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Yelp pricing
Yelp publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the utilities tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Yelp pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free for consumers, advertising sold to businesses
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Yelp plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer app | Free | 1 | Entry tier |
Where Yelp stops being free
Consumer app, Free
- Free search, reviews and reservations
No paid tier on record
Yelp lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Yelp feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Business search and reviews
- Reservations and waitlist
- Yelp Guest Manager listings
- Request a Quote
- Photos and menus
- Collections and lists
People bring Yelp in for finding a nearby restaurant or service and reading recent customer reviews before visiting, booking a table at a restaurant that uses yelp for reservations, requesting quotes from local contractors or service providers for a specific job, checking a business's current hours, menu or photos before going. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Yelp are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Utilities
Too few utilities tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yelp (this page) | Free | Free for consumers, advertising sold to businesses | - | |
| Calsense | On request | quote | - | vs Yelp |
| Find My | Free | Free, built into Apple hardware and iCloud | - | vs Yelp |
| Google Lens | Free | Free, bundled into other Google apps | - | vs Yelp |
| Hazel | $42/one-time | One-time purchase | - | vs Yelp |
| Karabiner-Elements | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Yelp |
| Kap | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Yelp |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Yelp badges page.
Before you pay for Yelp
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Yelp runs on ios, android, web, and is published by Yelp Inc. of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Yelp review, and the rest of the category is under best utilities tools.
Yelp pricing questions
- How much does Yelp cost?
- Yelp publishes a single tier, Consumer app, at Free.
- Does Yelp have a free plan?
- Yes. The Consumer app tier costs nothing and covers free search, reviews and reservations.
- Which utilities tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 utilities tools listed alongside Yelp have a free tier: Find My, Google Lens, Karabiner-Elements, Kap, Deluge.
- What am I actually paying for with Yelp?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for finding a nearby restaurant or service and reading recent customer reviews before visiting, booking a table at a restaurant that uses yelp for reservations, requesting quotes from local contractors or service providers for a specific job.
- Does Yelp charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Yelp prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Yelp against before paying?
- The closest utilities tools in this directory are Calsense, Find My, Google Lens, Hazel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Yelp covering price, platforms and features.