Virtual Staging Cost per Photo: 2026 Price Survey of Providers

Name: Virtual staging cost per photo, 2026 price survey
Creator: Virtual Stage Now
Published: 2026-11-02
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

12 vendors that sell per image, each price read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-02. The median AI price is $0.95 per photo (n = 3 USD rows) and the median human-edited price is $25.00 (n = 7). 6 subscription plans and 1 per-property package are listed in the table but kept out of the medians; 2 rows are marked unverified; 28 further vendors publish no per-image price and are listed, not guessed.

Prices as of 2026-11-02 · 12 per-image rows · 6 subscription rows · 2 unverified · 7 rows publish a 20-photo rate · Method · Sources · Disclosure rules · License

AI median

$0.95

per photo · n = 3 · P25 $0.57 · P75 $2.67

Human-edited median

$25.00

per photo · n = 7 · P25 $24.00 · P75 $37.50

Price range

$0.20–$79.00

cheapest AI row to most expensive human row

No per-image price

25 excluded with a reason; 3 subscription plans listed separately

What the survey shows

The 12 per-image vendors split into two price regimes. The 3 AI rows run from $0.20 (Decor8 AI) to $4.38 (VirtuallyStage), with a median of $0.95. The 7 human-edited rows run from $23.00 (Styldod) to $79.00 (Spotless Agency), with a median of $25.00. The 2 hybrid rows sit between the two groups: Obeo at $3.00 per image and Virtual Staging Studio (UK) at £25.00 per image. The gap between the two medians is about 26×. With n = 3, the AI median is the middle of 3 published rates, not a market rate.

6 subscription plans and 1 per-property package are in the table and out of the medians. Their per-photo figures depend on the billing view the vendor serves, or on the property size band, so they are not the same unit as a one-time per-image price. 2 further rows are marked unverified and are not in the medians either.

One row is not in USD: Virtual Staging Studio prices in pounds. It is shown at its own value and is not converted or included in the USD medians.

Every price, by vendor

Strip chart of virtual staging price per photo for 12 per-image vendors, split into AI, hybrid and human-edited

A dot per vendor, on a log scale. The hollow dot is the pound price. Subscription, per-property and coin rows are not plotted; they are in the table below.

Bar chart of median price per photo: AI $0.95 and human-edited $25.00

Median and P25–P75 of the USD per-image rows.

Provider	Type	Billing	Smallest paid plan	Price	Photos	Per photo	At 20 photos
Decor8 AI	AI	Per image	API Access - pay as you go	$0.20	1	$0.20	—
StageHQ	AI	Per image	Starter credit pack (20 photos)	$19.00	20	$0.95	$0.95
VirtuallyStage	AI	Per image	Single Listing pack	$35.00	8	$4.38	—
Obeo	Hybrid	Per image	AI Virtual Staging	$3.00	1	$3.00	—
Virtual Staging Studio (UK)	Hybrid	Per image	Done-for-you - Stills	£25.00	1	£25.00	—
Styldod	Human-edited	Per image	Standard (<8 images)	$23.00	1	$23.00	$16.00
BoxBrownie	Human-edited	Per image	Virtual Staging (per image)	$24.00	1	$24.00	—
VirtualStaging.com	Human-edited	Per image	Virtual Staging - per image	$24.00	1	$24.00	$14.40
HomeJab	Human-edited	Per image	Virtual Staging - per photo	$25.00	1	$25.00	—
Stuccco	Human-edited	Per image	Standard - pay as you go	$35.00	1	$35.00	—
Virtual Staging Lab	Human-edited	Per image	Vacant Room Staging	$40.00	1	$40.00	—
Spotless Agency	Human-edited	Per image	Virtual Staging - Light	$79.00	1	$79.00	—
Virtual Staging Solutions (VSS)	Human-edited	Per property	Starter (up to 3 photos)	$210.00	3	$70.00	—
Pedra unverified	AI	Monthly	Pro Monthly (100 credits)	€29.00	100	€0.29	—
Collov AI	AI	Monthly	Standard (60 photo credits)	$19.00	60	$0.32	—
Virtual Stage Now	AI	Monthly	Team / Photographer	$99.00	300	$0.33	—
Virtual Stage Now	AI	Monthly	Agent Pro	$49.00	100	$0.49	—
AI HomeDesign	AI	Monthly	Pro (30 photos/month)	$19.00	30	$0.63	—
Virtual Stage Now	AI	Monthly	Solo	$15.00	20	$0.75	$0.75
Virtual Stage Design	AI	Monthly	Starter (30 photos/month)	$29.99	30	$1.00	—
virtualstagingai.dev	AI	Monthly	Basic (12 photos/month)	$13.00	12	$1.08	—
VirtualStaging.AI	AI	Monthly	Starter (20 photos/month)	$25.00	20	$1.25	$1.25
Virtual Staging AI (virtualstagingai.app)	AI	Monthly	Basic (6 photos/month)	$16.00	6	$2.67	$0.95
Apply Design unverified	AI	Coins	Apply Coins - up to 9 coins	$10.00	1	$10.00	$7.00

