Photographer Cost and Scoring Tools
The tools here answer two questions: what will AI software cost at your volume, and how well does a culler agree with your own picks. Each one runs on numbers you enter, because no measured results exist yet and prices are cited and volumes are placeholders you replace.
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How to choose
Which tool do you need?
Start from the decision you are facing.
"What will this cost me per year?"
Cost per 1,000 Images Calculator applies each vendor's plan to your volume and returns a per-1,000-image cost and an annual total. Use it when you are choosing between subscription and per-photo pricing. The prices behind it are dated, and the same figures appear in AI Photo Software Pricing Compared and the wider pricing tracker.
"Would I save money by using AI instead of an editor?"
AI vs Outsourced Editing Break-Even Tool takes your weddings per year, the outsourcing rate you pay, your hourly value and the review hours you expect, then outputs a break-even point per tool. Read the written analysis in AI Editing vs Outsourced Wedding Editing: Cost before relying on the output. Review hours are your own input, since no measured default exists.
"Does this culler agree with me?"
Culling Scorecard: Score AI on Your Own Gallery is an in-browser form for comparing a tool's keepers against the ones you picked by hand. Use it during a free trial. Vendor accuracy figures use different methods, so scoring on your own gallery is the comparison that fits your own work. For the tools themselves, see the AI culling hub.
How these tools work
All three are transparent about their inputs. The two cost tools carry a dated price table with sources on their own pages, so you can check each number against the vendor's page. Volume inputs start from placeholder values, such as 25 weddings and 3,000 frames, that you replace with your own. Formulas are shown, and the results are arithmetic from your inputs, not measurements. If a vendor changes a plan, the tool shows the old figure until the table is updated, so confirm the live price before buying. No update schedule is in place yet.
State of the evidence
Everything here is source-based, and no measured results exist yet. The calculators report arithmetic from cited prices and your own volume, and the scorecard is a tool that has not yet been used on a published gallery. The planned protocol, including how keeper overlap and timing will be defined, is on how we review AI photo software.