Artmarket to launch Artprice Visual Search worldwide in December
Artmarket.com will begin the worldwide beta rollout of Artprice Visual Search in early December 2026, with a commercial launch planned for January 2027 through its Premium and Professional subscriptions. The company also reported higher revenue in the third quarter of 2026, without specifying an amount in the announcement.
- Artprice Visual Search beta access begins worldwide in early December 2026.
- Commercial availability is planned for Premium and Professional subscriptions in January 2027.
- Artprice says the system analyzes several terabytes of images and metadata.
- Artprice's database covers 930,000 artists and auction records dating back to 1700.
- Artmarket.com reported higher third-quarter 2026 revenue without giving an amount.
Two-stage rollout for Artprice Visual Search
Artmarket.com said its Artprice division will give its entire worldwide subscriber base access to the beta version of Artprice Visual Search throughout December 2026. The company described the release as an opportunity for customers to assess the tool's research and valuation capabilities using their own research and collections.
From January 2027, Artprice Visual Search will be included in the high-end Premium and Professional subscriptions. Artmarket.com said these plans will have significantly higher prices, linking the change to the additional value it says the tool provides. The company expects the beta access to encourage existing customers to move to those subscriptions and increase average revenue per user.
A proprietary system built on Artprice's archives
According to Artmarket.com, Artprice Visual Search was developed through several years of research and development led by founder thierry Ehrmann and teams of engineers, data scientists and art historians. The company said the system analyzes several terabytes of high-resolution images and metadata that its historians and editors have certified over almost 30 years.
Artprice says its database now covers 930,000 artists and auction traceability dating back to 1700. The announcement presents Visual Search as the latest part of an internal AI architecture that also includes Intuitive Artmarket, a vertical system for analyzing the economic, biographical and historical complexity of the global art market, and Blind Spot, a predictive and analytical algorithm designed to identify weak signals, undervaluations and correlations.
The company also refers to an archive containing almost 145 million reproductions of artworks. In the announcement, Artmarket.com says its proprietary system matches an artwork reproduction's visual fingerprint with certified historical metadata. It contrasts this approach with recognition experiments based on smaller image sets and limited documentation.
What the launch means for Artprice customers
The December beta gives existing Artprice subscribers an early opportunity to test visual search before the January commercial rollout. The later integration into Premium and Professional plans means the feature will also form part of Artmarket.com's effort to shift customers toward higher-end subscriptions.
Artmarket.com frames the launch as the culmination of an AI-first strategy that began with Artprice's founding in 1997. The company said the strategy has focused on building proprietary technology and avoiding dependence on external providers while developing artificial intelligence specifically for the art market.
The announcement also says the Ehrmann family and Groupe Serveur, Artmarket.com's main shareholder, have increased their holdings through purchases of new Artmarket.com shares. The company said the transactions are intended to demonstrate confidence in Artprice's future through Artmarket.com and are not intended to conduct a takeover offer or squeeze-out. It said the required filings will be submitted to France's financial markets authority within the legal deadlines.
