# TinEye

A reverse image search engine: give it a picture or image URL and it lists where that image, or edited copies of it, appears online.

- Category: Image, video and PDF tools · by Idée Inc.
- Website: https://tineye.com/
- Live data: no
- Checked on the official pages: 2026-10-23

## API

- Official API: yes, docs https://services.tineye.com/developers/tineyeapi/
- Key needed: yes
- Price: Paid; limits: Prepaid search bundles (example given: 5,000 searches for $200); a public sandbox key exists in the official Python client for testing.
- Base URL: https://api.tineye.com/rest/
- Formats: json

## Data and license

- License: TinEye terms (https://tineye.com/terms); covers The website is free for non-commercial use; commercial use goes through the paid API
- Commercial use with conditions
- Credit: not stated
- Embedding unclear
- Quote (commercial): "TinEye is free for non-commercial use." (https://help.tineye.com/article/239-is-tineye-free-to-use)
- Quote (commercial_conditions): "For commercial use we offer the TinEye API" (https://help.tineye.com/article/239-is-tineye-free-to-use)
- Quote (api_official): "The TinEye API allows you to purchase bundles of searches" (https://help.tineye.com/article/239-is-tineye-free-to-use)
- Quote (api_price): "if you purchase a 5,000 search bundle for $200" (https://help.tineye.com/article/275-signing-up)
- Quote (api_key): "# Sandbox key" (https://github.com/TinEye/pytineye)
- Quote (privacy): "Using TinEye is private and we do not save or index your search images." (https://tineye.com/)
- Quote (package): "$ python -m pip install pytineye" (https://github.com/TinEye/pytineye)
- Quote (what): "TinEye is a reverse image search engine." (https://help.tineye.com/article/231-what-is-tineye)

## Rules for an agent

- Use the paid REST API (https://api.tineye.com/rest/, prepaid search bundles, e.g. 5,000 searches for $200) via the official MIT-licensed Python client pytineye (pip install pytineye, github.com/TinEye/pytineye), which ships a sandbox key for testing; no self-hosted version; the website is free for non-commercial use only and does not save searched images.
- Use the website only for non-commercial searches; commercial products must use the paid API
- Keep the API key server-side; searches are billed from prepaid bundles

Human page: https://agentgid.com/resources/tineye/
Source: AgentGid (agentgid.com). Facts are quoted from the site's own pages; check the license page before you ship.