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Google Maps reviews dataset in 2026

Prices compared, places as rows.

Bright Data sells its Google Maps reviews dataset, 41.6M records, at up to $0.0025 a record, with a $250 minimum order. Apify and Outscraper scrape the reviews of places you name, from $0.30 and $3 per 1,000 reviews.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the places you track, and Deep Search returns each one as a row with its Google Maps rating and review count, from 5¢, rerun as often as hourly.

Describe the places you track

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Google Maps review data sources side by side

SpecStreamBright Data Google maps reviews datasetApify Google Maps Reviews Scraper
What you ask forThe places you track in plain words, with the conditions every row must meet: the kind of business, the city, a minimum rating or review count, a service named on its own siteA pick from its Google Maps datasets, narrowed by filters or by one prompt in plain English. A record limit picks the records at randomGoogle Maps place URLs, with a maximum number of reviews per place
What a row carriesOne place per row: its name, address, Google Maps rating, review count and the facts you name, such as the website, the email and the services from its own site. Source URL and read time on every valueOne review per record: URL, place ID, place name, country, address, review ID, reviewer name, reviews by reviewer, photos by reviewer, reviewer URL and more, with the owner's responseOne review per result: review text, published date, response from owner, review URL and the reviewer's details
How old the data isRead from the live web during your run, with the read time on every valueRecords collected in advance, refreshed monthlyRead from Google Maps when you run it
The unit you pay forA delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs. A place with up to 5 facts is a 5¢ row. Only rows that meet every condition are billedA record, at up to $0.0025, which is $2.50 per 1,000 reviewsA scraped review, from $0.30 per 1,000
Smallest start$10 of credit on sign-up, no card. A top-up starts at $10$250 per marketplace order$5 of free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan. The $19 a month Starter plan covers over 42,000 reviews a month
A custom datasetEvery request is a custom dataset: the places and facts you write, priced at the same row rates and quoted before it runsOne prompt sets the filters, and a subset with only the data points you need costs less. A dataset of your own is built in Scraper Studio, at $1.5 per 1,000 page loads after 5K free a monthThe places you list by URL, one run at a time
Scheduled deliveryA saved request reruns hourly to yearly, inside the spending limits you setDaily, weekly, monthly or custom updates, on schedules you create. Biannual, quarterly and monthly plans on its Google Maps datasets save up to 25%, 50% and 80%Runs you schedule and monitor on Apify
Only what changedEach row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢Smart data updates send only "New Records" or "Updated Records", and you pay for those recordsEach run reads the places you send again, up to the maximum reviews per place
Where the data goesGoogle Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooksJSON, NDJSON, JSON Lines, CSV or Parquet files, sent to Snowflake, Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Azure or SFTPThe Apify API, or the other tools you connect
MCP and APIMCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. An agent can buy one request with no account, by card or in USDCA snapshot download API for the dataset you boughtThe Apify API, to run the actor and read its results

Why Google Maps review data buyers move to SpecStream

The places you track, with their ratings

A reviews dataset sells one record per review, so the question you start from, which places in my category rate how and which are slipping, is a count you write yourself. SpecStream starts from that question. Write the places you track, such as "dental clinics in Austin, TX with their Google Maps rating and review count", and each row is one place with the facts you named. A condition can be any trait a page states, such as "rated under 4.0 with at least 50 reviews" or "offers emergency visits on its own site", and each row shows the page that states it.

18,031 places already read from Google Maps

On Nov 12, 2026, specstream.ai/data/places listed 18,031 local businesses in 355 categories across 390 cities in 12 countries, each with its rating, review count and website, read from its Google Maps listing. The 165 coffee shops in Austin, TX average 4.6 across 114,984 reviews. Any other place, in any city, comes from the live web when you ask.

Start with $10, not a $250 order

The smallest Bright Data order is $250. On SpecStream you get $10 of credit on sign-up, no card, and pay for the rows that meet your request: 5¢ for a row with up to 5 facts, 15¢ for up to 15 facts and one set of related records, and $1 for a deep row with no limit. 200 places with name, address, rating, review count and website cost $10, and 1,000 cost $50. The most a run can cost is quoted before it starts, and rows you already own are never charged again.

Every rating change, labeled

Bright Data updates its Google reviews dataset daily, weekly, monthly or on a custom basis, and its smart data updates send only new or updated records at the same price per record. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly, and each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, so a competitor whose rating dropped comes back labeled changed. A changed or new row costs half its rate (3¢, 8¢ or 50¢), and an unchanged row 1¢: tracking 500 places monthly costs $5 when nothing moved and $15 when every place did. The rows land in Slack, email, Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce or a signed webhook, or in your agent through the MCP server.

