1688 (阿里巴巴) Image Search - Find Suppliers by Photo, MOQ

Upload a product photo, get matching 1688 suppliers back — price range, MOQ, and a factory link — with the source URL behind every match.

In short: what you give, what you get, what it costs

You give	Links to product photos
We do	Search 1688 by image and check each matching supplier
You get	One row per match: price range, minimum order quantity (MOQ), the factory link and the source page behind every match
It costs	$0.012 per match + $0.002 per image + $0.001 per supplier check, no start fee. Apify also bills the supplier Actor this robot runs for you, at its own price (about $3 per 1,000 matches, about $8.55 from 14 November 2026: the supplier raises its product-page price). The first 3 results of every run are free of this robot's fee; an item that returns an error is never charged
It does not	Sign in to 1688, place orders or contact sellers

A real result row is shown further down this page.

Free tier — 3 results free on every run

The free results waive this Actor's own fee; the source Actor (blueskyscraper/1688-image-search-scraper) still bills its own price for every row it returns.

The first 3 results of every run are free, on every run you ever make — not a one-off trial. One guard: the free allowance never covers more than half of a run, so the offer stays sustainable.

Chosen on reliability, not the obvious name

The niche's best-known competitor measures 87.2% success — below our own 90% bar. This Actor chains onto a different, measured-live engine (99.7% success over 3,162 recent runs) instead.

5 advantages

1. One bad image never kills your batch. A dead link or unmatched image errors out alone; every other image still delivers.
2. Never billed on zero matches. An image with no match costs nothing.
3. Real supplier data, not just a link: shop name, years as a gold supplier, price range, MOQ.
4. Honest about what's not available. The source provides no numeric confidence score for any provider — documented plainly, not hidden.
5. Hard cost cap you control. Set maxTotalChargeUsd.

Output

A real row from this Actor's latest run on Apify (2026-10-25; long texts are cut and people's names hidden here, your dataset has them in full):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "input_image_url": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S5533347f600b47ff9ae5abbd74255026M.jpg_220x220q75.jpg_.avif",
  "matches": [
    {
      "product_url": "https://detail.1688.com/offer/903306689793.html",
      "title": "2025跨境工厂定制新款男士潮牌包时尚单肩包户外商务斜挎包学生包",
      "title_en": "2025 Cross-border Factory Custom New Men's Trendy Brand Bag - Fashionable Single-Shoulder Outdoor Business Sling Bag for Students",
      "image_url": "https://cbu01.alicdn.com/img/ibank/O1CN01LDb8qL1eJoIEnHFat_!!2211348413851-0-cib.jpg",
      "units_sold": 0,
      "price_range": {
        "price_min": 54,
        "price_max": 54,
        "currency": "CNY",
        "price_min_usd": 8.07,
        "price_max_usd": 8.07,
        "moq": 10
      },
      "supplier": {
        "name": "(hidden here)",
        "url": "https://奥文手袋.1688.com/"
      },
      "match_basis": "visually_similar"
    },
    {
      "product_url": "https://detail.1688.com/offer/1008770205481.html",
      "title": "跨境热销亚马逊热卖USB充电胸包休闲时尚单肩背包PU男士胸包批发",
      "title_en": "Cross-border Hot-Selling Amazon USB Charging Chest Pack - Casual Fashionable Single-Shoulder Backpack PU Men’s Chest Pack Wholesale",
      "image_url": "https://cbu01.alicdn.com/img/ibank/O1CN01C957yT1HsrVos6eUd_!!2220848340814-0-cib.jpg",
      "units_sold": 5397,
      "price_range": {
        "price_min": 7,
        "price_max": 8,
        "currency": "CNY",
        "price_min_usd": 1.05,
        "price_max_usd": 1.2,
        "moq": 1,
        "price_tiers": [
          {
            "minQuantity": 1,
            "maxQuantity": 19,
            "priceCny": 8,
            "priceUsd": 1.2
          },
          {
            "minQuantity": 20,
            "maxQuantity": 4999,
            "priceCny": 7.5,
            "priceUsd": 1.12
          }
        ]
      },
      "supplier": {
        "name": "(hidden here)",
        "url": "https://卓众箱包厂.1688.com/"
      },
      "match_basis": "visually_similar"
    }
  ]
}

Every field

Field	What it holds
input_image_url	the photo you searched with
matches	the matching 1688 products, best first
product_url	in each match: 1688 offer page
title	in each match: product title in Chinese
title_en	in each match: product title in English
image_url	in each match: product photo
units_sold	in each match: units sold on 1688
price_min	in each match: price range in CNY
price_min_usd	in each match: price range in USD
moq	in each match: minimum order quantity
name	in each match: supplier and its 1688 shop
match_basis	in each match: why it matched (visually similar)

