TinEye

Free and paid

The pages that opened on 24 Oct 2026 printed no dollar price for TinEye. Is TinEye free to use, last updated on March 27, 2019, says TinEye is free for non-commercial use and that commercial use is the TinEye API, where you purchase bundles of searches. Purchasing search bundles, last updated on March 5, 2025, says the bundles come in four sizes: 5,000, 10,000, 50,000, and 1,000,000 searches. It says bundles are valid for two years from the date of purchase. It describes auto top-up and pay-as-you-go, both triggered when 25% of the current bundle remains. It does not print a dollar amount for any size. No SPDX field was printed on the services homepage or the help articles. The guessed path https://services.tineye.com/TinEyeAPI/pricing returned HTTP 404 and is not a price. The index article’s “billions of images” is not a fee and is not a single count.

The services homepage is titled TinEye Services and says TinEye is an image search and recognition company. The footer is © 2026 Idée Inc., and the same footer says TinEye is a registered trademark of Idée Inc. The product list on that page is MatchEngine, TinEye API, TinEye Alerts, WineEngine, MobileEngine, and MulticolorEngine. The TinEye API blurb says it searches TinEye’s index and names large-scale reverse image search, image and profile verification, UGC moderation, copyright compliance, and fraud detection. https://services.tineye.com/TinEyeAPI and https://tineye.com/ both stopped on a Cloudflare check in Chrome. Curl to tineye.com returned HTTP 403.

• Free for non-commercial use. The help article last updated 27 March 2019 says the website is free for non-commercial use and points commercial use at the API.
• Four bundle sizes, no dollars. 5,000, 10,000, 50,000, and 1,000,000 searches, valid for two years. The 5 March 2025 article prints no dollar amount.
• The index says billions. The 13 March 2025 index article says billions of images and says social media images are not typically added. It prints no single count.

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   Treat a match as a page where the image appeared. Do not read it as the name of a person.

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   Quote the 2019 non-commercial sentence and the 2025 bundle sizes as separate pages. Do not add a dollar the articles omit.

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   Leave the index size as billions. Do not replace that word with a single figure this review did not see.

• A match page is about to be briefed as the name of a person. On 24 Oct 2026 the help article What is TinEye, last updated 24 February 2025, says the engine uses image recognition rather than keywords, metadata, or watermarks. A result is a page where a similar image was found. tineye.com itself returned HTTP 403, so this listing has no result grid to cite.
• The 2019 free sentence is about to be given a dollar. Is TinEye free to use, last updated 27 March 2019, says the site is free for non-commercial use and sends commercial use to the API. Purchasing search bundles, last updated 5 March 2025, lists 5,000, 10,000, 50,000, and 1,000,000 searches, valid for two years, and prints no dollar amount.
• The index is about to be given one size. About the TinEye index, last updated 13 March 2025, says billions of images and says social media images are not typically added. It does not print a single count. A miss can mean the picture was never crawled. No SPDX field was printed on the services homepage.

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