Google offers two official routes to its reviews, and neither needs a proxy. A business owner can pull every review of a verified profile through the Business Profile API. For any other place, the Places API returns at most five reviews, and its terms forbid saving them. Google's Maps terms forbid bulk downloads and saving user reviews, and a proxy changes none of that.
Your own reviews: the Business Profile API
Google's guide says to "List all reviews of a location to audit reviews in bulk" with its reviews.list method. The method "Returns the paginated list of reviews for the specified location". It works only when the location is verified. Each page holds up to 50 reviews, and the answer carries the average rating and the total review count.
The same API can reply to a review and delete a reply. Access needs approval from Google: a profile "verified and active for 60+ days", and an application through its contact form. An approved project shows a quota of 300 queries per minute.
Without the API, you can read and reply to reviews in the profile itself, once the business is verified. Google checks each reply against its content policies. That usually takes up to 10 minutes, and sometimes up to 30 days.
Reviews of other places: the Places API
For a place you do not own, Place Details returns a "List of reviews about this place, sorted by relevance". The same line adds: "A maximum of 5 reviews can be returned." Asking for reviews triggers the most expensive Place Details SKU, called Enterprise + Atmosphere.
These are its prices on Google's list, last updated on 28 September 2026, in US dollars:
| monthly events | price per 1,000 events |
|---|---|
| the first 1,000 | free |
| up to 100,000 | $25.00 |
| 100,001 to 500,000 | $20.00 |
| 500,001 to 1,000,000 | $15.00 |
| 1,000,001 to 5,000,000 | $7.50 |
| over 5,000,000 | $2.28 |
Google bills each request "at the highest SKU applicable to your request", so every lookup that asks for reviews counts as one Enterprise + Atmosphere event. At those prices, 10,000 lookups with reviews in one month cost $225. The first 1,000 are free, and the other 9,000 cost $25.00 per 1,000.
Two rules come with the data. You "must not pre-fetch, cache, or store Places API content beyond the allowed exceptions". The exceptions are the place ID, which you may keep, and latitude and longitude, for up to 30 days. Reviews are not among them.
You must also credit the author of each review you show: the avatar, name and profile link when space allows, and at least the avatar. Each review must link to its source on Google Maps, and a notice must say how the reviews are ordered and filtered. Each answer can carry a link "to show reviews of this place on Google Maps", for anyone who wants to read all of them there.
What Google's terms say about scraping reviews
The Maps Platform terms have a clause titled "No Scraping". One of its examples is to "copy and save business names, addresses, or user reviews". The terms for people who use Google Maps forbid them to "mass download or create bulk feeds of the content". The Google Terms of Service list automated access against the robots.txt instructions of Google pages as abuse. Google's robots.txt closes some review paths, such as /local/place/reviews/, but it allows the place pages of Google Maps. The Maps terms are the rules that hold whatever the path.
A proxy changes the address a request comes from. It changes none of these rules.
Google also removes reviews that are not genuine. Its Maps policy says "Fake engagement is not allowed and will be removed." It also forbids businesses to offer payment, discounts or free goods in exchange for a review.
When a review breaks the rules
If a review on your profile breaks Google's policies, you can report it from the profile or from the Reviews Management Tool. Google says only reviews that violate its policies are "eligible for removal". It also asks owners not to report a review "just because you disagree with it or dislike it". Evaluation "typically takes several days", and the tool shows the status of each report. If you disagree with the decision, you can submit a one-time appeal.
Where a proxy fits
For Google reviews, it does not fit. Reviews open in a browser, owners pull theirs through the Business Profile API, and other places come through the Places API. A proxy would only help to collect and store reviews outside those routes, which the terms forbid.
If you want to see how your profile ranks in other cities, our Google local results page shows how Google places a search. It also covers the one check by hand where a city proxy fits. Our Google Maps page covers the rest of the Places API and its prices.
For other work where a proxy is allowed, start with what a residential proxy is. Our free proxy list and proxy checker cost nothing. Residential traffic starts at $0.44/GB, and every plan is on our pricing page.
The limits of this page
We read Google's documentation, terms and help pages as text, from our server. We did not call either API, so we did not test the five-review limit or a real bill. Prices and terms change, and the price list was last updated on 28 September 2026. This page does not say whether reviews can be exported from the profile screen. It also does not cover the laws of any country. This page is due for a check by 3 January 2027.
Sources
Every Google page below was read on 3 October 2026, from our server in St. Louis.
- Google for Developers, Business Profile APIs: the reviews.list method and Work with review data.
- Google for Developers, Business Profile APIs prerequisites.
- Google for Developers, Places API (New): the Place resource, Place Details and Policies and attributions.
- Google for Developers, Google Maps Platform core services pricing list, last updated 28 September 2026.
- Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform Terms of Service, last modified 26 August 2026, and Service Specific Terms.
- Google for Developers, Places API Usage and Billing.
- Google, the robots.txt file of google.com.
- Google, Google Maps Additional Terms of Service, last modified 27 January 2026.
- Google, Terms of Service, effective 30 July 2026.
- Google, Maps User Generated Content Policy, Prohibited and restricted content.
- Google Business Profile Help, Manage customer reviews and Report inappropriate reviews.
