API and 1Lookup on the operational terms
The terms that decide what a year actually costs, rather than what the first month does. “Not listed” means we could not verify it on either product’s published pages, not that the answer is nothing.
| Term | 1Lookup | Google Places API |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum commitment | None. Monthly plans with no contract and no minimum volume; cancel any time | No minimum on pay-as-you-go. Subscriptions are a fixed monthly fee and the page says you can keep your plan until you change or cancel it. |
| Going over your quota | Not listed | Subscriptions: calls exceeding the plan limit, or usage of SKUs not included in the plan, are charged at standard pay-as-you-go prices. |
| API access | Included on every plan and during the free trial; there is no tier that unlocks it | Places API (New) Web Service; Place Details is an HTTP GET to places.googleapis.com/v1/places/{placeId} with a required field mask. |
| Rate limit | 1,000 requests per minute on standard accounts, with higher limits available on request | Places API (New): the rate limit per minute is per API method per project, so each method has a separate quota. A numeric default is not printed on the pages read. |
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | 99.9% Monthly Uptime Percentage objective for Covered Services; Financial Credit of 10% (99.0% to under 99.9%), 25% (95.0% to under 99.0%) or 50% (under 95.0%) of the monthly bill for the affected service, stated as the sole and exclusive remedy. |
| Support | Starter: Email Support; Growth: Priority Email & Chat Support; Professional: Chat + Live Meeting; Enterprise: Dedicated CSM | Not listed |
Google Places API fine print worth reading twice
Published terms that change what Google Places API costs or what you can do with it. Each one links to the Google Places API page it was read on, because a claim about somebody else’s contract should be checkable in one click.
One field from the Enterprise + Atmosphere list, such as reviews, makes the entire Place Details request bill at that SKU's rate, because a request is billed at the highest SKU rate among the requested fields.
Read it on Google Places API’s siteAn Autocomplete session that ends with a Place Details call requesting any Pro, Enterprise or Enterprise + Atmosphere field is billed at the Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere SKU.
Read it on Google Places API’s siteThe free usage cap is only 1,000 events per month for the reviews SKU, against 5,000 for Pro and 10,000 for Essentials.
Read it on Google Places API’s siteThe page summary says upcoming changes include adjustments to discounts and credits, with some services moving to Legacy status, so prices and caps can change.
Read it on Google Places API’s siteAdditional discounts are at Google's discretion and must be set forth in a signed order form; the example qualification given is 10,000,000+ monthly billable events under one paid core SKU.
Read it on Google Places API’s site
1Lookup
Google Places API
Where 1Lookup wins
- Up to 100 reviews for $0.010 on Starter, against 5 reviews for $0.025 a request on the Places API once the free 1,000 a month are used
- Choose the order: newest, highest rated, lowest rated or most relevant, which the Places API does not offer
- No Google Cloud project, billing account, API key restrictions or field mask: a place id or a Maps share link is the only input
- The owner's reply, the star split and the topics reviewers mention most come back with the reviews
Where Google Places API wins
- It is Google's own first-party place data, and one Place Details request can return rating, user rating count, hours, phone, website and reviews together (field list on the Place Details page).
- There is no contract or monthly minimum on pay-as-you-go, and each SKU has a free monthly usage cap (1,000 events for the reviews SKU).
- Volume pricing falls steeply, from $25.00 to $2.28 per 1,000 Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere events above 5,000,000 a month.
- Google prints a 99.9% monthly uptime objective for Covered Services with financial credits of 10%, 25% or 50% of the monthly bill for the affected service.
- Place IDs may be stored indefinitely, and the IDs-only Place Details and Text Search SKUs are listed as Unlimited, so ID handling does not add cost.
Google Places API pricing and product facts verified against developers.google.com as of October 2026. Prices change; always confirm on the vendor’s site. 1Lookup numbers come from the live rate card.
Who this is for
A quick, honest read on which tool fits your use case.
Choose 1Lookup if: you want up to 100 reviews of a place in the order you choose, with no Google Cloud project, billing account or field mask to set up.
Consider the Google Places API instead if: you show a few current reviews next to a map inside Google's display rules, or need rating, hours, phone and website in the same first-party request, with the first 1,000 review requests a month free.
Frequently asked questions
How does Google Places API pricing work for reviews?
By billable event. A Place Details request that includes the reviews field is the Enterprise plus Atmosphere SKU: 1,000 requests free each month, then $25.00 per 1,000 up to 100,000 requests, $20.00 from 100,001 to 500,000, $15.00 to 1,000,000, $7.50 to 5,000,000 and $2.28 above that. A request is billed at the highest rate of any field in its field mask, so adding reviews to a request that would otherwise cost $5.00 per 1,000 (Essentials) or $17.00 (Pro) moves it to $25.00. Google's fixed-fee subscriptions list no Enterprise Place Details SKU, so review lookups are billed at these rates.
How many reviews does the Google Places API return?
At most 5 per place, sorted by relevance. The Place Details request takes a language and a region code, and no sort or page-token parameter is documented, so a place's full review history is not available through it. The 1Lookup export returns up to 100 reviews, in the order you pick: newest, highest rated, lowest rated or most relevant.
How much does 1Lookup charge for the same reviews?
2 credits per place that has reviews, free when a place has none, for up to 100 reviews. On the Starter plan ($99 a month for 20,000 credits) that is about $0.010 a place and 10,000 places a month, $9.90 per 1,000 places, against $25.00 per 1,000 Places API requests that return at most 5 reviews each. The first 1,000 Places API requests a month are free, so very small jobs cost nothing there.
Do I need a Google Cloud project or a place id?
Not with 1Lookup. You send your 1Lookup API key and either a Google place id or a Google Maps link to one business. The Places API needs a Google Cloud project with billing, an API key, a place id and a field mask on every request, and Place Details returns an error if the mask is left out.
Can I store reviews that come from the Places API?
Read Google's terms first. They bar caching or storing Places content other than the place ID, with latitude and longitude cacheable for 30 days, and they set display rules: results shown on a map must be on a Google Map, and the Google logo and author attribution must be shown. Check the terms of whichever source you use before you store reviews.
Where does the Google Places API beat 1Lookup?
On being Google's own service. One Place Details request returns rating, review count, hours, phone and website together with reviews, the first 1,000 reviews requests a month are free, volume pricing falls to $2.28 per 1,000 above 5,000,000 requests a month, and Google prints a 99.9% monthly uptime objective with service credits of 10%, 25% or 50% of the monthly bill. Place IDs can be stored indefinitely. A 1Lookup export is capped at 100 reviews and runs live in 5 to 12 seconds.
Is the Google Places API worth it for reviews in 2026?
For showing a few current reviews next to a map, within Google's display rules, yes. For analysing reviews, the cap of five per place and the dearest SKU are the parts to weigh: a month of 10,000 places costs $225.00 after the free 1,000 (derived: 9,000 requests at $25.00 per 1,000) and returns at most 50,000 reviews.