Cost per 1,000 Images Calculator

Why cost per 1,000 images changes the ranking

A flat subscription gets cheaper per image as volume rises, while a per-photo plan stays level, so the cheapest tool at 10 weddings a year is often not the cheapest at 45. Imagen's pay-as-you-go plan starts at US$0.05 per photo, and its Limitless plan is a flat fee. Aftershoot's pricing blog post says it is a flat-fee subscription with unlimited images on every plan (a vendor claim; its terms of service returned 404). Credit tools sit between: Evoto and Retouch4me sell credits, and how many credits one photo uses depends on the tool you run.

Example at three volumes

The example below is arithmetic, not a measurement. It assumes 3,000 RAW frames per wedding, all processed, and the billing shown in each row, using the prices in the table further down.

Figures are cost per 1,000 images. The Imagen pay-as-you-go row is a floor: per-tool charges apply on top, the US$7 monthly base fee is described by Imagen as converting into editing credit, and the row includes the culling add-on that Limitless includes. Imagen lists Limitless at US$129 a month on annual billing (US$1,548 a year), but its pricing page says annual plans are no longer available to new self-serve subscribers while its Black Friday page still advertises an extra 30% off the annual plan (conflicting sources), so the table uses the monthly price as the baseline. The plans do different jobs (Select is culling only, Complete adds editing and retouching), so a lower number does not mean a better fit. FilterPixel is excluded from the table because it caps by shoots, not by images; the calculator handles that case.

Before you trust a result

Check the plan limits that the per-1,000 figure hides. FilterPixel's pricing page states 5,500 photos per shoot and a yearly shoot allowance, and Narrative's tiers are limited by users and personal presets rather than images. Prices on this page exclude tax and time-limited promotions; see photo software Black Friday deals for those. For a full plan-by-plan breakdown, see AI photo software pricing compared, or the single-vendor pages for Aftershoot, Imagen and Narrative. To weigh a tool against paying an editor, use the AI vs outsourcing break-even tool.

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Price table (as of 8 November 2026)

Prices are US dollars, from the pages linked in each row as read on 8 November 2026. Confirm at checkout. Aftershoot's live pricing page was not readable (it returned only a title), so its figures are per Aftershoot's pricing blog post, updated 5 November 2026, which says it checked the pricing page in October. For Topaz, only the first 100,000 of 144,501 characters of the pricing page were read, and Studio Pro shows both US$75 and US$79 a month in different places.