Artmarket to Roll Out Artprice Visual Search Globally in December
Artmarket.com says it will begin the global beta rollout of Artprice Visual Search in early December 2026, with a commercial launch planned for January 2027. The company announced the timetable alongside its Q3 2026 revenue update, which it described as an increase.
- Global beta access is planned for early December 2026.
- Commercial availability is scheduled for January 2027.
- The feature will be included in high-end Premium and Professional plans.
- Artmarket says its system uses terabytes of images and metadata.
- The company reported higher Q3 2026 revenue.
Beta access begins in December
Artprice Visual Search will be available in beta to Artprice's entire global subscriber base throughout December 2026, according to Artmarket.com. The company says the opening will allow clients to test the tool on their own research and collections under real-world conditions.
In January 2027, the feature is scheduled to become part of Artprice's high-end Premium and Professional subscription plans. Artmarket says the commercial launch will come with significantly higher rates, reflecting what it describes as the added value of the technology.
A visual search system built on Artprice data
Artmarket describes Artprice Visual Search as a proprietary, vertical artificial intelligence system developed over several years by founder Thierry Ehrmann and teams of engineers, data scientists and art historians. The company says the system processes several terabytes of high-definition images and metadata certified over nearly 30 years.
The company says its database covers 930,000 artists and provides auction traceability dating back to 1700. In Ehrmann's statement, Artmarket also cites 23 million reproductions of artworks annotated by its specialists, with 180 structured and completed fields for each reproduction, as well as a collection of nearly 145 million images of artworks.
Artmarket presents the product as the latest part of an “AI-First” architecture that includes Intuitive Artmarket®, a generalist proprietary AI for analysing the art market, and Blind Spot®, an algorithm designed to identify weak signals, undervaluations and correlations.
Artmarket expects higher-value subscriptions
The December beta is intended to support Artmarket's subscription strategy. According to the company, allowing existing clients to test the tool will encourage a shift toward the high-end Premium and Professional plans from January 2027 and produce a structural increase in average revenue per user.
Artmarket says the system combines visual analysis with historical metadata through its proprietary retrieval-augmented generation architecture. The company claims this approach can improve identification of artworks referenced in its databases by linking an image's visual characteristics with documented information about the work.
The announcement also says the Ehrmann family and Groupe Serveur, Artmarket.com's main shareholder, have increased their stake through purchases of new company shares. Artmarket says the transactions are intended to reaffirm confidence in Artprice's future, and are not intended to launch a takeover bid or squeeze-out.
