Google Lens vs Trooply Visual Search API

Google Lens is a visual search tool that works from a camera, image or screenshot. It can identify plants and animals, and provide information about artwork, murals and landmarks. For shopping, Lens can find a pictured item's maker, price and sellers, with refinements for patterns, colors and sizes. It can translate text in over 100 languages and copy text to a phone or computer. In the Google app, users can ask questions about what they see and find homework explainers, videos and web results across subjects including math, history, chemistry, biology and physics. Lens in desktop Chrome lets users select web content, search it and ask questions without leaving the tab. That page-search feature requires Google as the default search engine; Google says it sends a screenshot and page data when used. Lens is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web and Windows, and is listed as free.

Trooply Visual Search API provides visual and text search for ecommerce product discovery. Queries can use an uploaded image, image URL, crop, multiple images, text, voice, or image combined with text. Results are reranked using visual similarity, product type, popularity, aspect ratio, color histogram, and category signals; queries can also be pre-filtered by category, price range, stock status, and custom fields. The service uses CLIP ViT-L/14 with 768-dimensional vectors and reports latency under 200 ms at the 95th percentile for catalogs up to 100,000 products. Listed stack options include Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Squarespace, and a custom API, alongside Python and JavaScript SDKs and a storefront widget. Each store has its own database and Qdrant vector collection. Uploaded shopper images are discarded after embedding, and raw images are not stored. The free plan costs nothing and includes 50 products and 1,000 API calls per month. Basic costs $24.99 a month, billed annually at $299.88; a 14-day Premium-feature trial is offered without a credit card.