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Cost to scrape Yelp at 10K, 100K, and 1M
Published Yelp scraping rates, plan costs at three billable volumes, access facts, protections, and the official API option.
Access
Protections in the way
Terms
What you scrape moves the bill more than who you buy from. A target that forces JavaScript rendering or a residential exit multiplies the meter before any plan is chosen.
What each vendor charges for this target
| Product | Costs | Source |
|---|---|---|
| SerpApi | 1 search | source |
| ScrapingDog | 4 credit | source |
Access fact, checked 2026-07-26: Yelp’s Terms prohibit robots, spiders, scrapers, and other automated means except as expressly permitted by Yelp or its robots.txt file (Source).
Cost to scrape Yelp at 10K, 100K, and 1M table
| Route | 10K | 100K | 1M | Billing rule and source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API: Yelp Scraper API | Not published | Not published | Not published | Target endpoint is documented, but no target-specific public rate is in the record | 2026-07-26 |
| Yelp Places API | Rate not in target record | Rate not in target record | Rate not in target record | The Starter plan documents a 300-request daily limit; higher-volume access uses paid plans. | 2026-07-26 |
The comparison uses 10,000, 100,000, and 1,000,000 billable target calls or delivered results per month, calculated on 2026-07-26. It does not claim those calls all become useful rows. Credit, request, result, and search meters are passed through the dataset quote model, which selects the least expensive published self-service offer that covers each volume. A starting USD rate is shown as a lower bound because an unpublished minimum, tier, or contract can raise the invoice. Retries, pagination, duplicate outputs, taxes, and data licensing are outside these figures.
No public target price was found
The dataset contains no published surcharge or target-specific unit rate for Yelp. A vendor may document a dedicated endpoint without publishing what that endpoint costs at these volumes. Those rows remain “Not published” rather than borrowing a generic request price, because a generic price does not prove target support, residential routing, rendering, parser coverage, or the target-specific contract. The unknown is the answer until a first-party rate is published.
Rendering and access change the job
This record classifies Yelp as hard and records rate limiting, CAPTCHA, bot detection and fingerprinting, IP reputation checks, geographic variation or restriction, dynamic rendering. JavaScript rendering is required in the recorded profile, so a plain HTML request is not the same workload. Residential routing is recorded as needed, but no generic proxy multiplier is silently added: the table applies only a vendor’s explicit target meter.
Location search, business detail, review text, photos, and availability are separate outputs with different official coverage.
The official route is a separate product decision
Yelp Places API is recorded as available. Requires a Yelp developer app and API key; available fields and limits depend on the product plan. The Starter plan documents a 300-request daily limit; higher-volume access uses paid plans. Places API can replace page scraping for supported business data, subject to product-plan fields and limits. Source and access status checked 2026-07-26.
Endpoint evidence and the remaining unknown
The dataset confirms 1 dedicated endpoint or template. This proves named target support in the cited product documentation. It does not prove that each endpoint has a public target-specific price.
- Yelp Scraper API is documented, while its target-specific price remains unpublished in this record.
What volume means for Yelp
One useful unit is one business observation with the required place fields, review coverage, and refresh date. Discovery and enrichment are separate: Business Search finds IDs for a term and location, while business details and any review work are follow-up operations for selected IDs (Yelp Business Search, retrieved 2026-07-27).
Yelp Business Search accepts up to 50 results per call and returns at most 240 businesses for one search. A query that reaches that cap therefore requires up to five search calls before detail requests are added. Bright Data’s dedicated Yelp endpoint returns structured business records, which changes the vendor unit from rendered pages to delivered records (Yelp Business Search, retrieved 2026-07-27; Bright Data Yelp Scraper API, retrieved 2026-07-27).
The official Places API can answer the same discovery and business-detail question when its schema and plan cover the required fields. It does not promise every review, photo, availability signal, or rendered-page element, so the field list determines whether it is a full substitute (Yelp Places rate limits and plans, retrieved 2026-07-27).
Evidence to check before buying
- Bright Data operates a separate Yelp Scraper API brightdata.com.
- Yelp provides a rate-limited first-party Places API that covers many common buyer needs docs.developer.yelp.com.
- Yelp’s terms explicitly address automated extraction tools terms.yelp.com.
- Confirm the exact entity and output unit, whether a page, search, result, record, or API object. Then multiply by pagination and refresh frequency before selecting a plan.
- Fix the required country or market before pricing. The recorded geographic variation means one nominal URL can represent different jobs.