Berify vs Open Image Search

Berify is a web service for finding online appearances of images, including possible unauthorized uses. It searches an index of over 800 million images and queries Google, Bing, Yandex, and TinEye. Its matching system looks for exact results and visually similar versions, including images that have been cropped, filtered, resized, or compressed. For video searches, Berify extracts key frames and searches those images across the same services. A free tier provides basic reverse image search; paid plans add automatic monitoring and priority processing. The 1,000 Images plan is $5.95 per month, and the 6,000 Images plan is $24.95 per month. Business costs $49.99 per month and includes API access, batch CSV search, up to five team seats, forensic PDF reports, and dedicated support with an SLA. Its reports can include source URLs, discovery dates, and visual similarity scores. Berify says uploaded images are temporarily stored for processing, then deleted, and are not added to a public database or shared with third parties. Unused searches do not roll over between monthly billing dates.

Open Image Search is an open-source reverse image search prototype for graphical collections and museums working with digitized prints and paintings. Its hosted demo searches more than 20,000 prints from the Graphische Sammlung of ETH Zürich. Collections can clone the project and run retrieval locally with their own image data. The search pipeline extracts image features with VGG16 and uses a k-nearest neighbors model to locate similar images. Image metadata can be supplied in a CSV file using column names defined in the documentation. The web interface is designed for mobile devices and can send searches from a phone camera. A Django REST Framework backend reformats uploads in memory, sends them to the feature-extraction model, and retrieves metadata for top matches. The project uses technologies including Vue, Django, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, SQLite, and Nginx. It is available as self-hosted software or a hosted web application under the MIT license. The repository is in development, prototype-stage, and read-only after archival on September 1, 2026.