Search by Image review
A free visual shopping search tool for comparing similar products and prices.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Search by Image is a free web service for finding products from images. It is designed primarily for shoppers who want to identify similar items, compare prices, and continue product research across major online marketplaces. Users can upload a photo from a computer or mobile device, paste an image URL, enter a Base64 image code, or search from screenshots taken from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. A Chrome extension also supports image uploads, URL searches, and context-menu searches from images on webpages.
Its strongest fit is visual product discovery across AliExpress, Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay. The service uses visual product recognition and artificial intelligence to identify items and find similar products across those marketplaces, giving shoppers a way to move from an image to comparable listings and prices. This marketplace coverage makes it useful for price comparison and product research when the starting point is a picture rather than a product name or text query. The browser extension adds a direct workflow for researching images encountered while browsing.
Search by Image is a focused choice rather than a broad reverse image research platform. Its core emphasis is finding similar products and comparing marketplace prices, so it is better suited to shopping decisions than to tracing an image’s original source or investigating general web usage. The free model and support for web access plus a Chrome extension make it practical for solo shoppers and small-scale research. Choose it when product matching, screenshot searching, and price comparison are the priority; choose an alternative when the main requirement is broader image-source discovery or a platform beyond the web and Chrome extension.
Search by Image pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Search products across AliExpress, Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay
- Compare prices across online stores and marketplaces
- Search from uploads, URLs, Base64, screenshots, and webpages
- Where it doesn't
- Focused on product discovery rather than broad image-source finding
- Browser access is provided through the web and Chrome extension
- Best suited to solo shoppers and small-scale product research
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