AliExpress Reverse Image Search - Similar Products & Prices

What does AliExpress Reverse Image Search do?

AliExpress Reverse Image Search takes a product photo URL and returns the AliExpress listings that look like it: title, sale price, list price, discount, units sold, star rating, ship-from country, Choice badge, store name and the product link. It runs the same search by image that the camera icon on AliExpress uses, so you can call it as an API, in bulk, with no AliExpress account.

Paste an image from Amazon, Shopify, Temu, TikTok Shop, a supplier catalog or your own CDN. Each photo is resized, uploaded to AliExpress image search, and you get up to 120 similar products per image, best match first. One image search with 60 results costs $0.015; images that fail or match nothing are free.

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Why use a reverse image search on AliExpress?

• 🔎 Find the cheapest seller of a product: you saw a gadget in an ad or on Amazon; see who sells the same item on AliExpress and for how much.
• 📦 Dropshipping research: check sold counts, ratings and Choice status of every lookalike listing before you pick a supplier.
• 💰 Margin and price checks: put your retail price next to the AliExpress price of the same product, for a whole catalog at once.
• 🕵️ Spot copies and resellers: find listings that reuse your product photos.
• 🤖 AI agents and pipelines: an agent that holds a product image can call this Actor through the Apify API or MCP server and get clean JSON back.

Sourcing from factories instead of retail sellers? Alibaba Image Search does the same for Alibaba.com wholesale suppliers, with MOQ and supplier details.

What data can it extract?

Field	Example
inputImageUrl, matchRank	your image URL, 1 (1 = closest match)
productId, title, url	1005008803047370, Stainless Steel Sports Water Bottle ..., product page URL
imageUrl, images	main image of the match
salePrice, originalPrice, discountPercent, currency	1.09, 18.69, 94, USD
isNewShopperPrice	true when the shown price is a first-order deal
soldCount, soldText	684, 684 sold
rating	4.7
freeShipping, shipFrom, isChoice	true, CN, true
storeName	seller store, when AliExpress shows it on the card
isAd, listedDate, categoryId	sponsored flag, listing date, AliExpress category ID
page, scrapedAt	results page (1 or 2) and timestamp

How to search AliExpress by image

1. Open the Actor and paste one or more product image URLs into Product image URLs (one per line).
2. Set Max results per image: 60 (one page) or up to 120 (two pages).
3. Optionally change the ship-to country and currency for local prices.
4. Click Start and download the similar products as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event, no monthly fee:

Event	Price	Per 1,000
Image search (first 60 similar products)	$0.015	$15
Extra page (results 61-120)	$0.008	$8
Failed image, bad URL, no matches	free	free

Ten photos with 60 results each cost $0.15. On the Apify free plan, the $5 monthly credit covers about 330 image searches of 60 results.

Input

{
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Stainless_steel_water_bottle.jpg",
        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Concise_bamboo_eye_protection_LED_desk_lamp.jpg"
    ],
    "maxResultsPerImage": 60,
    "shipToCountry": "US",
    "currency": "USD"
}

Output

One row per similar product. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

{
    "inputImageUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Stainless_steel_water_bottle.jpg",
    "matchRank": 1,
    "productId": "1005008803047370",
    "title": "Multi-Color Stainless Steel Single-Layer Sports Shaking Cup Leakproof Design",
    "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008803047370.html",
    "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sc6cffd980fc1437793af3a71132693d86.jpg",
    "salePrice": 1.09,
    "originalPrice": 18.69,
    "discountPercent": 94,
    "currency": "USD",
    "isNewShopperPrice": true,
    "soldCount": 684,
    "soldText": "684 sold",
    "rating": 4.7,
    "freeShipping": true,
    "shipFrom": "CN",
    "storeName": "Dongguan Enxiang Trading Store",
    "isChoice": true,
    "isAd": false,
    "listedDate": "2025-04-10",
    "categoryId": "100003293",
    "page": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-07T03:54:34.273Z"
}

An image that fails gives one free row with inputImageUrl and an error that says why (for example "Could not download the image (HTTP 404)").

Tips

• Use a clear photo of the product alone on a plain background. Lifestyle shots with several objects match less well.
• Any public JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF link up to 10 MB works. Large photos are shrunk before upload, so you do not need to resize them.
• AliExpress thumbnail links (..._220x220.jpg_.avif) are switched to the full-size image automatically.
• Many low prices are new-shopper deals: filter on isNewShopperPrice to compare regular prices.
• Image search returns about 120 distinct products per photo; later pages repeat what was already shown, so the Actor stops at 120.

FAQ

Do I need an AliExpress account or API key?

No. The Actor uses the public image search that anyone can open on the AliExpress website.

Can I upload a file from my computer?

Put the file somewhere with a public link (your store CDN, a cloud bucket or an Apify key-value store) and paste that URL.

Why did an image return no results?

AliExpress found nothing it considered similar, or the link did not return an image. Those rows are free. Try a sharper photo of the product alone.

Can I use it from an AI agent?

Yes. The Actor works through the Apify API, the Apify MCP server and the Apify integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n and others).

Is this legal?

The Actor reads public product listings only and collects no personal data. You are responsible for how you use the data and for following the AliExpress terms that apply to you. Not affiliated with AliExpress.