Pricing
The base price is €0.05 per request.
There are significant discounts for higher volumes of identifications. Tell us what you need on business@plant.id
Accuracy
Depends on the quality of provided photo(s). The average is around 85%.
Check out our demo to test us.
API Reference overview
This machine learning based plant identification API is documented on Github.com/Plant-id; there are two important endpoints:
- api.plant.id/v2/identify – sends plant photos to our backend and returns the plant suggestions
- api.plant.id/v2/usage_info – returns statistics about API limits and usage (how many prepaid identifications are left)
Check the documentation on Github for all of the endpoints.
Result of the identification is a list of entries showing likely plant taxons (species or genus). Each record contains the following:
- scientific name of the plant in Latin
- probability – certainty level of the identification
- representative images of the suggested species (check details about similar images and video explainer)
- common names – for major world languages
- url – link to a webpage with detailed information, usually Wikipedia
- taxonomy – taxonomic classification of the plant (if available)
- description – description of the plant from Wikipedia (if available)
Example code
Naive implementation is available on Github for Python, Javascript and PHP. All requests require an access key, you are welcome to ask for a trial.