Yandex Reverse Image Search — Find Where Images Appear

Search Yandex Images by image in bulk (JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP) and get clean JSON: for every image URL you give, the web pages that show the same or a visually similar image, with the page title and URL, the website, the matching image's URL, size and format, and the text next to it. Yandex's reverse image search is known for finding re-uploads, crops and edits that other engines miss. Up to about 1,480 matches per image (37 pages × 40 for popular images), 5,000 images per run, no browser, proxy, captcha or Yandex account needed.

Quick facts
Price	$11.40 per 1,000 matches on the Free plan, $8.50 on Gold+; no start fee
Depth	about 40 matches per results page, up to ~1,480 per image (37 pages, popular images)
Input	direct image URLs (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP); up to 5,000 per run
Filters	only one website (e.g. etsy.com), safe search
Speed	3–20 seconds per results page in our tests (occasionally up to ~60 s); 5 images in parallel

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Why this Actor

• 15% cheaper per match than the most-used Yandex reverse image Actor on every plan — $0.0114 per match on Free and $0.0085 on Gold+, with no start fee (a results page with fewer than 2 matches costs one flat $0.0097 instead).
• Bulk and deep: thousands of images per run and up to ~1,480 matches per image, fetched page by page through Yandex's own image handle (no re-uploads).
• Works with images Yandex cannot reach: when Yandex fails to download an image URL, the Actor downloads it and sends the image itself (up to 2.3 MB).
• Find copies on one site: set Only this site to check whether a marketplace, competitor, stock site or social network uses your photo.
• Fair billing: charged per delivered match; an image with no matches costs one flat $0.0097 page fee, images that cannot be searched are free, and your maximum cost per run is always respected.

Compared with alternatives

Typical job: 100 images × 40 matches (4,000 matches). Actor fees of public Apify Store listings (Free plan / Gold plan), checked October 2026:

Option	100 images × 40 matches	Price per match	Notes
This Actor	$45.60 / $34.00	$0.0114 / $0.0085	pages and similar images; site filter
Most-used Yandex reverse image Actor (~200 users)	$54.00 / $40.00	$0.0135 / $0.01	also tags, other sizes, products; crop box
Per-item Actor (~13 users)	$17.60 / $13.20	$0.0044 / $0.0033	small listing
Free Actor (~27 users)	platform usage only	—	small listing

We are 15% cheaper per match than the most-used listing on every plan (a page with 0–1 matches is one flat $0.0097, still below one match at the leader's price). Two small listings are cheaper per row; compare their output fields and limits with your job before choosing.

Not included

• Image tags, "other sizes" lists, shopping products and the knowledge card shown on the Yandex Images website — the official image search returns pages and images only.
• Separate "exact copy" and "similar image" groups — matches come in Yandex's single ranking (exact copies usually rank first).
• Cropping a part of the image — crop the image yourself and search the cropped URL.
• Uploading local files — give a public URL (any file host or an Apify key-value store record works).
• Face recognition or identification of people — see Is it legal?.

What data you get

One row per match:

Field	Type	Example
id	string	cd6be40556e43a13 (stable across runs)
searchedImageUrl	string	the image URL from your input
position	integer	45 (1 = best match)
resultsPage	integer	2 (about 40 matches per page)
pageUrl	string	https://www.shopify.com/stock-photos/photos/the-eiffel-tower-paris?c=trip
pageTitle	string	Picture of The Eiffel Tower Paris - Free Stock Photo
site	string	shopify.com
imageUrl	string	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/TourEiffel%28Paris%29.JPG
imageWidth / imageHeight	integer	925 / 1387
imageFormat	string	jpeg, png or gif (null when Yandex does not say)
passage	string	Image of The Eiffel Tower Paris. (text next to the image)
availablePages	integer	37 (results pages Yandex has for this image)
siteFilter, safeSearch, scrapedAt	string	your filters and the run time

The dataset has two views — Matches (with image previews) and Pages and sites. Every run also saves a RUN_SUMMARY record in its key-value store: images requested, completed, without matches (and a noMatchImages list of them — each was charged one flat page fee), failed, uploaded by the Actor and skipped by your cost limit, results pages searched, matches delivered, flat page fees charged, waits at the hourly limit, and a problems list with the reason for every image that was skipped or failed.

