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.

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.

One example row from a real run, shortened:

{
  "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"
}

One row per match:

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.

You pay per event, through your Apify account. Main price: $11.40 per 1,000 image matches on the Apify Free plan and $8.50 on Gold. Every event and plan:

Every run is one HTTP request to the Apify API with your Apify token; the input below is the actor's own example. The synchronous endpoint returns the rows in the response for runs up to 300 seconds; for longer runs start a run and fetch its dataset.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cheapapi~yandex-reverse-image-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"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}'

With the JavaScript client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('cheapapi/yandex-reverse-image-search').call({
  "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
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

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

We are 15% cheaper per match than the most used listing on every plan (a page with 0 to 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.

• 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.

• 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?.

• 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.