For independent lots
Shoot the car on a phone. List it like you own a studio.
Walk the lot with the phone in your pocket. Send the photos. Every one comes back relit and on the background you chose, with a vertical video and the written listing, in one folder you upload wherever you list. Four dollars and ninety-seven cents a vehicle. Nothing monthly, nothing to sign, and nobody to get on a call with first.
Thirty vehicles, twenty photos each
The same month, priced four ways.
Everyone else sells photos by the photo. We sell the vehicle: every photo of it, the video, and the written listing, for one price. Here is what one ordinary month costs on each.
| That month | Photos covered | Video | Listing copy | Commitment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outsourced editing | $1,350 to $3,600 | All 600 | No | No | Per job, plus turnaround time |
| CarPixAI | $149 | 500 of 600 | No | No | Monthly, self-serve |
| Spyne | $250 to $450 | Included | Yes | Not advertised | Monthly, billed annually, sales call first |
| Lotsmith | $149 | 500 of 600 | Yes | Yes | Nothing recurring |
Competitor pricing checked August 2026 from their own published pages, ours from the billing page on this site. CarPixAI bills by the photo ($19 for 50, $69 for 200, $149 for 500) and does exteriors and interiors only. We bill by the photo too ($8 for 20, $59 for 175, $149 for 500), which is what makes the row above a like-for-like comparison. Spyne is billed annually and does not sell self-serve. Outsourced editing is the published $45 to $120 per vehicle range. Prices move, and ours is not the one you should take on trust, so check theirs.
Where we are the wrong answer
We cost about the same as a photo editor. Here is when to buy one instead.
Here is the arithmetic rather than an adjective. At $149 we both hand back 500 photos, which is 29.8 cents each, the same number. At the middle pack we are 33.7 cents against their 34.5. At the smallest we are 40 cents against their 38, so on unit price alone they win the entry tier and you should know that before you read another sentence here.
What changes at every tier is what arrives. The vertical video and the written listing come with any vehicle you pay for here, at no extra credit, and are not sold there at any price because they do not make them. That is the whole difference. Not a cheaper photo, the same photo with the other two thirds of the listing attached.
One more thing worth knowing before you decide: their free trial is five photos and ours is one. If you want to compare finished quality across a whole car before paying anyone, theirs is the better trial and you should use it.
Two more places to go elsewhere. If you move two hundred cars a month, a flat subscription beats paying by the photo and we will not pretend otherwise. And if you want a capture rig and a fixed process on the lot, that is CarCutter, which is a real advantage at scale and a real cost to set up. We take the photos you already have, on the phone in your pocket, in whatever light the lot had that afternoon.
What comes back
One upload. Three things you would otherwise buy separately.
Every photo, prepared
Relit, the scene cleaned up, and the vehicle standing on whichever of six backgrounds you picked for it. Up to 25 photos a vehicle, and they come back numbered in your upload order so they stay in sequence when you drop them into your site.
A vertical video
Cut from those same photos and sized for Marketplace, Reels, and TikTok. No filming, no editing, and no separate tool. It is in the folder when the photos are.
The written listing
A headline and description written from the facts you entered and nothing else. It will not invent a feature, a service record, or a warranty, because a walk-up that ends in an argument costs you more than a slow listing does.
What we never do
Nothing is posted, and nothing is connected.
Lotsmith does not read your website, does not sync your inventory, and has no connection to Marketplace, Craigslist, or anywhere else. It never asks for a password to anything you own.
You get a folder. Where it goes, and whether it goes anywhere, is your call. That is one fewer integration to maintain and one fewer account with your credentials in it.
Try it on your own inventory
Pick the car that has sat the longest.
Send us one photo of it. The first image is free and takes a minute, and you can judge it against what is on your site right now. If it is not better, you have lost nothing and told us something useful.