Aftershoot Pricing 2026: Select, Retouch, Edit, Complete

Where the prices come from

Aftershoot's live pricing page could not be read, so the figures below come from Aftershoot's own blog and homepage. The pricing page redirects to account.aftershoot.com/pricing, which returned only its title when opened on 8 November 2026 (source inaccessible for live prices). The pricing-tiers post carries the full table; its header reads "Updated: November 5, 2026" while the body says prices were checked in October 2026. The homepage independently states $45 a month billed annually for the full workflow, $10 for culling, $30 for editing and $20 for retouching. Monthly-billing figures appear only in the blog post. Confirm every number at checkout.

Aftershoot plans and pricing

Aftershoot sells four plans, and two-module combinations are priced as the sum of their parts. The table sets annual billing beside the monthly rate, per Aftershoot's blog post updated 5 November 2026 (checked against the pricing page in October), in US dollars:

Source: Aftershoot pricing-tiers post; annual headline figures also on the homepage. The three modules bought separately total $720 a year, so Complete is $180 a year cheaper, which is the only bundle discount the post describes.

Going by the same post, each module suits a different bottleneck:

• Select is the one to weigh if the first pass through a wedding is what costs you the most time. You decide how much to hand over, from fully automated culling to an assisted mode where you review its picks. Cull to Target is worth trying if you promise clients a set number of images, duplicate grouping if ceremony bursts slow you down, and Survey Mode and the people filters if you need to choose between near-identical frames of the couple or family.
• Edit depends on having a consistent back catalogue. By the post's count a personal AI profile needs at least 2,500 images, and it suggests 5,000 or more, so a newer photographer may have to start with Instant AI Profiles or one of the 30-plus styles in its marketplace. AI masking, crop and straighten tools and an in-app RAW editor mean some adjustments need not wait for a trip to Lightroom.
• Retouch is the module to skip if you send portraits out or keep retouching light. It covers two kinds of work: portrait cleanup (skin smoothing, blemish and wrinkle removal, teeth whitening) and changing the scene (removing objects or people, replacing a background), with ten presets to start from. Whether you would alter a wedding scene at all is a style decision to make before paying for it.

On limits, the post promises unlimited AI culling on Select and unlimited image processing on every plan, with no charge per image. Treat that as Aftershoot's own claim: its terms of service returned 404, so the contract wording could not be checked. The post also describes processing as local and offline, so read the data section below before relying on "local".

Discounts and codes

The only offers shown on Aftershoot's own site on 8 November 2026 are an Early Bird sale and a Black Friday tier, both for annual plans only. The homepage banner reads "Early Bird Sale: 25% off ALL annual plans | 500 seats left", with no code or end date. The Black Friday post says Early Bird started 3 November for the first 500 seats, then 20% off annual plans for Black Friday with code BLACKFRIDAY26. It gives no end date for either tier, and its header date (2024) conflicts with its "Updated: November 4, 2026" line.

The pricing-tiers post says its table excludes the sale and tells readers to check the pricing page, since sale prices can apply. Whether either discount stacks with the Complete bundle saving is not stated; the figures above apply the percentage to the regular annual price, as the Black Friday post's own table does. Any other Aftershoot code you see on a coupon site was not found on Aftershoot's own pages in sources reviewed, so treat it as unverified. The same offers are tracked on photo software Black Friday deals.

Example: cost at 10, 25 and 45 weddings

Aftershoot's fee does not depend on volume, so only cost per frame moves. Arithmetic, not a measurement, at a hypothetical 3,000 RAW frames per wedding on regular annual prices:

Against rivals at the same volumes: Narrative's Standard tier (culling plus its preset library) is $240 a year billed annually, and Imagen's pay-as-you-go rate of $0.05 a photo reaches $1,500 for 30,000 edited photos (culling is a separate add-on from $12 a month), with its flat Limitless plan at $165 a month billed monthly ($1,980 a year). Imagen also lists Limitless at $129 a month annual ($1,548), but its pricing page says annual plans are no longer available to new self-serve subscribers while its Black Friday page still advertises an annual discount (conflicting sources). For a full table see AI photo software pricing compared or run your own numbers in the cost per 1,000 images calculator.

Trial, cancellation and exit terms

Aftershoot's homepage advertises a 30-day free trial, which the company says gives full access and needs no credit card. Its subscription-change support article says cancelling keeps the remaining paid time usable, downgrading converts the unused remainder to Aftershoot Credits for a later purchase, and an annual plan can be paused for up to three months once per cycle. It does not mention refunds, and it still references Pro and Max plans, so it may predate the 2026 restructure. Refund policy: not found in sources reviewed.

Where your files go

Aftershoot's data statements do not line up, so this page makes no confidentiality recommendation. Here is what its transparency page states:

Batch work

for batch culling, editing and retouching, Aftershoot says images "never leave your computer".

First exception

if learning is on during culling, lower-resolution copies go to Aftershoot's servers. You can disable this when you import an album.

Second exception

training a custom profile uploads whichever images you pick.

The training setting

"Help improve Aftershoot's AI" starts switched on and can be switched off album by album. The page does not say whether data from people who leave it on trains models that serve other customers.

Storage

data sits on Google Cloud until you request deletion, which Aftershoot says support generally completes within 7 to 14 days.

The homepage makes a separate promise that files stay on your machine, and its FAQ, as extracted, says they are "never stored on our servers". That wording belongs to the homepage and does not appear on the transparency page.

The privacy policy, last updated July 2023, points the other way: Aftershoot says it uses the images and edits it collects solely to train its machine-learning models, and that it does not resell them. The policy predates the 2026 plans and defines its scope as all information collected through Aftershoot's websites and Service, including applications and services "now or in the future". It never says whether locally processed images count as "collected", so the tension with the homepage line is unresolved. The transparency page gives the trigger for the learning upload and the way to opt out, without explaining how the policy applies to either. Aftershoot's terms page returned 404. Face-data handling for Galleries: not found in sources reviewed.

What changed in 2026

Aftershoot moved to the current four-plan structure in 2026. Its own post dates new pricing "live starting today" to 28 May 2026; the finer timeline (Pro and Max retired, Retouch and Complete added) comes from the third-party PricingSaaS tracker and is secondary. That tracker's earlier $9.99 Select figure is superseded by the $10 shown now.

Which plan to pick

If you only cull, Select at $120 a year is the entry point. If you cull and edit in your own style, Select plus Edit is $480 a year, and Complete at $540 adds Retouch for $60 more, which makes Complete the rational choice whenever you expect to use Retouch. Pay monthly only to test for a season: monthly billing totals $660 for Complete against $540 annual. If you edit mainly through Lightroom presets, see Aftershoot Edit vs Imagen and the Aftershoot review before paying for Edit.

Check this in your trial

1. On the checkout page, read the price and billing period before entering card details; compare it with this table.
2. Confirm whether the Early Bird or BLACKFRIDAY26 offer applies to the plan you chose and what the renewal price is after year one.
3. Open settings and check whether "Help improve Aftershoot's AI" is on, and switch it off per album if you do not want learning uploads.
4. Cull and edit one small gallery, then check Lightroom reads the edits back (Aftershoot's support article points to Metadata > Read Metadata from Files).
5. Count how many edited images you can supply for a personal profile against the 2,500 minimum the pricing post gives.

Original test pending: WeddingWorkflowLab will capture Aftershoot's rendered pricing page on a dated check and trial Select and Complete on a licensed wedding gallery to confirm plan contents and the offer at checkout.