TinEye review
A strong choice for professional image verification, with paid plans starting at $200 monthly.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
TinEye is a reverse image search and image recognition service for professionals who need to verify images, research copyright, identify stock photos, locate higher-resolution versions, or detect duplicates. Searches support image upload, paste, drag-and-drop, and image URLs. TinEye can find exact matches and modified versions, including cropped, resized, or edited images. It is available through the web, API, and Chrome extension, with free public searching for non-commercial use.
The published plans show a clear split between free public searching and paid commercial services. Starter costs $200 per month for up to 5,000 images and 1,000 monthly searches. Basic costs $500 per month for up to 50,000 images and 30,000 monthly searches. Corporate costs $1,500 per month for up to 500,000 images and 150,000 monthly searches. Enterprise supports up to 500 million images and up to 50 million monthly searches, with custom pricing. Paid capabilities include commercial API access and MatchEngine for duplicate and modified-image detection in customer collections.
TinEye’s strongest fit is exact-match verification that benefits from sorting, comparison, and filtering. Results can be sorted by best match, biggest image, most changed, newest, or oldest, then filtered by domain, image collection, or stock-photo source. Browser extensions add right-click searching, while the commercial API supports image verification, moderation, copyright compliance, and fraud detection. Choose TinEye when image matching and tracking justify a commercial subscription; choose another approach when facial recognition, image-content recognition, object detection, or image classification is required.
TinEye pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Finds exact, cropped, resized, and edited image matches
- Filters results by domain, collection, or stock-photo source
- Offers comparison tools, extensions, APIs, and MatchEngine
- Where it doesn't
- Paid plans start at $200 per month
- Enterprise pricing is custom
- Does not provide facial recognition or image-content recognition
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