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 "name": "Retouch4me",
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 "category": "Design & Content",
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 "summary": "AI retouching plugins for photographers (Photoshop-compatible, Mac/Windows), sold as perpetual licences per plugin, as full-suite subscriptions with retouch credits, or as cloud retouching in credit packs. Free to try first: two free plugins, three free apps and a demo on every paid plugin.",
 "best_for": "high-volume portrait, school and wedding photographers who already live in Photoshop and want repetitive retouching (skin, stray hairs, dust, teeth) automated — owning the plugins outright or renting the whole suite on credits, whichever their volume favours",
 "skip_if": "occasional editors — the two free plugins, the free applications and a $24 pack of 100 cloud retouches cover light use; or anyone unwilling to do the three-lane maths, because picking the wrong lane here easily doubles what the same workflow costs",
 "honest_knock": "Work out which lane you are in before you pay, because the three lanes price the same photo very differently. One plugin forever at $145 is honest value — but a working portrait stack means four plugins at $145-$179 each, $648 in total, while the Start subscription hands you the entire set for $169 a year with 2,400 retouches included. The catch cuts the other way too: own-forever versus keep-paying is the real decision, since the credits' 5-year rollover only holds 'while the subscription is active' — stop paying and the suite and the stockpile are gone. Low volume? Cloud retouching without a subscription is sold in packs, $24 for 100 retouches, and at $0.15 to $0.24 a photo it is the dearest lane per image, not the cheapest.",
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  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Start",
    "price": "$169 a year",
    "includes": "2,400 retouch credits, 108,000 culling credits, 20GB storage, unlimited AI colour correction"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "$299 a year",
    "includes": "6,000 retouch credits, 300,000 culling credits, 40GB storage, unlimited AI colour correction"
   },
   {
    "name": "Business",
    "price": "$759 a year",
    "includes": "18,000 retouch credits, 1,200,000 culling credits, 100GB storage, unlimited AI colour correction"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-07 on retouch4.me/pricing, and re-read 8 September 2026 while signed in: the signed-in tariff page shows the same three yearly cards, no member-only rate and retouch4.me/products/retouch-plugins) Three ways to pay. (1) Perpetual plugin licences, one-time. The photo collection is fifteen plugins: $145 for Heal, Crop, Face Make, Portrait Volumes, Skin Tone, Skin Mask, Mattifier, White Teeth, Eyes Bundle, Stray Hairs, Fabric, Dust and Color Match; $179 for Dodge & Burn and Clean Backdrop. Outside that collection: Lab $145, Mask Anything $29, the Vectorscope panel $30, video plugins from $124 and 3D LUT Creator Pro from $99. A four-plugin portrait stack (Heal, Crop, Dodge & Burn, Clean Backdrop) is $648 at list. Time-boxed sales run alongside the list: on 7 Sep 2026 Heal showed $108.75 (25% off $145) under a 'Workflow Revamp' promotion putting a different plugin on 25% off each Tuesday of the month. (2) Subscriptions, which include the full plugin set: Start $169 a year, Pro $299, Business $759 — a 'limited offer' against list rates of $20/$35/$90 a month, restated on the cards as $14.08/$24.92/$63.25 a month. They carry 2,400/6,000/18,000 retouching credits and 108,000/300,000/1,200,000 culling credits a year, 20/40/100 GB of MyShot storage, unlimited AI colour correction with batch processing, and a 14-day money-back guarantee that holds while you have used up to 500 retouches. 1 retouch = 1 credit regardless of how many plugins run on the image, and unused credits roll over up to 5 years while the subscription stays active. (3) Credit packs without a subscription: $24 for 100 retouching credits (plus 9,000 culling credits), $59 for 300 (25,000) and $179 for 1,200 (100,000) — $0.24, $0.20 and $0.15 a retouch, each with unlimited AI colour correction for 30 days after purchase. Free: a trial pack of 20 cloud photo retouches on sign-up (no card, seen in the account on 8 September 2026), the Frequency Separation and Color Match Free plugins, the Apex, Photoshop Panel and Arams applications, a Try Demo on every paid plugin, and free cloud retouches for uploading RAWs to their RAW Bank. Re-read 26 September 2026: subscriptions, packs and plugin prices unchanged. New on the page: each subscription now also lists Generative credits (4,800, 12,000 and 43,200 a year on Start, Pro and Business), and a 'Generation Packs' tab sells them one-time at $20 for 2,000, $75 for 10,000 and $132 for 24,000 - while the Start card itself says generative features are 'coming soon in Apex v1'.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-26",
  "source_url": "https://retouch4.me/pricing",
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Free: a trial pack of 20 cloud photo retouches on sign-up (no card, seen in the account on 8 September 2026), the Frequency Separation and Color Match Free plugins, the Apex, Photoshop Panel and Arams applications, a Try Demo on every paid plugin, and free cloud retouches for uploading RAWs to their RAW Bank.",
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  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "They carry 2,400/6,000/18,000 retouching credits and 108,000/300,000/1,200,000 culling credits a year, 20/40/100 GB of MyShot storage, unlimited AI colour correction with batch processing, and a 14-day money-back guarantee that holds while you have used up to 500 retouches.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-26",
   "source_url": "https://retouch4.me/pricing"
  }
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Evoto",
  "why": "the credit-based AI retouching desktop app — Evoto bundles everything in one interface paid per export credit, Retouch4me offers lifetime plugins, a credit subscription or pay-per-photo; high volume favours owning the plugins, low volume favours credits. Verify both current price lists yourself."
 },
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  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/retouch4me-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/retouch4me/",
  "vendor_site": "https://retouch4.me"
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 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=123978&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
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 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
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 "task_evidence": {
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  "sessions": [
   {
    "source": "session",
    "product_name": "Retouch4me",
    "product_id": "retouch4me",
    "run_date": "2026-09-08",
    "what": "Online Retouch (retouch4.me/onlineretouch) on a partner test account holding 300 retouching credits, 10 culling credits and 10 colour credits; one JPEG uploaded, meter read before and after.",
    "findings": [
     "One upload cost exactly one retouching credit: the counter went from 300 to 299. The charge is taken on upload, before you see the result, and it was taken for a non-portrait image (a UI screenshot) just the same.",
     "That single credit ran eight plugins in one pass: Heal, Mattifier, Dodge & Burn, Portrait Volumes, Skin Tone, Eye Vessels, Eye Brilliance and White Teeth were all switched on by default; Fabric and Clean Backdrop off. So 1 retouch = 1 credit regardless of how many plugins run holds for the web tool.",
     "The six sample photos on the page can be tried without spending a credit; the counter stayed at 300.",
     "The account page offers a free trial pack of 20 cloud retouches without a card, which the public pricing page does not mention.",
     "Not tested: Apex, Arams and the Photoshop Panel (desktop apps) and the culling and colour credits."
    ],
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    "report": null,
    "result": "reported",
    "note": "Findings as written up after the session; no pass/fail per task was scored.",
    "in_catalog": true
   }
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  {
   "question_id": "retouch4me:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "retouch4me:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "retouch4me:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "retouch4me:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
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 "vendor_answers": [],
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  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
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   "offer_type": "price_discount",
   "benefit": "20% off plugins, plus bonus credits on subscriptions",
   "verification_status": "vendor_confirmed",
   "expires_at": null,
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