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How to Delete a Google Review: Form, Costs & Guide

Whether it's your own review you want to take back, or someone else's that's hurting your business: in this guide you'll learn how to delete a Google review – free via the report form, as a business via the official management tools, and, if needed, permanently via an agency. Plus: how to tell whether a review was really removed.

MMaximilian Hölzl · Google Expert & Co-Founder7 min readUpdated: June 2026
NoteThis article is a practical guide and not legal advice.

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Delete your own Google review

A review you wrote yourself you can remove for free at any time:

  1. Open Google Maps on your computer or in the app and sign in.
  2. Click the menu and then “Your contributions” or “Reviews”.
  3. Find the review, click the three-dot menu and choose “Delete review”.
  4. Confirm the action.

This only works for your own reviews. Third-party reviews about your business you can't delete directly – only report.

Have a third-party review removed: the form

If a third-party review is hurting your business, proceed like this:

  1. Open your Google Business Profile and go to the reviews.
  2. Next to the review in question, click the three-dot menu and then “Report review”.
  3. In the form, choose the relevant violation (e.g. false information, off topic, conflict of interest).
  4. Via the Google tool for managing reviews you can track the status and bundle several reports.

Important: a removal only happens if Google finds a guideline violation. Pure expressions of opinion about real experiences are usually not removed.

What does it cost to have a review removed?

RouteCostSuccess
Report yourself (form)freeoften low
Cheap providersapprox. $20 – 55 / reviewhighly variable
Specialist lawyers (single review)approx. $110 – 175 / reviewapprox. 90%, slow
Single-review removal (RapidRemove)$179 / removed review ($229 if older than 4 weeks)approx. 90 % (≤ 4 weeks), approx. 50 % (older) – pay only if removed
Profile removal (RapidRemove)fixed price, payable after successguaranteed (all reviews gone)

Free vs. paid: what works?

The free route via the form is always worth a first attempt – especially for obvious spam. The reality, however, is sobering: Google checks largely automatically and rejects many reports with standard boilerplate. If that fails, professional removal is the next step – for example RapidRemove's single-review removal, where you only pay for reviews that are actually removed. Look for a success fee – that way you bear no cost risk if the removal doesn't work.

How do I know a review was deleted?

A deleted review disappears from your profile, and your average rating and the number of reviews adjust. You're not shown a direct “deleted” status; the most reliable indicator is that the review and its star rating are no longer visible and the average changes accordingly. Document the starting state with a screenshot beforehand to have a before-and-after comparison.

Permanent solution: have the whole profile removed

If the form doesn't work and several reviews are permanently damaging your profile, profile removal is the most direct route (see: how to delete a Google Business Profile). The key difference: with this method RapidRemove doesn't go review by review but removes the entire Google Business Profile – all reviews disappear with it. The result is a clean slate instead of fighting over every star.

ImportantProfile removal removes the entire profile, not a single review. Anyone who only wants to remove one or a few reviews and keep the profile can report them, take the legal route – or use RapidRemove's removal of individual reviews: you pay per review actually removed, only on success (prices & process).

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. In Google Maps open “Your contributions”, select the review and click “Delete review” in the three-dot menu. It's free and possible at any time.

Yes. Via the three-dot menu next to the review you reach “Report review” and thus the report form. Track the status via the Google tool for managing reviews.

Your own reviews yes. Third-party reviews you can report for free – whether Google removes them isn't guaranteed. For reliable removal there are paid services with a success fee.

The review disappears from the profile and the average and review count change. No explicit status is shown – a before screenshot helps with the comparison.

From free (self-report) to $20–55 (cheap services) to $110–175 per review with a lawyer. RapidRemove's single-review removal costs $179 per removed review ($229 if older than 4 weeks, volume discount from 3 reviews); for profile removal there's a fixed price – both payable only after success.

Yes: remove a single Google review. You pay only on success; star-only ratings without text are removed as complex cases ($300 per removed review). Reviews up to 4 weeks old: approx. 90 % success chance, $179 each; older ones: approx. 50 %, $229 each. Volume discount: 3+ reviews −10 %, 5+ −15 %, 10+ −30 %. If the profile is damaged across the board, removing the entire profile with all its reviews remains the more thorough route.

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Last updated: June 2026 · not legal advice
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Maximilian Hölzl
Google Expert & Co-Founder