How to use

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. Paste your Image URLs, one per line (direct links to image files).
3. Set Matches per image (40 = one results page).
4. Optionally enter Only this site (e.g. pinterest.com).
5. Click Start and download the matches as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

Ready-to-paste input:

{
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons_%28cropped%29.jpg"
    ],
    "maxResultsPerImage": 20,
    "safeSearch": "moderate"
}

API (curl) — runs the Actor and returns the matches when it finishes:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cheapapi~yandex-reverse-image-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"imageUrls": ["https://example.com/photo.jpg"], "maxResultsPerImage": 40}'

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('cheapapi/yandex-reverse-image-search').call({
    imageUrls: ['https://example.com/photo.jpg'],
    maxResultsPerImage: 40,
    site: 'etsy.com',
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.map((m) => m.pageUrl));

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("cheapapi/yandex-reverse-image-search").call(run_input={
    "imageUrls": ["https://example.com/photo.jpg"],
    "maxResultsPerImage": 40,
})
for match in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(match["position"], match["site"], match["pageUrl"])

Use cases

• Copyright and photo theft: find websites and shops that use your product photos, artwork or stock images without a licence.
• Brand protection: check marketplaces (site: etsy.com, aliexpress.com) for listings that reuse your product images.
• Fact-checking and OSINT on content: find earlier uploads and the original source of a picture before you share it.
• Backlink and PR outreach: find pages that use your images without linking to you and ask for credit.
• Dropshipping and sourcing research: see where a product photo appears to find suppliers and competing sellers.
• Dataset building: collect visually similar images (with their pages) for a topic.

Advanced options

Option	Default	What it does
imageUrls	— (required)	Direct image URLs (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP), up to 5,000 per run; duplicates removed.
maxResultsPerImage	40	Matches per image, 1–1,500, best first (Yandex has at most ~1,480; asking for more returns everything it has). Each is a charged match; a results page with fewer than 2 matches (e.g. asking for 1, or 41 = 40 + 1) is one flat $0.0097 page fee instead.
site	—	Only matches from this website and its subdomains, e.g. pinterest.com (international domains like пример.рф work too).
safeSearch	moderate	moderate (hide adult images), strict (also profanity) or off.
maxWaitMinutes	15	Minutes to wait each time Yandex's hourly image search limit is reached (0–120) before stopping.

Output example

Real rows from a platform run for the Eiffel Tower photo above with "site": "pinterest.com" and "maxResultsPerImage": 41 (October 2026; 41 rows, first and last shown). That run was charged 40 matches plus one flat page fee for the single match on page 2:

[
  { "id": "488a1879c4836ef7", "searchedImageUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons_%28cropped%29.jpg",
    "position": 1, "resultsPage": 1, "pageUrl": "https://ca.pinterest.com/ideas/eiffel-tower-high-resolution-photo/903938408451/",
    "pageTitle": "Eiffel Tower High Resolution Photo", "site": "ca.pinterest.com",
    "imageUrl": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/33320737/pexels-photo-33320737.jpeg?cs=srgb&dl=pexels-dylan-linders-2152031237-33320737.jpg&fm=jpg",
    "imageWidth": 720, "imageHeight": 1280, "imageFormat": "jpeg", "passage": "Eiffel tower high resolution photo", "availablePages": 37,
    "siteFilter": "pinterest.com", "safeSearch": "moderate", "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T14:51:28.424Z" },
  { "id": "19b82761339fd03f", "searchedImageUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons_%28cropped%29.jpg",
    "position": 41, "resultsPage": 2, "pageUrl": "https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/mine--666180969856214896/",
    "pageTitle": "Пин от пользователя Дарья Козлова на доске Mine", "site": "ru.pinterest.com",
    "imageUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/TourEiffel%28Paris%29.JPG", "imageWidth": 736, "imageHeight": 981,
    "imageFormat": "jpeg", "passage": "COP21 : One Heart One Tree, une forêt à la Tour Eiffel", "availablePages": 37,
    "siteFilter": "pinterest.com", "safeSearch": "moderate", "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T14:51:28.424Z" }
]

Pricing

Pay per event — you pay per delivered match, or one flat $0.0097 for a results page with 0–1 new matches, with no start fee. Apify platform usage is billed separately by Apify. This Actor uses 256 MB of memory; our test runs used about $0.0006 of platform usage per run (1 image, 2 results pages).

