Face Compare — Face Verification & Embeddings API (No GPU)
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from $1.05 / 1,000 image analyzeds
Check if photos show the same person: compare faces with a reference photo or embedding, get similarity scores, match/no-match and 128-d face embeddings. 99.0% on LFW. Your images only, no web search. Pay per image.
You can access the Face Compare — Face Verification & Embeddings API (No GPU) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "referenceImageUrls": [12 "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg/1280px-Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg"13 ],14 "imageUrls": [15 "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Abraham_Lincoln_head_on_shoulders_photo_portrait.jpg/1280px-Abraham_Lincoln_head_on_shoulders_photo_portrait.jpg",16 "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Abraham_Lincoln_and_George_B_McClellan_in_the_general%27s_tent%2C_Oct_1862.jpg/1280px-Abraham_Lincoln_and_George_B_McClellan_in_the_general%27s_tent%2C_Oct_1862.jpg",17 "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg/1280px-Ulysses_S._Grant_1870-1880.jpg"18 ]19};20
21// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish22const run = await client.actor("adorable_partial/face-compare").call(input);23
24// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)25console.log('Results from dataset');26console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);27const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();28items.forEach((item) => {29 console.dir(item);30});31
32// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Face Compare — Face Verification & Embeddings API (No GPU) API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: