PixGuard scans websites and images for copyright risk using AI watermark detection, metadata analysis, and reverse image matching. Free scans, plans from…
Category
AI
Pricing
Freemium with paid subscriptions: ~30 free scans (no card required), Pro $29/mo (~250 scans), Business $79/mo (~1,000 scans), plus one-time scan packs from $20-$300.
PixGuard is a copyright-risk detection tool built for website owners, publishers, and marketing teams who want to know whether images on their site are unlicensed or otherwise likely to trigger a copyright demand letter. Instead of a single check, it runs a multi-stage pipeline: perceptual hash matching against a database of roughly 600,000 reference images, OCR text extraction, metadata analysis, computer-vision watermark detection, and a Vision Transformer model fine-tuned to spot AI-generated imagery (in around 60 milliseconds per image). Users can scan a full website by URL (with a crawl limit that scales by plan) or upload individual JPG, PNG, or WebP images, and results come back as a risk score with a detailed breakdown of which signals were triggered. Paid plans add ongoing site monitoring (weekly on the Pro plan, daily on Business) so newly added risky images are caught automatically rather than only at the time of a manual scan. The product was built by a solo founder, described on the site as motivated by personal frustration with copyright demand letters from stock-photo agencies such as Getty Images and Shutterstock, and is distributed as a web app, a Chrome extension, a WordPress plugin, and a REST API with SSE streaming for real-time results. On privacy, PixGuard states that scanned images are processed in memory and not stored on its servers, with only perceptual hashes retained for 30 days.
Key Features
Multi-stage copyright scan — Combines perceptual hash matching against ~600,000 reference images, OCR text extraction, metadata analysis, and computer-vision watermark detection to flag copyright risk.
AI-generated image detection — A Vision Transformer model fine-tuned to detect AI-generated imagery, completing analysis in about 60 milliseconds per image.
Full-site and single-image scans — Scan an entire website by URL (crawl limit scales by plan: 10/500/2,000 images) or upload individual JPG, PNG, or WebP images.
Recurring site monitoring — Automatically re-checks sites for newly added risky images — weekly on the Pro plan (up to 3 sites) and daily on the Business plan (up to 10 sites).
Chrome extension, WordPress plugin, and API — Available as a web app, Chrome browser extension, WordPress plugin, and REST API with SSE streaming for real-time results.
In-memory image processing — Scanned images are processed in memory and not stored on PixGuard's servers; only perceptual hashes are cached, for up to 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Free tier gives about 30 scans with no credit card required, so users can evaluate accuracy before paying
Combines multiple detection signals (watermark, hidden metadata, perceptual hash matching, AI-generation detection) rather than relying on a single method
Vendor reports a 94% infringement catch rate with a 3% false-positive rate, and 98% accuracy on visible watermark detection
Ships as a Chrome extension and WordPress plugin in addition to the web app and API, fitting into an existing workflow
Recurring site monitoring (weekly on Pro, daily on Business) catches newly added risky images automatically
Scanned images are processed in memory and not stored on PixGuard's servers, per its stated privacy approach
Cons
Accuracy and false-positive figures (94% catch rate, 3% false positives) are self-reported by the vendor, not independently verified
Built and run by a solo founder, with no visible enterprise support tier, SLA, or team page
Overage scans are billed per-image ($0.08-$0.25 depending on plan/pack), which can get expensive for high-volume publishers
Full-site scans are capped by plan (roughly 500 images on Pro, 2,000 on Business per the FAQ), which may not cover very large sites in a single scan
No direct integrations beyond the Chrome extension, WordPress plugin, and API are advertised (no native Shopify, Wix, or other CMS plugins found)