AI Photo Software Pricing Compared

How to read the table

This is a dated snapshot, not a live feed: every row except Aftershoot's was read on the vendor's own pricing page on 8 November 2026, including Adobe's plans page, which was re-opened for this page. We intend to recheck the table, but no schedule is promised. All prices are US dollars before tax. Aftershoot's live pricing page could not be read (it returned only a title), so its rows come from its homepage and from its pricing blog post, updated 5 November 2026, which says it checked the pricing page in October. Where a vendor page disagrees with itself, the row says so. Confirm at checkout.

Price table (Aftershoot rows per its blog updated 5 November 2026; others as of 8 November 2026)

Omitted because no readable price was captured: Capture One (price JavaScript-rendered), DxO PureRAW, Neurapix and ON1 in this table (not re-read for this page). Offers currently running are on photo software Black Friday deals, not in this table. Per-plan detail: Aftershoot, Narrative, Imagen, Luminar.

Example: cost at 10, 25 and 45 weddings

Arithmetic, not a measurement, from the prices above at a hypothetical 3,000 RAW frames per wedding (30,000, 75,000 and 135,000 frames a year), regular annual billing, one year, before tax:

Assumptions that matter: FilterPixel's page says the cap is shoots per year but its FAQ says unused shoots reset on the first of each billing month, so the real cap is unclear; a wedding could also be more than one shoot. Retouch4me's pricing page does not define what a culling credit buys; its Arams page lists cloud culling at one credit per photo, which is the assumption used. Imagen's per-photo rows exclude any $0.01 tools, and the culling add-on is shown separately at $144 a year ($12 a month for 12 months; if the competitor-claimed $18 a month applied it would be $216, adding $72 to each "plus culling" row). The Adobe row uses the listed $11.99 a month; the FAQ's $119.88 a year would be lower, so confirm at checkout. It covers culling and editing inside Lightroom, with no style learning.

Per 1,000 frames shot, flat plans: Select $4.00, $1.60 and $0.89; Complete $18.00, $7.20 and $4.00; Narrative Standard $8.00, $3.20 and $1.78; Imagen Limitless billed monthly $66.00, $26.40 and $14.67 (annual listing: $51.60, $20.64 and $11.47). Imagen pay-as-you-go is $50 per 1,000 photos edited at every volume. Run your own numbers in the cost per 1,000 images calculator, and compare against paying someone in AI editing vs outsourcing.

What the numbers say

Flat plans win at wedding volume; metered plans win when you edit few images. Imagen's pay-as-you-go undercuts Aftershoot Complete only below 10,800 edited photos a year and Narrative Standard below 4,800 (before culling and tools). Imagen's flat monthly plan overtakes its own metered rate at 39,600 photos (30,960 on the caveated annual price), and pay-as-you-go needs the $12 culling add-on to match what Limitless includes. Culling-only buyers should compare Select, Narrative Lite or Standard, FilterPixel and Lightroom's included culling; see Narrative vs FilterPixel and Aftershoot vs Imagen. Retouching and denoise sit outside the culling-editing subscriptions: see AI skin retouching software and AI denoise software.

Who should pick what

If you shoot 25 or more weddings a year and want one invoice, the flat Aftershoot Complete or Narrative tiers have the lowest published cost per frame. If you shoot under about 10 weddings and deliver few images, pay-as-you-go can be cheaper than any flat plan. If you only cull, Select at $120 or Narrative Standard at $240 are the flat options, and Lightroom's plan may already cover it if you subscribe. If you retouch portraits at volume, credit models (Retouch4me, Evoto) charge by action, not by shoot; count actions before comparing. Neither Evoto nor Retouch4me is cleared here on cost or data: Retouch4me's plugin prices and licence terms and both vendors' cloud data terms were not fully read, so compare them on the sources linked in the table before choosing.