Per photo = plan price ÷ photos in the plan, to two decimals. 12 rows are billed per image and form the main statistics; 6 monthly plans and 1 per-property package are listed and kept out of the medians; 2 rows are marked unverified. — means the vendor publishes no 20-photo rate; nothing is interpolated. Prices and plan names are the vendor's own, read 2026-11-02. Our own 3 monthly plans are in the same table without a mark and are not in the medians.

Subscription and credit plans without a per-image price

3 vendors sell plans or credits rather than a per-image price. Their public pages did not yield a readable per-image figure on 2026-11-02, so they are listed here and kept out of every calculation. No price is estimated for them.

Provider	Pricing model	Why it is not in the medians	Source
ReimagineHome	Subscription credits	Plan amounts do not render on /pricing ('Per credit' with no number), so no per-image price is readable and none is listed here.	read 2026-11-02
Spacely AI	Subscription plus credit top-ups	Plan prices render client-side and returned empty; the only readable amounts are design-render credit top-ups, not a per-image staging price.	read 2026-11-02
Interior AI	Subscription	Consumer AI interior-design app; no per-image virtual staging price is published.	read 2026-11-02

25 providers excluded — no readable per-image price

Provider	Why it was excluded
PadStyler	No public per-photo price: /pricing, /pricing-plans and /order all return 404; sitemap.xml lists 53 URLs and no pricing page; product pages ($20-off promo only) show no price - pricing exists only inside the app/order flow
RoomGPT	404; homepage shows only a '60% off all plans' promo code and no plan price - price not readable
iStaging	Virtual staging appears only as a 'Paid add-on' with no price; the published plans are EUR subscriptions for virtual tours / digital twins
ArchiLabs	No virtual staging per-photo product; pricing is ArchiLabs Desktop from $19/month plus usage credits, Studio is custom
Collov (collov.com)	404; the corporate site now markets 'Collov Labs' visual agents with no staging price list - the live staging product is collov.ai, which is in prices.csv
Bella Staging	404; site is a Charlotte NC physical home-staging company with no virtual staging product or price
Showhomes	404; physical home-staging franchise (occupied-home staging), no virtual staging price published
roOomy	404; roOomy is a VS24 brand and publishes no separate price page
VueHome	404; vuehome.ai does not respond (000) - no price page
StageHQ (stagehq.com)	'StageHQ Farewell' shutdown page; the live product with prices is stagehq.ai (in prices.csv)
VirtualStagingAI.com	Domain parked and listed for sale via Afternic; no product or price
Real Estate Virtual Staging	TLS handshake fails (curl SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL) on both /pricing and the root - site unreachable from this session, price not readable
Virtuance	No staging price published; staging is offered only for Virtuance-shot listings via an order form, and /pricing is a JS-only page with no text
PlanOmatic	No virtual staging price; the URL redirects to a rental media services page
VHT	No HTTP response (TLS failure) on /virtual-staging and the root - price not readable
Room AI	Subscription interior-design tiers only; no per-photo virtual staging price
Relto	Prices render client-side and were not present in the served HTML (8 KB shell) - price not readable
HomeDesigns AI	Cloudflare 403 challenge on repeated attempts - price not readable
Virtual Staging Australia	Server returns an empty reply / HTTP2 protocol error (root and /pricing) - price not readable
Virtual Staging Services	Wix 'ConnectYourDomain' error page; domain not configured
virtualstagingpro.com	Blank 114-byte response; site not serving content
virtualstagings.com	Blank 114-byte response; site not serving content
Pedra.com	Redirects to an unrelated parked page (pedra.com/new/construction.htm, 421 bytes); Pedra's real pricing is at pedra.ai (in prices.csv)
Virtual Staging Services (expired domain)	'Your domain is expired' page
virtuallystaged.com	Blank 114-byte response; no content

Counted as excluded, never filled with an estimate.

Disclosure rules for virtually staged listing photos

Price is one question; disclosure is the other.

