Listing photos, cleaned up on the seller’s own device
Cut-outs, tags and a French version are made on the seller’s device. Search and payments stay on servers.
An online marketplace with billions of live listingsArchetype: online marketplace, billions of live listings
Saves up to £4.5 million a year
in photo and listing work moved onto sellers’ own devices.of per-listing image and text work moved onto the sellers’ devices.
At public list prices: 500,000 listings a day made with the photo tools (a published figure), 9 in 10 devices able to do the work.
- 6jobs can run on sellers’ devices
- 6jobs stay on servers
- This visit: nothing yet. Run the jobs below.This visit: nothing measured yet. Run the jobs below.
Each listing’s main photo gets its background removed, at the lowest mainstream public list price, and is tagged with its category and material. We assume 3 in 10 new listings are translated once, scaled with the size you pick. This page translates English to French; the same job was tested English to German and Spanish. Each job is priced at the public list price of the outside service it replaces, checked October 2026. At the lowest public prices: £3.82 million. A company that runs its own models pays less than list price for this work.
Writing listing text with a large AI model, search, payments, fraud checks and the final decision on what can be sold stay on servers. Re-processing photos already in storage also stays on servers, not priced here.
- Listings a day made with the photo tools
- 500,000 (a published figure)
- Photos
- One main photo a listing: background removed once and tagged once
- Background removal
- The lowest mainstream public list price per photo: £2.47 million a year
- Tagging
- £1.13 per 1,000 photos (public list price): £185,000 a year
- Translation
- 3 in 10 new listings, once (our assumption, from a third-party estimate of new listings), at £11.32 per million characters: £1.83 million a year. This page runs English to French; English to German and Spanish were tested too
- Left out
- Listing text from the photo (not on this page yet), any photo pre-screen (the server decides anyway)
- Device share
- 9 in 10 (our assumption)
- Lowest public prices
- £3.82 million a year
- Prices
- Checked 15 October 2026, re-checked by 15 January 2027
- Pounds to the dollar
- 0.75491 (reference rate, 15 October 2026)
- Formula
- Units a year x public list price x device share, at 0.75491 pounds to the dollar, rounded down to 3 figures.
Photos: brown leather boots by Radek Skrzypczak and a leather holdall by Harsh Jadav (both CC0, from Wikimedia Commons); the blue vase was drawn for this page on a CC0 table photo by Markus Spiske. Other credits are on the credits page.