PimEyes - AI Face Search
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PimEyes Brief Overview
PimEyes is an AI-powered face search engine designed to help you find where your face appears online. Instead of searching by keywords, you upload a photo of a face and PimEyes scans the open web for visually similar matches. This can be useful for monitoring your digital footprint, spotting unauthorized image use, and finding reuploads of your photos on websites you didn’t know about.
PimEyes is positioned primarily as a self-monitoring and privacy-focused tool. It emphasizes helping people discover where their own images appear and then take action—such as setting monitoring alerts, hiding results from public search visibility, or requesting removals from external sites (depending on the plan).
Simple How-to-Use
- Go to PimEyes and start a face search from the main search page.
- Upload a clear photo of a face (good lighting, front-facing, minimal blur).
- Run the search and review the results list (matches may include the same face in different settings, backgrounds, or crops).
- Open results (paid feature) to see the exact source pages and source image links where the match appears.
- Set an Alert (paid feature) so you get notified when new matches are found later.
- If you need removals (PROtect tier feature), use the takedown/removal workflow to request that images be removed from external websites.
- If you don’t want to appear in PimEyes results, use the opt-out/exclusion options to remove or block your face from appearing in public PimEyes searches.
PimEyes Key Features and Functions
- AI face matching on the open web: Searches for faces similar to the uploaded photo, not just identical images.
- Source unlocking (paid): View the websites and original source-image links tied to results.
- Alerts/monitoring (paid): Ongoing monitoring that notifies you when new matches appear.
- Result management tools: Sorting (for example, by date), grouping similar results, and “safe search” style filtering for explicit content.
- PROtect privacy controls (tier-dependent): Hide current and future matches from public PimEyes search results and manage protected results in your dashboard.
- Takedown support (tier-dependent): Assistance with DMCA/GDPR-style takedown requests for images hosted on external sites (success can vary because the content is controlled by third-party websites).
- Advanced options (top tier): Deeper scanning modes and export tools (such as PDF/CSV exports) aimed at heavier monitoring and documentation use cases.
Pricing
PimEyes typically offers limited free searching, with paid options to unlock sources and advanced controls.
Common paid options include:
- Unlock Current Results (one-time):$14.99 to unlock sources for one current search (often includes a one-time export option for that search).
- Open Plus (subscription):$23.99/month (or $287.90/year) — includes higher daily searching, source access, and alerts.
- PROtect (subscription):from $27.99/month (or $335.90/year) — adds stronger privacy controls (like hiding results) and takedown-request tooling; PROtect may have tiered options based on how many takedown requests are included.
- Advanced (subscription):$239.99/month (or $2,879.90/year) — highest-tier plan with very high/unlimited searching, large alert capacity, deeper search features, and export options.
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