Board or law	Quoted rule	Source
California BPC §10140.8(a)(1) — AB 723 (Stats. 2025, Ch. 497), effective January 1, 2026 Effective 2026-01-01	“A real estate broker or salesperson, or person acting on their behalf, who includes a digitally altered image in an advertisement or other promotional material for the sale of real property shall include in the advertisement or promotional material a statement disclosing that the image has been altered and a link to a publicly accessible internet website, URL, or QR code that includes, and clearly identifies, the original, unaltered image.” Statute text, §10140.8(a)(1). Section (b)(2) excludes routine edits such as lighting, white balance, cropping and exposure.	California Legislative Information — BPC §10140.8 read 2026-11-02
CRMLS (California) Rule 11.5.2 — digitally altered images	“A Subscriber who submits to the MLS any Digitally Altered Image must also (i) submit the original, unaltered version of the digitally altered image, (ii) ensure that the original, unaltered version is displayed in the listing immediately before or after the digitally altered image, and (iii) ensure that the digitally altered image is labeled as “Photo Modified”, “Virtually Staged”, “Digitally Altered,” or “AI Altered,” or some accurate substantially similar term in the text field section for the altered photo in the add/edit module.” Rule text quoted from the FAQ document, page 3.	CRMLS — Digitally Altered Images FAQ (PDF) read 2026-11-02
CRMLS (California) FAQ — do AI tools count?	“Yes, AI-altered images count as digitally altered images.” Answer to “Does this include use of AI tools, such as ReimagineHome?”	CRMLS — Digitally Altered Images FAQ (PDF) read 2026-11-02
Bright MLS §E.1 — virtual staging must be disclosed	“Virtually-staged photo(s)/rendering(s) must be disclosed in the MLS.” Policy on Images and Documents in the MLS, 28 February 2024, §E(1).	Bright MLS — Policy on Images and Documents in the MLS (PDF) read 2026-11-02
Bright MLS §E.2 — elements outside the owner's control	“Modifying photo(s)/rendering(s) to include visual elements not within a property owner’s control is strictly prohibited.” §E(2). The policy gives a view of a scene that is not physically possible as an example.	Bright MLS — Policy on Images and Documents in the MLS (PDF) read 2026-11-02

Quotes are copied from the linked documents on 2026-11-02. This table is not legal advice.

Method

Each vendor's own public pricing page was opened on 2026-11-02; the plan name, price, photo count, currency, billing model and a verbatim quote were recorded in the CSV's quote column.
The recorded price is the smallest paid public package. Per photo = that price ÷ the photos in that package, to two decimals.
The main statistics use the 12 rows billed per image and marked verified. Subscription, per-property and coin rows are excluded, as are the 2 unverified rows and our own plans.
The 20-photo column is used only where the vendor publishes a 20-photo rate. It is blank elsewhere and was never interpolated.
Vendors with no readable per-image price are counted: 25 excluded with a reason and 3 subscription plans listed separately. No figure is estimated for any of them.
Medians and quartiles use the USD per-image rows only: AI n = 3, human n = 7. P25 and P75 use linear interpolation between the two nearest values.
No currency conversion. The pound row stays in its own currency and is outside the USD medians.
Both charts are generated from prices.csv by tools/build.py; chart.source.sha256 records the CSV hash, and a re-run produces byte-identical files.

Comparability notes

Several AI subscription vendors show annual billing by default; the price recorded is the page's default view. Those rows are outside the medians.
Apply Design sells coins, not images: a coin price is not a per-image price, so the row is marked unverified and is not in the medians.
Decor8 AI's $0.20 is its API rate; the consumer product is a monthly plan.
Pedra's plan is a monthly credit bundle priced in euros. The euro value is recorded and not converted; the row is marked unverified and is not in the medians.
VirtualStaging.com and VirtualStaging.AI appear to be related, and two further entries offer closely similar products and pricing pages: Virtual Staging AI (virtualstagingai.app) and virtualstagingai.dev. Each is a separate domain with its own prices, so both are listed.
Our own 3 monthly plans are read from this site's pricing page on 2026-11-02 and are listed like any other row.

Cadence

The survey is repeated quarterly. Each round keeps its own CSV (data-2026Q4.csv and so on) so a price that changes can be compared with what was published before.

Sources

Download the data

data.csvCSV · 24 rows · price, photos, per photo, at 20, billing, quote excluded.csvCSV · 25 vendors with no readable price and why disclosure.csvCSV · the quoted disclosure rules subscription-plans.csvCSV · 3 plans without a per-image price chart.pngPNG · 1600 × 900 · price per vendor chart.svgSVG · same chart, vector chart-medians.pngPNG · 1600 × 900 · AI vs human medians chart-medians.svgSVG · same chart, vector

License

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Changelog

Date	Change
2026-11-02	First publication: 12 per-image vendors in the main statistics, 6 subscription plans and 1 per-property package listed outside them, 2 unverified rows, 25 excluded vendors, 3 subscription plans without a per-image price, two charts, four CSV downloads and the disclosure table.

Last updated: 2026-11-02