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Why is lenso.ai’s API the best?
Unlike all other image search APIs, lenso.ai offers:
- Facial Recognition*
- Place Search
- Copyrighted Images Search
- Similar/Related Image Search
With lenso.ai, you can send API requests and receive results for people*, places, duplicates, and more.
Learn more about finding copyrighted photos/stolen images on lenso.ai
*Available in selected regions
In addition, lenso.ai’s API offers a variety of extra features, such as:
- Specifying the sorting type: Best and Worst Match or Newest/Oldest Results
- Specifying the domain of the search
- A simple and intuitive user interface
Integration
Integrating with the API takes just a few minutes. The documentation is only two pages long. Additionally, you can find a tutorial on YouTube that walks you through the process:
Where can I find my API panel?
Go to your user panel and navigate to the API tab. If you don’t see this tab, your subscription may not be active.
To activate API access, visit pricing and purchase the Developer Plan.

In your API panel, you’ll find:
- Your API key
- The number of used API requests
- An API request chart
- Documentation
- For regions where face search is available, your API agreement
Popular questions
Can I test the API?
The API returns results you can find on the main page. Perform a search with lenso to check what results you get. Other than this, we do not offer free API calls.
How to get API access?
To activate API access, visit pricing and purchase the Developer Plan.
Where does lenso.ai find the results?
lenso.ai crawls the web to find results. We do not crawl social media or pages that prohibit crawling in robots.txt.
Can lenso.ai search my own database?
No. The API returns results that lenso.ai has found online. However, you can search within your website by using the domain filter.
What are the API search limits?
The Basic Developer subscription covers up to 5,000 API requests per month. To get more requests, ask for an individual offer via email: [email protected]
Are there any discounts?
Purchase a yearly subscription to get a 20% discount, or contact us via email for an individual offer: [email protected]
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