You upload a photo or give an image URL. It extracts facial features. Then it sifts through billions of images using AI.
It returns matches with confidence scores and links. The tool can also help you find places your image appears online.
It also supports “opt-out” or removal requests so that images can be hidden from public search results.
They are expanding into video face search too meaning they’ll try to locate your face in videos across the web.
They already handled ~582,000 takedown requests in 2025, with ~58% successful.
PimEyes gets around 4.395 million visits per month (latest data)
It competes with sites like facecheck.id (≈4.4M visits) and tineye.com (≈8–9M visits)
So it sits in a solid spot in the niche of face / image search.
Basic plan costs $29.99 / month for regular users.
They have a “deep search” mode sometimes mentioned at ~$300 / month in user forums.
So you’ll see something like: free or limited search → mid-tier ($30) → deep / advanced (hundreds)
Face recognition + reverse image search
Match confidence score
Source URL links
Removal / opt-out feature
Video face search (in progress)
API access / deeper search (for pro users)
Ad-free experience for paying users
Very powerful matching accuracy (users report old photos being matched)
Helps you monitor misuse of your images
Removal option gives control
Expanding into video adds more coverage
Costly for advanced tiers
Privacy / ethical concerns (face data, misuse)
Not all image matches are perfect
Deep search can be opaque