What it costs

Paid for by the photograph

Every account starts with 20 free scans. After that they are bought in packs — paid for once, and they do not expire.

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Packs of scans
ScansPriceEachBuy
25$1.506.00¢
100$4.954.95¢
1,000$44.904.49¢
3,000$1254.17¢
10,000$3403.40¢

Prices are in US dollars. The checkout shows the total, including any tax, before you pay.

What a scan is, and what it buys
  • One photograph, one scanA scan is one look at one photograph, and it produces all nine fields at once — the place it was taken, and the title, caption, extended description and alt text. There is no cheaper tier that writes fewer of them.
  • Scans do not expireBuy them once and they sit on your account until you use them. There is no subscription, no monthly minimum, and nothing to cancel — the price is set so that it does not need one.
  • One balance, both ways of workingThe Lightroom plug-in and the browser client draw on the same account and the same scans. Nothing is bought twice for using both.
  • A scan that finds little still costs oneThis is the one that is worth reading before you buy. A scan spends its credit when the work is done, not when the answer is good — so a photograph at a coordinate with nothing around it comes back with an honest gap rather than a guess, and it has still cost a scan. What it will never do is invent something to look like better value. A photograph with no coordinate at all is refused before anything is spent — unless you ask for it: there is a setting, off by default, that reads such a photograph for its words alone. It spends a scan and fills no place fields, because nothing can say where it was taken.
  • Generating a combined narrative of multiple images is freeWriting one continuous account of a whole set costs nothing: it is composed from words the scans have already produced, so no photograph is looked at twice and nothing is charged for it.

Try it before any of this

Drop photographs on the browser client and it reads every field they already hold — the coordinate, and whatever is written in them now — with nothing installed, no account and nothing spent. A scan is the part that needs one, because a scan is the part that looks at the picture.

The rest of it

What happens to a payment, and what we keep about it, is in the terms and the privacy notice. If something about the price does not fit how you work, say so — info@photowrite.co reaches a person.