Lenso.ai

Overview

Lenso.ai is an AI-driven reverse image search platform designed to help users discover where images appear online, identify specific people, locations, and duplicates, and trace the provenance of visual content. Built on a large-scale web index comprising billions of images, the platform leverages multiple specialized machine-learning models, each tailored to a distinct search category. This architecture enables more semantically accurate results than conventional image search engines, making it suitable for everything from casual lookups to professional forensic analysis.

The platform’s core capabilities include AI-powered facial recognition search, which compares facial features with high precision to locate instances of a person’s face across the web; place recognition for identifying locations depicted in images; duplicate search for finding exact copies; and related and similar image search for discovering visually or contextually comparable content. Lenso.ai also places strong emphasis on copyright protection, as its duplicate detection and source-tracing functionality allows creators and rights holders to locate unauthorized uses and identify the original upload source. The service accepts JPG, PNG, and WEBP files up to 10MB in size, with a minimum resolution of 200x200 pixels, and includes a free tier for initial searches.

For advanced investigative work, Lenso.ai offers Research Mode, which expands People and Duplicates results to up to 10,000 entries—ten times more than the standard search output—allowing users to explore deeper into the indexed web. Advanced Filters complement this by enabling precise refinement based on page language, domain, publication date range, image dimensions, and keywords found in page titles. On the integration side, the Reverse Image Search API provides developers with programmatic access to both Image Search and Face Search endpoints. The Developer subscription includes up to 5,000 API calls per month, with usage tracking available through the user panel. Furthermore, Lenso.ai integrates Pixalytica’s facial-based KYC reporting, which can identify real names, verify PEP (Politically Exposed Person) status, detect criminal activity and connections, and screen for sanctions and high-risk industries.

Designed for accessibility and scalability, Lenso.ai offers a multilingual interface and an intuitive upload or drag-and-drop workflow. Its combination of high-precision facial matching, duplicate detection, deep search modes, and API support makes it a valuable tool for content creators, photographers, legal professionals, compliance teams, developers, and researchers who need reliable visual search and image provenance capabilities across a global web corpus.

Core capabilities

AI Reverse Image Search

Search across billions of web images using advanced AI models for accurate visual matching.

Facial Recognition Search

High-precision face matching to locate where a person's face appears online.

Category-Specific Search Modes

Dedicated models for places, people, duplicates, related, and similar images.

Duplicate Detection & Source Tracing

Find exact duplicates and trace original sources for copyright protection.

Research Mode

Expands result sets to 10,000 entries for People and Duplicates, 10x the standard output.

Advanced Filters

Refine results by page language, domain, date range, image size, and title keywords.

Reverse Image Search API

Developer plan supports up to 5,000 API calls/month for Image Search and Face Search.

KYC Report Integration

Facial-based KYC via Pixalytica for PEP status, sanctions, and criminal activity screening.

Use cases

Find where your face appears online for privacy and reputation monitoring.

Identify original sources of images to ensure proper attribution.

Detect unauthorized or duplicate copies of copyrighted visual content.

Determine locations depicted in photos.

Discover similar or related images for design inspiration or research.

Run KYC and sanctions screening using facial data.

Integrate image search capability into software applications via API.