By Crossave · Updated: August 2026
Crossave tells you what it really costs: shipping, duty and VAT already in the total.
Since August 2026 you can search Crossave starting from a photo: take one — or upload one from your gallery, if you already have it — and we read it and write the search for you, in the usual search box, where you can edit it like any text. From there it is the normal Crossave search: the same total-price comparison, shipping and customs charges included, towards the country you pick. This page explains how it works, which products it reads best and — with the same honesty we apply to prices — when a photo cannot be enough.
The path is short, and the part that matters is the third step:
The search never starts on its own, and that is a deliberate choice, not slowness. Reading a photo can go wrong — a glare on the box, a partial framing — and if the search ran anyway we would be showing you the prices of a product that is not yours, with no moment to notice. A one-second check before is worth more than a misleading list after.
There is a single rule: a photo works as well as the product carries its identity written on it. If the name, size or code can be read in the image, the search comes out precise.
One tip that applies to all of them: a label in focus matters more than a beautiful shot. A photo taken straight at the front of the box, with readable text, works better than a mood picture.
Type the product you're looking for and we'll compare it across stores and countries.
A ring with no maker's mark, a garment with no label, an object with no distinguishing signs: in these cases the photo does not contain the information needed, and that is not a limit of the technology — an expert looking at the same image could not recover it either. A description like “yellow gold solitaire ring” would find a thousand similar rings, and none of them would be yours.
When that happens, we tell you before you press Search: without a brand or model the search may not be accurate. The box still shows what we managed to read, and you can complete it with what you know — the brand, the carat, the model. That piece of information is what turns a vague search into a useful one.
From the photo we also derive the product category, and on Crossave the category is not just a filter: it contributes to the customs duty rate used in the total price. A pair of sneakers and a hoodie are not the same thing to customs — and the difference lands straight in the total you compare. If the proposed category does not convince you, change it from the dropdown as usual.
The photo serves one purpose: understanding what product it shows. It is processed on the spot and discarded — it is not saved, does not end up in any archive and does not appear in our technical logs. A photograph can contain much more than the product, and we need nothing beyond the text that comes out of it.
After Search it is the usual Crossave comparison: total price — product, shipping and customs charges towards your country — across shops and marketplaces in several countries. And if the exact size could not be read on the box, the search is still useful: it shows the available variants, and when the same product exists in several sizes the comparison also considers the price per unit — the price per tablet of a supplement, for instance, which is the real question when packs come in 15, 30 or 90.
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