PixelHUT Discovery Engine vs Trooply Visual Search API

PixelHUT Discovery Engine lets shoppers find products in a WordPress and WooCommerce catalog by uploading a photo or taking one with a phone camera. Its vision engine matches color, shape, pattern, and texture, while hybrid search adds keywords and filters for price, category, and attributes. Search analytics show what shoppers look for visually, which can help stores spot product gaps and trends. The system auto-indexes existing WooCommerce product images; the maker recommends at least one clean, front-facing image per SKU. A mobile-first widget uses a phone’s native camera and can be themed with different colors, icons, positions, and triggers. WordPress and WooCommerce are listed as native integrations, while Shopify is marked as coming soon. PixelHUT also lists a headless API and iOS and Android SDKs for custom storefronts, mobile apps, and PWA shops. Plans start at ₹1,299 / month + 18% GST, and a six-day trial is available; there is no free plan.

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.