Research Mode vs. Normal Search | Is the Professional Subscription on lenso.ai Worth the Money?

What is a normal image search on lenso.ai?

Normal image search is the search that you make with the free account or with the Starter subscription.

The free account gives you access to daily image searches, but you can’t unlock results and see the sources.

With the Starter subscription, you can see all the sources available in the normal search, but you can’t access the Research Mode.

What is Research Mode?

Research Mode is an extended version of the normal search. It finds 10 times more images - around 10,000 - for the People and Duplicates categories.

Research Mode Filters

Along with additional results, Research Mode offers Advanced Filters - filtering by page language, domain, size of the image, date of indexing and keyword in title.

Want to learn more? Read about all the Advanced Filters in Research Mode

How to open Research Mode?

To open the Research Mode, you have to click on the banner on the left-hand side of the screen. On mobile, scroll down to the bottom of the page.

After a short wait, Research Mode will open.

Research Mode vs. Normal Search - what are the differences?

Here’s a table showcasing all the differences between the normal and advanced search:

What else is available in the Professional Subscription?

Except for Research Mode, with the Professional Package, you also get:

• 50 alerts
• 500 unlocks

So you can enjoy the Research Mode to the fullest!

Visual comparison - Research Mode vs. Normal Search

Here’s the normal search:

In a normal search, the woman returns one page of results.

And here is the Research Mode:

In research mode, there are many more results.

Here’s another comparison between the number of pages in Research Mode vs. normal search:

Instead of just one page, there are over 200 pages. However, some results might be less accurate.

Research Mode vs. Normal Search - Is the Research Mode worth it?

Research Mode is worth the money as long as you are interested in searching on more domains and conducting deeper searches. That being said, for basic use cases, like finding images of popular people or duplicates of popular photos, the Starter package will be enough.

Is the normal mode less accurate since the Research Mode was made?

No - normal search is the same as it was. The difference is that the research mode adds more results, but it does not take away the existing ones.