Visual Search Client
Visual Search Client
Bing Visual Search runs image-similarity queries — upload an image, get similar images, same-product matches across sites, related recommendations.
Broad web-wide image coverage
Sunsets 2025-08-11
Obtain a key from Azure. POST /v7.0/images/visualsearch with the image to perform visual search — returns similar images, product matches, recommendations.
Uptime · 30-day window
About this API
Visual Search is Bing's reverse-image-search API. Its core capability is product identification — upload a fashion photo, get clothing-style recognition and "same/similar" product links across e-commerce sites. Also useful for art provenance ("where is this painting"), UGC image recognition ("what is this"), and copyright infringement check (find where your original was used). Differs from Image Search: Image Search is keyword-to-image; Visual Search is image-to-image (or image-to-info). Sunsets 2025-08-11.
What you can build
- 1E-commerce "where to buy" reverse search
- 2Provenance for art/antiques
- 3Image-recognition feature for UGC
- 4Copyright infringement check
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Broad web-wide image coverage
- Matches the same product across different e-commerce sites
- Not limited to a fixed SKU library
Limitations
- Sunsets 2025-08-11
- Rare or niche images may have no matches
Example request
curl https://microsoft.com/<endpoint>Getting started
Obtain a key from Azure. POST /v7.0/images/visualsearch with the image to perform visual search — returns similar images, product matches, recommendations.
FAQ
Can it identify who a face belongs to?+
No. Visual Search does visual similarity only — not face identification.
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, csharp
- Response time
- 101 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:37:52 AM
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