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold, Platinum, Diamond
Image match (image-match)	$0.0114	$0.0106	$0.0095	$0.0085
Results page with 0–1 matches (page-with-few-matches)	$0.0097	$0.0097	$0.0097	$0.0097

• Results page with 0–1 matches: charged instead of per-match fees when a Yandex results page gives fewer than 2 matches to deliver — an image with no matches, a last page with a single match left (for example 41 matches = 40 matches + one $0.0097 page), or a later page whose matches were all (or all but one) repeats of matches already delivered. It covers the search Yandex still made.
• Free: invalid URLs, duplicates, images that cannot be downloaded or read, and failed searches. If an image fails after some results pages, the matches already delivered are kept and charged as usual.

Worked examples (Free / Gold):

• 100 images × 40 matches (4,000 matches): $45.60 / $34.00.
• 1,000 images × 10 matches (10,000 matches): $114 / $85.
• One image, all ~1,480 matches (37 pages): $16.87 / $12.58.

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap any run; the Actor stops cleanly at the limit and tells you what was skipped.

Apify Free plan: up to $0.25 of results per month (enough to try the prefilled input — 1 image × 20 matches costs $0.23). Any paid Apify plan removes this limit.

Integrations

• Google Sheets, Excel, CSV: export the dataset or use the Google Sheets integration.
• Make, Zapier, n8n: start the Actor from a scenario and receive matches.
• Webhooks: get a call when a run finishes.
• Scheduling: re-check your images weekly or monthly; every row has a stable id, so new matches are easy to spot.
• API and MCP: call it from code (see above) or from AI agents through Apify's MCP server.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor uses Yandex's official image search service and returns public web pages. Use it for your own images, copyright, brand protection and content verification. Do not use it to identify or track private individuals from photos of them — that may be illegal (e.g. under the GDPR) and is not allowed with this Actor.

How fresh is the data? Every search is made live at run time against Yandex's current image index.

Why did I get fewer matches than I asked for? Yandex has fewer matches for rare or new images, the site filter removes the rest, and repeated matches are dropped. availablePages shows how many pages Yandex had.

Why are some matches only similar, not the same image? Yandex ranks exact copies and visually similar images in one list. Exact copies usually come first; check imageWidth/imageHeight and the page to confirm.

Why was I charged for an image with no matches? Yandex still made the search, so one flat $0.0097 page fee applies — less than one match. The same fee applies to a later results page that only repeated matches you already got. Images that could not be searched are free.

My image URL is behind a login or on my computer — what can I do? Upload it to any public host (or an Apify key-value store record) and use that URL. If Yandex cannot download a public URL itself, the Actor sends the image directly.

The run says it is waiting at the hourly limit — is something wrong? No. Yandex limits image searches per hour; the run waits and continues automatically (up to Maximum wait), and nothing is charged while it waits — only for results pages that were searched.

Do I need a Yandex account or API key? No. Everything is included in the price.

Support

Found a problem or need a feature? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run ID; we aim to answer within one working day.

Limitations

• Image URLs only (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP); images Yandex cannot reach are uploaded only up to 2.3 MB.
• About 40 matches per results page; the total depends on the image (popular images ~1,480, rare ones a few or none).
• If Yandex does not answer a search within 90 seconds, that image is listed in RUN_SUMMARY.problems (not charged) and can simply be searched again in a new run; the request is not repeated automatically because Yandex may already have processed it.
• Yandex allows a limited number of image searches per hour (shared by all users of this Actor); large runs may wait at the limit.
• Matches are not split into "exact" and "similar"; tags, other sizes and shopping products from the Yandex website are not available.
• Results reflect Yandex's index, which is strongest for Russian and international sites and may miss very new pages.