Pricing

• Source Actor charge: this Actor runs blueskyscraper/1688-image-search-scraper inside your run, and Apify bills that run to your account at blueskyscraper/1688-image-search-scraper's own price (about $3 per 1,000 matches with the product page we ask for, read on 2026-10-24; about $8.55 from 14 November 2026, when its product page goes from $2.70 to $8.10 per 1,000), on top of this Actor's price. Each call to it is capped at $0.05. Pay per event, base FREE-tier prices: $0.012 per match returned, $0.002 per image processed, $0.001 per supplier enrichment. Paid Store plans pay less on every event — the largest plans reach $0.00055 on the cheapest event; the Pricing tab on this Actor's Store page is always the authority. No event is ever charged on an item that returns an error — a batch of 200 with one bad input bills 199.

Use it from an AI agent (MCP and x402)

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client to Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com and add this Actor, om_kh/1688-reverse-image-product-finder, as a tool — the agent passes the same JSON as the run input and gets the dataset back.

AI agents that pay with x402 can run it too, without an Apify account: the Actor charges only per result delivered, so an agent pays exactly for what it gets.

Related Actors

• AliExpress Image Search - Find Products by Photo, Price — same reverse-image approach, sourcing from AliExpress instead of 1688

Compared with crawleast/1688-image-search-scraper

Read on the Store on 2026-10-23 (1688 Image Search — Find Suppliers & Factories by Photo). Where it does better, this section says so.

• Data source: this Actor runs blueskyscraper/1688-image-search-scraper for you, then cleans and checks every row.
• This Actor's fee is free on the first results of every run, and a hard cost cap (maxTotalChargeUsd) limits it.
• Price: about $15 per 1,000 matches in total here ($12 for this Actor + $3 for blueskyscraper/1688-image-search-scraper), about $20.55 from 14 November 2026 (the supplier's part becomes about $8.55); $5 at crawleast/1688-image-search-scraper.

How to use it in 3 steps

1. Click Try for free and fill in Image URLs (imageUrls).
2. Optional: adjust the other fields; every one has a description and a sensible default.
3. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

Use cases

• Find the factory price of a product you saw on Amazon, TikTok Shop or Instagram, from one photo.
• Sourcing: compare several 1688 suppliers of the same item before ordering.
• Dropshipping margin checks: retail price vs wholesale price in one run.

Use it from code (API)

Every Apify Actor is an API. Start a run and read the results with one call.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("om_kh/1688-reverse-image-product-finder").call(run_input={"imageUrls": ["https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S5533347f600b47ff9ae5abbd74255026M.jpg_220x220q75.jpg_.avif"], "maxMatchesPerImage": 10, "includeSupplier": True, "includeVariants": True})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('om_kh/1688-reverse-image-product-finder').call({
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S5533347f600b47ff9ae5abbd74255026M.jpg_220x220q75.jpg_.avif"
    ],
    
    "maxMatchesPerImage": 10,
    "includeSupplier": true,
    "includeVariants": true
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

One HTTP call (cURL) — runs the Actor and returns the dataset in the same response:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/om_kh~1688-reverse-image-product-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"imageUrls": ["https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S5533347f600b47ff9ae5abbd74255026M.jpg_220x220q75.jpg_.avif"], "maxMatchesPerImage": 10, "includeSupplier": true, "includeVariants": true}'

Integrations: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets

• n8n — the official Apify node, operation Run Actor and get dataset, Actor om_kh/1688-reverse-image-product-finder.
• Make — Apify › Run an Actor, then Apify › Get Dataset Items.
• Zapier — Apify › Run Actor; map the dataset items into your next step.
• Google Sheets, webhooks, Slack — add an integration from the Integrations tab of this Actor.
• Schedules — run it every hour or day from Schedules in Apify Console.

Example input

{
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S5533347f600b47ff9ae5abbd74255026M.jpg_220x220q75.jpg_.avif"
  ]
}

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape 1688 Image? This Actor collects only publicly available 1688 Image data and never logs in. You are responsible for how you use it; check 1688 Image's terms and your local law (GDPR, CCPA) if you store personal data, and ask a lawyer if unsure.

Do I need an account, cookies or an API key? No. You only need an Apify account to run it.

What data do I get? Matching 1688 products with price tiers, MOQ and supplier details. Download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or read it from the API.

Am I charged when something fails? No. An input that fails is listed with its reason in the run summary and is never charged.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Create a schedule in Apify Console (hourly, daily, weekly) and connect webhooks, Google Sheets, Slack, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Can I use it from Python, JavaScript or an AI agent? Yes: see the code samples above, or connect AI agents through MCP with the reverse_image_1688 tool.

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Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's Apify Store page, or message the author (om_kh) directly.