Comparisons / Yelp
Fiducia vs Yelp
Yelp discourages asking for reviews and sells its review API by the call with short excerpts only. Fiducia lets you invite customers and gives the full text away as open JSON.
| Yelp | Fiducia | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | Ads from about $150 a month; Upgrade Package about $180 a month (third-party figures: Yelp's page refused our checker). | Pro: €19 or $19 per month, cancel anytime (bulk invites: up to 500 customers at once, as a CSV of single-use links). |
| Free plan | Yes: a free business page. | Free forever: your public page, single-use invite links, public replies, the embeddable badge and the open API. |
| AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) | Not verified: Yelp refused our automated requests, robots.txt included. | Allowed. robots.txt blocks no AI crawler, and llms.txt lists every business page. |
| Structured data (schema.org AggregateRating) | Not verified. | Yes: Organization, AggregateRating and Review on every page, server-rendered. |
| Your data if you leave | Strong: the Places API is paid ($7.99–14.99 per 1,000 calls) and returns 3–7 review excerpts of 160 characters. | None. Every page is public HTML and every summary is open JSON (CORS open), so anyone can read or copy it. |
| How fake reviews are kept out | Businesses cannot delete reviews and should not ask for them: solicited reviews get filtered out. | A review counts only after the reviewer confirms an email address; invited reviews are marked as such; the history is append-only, so edits never silently replace earlier text. |
When Yelp is the better choice
You run a restaurant or local service in the US where Yelp traffic is a real share of your customers.
When Fiducia is the better choice
You want to ask your customers for reviews openly, and to show the full text on your site and to AI assistants without paying per call.
Questions
Can I ask customers for Yelp reviews?
Yelp says no: solicited reviews may be filtered. On Fiducia invitations are the normal way in and are labelled as verified invites.
Can I embed my full Yelp reviews?
Only excerpts through the paid API. Fiducia's badge and JSON API are free and return full text.
How much does Fiducia cost?
Fiducia is free for the page, the badge and single invites; Pro (€19 or $19 a month) only adds bulk invites.
See your own page
Every business already has an open Fiducia page. Claiming it is free: we email a sign-in link to an address on your domain.
Facts about Yelp checked on 29 September 2026 from: docs.developer.yelp.com, biz.yelp.com. Prices change: tell us if one is out of date.