Artmarket to Begin Global Beta Test of Artprice Visual Search

Third-quarter revenue rises

Artmarket.com reported total third-quarter 2026 revenue of 2,648K€, compared with 2,477K€ in the third quarter of 2025, an increase of 7%. The figures are unaudited.

Internet revenue reached 2,229K€ in the quarter, compared with 2,000K€ a year earlier. The company also reported revenue received in advance of 419K€ for the third quarter of 2026, versus 477K€ in the third quarter of 2025.

Artmarket.com said that, following the absorption of its subsidiaries from 30 June 2025, it presents its accounting documents as company-only accounts. The company also referred to a change in its revenue recognition method dating from 30 June 2021, saying this does not change the general terms of sale and use, the legal and technical terms of customer contracts, or cash payment methods for products and services.

Visual search opens to all customers in December

Artprice Visual Search will enter a worldwide beta test at the beginning of December 2026. Artprice, the company’s art-market data division, said the beta will be available to its entire global subscriber base throughout December, allowing customers to test the tool on their own searches and collections.

From January 2027, the service will be included in Artprice’s premium and professional high-end subscription plans. The company said these plans will have significantly higher prices, positioning the beta period as a way to encourage existing customers to move to the higher-contribution offers.

Artmarket describes the product as proprietary, vertically focused artificial intelligence for the art market. It says the system combines several terabytes of high-definition images with certified metadata built up by its art historians and editors over nearly 30 years.

A visual layer in Artprice’s AI strategy

According to Artmarket.com, Artprice has built its data infrastructure since its foundation in 1997. The company says its databases cover 930,000 artists and include auction traceability dating back to 1700.

Artprice presents Visual Search as the latest part of an AI-focused architecture that also includes Intuitive Artmarket, described as a proprietary general-purpose AI focused on the art market, and Blind Spot, an analytical and predictive algorithm designed to identify weak signals, market blind spots and possible undervaluations.

The company says Visual Search will analyse visual material from its archives while drawing on historical documentation linked to artworks. Artmarket also refers to a collection of nearly 145 million images and says its proprietary retrieval-augmented generation architecture combines an artwork reproduction’s visual characteristics with certified historical metadata.

For users, the immediate change is a free beta period in December, followed by access through higher-end Premium and Professional subscriptions from January 2027. For Artmarket, the rollout is intended to turn an existing research and data archive into a paid visual search product and increase average revenue per user, according to the company.