Artmarket to Roll Out Artprice Visual Search Globally in December
Artmarket.com will begin a global beta rollout of Artprice Visual Search in early December 2026, followed by a commercial launch in January 2027 for its high-end Premium and Professional subscriptions. The announcement came with the company’s statutory Q3 2026 revenue publication, which reported that revenue was up.
- Global beta access for Artprice Visual Search begins in early December 2026.
- The beta will be available to Artprice’s entire global subscriber base during December.
- Commercial access starts in January 2027 within high-end Premium and Professional plans.
- Artmarket.com says the system processes several terabytes of images and metadata.
- The company reported that Q3 2026 revenue was up.
Beta access begins in December
Artprice, the Artmarket.com department that the company describes as the World Leader in Art Market databanks since its creation in 1997, will open the beta version of Artprice Visual Search to its entire global subscriber base throughout December 2026.
The company says the beta is intended to let clients assess the tool under real-world conditions using their own research and collections. In January 2027, the visual search system will be integrated into the high-end Premium and high-end Professional subscription plans.
Artmarket.com says the commercial launch will come with significantly higher rates, reflecting what it describes as the additional value of the service. The December beta is also designed to encourage existing customers to move to those higher-contribution subscriptions, increasing average revenue per user, according to the company.
A proprietary system built on art-market data
Artmarket.com presents Artprice Visual Search as the latest part of an AI-First strategy that it says has been developed over nearly 30 years. The system is designed to analyze visual material alongside metadata from Artprice’s databases, rather than relying only on image pattern recognition.
The company says its technology processes several terabytes of high-definition images and metadata certified by its historians and editors. Artprice’s database covers 930,000 artists and auction traceability since 1700, according to the announcement.
Artmarket.com also cites a collection of nearly 145 million images of works of art and says the system was trained on 23 million reproductions annotated over nearly 30 years. Each reproduction, it says, includes 180 structured and completed fields.
Artprice Visual Search joins two other systems named in the announcement: Intuitive Artmarket, described as a proprietary vertical AI for analyzing the Art Market, and Blind Spot, an algorithm intended to identify weak signals, undervaluations and correlations.
What the rollout means for Artprice users
For current subscribers, the December beta provides access before the January shift to paid high-end plans. The company says users will be able to test the system on their own collections and investigations during the beta period.
Artmarket.com is positioning the product as a specialist alternative to general-purpose visual search tools. In a statement included in the announcement, founder and CEO thierry Ehrmann said the system cross-references a reproduction’s visual fingerprint with certified historical metadata through Artprice’s proprietary RAG architecture.
The planned move into Premium and Professional subscriptions also makes the rollout a monetization step for the company. Artmarket.com expects the product to support higher-value subscriptions and a structural increase in average revenue per user, although the announcement does not provide a revenue forecast or specific subscription prices.