Other Google Maps reviews dataset options

Compass Google Maps Reviews Scraper on Apify

An Apify actor from $0.30 per 1,000 scraped reviews, with review text, published date, owner response and reviewer details. You give it place URLs and a maximum number of reviews per place, and Apify's $19 a month Starter plan covers over 42,000 reviews. SpecStream finds the places that meet your conditions, then puts their rating and review count in one row each.

IBLead Google Maps Reviews Scraper on Apify

A lookup actor at $0.30 per 1,000 reviews, with up to 500 reviews per business, from the place IDs or Google Maps URLs you provide. SpecStream starts from a description of the places, so you do not need their IDs first.

Outscraper Google Maps Reviews Scraper

A reviews scraper billed by usage: the first 500 reviews are free, then $3 per 1,000 up to 100,000 reviews and $1 per 1,000 above, downloaded as CSV, Excel or JSON. SpecStream returns each place with its rating and review count as one row, from $10 of credit, and sends the changes to your tools on a schedule.

Bright Data Scraper Studio

Bright Data's builder for a custom dataset of your own, at $1.5 per 1,000 page loads after 5K free page loads a month. You pay for each page loaded, whatever it holds. SpecStream bills per delivered row and quotes the most a run can cost before it starts.

How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

SpecStreamParallelExaTavilyPerplexity
Web researchWideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna60.945.553.047.947.0
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna9694919494
Factual accuracySimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol9997919295

How to switch from a Google Maps reviews dataset

Write the places you track in plain words, in place of the dataset filters you would set. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is 200 places with their rating and review count.

Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.

curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"request": "Dental clinics in Austin, TX with their Google Maps rating and review count, the address and the website", "count": 25}'

Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance. To keep the rows up to date, save the request and choose how often it reruns.

Need the businesses themselves? See Google Maps dataset. Comparing all of Bright Data's products? See Bright Data alternatives.

Describe the places you track

Frequently asked questions

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How much does the Bright Data Google Maps reviews dataset cost?
Up to $0.0025 a record, which is $2.50 per 1,000 reviews, with a $250 minimum order. The dataset holds 41.6M records, refreshed monthly, and subscriptions to Bright Data's Google Maps datasets save up to 25% biannual, 50% quarterly and 80% monthly.
What is the best Google Maps reviews dataset alternative?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, with $10 of credit to start. You describe the places in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get one row per place with its Google Maps rating, review count and the facts you named, read from the live web.
Can I get only new or updated Google Maps reviews?
Yes: Bright Data's smart data updates send only "New Records" or "Updated Records" daily, weekly, monthly or on a custom basis. A saved SpecStream request reruns hourly to yearly, labels each place changed, unchanged or no longer matching, and charges half the row rate for a changed place and 1¢ for an unchanged one.
How many Google Maps reviews can I scrape per place?
Up to 500 per business with IBLead's actor on Apify, and up to the maximum you set per place with Compass's actor. A SpecStream row carries the rating and review count Google Maps shows for the place, read at the time on the row.
Does Bright Data build custom Google Maps datasets?
Yes: one prompt sets the filters on its dataset, a subset carries only the data points you need, or you build your own scraper in Scraper Studio at $1.5 per 1,000 page loads. On SpecStream every request is a custom dataset, priced before it runs.
Is there a free Google Maps reviews dataset?
Outscraper gives the first 500 reviews free, and Apify's Free plan gives $5 of usage credits a month. SpecStream gives $10 of credit on sign-up, no card, which is 200 places with their rating and review count at 5¢ a row.
Does SpecStream have an MCP server?
Yes, at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp over Streamable HTTP, with OAuth or an API key. Connecting an agent is free on every plan, and it spends from the same balance as your team, inside the limits you set on its key.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

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  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
  3. SpecStream places dataspecstream.ai/data/places, read Nov 12, 2026
  4. Bright Data Google reviews datasetbrightdata.com/products/datasets/google-maps/reviews, read Nov 12, 2026
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  6. Bright Data datasetsbrightdata.com/products/datasets, read Nov 12, 2026
  7. Bright Data Marketplace pricingdocs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  8. Bright Data Marketplace purchase optionsdocs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/purchase-options, read Nov 12, 2026
  9. Bright Data Scraper Studio pricingbrightdata.com/pricing/datasets/custom, read Nov 12, 2026
  10. Compass Google Maps Reviews Scraper on Apifyapify.com/compass/google-maps-reviews-scraper, read Nov 12, 2026
  11. IBLead Google Maps Reviews Scraper on Apifyapify.com/iblead/google-maps-reviews-scraper, read Nov 12, 2026
  12. Outscraper pricingoutscraper.com/pricing/, read Nov 12, 2026