Search by Image vs Trooply Visual Search API

Search by Image is a free website and browser extension for finding products from pictures or image links. Its artificial-intelligence visual recognition searches for similar images across AliExpress, Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay. You can upload a photo from a computer or mobile device, paste an image URL, or use an extension for Chrome, Edge, Opera, Firefox, Whale, or Yandex. In a browser, right-click an image and choose “Find product by image,” or enter its URL in the extension popup. The site also describes finding products shown in YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram videos by uploading a screenshot. It says shoppers can compare marketplace and online-store prices. The Free plan is free, covering the website and browser extensions. Results can fail when images are low quality, contain too many objects, or product servers are overloaded; cropping or trying another image may help.

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.