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Computer vision APIs
Labels, objects, faces, text and moderation from images through a ready-made API.
Cheapest right now
As of October 2026, the cheapest API for computer vision apis is Amazon Rekognition image analysis from Amazon Web Services at $1.00 per 1K images, then Google Cloud Vision API from Google (Gemini / Vertex) at $1.50. Prices verified Oct 18, 2026 against each provider's pricing page; confirm there before you buy.
What it is
Computer vision APIs look at an image and return structured facts about it: what objects and scenes it shows, where faces are, any text it contains, logos and landmarks, and whether it is unsafe. They are ready-made models you call per image, as opposed to training your own.
How pricing works
Billed per image, usually per feature: each kind of analysis (labels, text, faces) on the same image counts separately, with volume discounts. We list the price for 1,000 images with one standard feature (label or object detection) at the first paid tier.
We compare everything in one unit: USD per 1K images.
Typical uses
- Tagging and searching photo libraries
- Moderating user uploads
- Reading text from photos and screenshots
- Counting or locating objects in product and industrial images
- Detecting faces for blurring or cropping
What to compare
- Which features are available
- Accuracy on your kind of images
- Custom models trained on your own labels
- Video support
- Free monthly allowance and volume discounts
Watch out for
- Asking for three features on one image is usually billed as three images.
- Face analysis is restricted or banned for some uses and regions.
- General models struggle with specialised images such as medical or industrial scans.
All 4 APIs, cheapest first
Free to browse| API | $ / 1K images | Features | Custom models | Video | Quality | Price data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roboflow hosted inference (RF-DETR Medium) Roboflow | $0.73 | objects | Yes | — | – | Unverified sample | |
| Amazon Rekognition image analysis Amazon Web Services | $1.00 | labels, faces, ocr, moderation | Yes | Yes | – | Verified Oct 18, 2026 | |
| Imagga auto-tagging Imagga | $1.13 | labels | — | — | – | Unverified sample | |
| Google Cloud Vision API Google (Gemini / Vertex) | $1.50 | labels, objects, faces, ocr, moderation, logos, landmarks | No | No | – | Verified Oct 18, 2026 |
Questions
- What is the cheapest API for computer vision apis?
- Amazon Rekognition image analysis from Amazon Web Services at $1.00 per 1K images, verified Oct 18, 2026. Proxlai ranks 2 verified offerings in this market in the same unit.
- How is API pricing for computer vision apis compared?
- Billed per image, usually per feature: each kind of analysis (labels, text, faces) on the same image counts separately, with volume discounts. We list the price for 1,000 images with one standard feature (label or object detection) at the first paid tier. Proxlai converts every offering to one unit, USD per 1K images, so prices can be ranked side by side.
- How current are these prices?
- Each price shows the date it was last checked against the provider's own pricing page and links to it. In this market, prices were verified Oct 18, 2026. Sample prices that have not been checked yet are left out of this summary.