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PhotoPrism vs Immich: catalog facts
PhotoPrismImmich
Freemium

Free and open source under the AGPL 3.0. Sponsored membership unlocks some extra features…

Free

Free to use with every feature; the project states nothing will be put behind a paywall…

Self-hosted, Web Self-hosted, Web, Android, iOS
  • Automatic labelling and face recognition running on your own machine
  • Powerful combined search across labels, place, colour and quality
  • Automatic background backup from Android and iOS with selective album backup, album sync and Free Up Space to…
  • Search by metadata, objects, faces and CLIP; facial recognition and clustering; reverse geocoding and a global map
  • Indexing and face recognition are demanding; a Raspberry Pi will struggle
  • Docker is the supported install route, which is a barrier for some
  • Server needs Docker with at least 6 GB RAM and 2 CPU cores (8 GB and 4 cores…
  • The Postgres database must not sit on NTFS, exFAT or a network share and should use local SSD
Self-hosted, Web application Self-hosted, Web application, Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: AGPL-3.0 License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed Account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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